My DPC Story
As the Direct Primary Care and Direct Care models grow, many physicians are providing care to patients in different ways. This podcast is to introduce you to some of those folks and to hear their stories. Go ahead, get a little inspired. Heck, jump in and join the movement! Visit us online at mydpcstory.com and JOIN our PATREON where you can find our EXCLUSIVE PODCAST FEED of extended interview content including updates on former guests!
Episodes
328 episodes
Sustainability in Direct Primary Care: Building a Medical Career That Actually Lasts
CLOSING SOON! VOTE IN THE 2026 MY DPC STORY BATTLE! VOTE HEREWhen most physicians hear the word sustainability, they think about keeping the doors open. But after a weekend wi...
Virtual Assistants for Physicians: Cut Admin Time and Grow Your DPC with Justin Lam
What if you could get back fifteen hours of your work week without seeing a single extra patient?In this special episode, recorded live in a breakout room workshop following the California DPC Summit, Justin Lam, CEO of
Sustainable Physician, Sustainable Person: Leaving Corporate Medicine for DPC with Dr. Jeremiah Fillo
What happens to a family physician when the system that trained him decides he no longer has value? In this deeply personal episode, Dr. Maryal Concepcion hands the introduction to a special guest, then sits down with her husband, Dr. Jeremiah ...
You Don't Have to Build It Alone: Dr. Esther Khatibi on My DOC, Maternal Equity, and Sustainable Obstetric Care in Direct Primary Care
What does it take to make women's healthcare access sustainable, not just for patients, but for the physician carrying the mission? In this episode of the My DPC Story podcast, Dr. Maryal Concepcion welcomes back Dr. Esther Khatibi, family phys...
Designing a Sustainable Psychiatry Practice Around What Interests You: Dr. Daniel Hochman on DPC, Addiction Medicine, and Building Self Recovery
In this June sustainability episode, Maryal sits down with Dr. Daniel Hochman, a psychiatrist in private practice in Texas and the founder of Self Recovery, an online addiction curriculum built from thousands of hours of one-to-one clinical wor...
Two Doctors, Two DPC Clinics, and a Renovation Funded by Historic Tax Credits | Dr. Manuel Vogt, Texas DPC
Can Direct Primary Care really pay off for a physician family carrying student loan debt and no employer match? In this episode of the My DPC Story podcast, host Dr. Maryal Concepcion talks with Dr. Manuel Vogt of Texas DPC about the rea...
The DPC Doctor Fighting Louisiana's Reproductive Care Crisis: Dr. Emily Holt of Poppy Direct Care
Dr. Emily Holt returns to the podcast one year after opening Poppy Direct Care in New Orleans, and the landscape around her has changed dramatically.When Maryal last spoke with Dr. Holt, Poppy was just months old and DPC Summit at...
Own Your Records, Own Your Story: How Vivid Vault Is Helping DPC Patients Carry Their Health History Between Generations | Anna Smith, RN, MPH, CEO of Vivid Vault Health Solutions
What if your new patient visit didn't start with a 200-page ER record dump, scattered portal logins, and a patient saying "I think mom had some kind of cancer"? In this episode of My DPC Story, Dr. Maryal Concepcion sits down with Anna Smith, R...
Tools That Serve You: AI, Tech, and Autonomy in Pediatric DPC with Dr. Michael Hobbs
This month on the My DPC Story podcast we are talking about the tools that serve us, and Dr. Michael Hobbs is a voice you do not want to miss.Dr. Hobbs is a pediatrician and founder of Lakes Pediatrics, the first pediatric Direct ...
Suing for Her Freedom: How Dr. Nyasha Spears Won Her Non-Compete Battle and Opened Amity Creek Direct Primary Care in Duluth, Minnesota
Dr. Maryal Concepcion welcomes Dr. Nyasha Spears, family physician and co-founder of Amity Creek Primary Care in Duluth, Minnesota. After her century-old community clinic was closed by a corporate hospital system with just 36 days...
The Tools You Use Serve Your Patients: Building a DO-Led DPC with Dr. Courtney Barrett
Dr. Courtney Barrett, founder of True Insight Direct Care in the Raleigh, North Carolina area, opens our May theme, The Tools You Use, with a conversation that redefines what tools means in a Direct Primary Care practice....
Going Viral on TikTok by Accident: How Dr. Jihan Ansari Built Harbor Direct Primary Care Through Authentic Marketing
Dr. Maryal Concepcion welcomes Dr. Jihan Ansari, founder of Harbor Direct Primary Care in South Orange County, California. Dr. Ansari shares the marketing strategies that grew her DPC practice from patient zero to a thriving two-physician clini...
From Hospitalist Burnout to Driver's Seat: How Dr. Nadia Sirdar Built a Bethesda DPC Practice Rooted in Aging in Place, Women's Midlife Health, and Real Relationships
After nearly a decade as a hospitalist in the Washington, DC area, Dr. Nadia Sirdar realized she had stopped feeling. End-of-life conversations had become a script. Length-of-stay metrics were drowning out the humans in front of her. She wasn't...
Marketing a Direct Specialty Care Practice: How Dr. Ashley Agan Built Scottie ENT on Reviews, Relationships, and a Patient-First Brand
What does it actually take to market a direct specialty care practice in a city full of competitors? For Dr. Ashley Agan, otolaryngologist and founder of Scottie ENT in Dallas, Texas, the answer had nothing to do with billboards or ad spend, an...
Visible Without the Ick: How Dr. Aleea Gupta Built a Thriving Solo DPC Practice with 12K Followers, Niche Patients & Authentic Marketing
Dr. Aleea Gupta of Family First Direct Primary Care in the western suburbs of Chicago returns to My DPC Story four years after her first appearance, and a lot has changed. Her Instagram following has grown to over 12,000 organic followers, she ...
How Dr. Josh Chow and His Wife Katherine Left Corporate DPC Behind to Open Their Own Practice in Colorado
What does it look like when a physician gets laid off from a corporate-acquired DPC practice and turns that loss into the exact practice he always wanted to build?We close out Financial Sustainability Month with Dr. Josh Chow, DO ...
The Financial Side of Sustainable DPC: What Your Accountant Isn't Telling You (ft. Tom Squire, Osprey CFO)
Can Your DPC Practice Survive Its Own Success?Most physicians opening a Direct Primary Care practice master the clinical side quickly. The harder challenge? Running the business that sustains it.In this episode of My DP...
Melody Health Closed in December. Open Arms Opened in March. | Drs. Connolly, Poulin and Tressan
Dr. Shannon Connolly, Dr. Shayne Poulin, and Dr. Amy Tressan found each other inside Melody Health, a mission-driven primary care practice embedded within Planned Parenthood, serving more than 13,000 patients across seven health centers in Oran...
She Didn't Start a DPC Practice. She Bought One.
Dr. Feneisha Franklin spent a decade in corporate medicine before finding her door: a Direct Primary Care practice seven minutes from her house, owned by a retiring physician ready to pass the torch. She left her employer on a Friday. She owned...
She Was Working 20 Hours a Day. Here's What She Built Instead.
She was working 20 hours a day in fee-for-service medicine, and her supervisor was online at 3am too, totally unbothered. That's when Dr. Victoria Leventis-Shew knew nothing was ever going to change. So she changed everything.Dr. ...
How One DPC Practice Built a Financially Sustainable Model - Without Insurance
Dr. Matthew Hitchcock of Hitchcock Medical Group in Chattanooga, TN has spent over a decade proving that direct primary care is not just better medicine, it's a smarter business. In this episode, he breaks down the layered economic mod...
Is Zion HealthShare Legit? Pre-Existing Conditions, Maternity, GLP-1s and Direct Primary Care Explained
Episode Summary:After our episode about Zion HealthShare sparked more listener questions tha...
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Community, Advocacy, and Autonomy: Dr. Aisha Harris on Building Flint’s First Direct Primary Care Practice
We’re closing out February with Dr. Aisha Harris of Flint, Michigan, a board-certified family physician, community advocate, and the founder of Harris Family Health, the first Direct Primary Care clinic in her hometown. In this ep...
Practicing Pediatrics at the Intersection of Policy & Purpose: Dr. Jalan Burton on DPC, Home-Based Care, and Intentional Medicine
In this previously aired episode of My DPC Story, host Maryal Concepcion sits down with Dr. Jalan Burton, a Washington, DC/DMV–based pediatrician practicing at the intersection of healthcare policy and deeply relational care. As the fo...
Black Physician Entrepreneurship: How Dr. Lola Ashaye Built a Direct Primary Care Practice in Texas
In this episode of My DPC Story, we’re highlighting Dr. Adelola "Lola" Ashaye, a board-certified family and lifestyle medicine physician and the founder of InTouch Primary Care in the Sugar Land area of Texas. Practicing ...