Mindful Practice
Podcast
Give Yourself Permission to Evolve.
With Bertina M. Hooks, MD — Physician · Coach · Author
New · Since March 2026
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The Mindful Practice Podcast is a space for honest, necessary conversations about the real issues facing healthcare professionals today — and the freedom that comes from facing them.
From disability in medicine to DEI, physician entrepreneurship to burnout recovery, career pivots to reinvention — this podcast gives you tools, perspective, and above all, permission. Permission to question. Permission to change. Permission to become.
Disability in Medicine
Voices and experiences that medicine rarely centers — but desperately needs to hear.
DEI in Healthcare
Honest conversations on equity, inclusion, and what real change looks like in medicine.
Physician Entrepreneurship
How physicians are building businesses, brands, and practices on their own terms.
Career Clarity & Reinvention
Navigating transitions, pivots, and the question of what comes next.
Burnout Recovery
Moving through exhaustion toward alignment, capacity, and renewed purpose.
Permission to Evolve
The throughline of every episode — you are allowed to become someone new.
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Meet the Host
Bertina M. Hooks is a board-certified internal medicine physician, business coach, author, and advocate for physician wellness and equity.
After navigating her own journey through burnout, identity, and reinvention — including a life-altering medical crisis — she created the Mindful Practice Podcast to give voice to the conversations medicine too often silences.
Dr. Hooks is also the founder of Pinnacle Business Academy, where she coaches physicians through career clarity and reinvention.
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The Mindful Practice Podcast features physicians, healthcare leaders, and experts who are doing things differently. If you have insights on disability in medicine, DEI, burnout, entrepreneurship, career reinvention, or the permission to evolve — we want to hear from you.
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