Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.

And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.

Thank you. board certified female urologist, Dr. Casperson. Hello again, this is Dr. Vonda Wright, and we are here on Hot for Your Health.

And today I am thrilled to be joined by Dr. Kelly Caspersen, who is one of a few in the country, and I'm going to let her tell you about that,

urologists. And not only does she have a background in the full field of urology, she has called

out the science of women's urology and is really making a huge impact across the country,

not only with her work, her surgical work, but with the voice she's

given via her podcast, which is called You Are Not Broken, as well as her brand new co-founding of life

coaching for surgeons called Common Threads. So we have so much to talk about today.

And I love being in front of pioneers like you, Kelly. Can I call you Kelly?

Yeah, you can call me pioneer. I like that. I can call you Pioneer. So pioneer. I love that because it takes a

certain amount of strength and courage to stand up in the place

where we are. And we'll compare urology and orthopedics. And orthopedics, as you know, when,

I mean, when I started in 1999, there were 3% women. You know, we were truly pioneers. Now there's 6%

and thanks goodness, all the younger women, the millennial women coming into orthopedic surgery

are speaking and they're getting things that my generation never had like, heaven forbid,

I have to breastfeed somewhere that's not a locker room or a bathroom, right?

Or get more time on my boards or, you know, just things that are basic civil rights or human rights

that these women coming after me are getting. So what has it been like in urology?

Urology? I think I came into it where I wasn't like the only person, but you still had to be very,

you still had to kind of hide your femininity. You had to hide the fact that you were a

woman. You just had to be a guy. And I think now even it's more like, be yourself, be yourself,

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