517: Dayna Parish Dennis: The Only Black Student in Med School

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dayna Parish Dennis is a wife, Shameless Mom, and doctor. Originally from Oklahoma, she relocated to the Bay Area to complete her residency in pediatrics. She has served patients in low income, urgent care, private practice, and Hospitalist settings, and just recently made partner at a multi-specialty group practice in the Bay Area. She speaks a couple of languages, loves reading books with happy endings, and raising 2 free Black children. Listen in to hear Dayna share: What it’s like to be a doctor in this pandemic How she’s managing her mental health as a physician, wife, mom, and woman during this time What it was like to be the only Black person in her medical school class The pressure of being the sole Black representative in conversations around race The relief she found in moving from Oklahoma to Oakland for residency and to work with other Black doctors How her employer (Kaiser Permanente) responded to George Floyd’s death and supported the Black Lives Matter movement The benefits she’s seeing in living through this pandemic and why we need not desire going “back to normal” The power in making partner in her medical practice this year The legacy she is building to show her daughters that Black girls can do anything Links Mentioned: Connect with Dayna IG: @wittyacronym IG: @bookish.black.nerd FB: Dayna Parish Dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 517 with Dana Parish Dennis. Show notes for this episode,
0:06.6	including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shameless mom.com and clicking on
0:11.3	episode 517. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:22.9	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:29.1	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.5	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other
0:40.3	shameless moms just like you.
0:42.1	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook.
0:46.7	All right.
0:47.2	Let's dive into today's episode.
0:53.8	Dana Parish Dennis is a wife, a shameless mom, and a doctor.
0:57.7	Originally from Oklahoma, she relocated to the Bay Area to complete her residency in pediatrics.
1:03.3	She has served patients in low-income, urgent care, private practice, and hospitalist settings,
1:08.3	and just recently made partner at a multi-specialty group practice in the
1:12.3	Bay Area. She speaks a couple different languages, loves reading books with happy endings, and is
1:17.5	raising her two free black daughters. So Dana is a member, a Momentum Mamas, our membership
1:24.2	community in the Shameless Mom Academy, and she has been for the last couple of years.
1:33.8	And what prompted this interview is she just casually mentioned on one of our calls on a Monday night that she had made partner in her practice.
1:36.1	And she acted like it was no big deal.
1:38.8	And I was like, no, hold on.
1:40.5	That's a really big deal.
1:41.5	And I want to talk to you about it.
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