The Real Estate Real Life Podcast
The Doctor Who Built Deliberate Freedom - A Conversation with Dr. Katrina Skinner
Jul 10, 2026
Season 1
Episode 22
Black Swan Real Estate
Dr. Katrina Skinner was still in residency when she bought a vacant lot, and built her own medical office from the ground up. Six weeks after graduating, she was seeing patients.
That decision set the tone for everything that followed in her life — private practice ownership, commercial real estate investing, and eventually founding two communities for physicians. Women in Pediatrics connects female pediatricians who are tired of practicing in isolation. Pediatric CEO gives practice owners the business education — finance, leadership, delegation — that medical school never covers.
Her grandmother always told her: you have not because you ask not. It's the reason she found a banker willing to loan a resident a million dollars. In this conversation she also shares the advice a mentor gave her one year into practice, when she was exhausted and couldn't see a path forward.
We go into the real estate side — how she identified the land, assembled her team of advisors, what she did when she outgrew the building five years later, and how those early investments are now creating the financial flexibility to step back from clinical care on her own terms.
For physicians considering private practice, for business owners thinking about commercial real estate, or for anyone trying to build a life that belongs to them — this is a conversation worth slowing down for.
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This podcast is provided for general informational purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Black Swan Real Estate or its affiliates. Nothing discussed on this podcast should be interpreted as financial, legal, tax, or investment advice.