S5 Ep153: Between Grit and Grace with Sasha Shillcut, M. D.

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Mental Health, Arts, Education, Health & Fitness, Books, Self-improvement

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On the Cultivating the Lovely podcast this week, MacKenzie Koppa talks with Sasha K. Shillcut, M. D. about her new book Between Grit and Grace: The Art of Being Feminine and Formidable. Sasha is a cardiac anesthesiologist, a wife, a mother of 4 and founder of Brave Enough, a community for female professionals. This conversation is for ALL women, not just those who work in or out of the home, so regardless of your season of life, we hope you will get something out of this episode!

Why Sasha started Brave Enough and her goals for helping women be their true selves
MacKenzie’s perspective as a work at home and stay at home mom
Why “leadership backlash” happens when women speak up and assert themselves
Sasha pushes back on the idea that women are hardest on each other
Our struggles as women in different arenas are actually remarkably similar
Recognizing our deep need for friendship no matter what season we are in
God has made us unique, so we don’t need to fall into the comparison trap

When you become brave enough to step into your own identity, the women around you oftentimes start to compare.

Sasha K. Shillcut, M. D.

How the Brave Enough community grew out of Sasha’s own need to recover her femininity and find a tribe
Learning to be both bold and gracious
How Sasha made time to write a book while being a doctor and a wife and mother
The importance of knowing yourself and your uniqueness
Sasha’s advice for unplugging and being in solitude
Cautions against having a martyr mentality
Being a good model for your kids of taking care of yourself
A typical day in Sasha’s life

Current Lovelies-

Sasha: enjoying using her brand new massage chair for some relaxation

MacKenzie: taking her kids and some friends bowling at the start of the weekend

Resources Mentioned- Books:

Between Grit and Grace

Podcasts:

Movies:

Find Sasha-

You can find Dr. Shillcut on her website becomebraveenough.com and listen to her podcast, The Brave Enough Show. You can also follow her on Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter.

Find MacKenzie-

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Transcript

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0:00.0	See, what happens is when we start to lead in society and we start to embrace our assertive or our ideas, we kind of shock the system.
0:10.9	And so the people around us unconsciously, they kind of, they give us what's called leadership backlash. Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, we know that life is hard, and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. So it's my
0:38.2	mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy
0:42.4	dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to
0:46.8	our website at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com
0:52.1	slash cultivating the lovely or by connecting with me on
0:55.0	Instagram which is one of my favorite places to interact with all of you. You can find me at
0:59.3	McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today. Ladies, we've had a few really intense
1:05.6	weeks on the podcast. Topics that I think really need to be talked about and have a platform for, but I'm excited
1:13.3	today to be shifting gears a little bit into talking about us as women and our voice and
1:21.0	being heard and being feminine, but also owning the way that God made us and allowing us to exist in all of our different
1:30.6	roles in the way that he made us and our specific talents and all those kinds of things. When I
1:36.2	saw this book come in my door, I knew that I really wanted to have this author on. And today we are
1:42.6	having on Dr. Sasha Shilkai. You guys,
1:45.6	she is a mom of four. She runs an organization helping women to really like figure out their
1:51.8	stuff and empower them. And she's a cardiac anesthesiologist, you know, just on the side there.
1:58.5	Got that going on. But her book is called Between Grit and Grace,
2:02.8	the art of being feminine and formidable.
2:05.5	And when I saw that come in, I thought, you know what,
2:07.6	that sounds a lot like being bold and gracious.
2:11.0	And through all the transitions that I've gone through in the last couple of years,
2:15.1	from being a stay-at-home homeschooling mom,
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