Women MD Leaders
The Women MD Leaders Podcast, hosted by Dr. Stephanie Yamout—a pediatric hospitalist and coach for women physician leaders—offers practical tips to help women physicians thrive in demanding clinical and leadership roles.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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60: The Menopause Penalty: What Women Physicians Aren't Told (opens the original)
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Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources for Women Physician Leaders here. Mid-sentence, the word was just gone. Not a complicated word. One Stephanie has used a thousand times. In this episode, Stephanie names what's actually happening when perimenopause shows up at work: the brain fog, the hot flash in the middle of a meeting, the exhaustion that flattens a normal Tuesday. She walks through a 2025 Canadian study on menopausal symptom burden and job performance, then unpa...
59: Perimenopause Doesn't Cause Burnout. It Unmasks It. [with Dr. Zarya Rubin] (opens the original)
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Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources for Women Physician Leaders here. Dr. Zarya Rubin used to stand on the subway platform every morning and ask herself a question no physician should have to ask. That was her wake up call, and it's the one many of us are still avoiding. In this episode, neurologist, functional medicine physician, and burnout expert Dr. Zarya Rubin joins me to talk about the high functioning version of burnout, the kind that still leads the meeting an...
58: What Medicine Trained Me to Fear, AI Is Teaching Me to Try (opens the original)
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Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources for Women Physician Leaders here. I never thought I was creative until my son and I built a video game with zero fear of getting it wrong. This episode is about what happened when I let AI teach me something medicine never did: how to try something without the constant fear of the mess. I built a video game with my son this summer and watched him create with a freedom I never learned to give myself. It made me look hard ...
57: Can the Family COO be Promoted to Bystander (opens the original)
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Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources for Women Physician Leaders here. Who am I if nobody needs me? It's a question Stephanie can't stop asking herself this summer, in the middle of back-to-school prep, a cross-country family trip, and running a household most operations directors would envy. In this episode, Stephanie unpacks the identity cost of being the one who runs everything. She talks about the resentment and the pride that show up in the same breath when her hu...
56: The Kind of Tired You'd Choose Again vs. The Kind You Wouldn't (opens the original)
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Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources for Women Physician Leaders here. You can run a code without blinking. But planning your kid's summer schedule can make you want to lose your mind. Dr. Stephanie Yamout just finished a long stretch of night float, codes, hard 2 a.m. calls, residents to support, and walked out bone-tired and fulfilled. Days later, a calendar full of camp registration and back-to-school logistics left her exhausted in a completely different way. In th...
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