Your Favorite You
Welcome to Your Favorite You, a weekly podcast helping brilliant women like you with beautiful brains to create the life you've been dreaming of with intention so you can find your favorite version of you. Your host, Melissa Parsons, is a pediatrician turned life coach. She holds the titles of wife, mom, daughter, sister, and friend of many. She became a certified life coach after discovering that coaching held the secret to the universe, and knew she had to share this magic with everyone in her orbit. This podcast is for you if ... you're stuck in fear and perfectionism thinking that your value comes from what you do or what you don't do, rather than knowing that your value comes from who you are, and this is keeping you from dreaming and trying new things, or from remembering or doing what you used to love. Join Melissa on this journey to figuring out and remembering who you are; a journey to finding and becoming your favorite you. To learn more about Melissa, visit: https://www.melissaparsonscoaching.com/
Episodes
179 episodes
Ep 176: Re-Made with Love and Science: Choosing Yourself Through Divorce and Infertility with Erica Bove, MD
This week, I’m thrilled to be joined by Dr. Erica Bove to share her personal story and her journey of founding an organization to help women thrive through infertility. You’ll hear how Erica created Love & Science Fertility after feeling di...
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Ep 175: A Love Letter to Barney Stinson Parsons
As I’m preparing to go pick up my new puppy, Frank Costanza Parsons, I’m using this episode to share a eulogy of sorts for my sweetest dog, Barney Stinson Parsons. Before I fall in love with Frank the Tank, I want to honor Barney Boo and the al...
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Ep 174: Our Most Precious Resource: Time with Kristine Goins, MD
If time—not money—were the measure of wealth, would you be rich? This powerful question comes from my friend and colleague, Dr. Kristine Goins, whom I heard speak at the Physician Coaching Summit in November. In this episode, she joins me to sh...
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Ep 173: It Doesn't Have to Be This Way with Drs. Robin Beardsley, Risa Adams, and Elizabeth Parsons
In this episode, I’m so excited to talk with three amazing physicians about their book, It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way: A Physician’s Guide to Radical Self-Care. Robin Beardsley, Risa Adams, and Elizabeth Parsons join me to explore wha...
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Ep 172: Anticipatory Grief AND Joy with Dr. Tasha Faruqui
In this episode, I have the absolute pleasure to speak with another one of my new friends whom I met at the Physician Coaching Summit earlier this month. Dr. Tasha Faruqui is a fellow pediatrician, public speaker, medical advocate, and author. ...
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Ep 171: Exploring Sovereignty with Dr. Shideh Shafie
I’m excited to be joined on the podcast by one of my dear friends and a fellow physician coach, Dr. Shideh Shafie. Shideh brings so much wisdom, humor, and honesty to this conversation, and I loved having the chance to explore how she lives wit...
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Ep 170: Expanding Consciousness with Dr. Rashmi Schramm
In this episode, I am thrilled to bring you a conversation with another incredible guest. I’m joined by Dr. Rashmi Schramm, a board-certified physician and coach who helps people connect with the highest version of themselves. After hearing her...
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Ep 169: Detached Attachment with Dr. Yolanda Bogaert
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Yolanda Bogaert, a physician and coach I met at the Physician Coaching Summit. Yolanda shares her journey through academic medicine, burnout, and an MS diagnosis, and how being a mom to a neurodivergent child ...
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Ep 168: Having Your Own Back - Wisdom from my fellow Physician Coaches
"Having your own back" means choosing yourself, trusting yourself, and not abandoning yourself when things get hard or when other people disapprove. It means being on your own team, being your own advocate,and being your own best friend....
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Ep 167: Finding Your Calm
Becoming your favorite you includes knowing how to find your calm, especially in the hurricane of life. This is difficult for so many of the brilliant women I work with, not because calm isn't available, but because it’s not their usual territo...
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Ep 166: Obesity and GLP1 Medications with Dominique Williams, MD
In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation with one of my beloved friends from residency, Dr. Dominique Williams. Dominique specializes in obesity medicine, and we talk about obesity as a chronic diagnosis, what GLP-1 medications are and how t...
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Ep 165: Inside Group Coaching
Today, I’m joined by four of my incredible group coaching participants: Krystin, Erin, Colleen, and Prerana. Even though these women are in different stages of life, they all share the common thread of being physicians. You’ll hear how that sha...
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Ep 164: Introduction to IFS with Anna Katherine Malone Gartshore
I’m honored to bring you a conversation with one of the incredible people who has helped me learn to support my clients–and all of you–in a new and exciting way. Anna Gartshore is a psychotherapist and a lead trainer at the Internal Family Syst...
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Ep 163: Permission to Share Your Gifts Before You're Ready
So many of us think we need to be perfect before we can help anyone. We think our Instagram post needs to be profound, our podcast needs to be polished, or our coaching needs to be life-changing. Because we're waiting for perfection, we never s...
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Ep 162: The Myth of Balance
You're at your kiddo's soccer game, but you're scrolling through work messages. You're in a meeting, but you're mentally making your grocery list. You’re on vacation, but you’re thinking about what you’re missing at home.Does this sound ...
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Ep 161: What Resentment Might Be Trying to Tell You
Resentment usually shows up as a low-level annoyance, something small that you tell yourself isn’t a big deal. But when ignored, it can build into a bigger issue that you can’t simply brush off, such as serious strain on your relationships or t...
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Ep 160: The Stories We Tell About Time
How often do you catch yourself saying, “I don’t have time”? Maybe you’re “too busy” for rest, exercise, or figuring out what you actually want—even though when there’s a work deadline or a family emergency, you somehow always manage to fit it ...
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Ep 159: The Healing That Can Happen When Women Gather
Have you ever been around certain people and felt instantly at home–like you could exhale and completely be yourself? I’ve been thinking about that profound sense of belonging as I prepare for my group coaching program to start up again, and to...
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Ep 158: Beyond Smart - Three Types of Intelligence We All Need
Intelligence isn’t just something we measure with IQ tests or celebrate in school—it goes beyond intellect into the wisdom we gain from our emotions and our bodies.Our society tends to focus on intellectual intelligence without recognizi...
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Ep 157: The Power of Flexibility in Life and Healing
What’s something you believe is “just the way you are”? Maybe you tell yourself you're just not a morning person, not good with technology, not creative, or always running late. We tend to cling to these “fixed” identities, but what if...
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Ep 156: My Relationship with My Body
As with most women, my relationship with my body has been a complicated one. Until recently, I never truly felt comfortable in my own body. I have yo-yoed with my weight for most of my adult life, and I carried old beliefs about my body that st...
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Ep 155: Money Shame to Money Confidence with Keina Newell
Many of the brilliant women I coach are high achievers in their careers, yet they often feel lost when it comes to their finances. Why is it that so many smart, capable women feel like they struggle with money?Today, you’ll hear the ama...
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Ep 154: Be the Soft Landing
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re being “too soft” on your kids, consider this episode your permission to stop worrying. Think about what you want your relationship with your kids to look like when they’re adults. Do you want t...
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Ep 153: The Quiet Voice That Knows So Much
Have you noticed how loud your self-critical voice can be? The parts of us that are anxious and perfectionistic sound so sure of themselves. They speak with authority and urgency, saying, “You’re not doing enough,” or “Everyone's going to think...
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Ep 152: When Everyone Else Needs Coaching (Spoiler: It Might Be You)
Have you ever been convinced that someone you love needs coaching? While you may not be wrong–I haven't met a human yet that wouldn’t benefit from having a coach–in my experience, the person who thinks everyone else needs coaching is often the ...
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