When Being Good at Your Job Costs You Yourself | Deb Shannon

You can make life-changing decisions for other people all day, then come home too exhausted to make one for yourself. For Deb Shannon, that disconnect is a recurring theme among the women physicians she coaches. What happens when the habits that helped you succeed stop supporting the person you’re becoming?

In this conversation, Deb joins Dr. Lisa Belisle to talk about self-trust, changing identities, and the private conversations that shape how we meet the world. She shares how her own divorce brought her inner voice into focus, and how an unexpected encounter at a dog park led her to coaching women in obstetrics and gynecology.

Together, they consider the pressure to appear capable, the personal stakes of menopause, and a question medicine might borrow from sports: where is the recovery day? Throughout is a practical concern: how can women keep doing work that matters without sacrificing themselves?

Join Dr. Lisa Belisle for this conversation with Deb Shannon today on Radio Maine.