EFR 886: Burnout, Identity, and the Joy Prescription for a Life Worth Living with Tiffany Moon, MD

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5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

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Dr. Tiffany Moon, MD—anesthesiologist, entrepreneur, and author of Joy Prescriptions—pulls back the curtain on what it truly means to “have it all.” From burnout and perfectionism to the immigrant experience and working motherhood, Tiffany shares how chasing external validation cost her deeply—until she learned to rediscover herself through joy, therapy, imperfection, and authenticity. We explore her journey from burnout to breakthrough, the hidden health consequences of living without joy, and what true success looks like when you rewrite your own story.

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In this episode we discuss...

01:10 - Chasing Perfection: Blind Ambition and Burnout

07:19 - The Immigrant Experience and People-Pleasing

09:17 - Signs of Burnout You Might Be Ignoring

14:15 - Finding Healing Through Therapy and Slowing Down

19:46 - What Is a Joy Prescription?

23:17 - Embracing Imperfection and Letting Go of Perfectionism

26:40 - The Burden of Comparison in Childhood and Adulthood

29:50 - Working Motherhood: Choosing Career, Guilt, and Systemic Barriers

33:31 - The Broken Healthcare System in America

36:56 - Fertility, Miscarriage, and Being Vulnerably Honest

40:49 - Abandonment, Therapy, and Childhood Wounds

45:40 - Redefining Success and Reclaiming Joy

48:35 - Fame, Reality TV, and Identity Crisis

49:19 - The Health Consequences of a Joyless Life

52:12 - How to Give Joy and Receive It in Return

54:56 - Why Tiffany Wrote Joy Prescriptions

01:04:28 - Ever Forward

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0:00.0	The following is an Operation Podcast production.
0:03.4	Hi, I'm Dr. Tiffany Moon.
0:04.9	I'm a board certified anesthesiologist, entrepreneur, and author of joy prescriptions.
0:10.0	This is Ever Forward.
0:15.1	Hi, so my guest today is Dr. Tiffany Moon, and she was living the dream, physician, professor,
0:23.2	public figure, housewife. But behind the scene, she was silently burning out. I think so many of us
0:29.5	are dealing with burnout and just this illusion of perfection. So can you take us back to the
0:35.6	quote, blinders phase of your life? And what did chasing perfection cost you?
0:41.3	Oh, gosh, that's such a good question. The blinders phase of my life is basically when I was on a single track towards becoming a doctor.
0:52.6	Because when I immigrated from China to the United States and I was
0:56.8	growing up in a very frugal household and my parents were struggling to make ends meet, they basically
1:03.2	ingrained in me that when I become a doctor like everything of the world will be full.
1:08.2	It was just this.
1:09.2	When, not if, huh?
1:10.3	Oh, when.
1:12.3	It was when, you know, if you wanted to? Oh, when. It was when, you know,
1:18.4	if you wanted to stay in that household. There was not a question about it. And I became a doctor, but I think at the detriment of stopping to smell the roses, enjoying the path, discovering who
1:25.5	I was. I mean, I graduated from Cornell when I was 19, went straight into
1:31.0	medical school and graduated at the top of my medical school class when I was 23 years old.
1:36.1	Humble brag, but own all that. That's incredible. No, but I'm just saying, it's a humble brag,
1:40.4	but also, like, I didn't do anything else, right?? Like I didn't do any self-exploration. I
1:47.1	didn't take any business classes. I didn't go backpacking through Europe. I never studied abroad.
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