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Docs Outside The Box

How I Stay Sane And Sharp As A Trauma Surgeon. #467

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Send us a Voice Message - https://www.speakpipe.com/docsoutsidethebox Have a question for the podcast? Text us at 833-230-2860 In this raw, revealing episode, I take you behind the scenes of my journey to reclaim my physical and mental health while working in one of medicine's most demanding specialties. After years of neglecting my physical fitness, I'm now chasing two ambitious goals and I also challen...

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0:00.0

Benching 250 pounds, breaking 20 minutes. A lot of people are doing this. So I'm not a superhero.

0:05.2

This ain't going to change your world. But I'm going to be real with you. It's going to change me.

0:09.2

And that's the most important thing. Like, I'm changing. I see my body changing. I see my mentality

0:13.8

changing. I'm reminded that I'm still growing. I still have goals outside of medicine.

0:19.0

I still own my time and my body.

0:21.8

That is me saying, like, no matter how stressful the job is,

0:25.8

I'm still going to engage an activity that just says that my body is very important,

0:30.4

mentally as well as physically.

0:31.9

If I can challenge you right now, set a goal that has nothing to do of your title.

0:36.5

Yo, what's good, everybody?

0:38.3

This is Dr. Ney.

0:39.7

You're listening to Docs Outside the Box.

0:42.1

I don't know if you guys remember,

0:44.0

to the old heads they might remember,

0:46.5

maybe about three or four years ago,

0:48.4

we changed the motto,

0:50.2

the logo of the show to money, medicine,

0:53.1

everything kind of in between and before that it was really

0:57.5

highlighting ordinary doctors doing extraordinary things and that's when the show was really

1:02.9

focused on highlighting just other doctors letting them speak i would Q&A with them and we would just talk about their

1:12.7

stories. And it was what was needed for me for several years for me to gain confidence to,

1:20.2

one, do a podcast, two, you know, carry a podcast for like an hour. That was really tough. And this is the Wild Wild West days of podcasting, right?

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