What Happens When You Stop Living the Script and Start Living Your Truth with Dr. Letizia Alto

Have you ever felt like the life you are living isn't actually yours- but a script you’ve been following?

This episode is your permission slip to stop settling for the life you were told to want—and start rewriting it in a way that feels like you. 

It's a deeply inspiring conversation with Dr. Letizia Alto, CEO of Semiretired MD, Fast Fire Capital and Beyara where you will learn:

• How to embody next-level confidence as you start a new chapter
• The secret to reclaiming your energy through internal shifts—without needing to quit your job or change your whole life
• The link between authenticity and sustainable success—and why alignment might matter more than hustle

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Transcript

Leti: 0:18

I just never wanted to have a white picket fence. as a doctor, your personality isn't necessarily welcomed. Most people don't have a compelling vision at all. Both of us had a real drive to do something extraordinary, I have no clue why I did it, but I now know how powerful it was that I did it. They're not playing the game as. The men have been taught. I want to teach them how to win the game of business

0:45

This episode will give you a permission slip to stop settling for the life you were told to want. And open up the door to a life that feels like yours.

Speaker 2: 0:56

Welcome to Life After Medicine, the podcast helping millennial health professionals leave the system and build a fulfilling career. I'm your host, Chelsea Turin, residency Dropout turned six, figure entrepreneur and World Traveler. I'll help you discover your unique path to making an impact without the burnout, because you were meant for more than 15 minute patient visits under fluorescent lights.

1:18

This episode is an incredible interview with Dr. Letitia Alto, who is a hospitalist trained physician she has built six multimillion dollar businesses. through semi-retired md She's helped physicians break out of the time for Money Trap and reclaim Freedom and she's recently launched ra, a company that helps established female entrepreneurs who want to scale their business and grow their impact with more ease. She truly is the living example of someone who has achieved remarkable external success and lives this rich, fulfilling personal life, after recording this conversation with Lati, I was buzzing for like two days afterwards she shares that her energy is unlimited because that's a story she's decided to tell. A lot of us have this story that, we have to fill our cup, otherwise our cup is always draining. And she has created this internal narrative that her energy's unlimited. And that's her experience. And that piece really stuck with me because I know how important mindset is. But I think this conversation. Helped me realize the power of mindset on a whole new level. So I know it's gonna leave an impact on you as well. Let's get to the show.

Speaker: 2:42

Welcome back to Life After Medicine. Thank you so much for pressing play today we have with us dr. Letitia Alto, she's CEO of semi-retired md and now recently ra. And we're here today to explore. What it really takes to create a life that is both externally remarkable. Where we're having success, we're making a big difference, and that's internally fulfilling. So it doesn't require us to burn out or abandon ourselves in the process. So to begin with all of that late, can you bring us back to the moment where you bought your first pair of dance ghosts? Hi

Leti: 3:21

everyone. Uh, yes, of course. So, I always wanted to be a doc. Um, actually my father is a physician and he is kind of a cowboy physician, worked all across the world. I grew up in Papua New Guinea. I lived in the Pacific Islands and, uh, kind of always had this idea that I was gonna go live abroad and I was. Going to be a doctor. So ended up studying anthropology, actually deferred year, a year for med school to be, get an anthropology master's, and then ended up in University of Vermont. And these dance goes, um, you know, theyre, I really got third year of med school and, it was about what everyone else was getting, right? Everybody had them. It was just part of the, the outfit of what you wore. and so yeah, I think it was really fitting in and it was being, it was utility, right? Because I was wearing scrubs every day and it just made sense to not have to replace your tennis shoes when they got stuff on'em.

Speaker: 4:13

You were, You were initially like a holdout, weren't you?

Leti: 4:16

Yes I was'cause they were so ugly. Um, and I definitely was a holdout for a while, but I think, um, actually it's so odd, but what I decided in the end was I was just gonna have to show my personality different ways. I just wore different underwear all the time. I even got like blue contacts for a while just to kind of show personality.'cause there was an outfit that was the outfit that was really util utilitarian and um, made logical sense. But I felt like I was losing my personality in a way.

Speaker: 4:47

I think a lot of us experience this, it's, it's like this subtle erosion of self part of you is calibrating like how to fit in. And it's not wrong to do that. But then there comes a time when it's like. You become stifled and you start to lose track of who you are. So as you continued on, like into your role as a full-fledged physician, did you notice any ways that you were maybe disconnecting from yourself or starting to lose track of like who you were

Leti: 5:13

I think what was important to me and what's still important to me is fun and spontaneity, and those are the pieces I was missing was the fun and the spontaneity and in the, in medicine. So I was searching for other ways to bring that out, and that's, that's why I was telling you like I would dress in theme. I'd be like, oh, today's cowboy theme today is. You know, a beautician theme, like I would wear all black, like whatever. So that, that's kind of what I did to keep myself still having fun and still interested and still exploring. I think that that was probably one of the most challenging pieces is I there's a real culture in medicine and it's, it's not necessarily fun, right? It's very strict. And so you have to find spaces for yourself still to show your personality. And so I looked for those spaces. Um, for me actually teaching, I. Was really, really something that I love to do, I really found my, I think, my voice in residency, for example, when I was able to teach. How

Speaker: 6:14

did you find your voice while teaching? Like what did that look like?

Leti: 6:17

So we were talking about fulfillment earlier, and, uh, fulfillment. Is continued growth and it's also contribution. That's when you get fulfillment, growth and contribution teaching served. That for me, I could continue to grow, I was pushing myself to learn more, to be able to bring it back to my group. That was really my favorite piece, and I really believe it was because that what was, what offered me that fulfillment, having continued growth, and then also contribution. So growth for a higher reason than just myself.

Speaker: 6:48

What was it that initially inspired you to start kind of veering off the regular track of like full-time medicine?

Leti: 6:55

I thought I wanted to go work abroad and kind of leave the us. Mm-hmm. And that's how I was going to actually practice medicine. And so every decision I made along the way, like even the decision to work in medicine, the decision to be a hospitalist, to do the hospitalist training was always aligned with the idea of like, okay, I'm gonna go work abroad. I'm gonna work in a, in a hospital, um, which may have less resources. Let me look. Even family medicine, right? I wanted to be able to do everything so I could work abroad. Every decision was always made so that I would have that opportunity to step out of what a lot of people were doing. I don't know where it came from, but I just never wanted to have a white picket fence. I wanted to do something different. I always knew that. I was basically in hospitalist fellowship when I actually got together with my now husband and he was a serial entrepreneur. When we got together, one of the things we said is like both of us had a real drive to do something extraordinary, something different, both of us loved to travel. It turned out both of us liked real estate a lot. We kind of bonded over that we were not gonna do things like everybody else. He had been a serial entrepreneur who. You know, started his first startup during med school. Took a year off from med school to do it. When I met him was actually in another startup already while being a hospitalist. And so I ended up actually helping him with his, his startup that he was working on. Um, because I love teaching so much. I never thought I was gonna be an entrepreneur and I definitely never thought I was gonna do startups, but I always knew that I wasn't just gonna. Just follow along the same path of week on, week off in the us. That's the one thing I did know. We were both working full time, like I was working full time as a hospitalist and he was working all the time and then we were doing the startup stuff too, and we just realized we had to do something different. And when we read Rich at Port, I we're like, oh, it's real estate. That's what it is because there's all this opportunity to earn income. That's not gonna be us trading time for money.'cause we realized we were really employees. That's really what we were doing as doctors and that we were never gonna have the freedom to, let's say, spend three months abroad at one period of time. It was never gonna happen, and that was one of the things I came into our relationship with was I really wanted to spend significant amount of time in Italy. I. As we got older and to have the ability to purchase a, a house there, like a, a villa and host people, like I really wanted that. Um, and I had, so we had that shared vision by that time. And so real estate, we could see how we could get there with the vehicle of real estate.

Speaker: 9:27

When you said you, you both had this drive to do something extraordinary, did you have an idea of like what exactly that looked like at the time? Or did it just feel like. We need to free up more of our time through real estate so that we can figure out what this extraordinary thing is.

Leti: 9:43

We had

Speaker: 9:43

no idea

Leti: 9:43

what it looked like. We didn't, yeah. We just knew that we weren't gonna feel limited to do what everyone else was doing around us. Like, I, I wanna explore, I wanna try new things. And so I think both of us are like that. Yeah. And to put us in a place and have a state one place doing the same thing for 10 years, it just doesn't, didn't suit our personalities and didn't suit who we were just to the baseline. But we didn't know how it was gonna come about. Do you feel like it's, it's like almost just this drive for growth that you have, you know, uh, have you ever read Patrick Lencioni's book? Three, three Big Questions for a frantic family? It's about running your family like a business. And it talks about creating cultural values for your family. And I think one of our shared cultural values for our family is actually out of the box living. And I think that was a shared value we had right from the beginning is we both were like willing. And probably for me, it came from my dad and my mom. Yeah. They were working in Thai refugee camps. They were going and, you know, living in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, there were still tribes that shot each other with arrows. And my dad was the medical director for the whole province, like, and we live next door to the hospital. Like, you know, it is a very different life. And then for Kenji's, fa, you know, family. His dad was an immigrant from Japan, his mom as well, and then he, it was an MD PhD who had his own, um, chair over in University of Pennsylvania and like did things differently, like, brought a lot of ideas from Japan, like, created a lot of things, built a lot of, a lot of things that were outside of his work, even for the community. And so he kind of saw his dad als Oh, and invest in real estate. So he saw his dad do a lot of different things too. So I almost think it was perhaps familial,

Speaker: 11:31

yeah, it makes sense. You lived in Papua New Guinea, like you're not gonna have a, the same kind of perspective of reality as everybody else after growing up in an environment that's so different. You have this like drive, right? You, you wanna live outside of the box, you wanna do something extraordinary. Was there ever a part of you that like doubted yourself or questioned like, like who am I to do that? Or like, am I gonna be able to do that?

Leti: 11:54

Oh, for sure.

Speaker: 11:55

I mean,

Leti: 11:56

I think it doubts, fears. It's all part of life and it happens still even now, like. Uh, your brain offers all kinds of thoughts that are protection thoughts that it thinks they're protective all the time, including now. Like I still, whenever I try something new, I have all kinds of doubts and fears and all these feelings of like, oh, you know, why am I to do this? Why, why? It is like. It's absolutely the norm, and I imagine it's the norm for E. I mean, I know it's the norm for everybody, so the key is just to keep going in spite of that, right? Because it's not gonna stop and it's gonna continue. If you have$10 billion, you're still gonna have doubts and fears. If you have the most beautiful, happy life, if you do anything different than you normally do, you will still have doubts and fears like it is just part of life.

Speaker: 12:45

Do you think doubts and fears, like we relate to them differently when it is doubts and fears about something that everyone else is doing and is like on the main path versus doubts and fears. About like completely going off the path. Like is there something different about those types of doubts and fears?

Leti: 13:04

Yes. If you don't have anyone else that you can see who's modeling it for you, because if you don't have anyone around you modeling it, then you don't really fully know if it's possible. Right? I mean, you can believe it's possible, but. You don't fully know because you don't have evidence. External evidence, only evidence you have is truly your internal certainty that you develop. It's, there's no external certainty. So I think when I think about real estate investing, when we decided to become real estate investors, one of the books we read very early on. Was like millionaire real estate investors by like Gary Keller. And what it was, it was like case studies of a lot of people who were millionaire real estate investors and how they got to be where they were. You would could read through the case studies and you could see people who had walked this path before. So I could really get evidence like if they can do it, then I can do it. So that's where I got my certainty, like, okay, I know I can do this. I think it's much more challenging when no one in the world has done something that you wanna do. And I think that's very rare, actually. I think most people have done what you wanna do. You just don't know them. And so if you can go out and you can find somebody, like a mentor who's done exactly what you wanna do, the path is way easier.

Speaker: 14:15

This is something I realized I did as well. I found one example of a travel blogger who made six figures on her travel blog. And I, I just read that and I was like, okay, well she's made six figures, had no context around. Oh, she was like an investment banker initially. And then she quit, became a travel blogger, built up a six figure business around her blog. And so I read her story and I was like, cool, she can do it. Why not me? So then I was like, I quit residency and I, the first thing I told everyone was, I'm gonna be a travel blogger, like telling all my attendings this at the hospital. And I literally had this one example and I was like, cool, she did it. I can do it too.

Leti: 14:51

Yes. And you know what, so interesting, you and I have some parallels. I walked around saying, I'm gonna become a real estate baron. That's what I told people in the hospital too. They would say, Hey, what do you do? And I'm like, I'm becoming a real estate baron. And they were like, Uhhuh. Yeah. Like, but, but literally you start to live that identity, right? Yes. And that inner certainty and yeah, I got it from a book. You got it from a blog. It's um, you can borrow it from other people.

Speaker: 15:21

Yeah. So tell me about the identity piece. You're reading Rich Dad, poor Dad. You're like on a kick about, okay, we're learning how to do this, and then what is that, that you're like actually stepping into the identity of Real Estate Bear and tell us about how you adopted that identity and how that impacted you. I don't know why

Leti: 15:36

I did it. I have no clue why I did it, but I now know having done so much mindset work, how powerful it was that I did it. Because when you adopt an identity, I. You influence everyone around you. Like of course the doctors probably imagined that I was crazy. But when I went to talk to the property managers and I was like, Hey, I'm building an empire here. I'm gonna buy lots of properties in this area. I'm gonna be working with you for a while. You know, at what point can you start lowering my prices? How many properties do I get to until you start lowering my prices? And I would show up with that kind of inner certainty, having not, you know, bought any properties, but I influenced them. And they were like, Ooh, this girl has a vision. Which most people don't have. Most people don't have a compelling vision at all. I had a compelling vision that I was a hundred percent behind. And because I was showing up with that certainty, the person with the most certainty influences everyone else. And so I influenced everyone around me to want to work with me and to want to help me because I showed up with that energy of, and the certainty and the vision. And so if you can. Pick an identity that lights you up that you really want. Um, and even if you're not it right now, you know, you could say, I'm becoming this. It will make such a difference in what your actual reality is because you, you create that.

Speaker: 16:52

So one of the things I think you embody that is really powerful is that, you have Both the, the external success, like you've scaled multiple businesses to multimillions of dollars and that's incredible. And those have been impactful to other people. There's that external success. Then there's like the internal fulfillment and the freedom and the joy piece. How have you been able to combine those two things

Leti: 17:19

I think it's because it's congruent. Um, when I think about the businesses, the startups that I was originally involved with, I believed in what we were doing, but I wasn't super passionate about it. Like, I was very passionate about helping the doctors. But it didn't light me up the way that what I do now does, and the way, uh, the way that I get to help people transform and get empowered to be able to say, Hey, you know what? I have choices. I can do something different. I can earn, earn money outta real estate, or I can build my business to make more profit and be easier. Like those kind of things. Those are internal. Um, the transformation that really makes a difference in people's lives where, and so I feel at a different level of passion now with the businesses I have. And again, this is that growth and this is that contribution, but I get to be me in these businesses. I think that's also part of it is I remember starting businesses where I. I was the youngest in the room. I was the only woman in the room, and I just didn't feel confident to the level that I do now. And I think in part of it, it was, I was not really fully being me. And actually I kind of felt this in a way as a doctor, I have to say, a lot of the time too, as an attending is you, you know, your personality isn't necessarily welcomed. And so it's like you're, you're in a role, right? And you don't get to fully show who you are. In the businesses that I run now, I actually run three. I run semi-retired md, I run Fast Fire Capital and, uh, ra Now I get to be me. I get to show who I am. I get to be a, a, you know, a little bit weird and, uh. It actually helps the business. And it helps the business I think it's a congruence. That's what makes it so great. That's what allows for work-life integration for you to be able to, enjoy the work you're doing so much that you don't mind taking a walk and talking about it at 5:00 PM with your husband. There doesn't have to be those kind of rules, like, oh, we only talk about business from here to here. Because it is, it's part of who I am and it's, and it, and it's meaningful and it's enjoying joy. Like I enjoy it. When I go to the q and as, I come out, more energized than when I went in. that's cool because that, that gives, it's actually feeding you, it's not draining you.

Speaker: 19:34

I wanna just fixate on a couple of the points that you shared just to, to make sure it really hits home. So one is, it's not just that you get to be you, but it's that you. Being you creates more value, more impact, more success.

Speaker 4: 19:51

Mm-hmm. So

Speaker: 19:53

even not just like they let me be me. Even if

Leti: 19:55

like, even if everyone thinks you're weird, it's actually, if you fight the find the right people and you find the right space to build your business, that will actually create more for you because Exactly. Because of who you are.

Speaker: 20:06

One of the other things you said in your beautiful monologue, you said it's like work feeds you, right? Where it's not like you need this work life. Balance where there's this like rigid separation of like go to work a certain amount until it drains you and then do your life so that you can then replenish your cup. It's like you go to a q and a and you get more energized and there's work that actually feeds you. I think that concept is very foreign to a lot of people listening to this. What do you think it is? That allows work to be something that feeds you as opposed to something that drains you mindset

Leti: 20:41

actually. Mm-hmm. I remember very early on in semi Retard MD that I was telling myself sometimes like, I'm exhausted. I'm so tired. Like, and I heard somebody speak, um, who said, you know, women are like. Pools of water, and if they're giving all the time, they get to be half filled and then they, they aren't overflowing, they can't give to others. And I heard that and I was like, oh yeah, that sounds right. And so I kind of carried that belief around for a little bit and it was total crap. And I realized that a couple years ago, I realized that actually energy is unlimited. And giving to somebody, you know, does not have to drain you in any way. In fact, giving to somebody. It actually fills you. It, you know, if there's that interchange of energy and like you can see what it means to them, it actually fills you. And so I realized that half empty pool was crap. And I also realized that thinking that I was overwhelmed or um, exhausted or whatever was not serving me. And it wasn't even true. It was like it was a story I was telling myself, we are surrounded by unlimited energy. We are energy like. We are not the source of energy. Energy is all around us. So you actually have unlimited energy if you just tap into the energy of other people, the energy of what's around you. So now I tell myself I'm unlimited energy. I have unlimited energy. Nothing drains me and I can give freely and I will never be less. In fact, I will be more. So it's literally a mindset shift. It's not anything you have to do. You just have to tell yourself a different story.

Speaker: 22:27

Do you think that if somebody is in a situation that isn't the right like fit for them, where they don't get to be them their full selves and they're stifled and they're giving in that context. Do you think that impacts whether it drains you or not, or do you think it's, it's completely mindset?

Speaker 4: 22:44

Hmm. I

Speaker: 22:44

think that's great. So what you're talking

Leti: 22:46

about is the circumstances around you aren't really what you desire, right? So they don't fit your blueprint of what you want. Right. And that's not really filling you. Yeah, that's a great question. Um, I think in that situation you can actually. Go either way. You could decide, Hey, I'm gonna look for the beauty in this situation. I'm gonna look for the good. I'm gonna look for. Because what you've done is you've stacked the negative. You've said this thing stocks because of this, this, this, this, this. And you've been stacking the negative. You haven't been looking at the positive. Okay? So you have that opportunity. Like let's say you're in a relationship, we'll just use a relationship. You're in a marriage, it's been 20 years. You look at your partner, you've got a lot of stacking of negative, you probably stacking it every single day. You're probably telling yourself a lot of crap about the other person. And yeah, sure. Some of it is based in fact and they're acting a certain way, but you're telling a story about it and that story is creating your reality. It's possible to stay in the same situation and change your story about it and actually enjoy it. But it will take work. It's not gonna be an, you know, an immediate thing.'cause you've built a lot of neural wiring to look for what's wrong. You literally have to change it. So let me give you an example. My mom got pancreatic cancer and last August, um, my husband Kenji went to visit my parents and I was coming a couple days later and he was like, he called me up and she's, he's like, she's jaundiced. So we found out she had pancreatic cancer. Very scary, right? Very like, like you have all kinds of negative emotions about the experience of it. She got a scan and I could see it was localized, you know, just invaded like it looked like maybe invaded one blood vessel, but wasn't like metastasized. Okay. That's the circumstance. I could sit there and suffer. I could be unhappy and I could be scared and all these things, and I had some of that, but the majority of what I experienced was like, oh my gosh, this is a miracle. Like, wow, it looks like it's localized. Okay. And so I was in the circumstance. In that case, I couldn't necessarily exit the circumstance, right? Unless I stopped talking to my mom forever. That would be a, I guess, an exit. But I had to change my mindset and my, and when I changed my mindset about, I changed the experience of it too. And so I said, okay. This is happening for a reason. There's a gift in this. I need to look for the gift and let me manage my way through this. And, uh, I tried to take over control and like fix it all, which is something I learned did not work well. Classic right? And, uh, it was great because I had to learn how to surrender. I had to literally learn to say, okay, whatever's gonna happen here, it's not under my control. And. When I try to control it and when I try to take care of everything and fix it, it actually isn't serving my mom in the way'cause it's not making her happy. And so I gotta be okay if she chooses one path and it ends up resulting in her death, I have to be okay with that. And I had to like, so I learned a lot through this experience. You know, I'm here in California'cause she just got a Whipple last week in California. Oh right. And like that was how when I saw this happen within the first week, I was like, okay, I have a plan. We're gonna go get a Whipple in California. But. It was not, you know, it did not work out like, like they did not wanna hear that plan. Do you know what I mean? They had to get there on their own time and had to decide this for themselves. And so I had to learn to surrender. So I feel like it's been such a great learning experience. And also, I have to tell you, if my mom had died because of this, I would have been okay. I would have gotten a lot of beautiful things out of it because I looked for them along the way and I recognized them because there was always good. When there's bad, it's just, I really believe it's, you don't get life, you do not experience life. You experience the life you focus on. And that's not to say you don't have the, you know, pain, you don't have fear, you don't have, you still have those emotions, but where do you spend the majority of your time? I spend the majority of my time not in those emotions. I, I spend them in contribution. I spend them in love. I spend them in excitement I spend, and that's by choice. It's because of the stories I tell myself. It's not because of my reality.

Speaker: 27:03

I love this because I think this just transcends so many topics, but'cause the initial question was like about, okay, your work feeds you instead of drains you. And what factors into that? And really it's like what you've given us is it's like you make a commitment to letting life feed you versus drain you and then you decide, am I gonna change my circumstance to let life feed me or am I gonna change my story to let, or a little bit of both. But it's like the commitment is to be energized and to be inspired to just like be in a state of feeling good. That's what you're committed to. And then you can solve for whatever path to get there. Like sometimes it's circumstances, sometimes it's story, sometimes it's both. But none of those things mean you can't have the experience of feeling energized and good.

Leti: 27:47

Yeah. And what happens, what, what's wrong is always available, but so is what's right. And our brains are always telling us what's wrong, and everyone around us is usually pointing out what's wrong. So you, you develop the practice of looking what's right. And what's so cool about my mom's situation is my mom actually had this practice too. And so my mom was like, I never realized how loved I was. Like, all these people reached out to me, you know, like who I hadn't heard from in a long time. So she's stacking the good and she's like, who knew I had to have cancer to have this happen? Like, it's amazing. She could have had a different experience with a different story. That's the story she told. And again, this is not to say that you don't have ups and downs. You will, but you know what happens if you're looking for the good is more and more time. You spend in that, like those beautiful states that Tony Robbins describes in less time in the suffering states. Yeah, and you don't have to change your circumstances to do that. That's actually just mindset. It really is. So you can be a doctor and you can be miserable in a toxic job, and you can literally change nothing about your circumstances and change what you focus on, and you can find happiness and enjoy a much larger, greater period of time. Does that mean you should stay in that job? No. If it does, if you wanna leave, go, you know, just make the decision. Mm-hmm. Um, to do it, but you can actually stay in it and be fine too. Right. It's like you don't

Speaker: 29:12

have to leave in order to feel better. Right. You can just feel better and you can just leave. Those are both things, but they're Exactly, exactly. Yeah. It's, it's so powerful and I think it, it's something we need to hear again and again and in different ways because it is. Hard for it to land, and I think it just needs to hit us at the right time sometimes for it to really land. Um, but yeah, and be around

Leti: 29:37

others who, who kind of think this way and who kind of that space, because I remember. Being in the hospital and you know, a lot of people are extremely unhappy. Not only the patients Yeah. But the nursing staff and the docs. And so that is a space where people are looking for what's wrong all day long. And so you can be the light in the hospital for sure, but it's nice to have other people who are also lights around you. Yeah, you don't have to do

Speaker: 30:03

all the heavy lifting by yourself. Yeah. Yeah. I, I completely agree with that. And if you

Leti: 30:07

are doing all the heavy lifting by yourself, then tell yourself a story of this is like making you so strong. And this is like your gift for that you're bringing to everybody else, right? Mm-hmm. So again, it's not heavy, it's not a burden, it's not like, you know, it's a responsibility, it's a leadership. It's an opportunity for leadership for you, and celebrate it instead of struggle under the burden of it.

Speaker: 30:31

So I wanna still touch on your newest Venture BI because you've done so many things, right? But how is bi a like different and like what is the mission of vr? So

Leti: 30:42

first of all, I have to say in semi-retired MD we have about 60% women who are taking our courses and reading our blogs and you know, listening to our podcasts and just becoming real estate investors, which is remarkable because it's kind of a man's world in real estate. Like if you look in almost everything else, it's like 90% men in the room, or 95% men. It's very common for me to go to a real estate conference and I'm like the token woman. But. I realized about three years ago now, I, somebody said to me like, I really feel like your job is to help more women. And I, and when I heard it, I knew it was immediately true. Even though semi-retired, MD has all these female, uh, physician who become, who are becoming entrepreneurs, I felt like there was more I was supposed to do with women, and I didn't know exactly what it was. So I've been kind of like sitting on this for the last three years and so there was a, a lady I met last March in a in, in a mastermind and I, the first time I met her I was like, oh my gosh. And I started recruiting her right away to come work with me at some point. Her name's Laurie. And Lori, um, has so much experience building mastermind. She, she built a multimillion dollar mastermind before this. She runs businesses for the visionaries and she's ran and built. Five multimillion dollar businesses. I've done six multimillion dollar businesses so that together we're like this powerhouse and I know how much value we can deliver and I feel so strongly about women entrepreneurs and how we, when we become successful, we get money. We absolutely change a world in really good ways. So. 40% of entrepreneurs are female in the US, but they only make 6% of the revenues and they only get 2% of the VC funding. And I just think women-led businesses like. They care about community, they care about impact, especially purpose-driven women entrepreneurs. And that's who I wanna work with is purpose-driven women who really care about what they're doing and care about the impact that they're having. And I wanna help them grow their businesses and make more money, but also make it easier for them. That's what I'm really excited about. I'm excited about creating more powerful women led businesses in the world. And I'm starting with The Wing, which is my year long mastermind with female physician entrepreneurs.

Speaker: 32:55

I can see your passion. It's like if you're listening to this on the podcast, you can't see, but she is like glowing and coming alive right now. And it's like that really is the mark of purpose. And just being in, in your mission, if you could just like shake. Women entrepreneurs and like instill something in them and be like, listen, just know this one thing that would help them be successful and close that gap of, you know, having 40% of the businesses, but only 6% of the revenue. Like what would you instill in them that would help them close that gap?

Leti: 33:28

That money, having money is actually a really good thing. When you have money, you do really good things for the world. Like people have so much money, baggage and they think that, um, you know, rich people are this way or whatever. But what they miss, I think, is that that money is just a tool and when you have more money, you can help affect more change in the areas that you're really passionate about. And so when I help these women grow their businesses. Earn the money that they really deserve for the amount of work that they do. I mean, it's not that the women-led businesses are doing any less in the world, it's just, they're not being recognized in the ways that I think that they should be and, and they're not playing the game maybe as. The men have been taught. So I, I want to teach them the game of business and how to win the game of business. So it's just the mindset of knowing that you're gonna actually do really good things with money. And it's not something to be feared. It's not something to be hidden. It's not something to not talk about. It's actually something that we should all be talking about. Because if you can imagine, I mean, imagine if women. Had half the wealth in the world right now. Like what would change? So much would change, right? So much would change because we would do things differently if we had half the wealth. So I just really wanna create more wealthy women who also believe in themselves and their their leadership, right? Because when you build a business, man, it tests every piece of you. It tests who you are. It tests it. It allows you to grow into your potential because of challenge after challenge after challenge. I think it's the best way to become who you're meant to be is to go through a business.'cause it's, it's not easy all the time and that's

Speaker: 35:09

good.

Leti: 35:10

Yeah.

Speaker: 35:11

Yeah. I think using business as one of the vehicles for like growing into your best self has been something I didn't realize was gonna happen. But has, it's been probably the most rewarding part of the journey is like. Oh, this is just a way for me to become my best self. And because I feel so passionate about the thing I'm doing, I feel so inspired to like grow through all the, my bullshit in order to, to make the thing come to life. There's just like something bigger than you that allows you to kind of transcend some of the limitations that you have. What is a lesson that you've learned through business that has just like fundamentally changed who you are?

Leti: 35:48

I would be remiss if I didn't say mindset because it is absolutely the most important thing. Um, I had so, so many limiting beliefs and I still sometimes have limiting beliefs crop up about what's possible that, um, like if I didn't work on my mindset, the very beginning, the semi-retired and MD would not be what it is right now. Um, and so you, you have to put some energy and some money and some time to work on your mindset. I still. Every year do masterminds. I do Tony Robbins Mastermind every single year. Mm-hmm. And like this year I'm doing, uh, Amy Porterfield's Mastermind. Mm-hmm. So I'm not only getting the skill sets from Amy, Amy does mostly skillset stuff, but Tony Robbins, I'm like giving almost a week, a month, every single month to working on my mindset. When you do that, it's not only gonna transform your business, but that's what allows you to have the joy and to live in the joy most of the time, and to be able to handle all the stresses that will come your way of, of things that happen, of problems or whatever. And also will allow you to become a better person and who you're meant to be and grow. And then also better spouse, better. Like all those pieces actually improve with mindset work. It's not just your business. And so I couldn't answer it any other way because that is absolutely the most important thing is your mindset.

Speaker: 37:04

Yeah. Yeah. And it shows for you a hundred percent. It's like your mindset work is showing because I can just like tell the way that you see things and just the way that you're moving through all of these different parts of your business is really from this like deeply heart-centered place and this like limitless place full of possibility.

Leti: 37:19

Also, I have to say, if we don't sit step up, who will, you know? We have, educations, we have ability to have salary. We have so much given to us, and if we don't step up, who will? As listeners to this. Podcast. You have so many more skills. You've been given so much more than so many people. Like actually, we have the responsibility in a good way. Responsibility is somebody else relies on you. They're trusting you to step up for them. That's responsibility. It's not burden, it's, it's the responsibility of somebody trusting you to help take care of them or to help serve them or whatever it is. You have that responsibility with what you've been given, I think to step up. Because if you don't do it, like why would anybody else do it? You've been given so much.

Speaker: 38:09

Yeah, and I think accepting your responsibility and like moving into it, like you said, it's not a burden. It's like this honor and this like really beautiful process of, of really participating in life and kind of the way that you're meant to.

Leti: 38:23

And, and again, this is a mindset shift.'cause I think, uh, even me, like I used to experience responsibility as burden, but I've told myself, and I've seen that responsibility is a gift. It really is a gift that somebody's trusting you so again, it's not life. It's the life you focus on, the things

Speaker: 38:43

you focus on. Yeah. And so if people are interested in your mission and want to learn more about BRA, and especially if people are female physician entrepreneurs, um, where can they connect with you? Where's like the best place to get more of you?

Leti: 38:57

Beara again, is for female entrepreneurs who wanna build and scale their businesses boldly. We chose the word bold because it's just a sense of like inner confidence and moving forward. Um, and so that's just beara.com, B-E-Y-A-R a.com. TIR MD is about creating another source of income outside of medicine, buying your own real estate portfolio. And that's just semi-retired md.com. And then fast forward capital is about passive. Creating passive, uh, opportunities to invest for people who know they don't wanna directly own their own real estate or wanna be able to diversify outside of the stock market, you know, especially when things are so crazy. And so that's just fast buyer capital.com.

Speaker: 39:37

Thank you so much for coming on, for bringing your gorgeous energy. Everything you shared, just all of the wisdom you shared with us.