Create Meaning in Medicine

Joanne Sotelo, Erin Hurley

Booking Overview

This is a host-led physician wellness and career-fulfillment show for women in medicine, with occasional interviews featuring experienced healthcare, mental health, trauma, and patient-care experts. Credible pitches include physician coaches, clinicians, nurse scholars, healthcare culture specialists, and authors with substantial expertise in burnout, trauma-informed care, boundaries, or sustainable medical careers; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 190

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 1.4k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Joanne Sotelo - Physician and co-host focused on helping women in medicine address burnout, self-neglect, professional pressures, and personal fulfillment.

Erin Hurley - Physician and co-host focused on physician coaching, burnout prevention, career sustainability, and fulfillment for women in medicine.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Healthcare and mental health professionals, physician coaches, nurse scholars, trauma specialists, and published authors with substantial clinical, research, or lived expertise relevant to women in medicine.
Required Achievements:  
Advanced clinical or academic credentials, Significant healthcare or mental health experience, Published writing or recognized subject-matter expertise

Recent Guest Discussions

Diane N. Solomon - Medical Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Patient Autonomy, Clinician Exhaustion, Boundaries, Apology And Repair, And Compassionate Patient-centered Care.

Recent Topics

Women Physicians, Physician Wellness, Medical Careers, Burnout, Mental Health

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Create Meaning in Medicine
:

188. Dr. Erin Hurley: What Sports Figured Out That Medicine Hasn't

July 07, 2026

Every elite athlete performs with a coaching staff behind them. It's just part of how high performance works. Physicians perform at the same level of intensity, with far higher stakes, and a coach was never part of their contract, their training, or anyone's expectation.Drs. Hurley and Sotelo both hired their first coaches when physician-specific research on coaching was still in its early stages. For Erin, the twelve months that followed included a breast cancer diagnosis and her mother's fa...

187. Diane Solomon, PhD: When Healthcare Becomes the Source of Trauma

June 30, 2026

Medicine is supposed to heal. But for many patients, and for the clinicians who care for them, it can also be the source of deep and lasting harm. In this episode, Drs. Erin Hurley and Joanne Sotelo sit down with Diane Solomon, PhD, a retired psychiatric nurse practitioner and nurse-midwife, to explore how medical encounters themselves can become traumatic, and what it takes to change that.Together, they trace how experiences like objectification in teaching hospitals and the relentless press...

186. Dr. Joanne Sotelo: Raising Your Standards Beyond Survival Mode in Medicine

June 23, 2026

Centered on the voice and expertise of Dr. Joanne Sotelo, this conversation unpacks why awareness alone doesn’t change the lives of women in medicine and how real transformation comes from upgraded standards and identity shifts. In dialogue with Dr. Erin Hurley, Dr. Joanne explores how “doctor programming” normalizes self-neglect, overworking, and emotional exhaustion, and explains why we don’t rise to our goals, we fall to our standards. Together, they walk through getting specific about des...

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