7 Strategies for When You Feel Like Quitting

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7 Strategies for When You Feel Like Quitting
Jun 08, 2026
Dr. Una

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Sixteen years as a physician entrepreneur across five businesses taught Dr. Una one thing. Challenges never stop coming. What changes is how you meet them.

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Setbacks aren't the exception in business. They're part of building one. The real question is what you do when everything seems to hit at once and the dream feels further away than when you started.

In this episode, Dr. Una gets personal about what it actually takes to stay in the game. She opens with why you can't let your current reality become your internal picture, and uses the example of a business at $2M building toward $5M to show why that stage is still your dream business if you choose to see it that way.

She breaks down why your business is always a construction site, the difference between stopping and strategic rest, and the line her husband uses that reframes every obstacle: every man's mountain is his ignorance. Dr. Una also gets into the power of self-talk, the I am statements she says to herself daily, and why words, not thoughts, are what interrupt the spiral.

This is a practical episode for the physician entrepreneur who needs a reset and a reminder that every challenge is designed to be overcome.

Tune in and get to work!

Key Takeaways:

00:00 Challenges are guaranteed. Your response is not 

05:02 Strategy 1: Guard your internal picture 

07:04 Your GPS on the inside shapes the outside 

09:40 Strategy 2: Live your dream business now 

12:22 Chase tomorrow. Enjoy today 

13:40 Strategy 3: Your business is a construction site 

14:10 Solving problems earns you new problems 

17:14 Strategy 4: Take the next one to three steps 

20:32 Strategy 5: Lean on people who can help 

23:58 Strategy 6: Your biggest mountain is your ignorance 

24:50 Stop saying you do everything. Ask what you are missing 

28:02 Strategy 7: Words do what thoughts cannot


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