Summary 

In today’s episode, I’m sharing an incredible conversation with my client, Dr. Kara Geoghegan—a fellow OBGYN, busy mom of four, and total rockstar. Kara opens up about what it was really like to juggle her demanding career, family responsibilities, and a desire to finally prioritize her health. She shares how she overcame overwhelm, shifted her mindset, and created a process that’s changed her life, and her family’s too.

If you’re feeling like there’s never enough time to lose weight, Kara’s story will show you it’s possible to break free—and actually enjoy the process.

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• How Kara went from feeling stuck and overwhelmed to unlocking 10–20 extra hours a week by making one key change
• Why she was able to ditch the endless cycle of restrictive diets like keto, Weight Watchers, and calorie counting for good
• The surprising role of emotions—and how understanding them was the missing piece in her sustainable weight loss
• How Kara changed her relationship with the scale and with food, all while still enjoying her favorite meals
• The ripple effect: how Kara’s journey has transformed not just her weight, but her family’s health and her own sense of self

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  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Hey friends. Welcome back to the podcast. Today I am joined by another client. This is Dr. Kara Geoghegan. She's a fellow OBGYN, mom to four kids, and before we started working together in the Unstoppable Group, she shared with me that she just felt so overwhelmed, like she didn't have the time that she really thought she needed to lose the weight. She wanted to feel better. It seemed like just the kids afterschool activities and her very busy life as a physician who's on call, married to another physician who's also very busy. Seemed just like a practical reality that she couldn't seem to work around, and what she's going to share very forthcoming on this podcast is how our work together in the Unstoppable Group helped her unlock, I think she said 10 to 20 hours more per week of time, practical time, and the mental fatigue that she had been experiencing simply because she didn't have a strategy that she loved, that she knew how to prioritize in her very busy calendar. I am seriously obsessed with a lot of this conversation that she's going to share. I love how transparent she is and she shares her actual numbers, which I don't always ask clients to do unless they volunteer that information on the podcast. I think it's very personal information, but she shares how much weight she has lost in our work together despite traveling, going on marriage trips and going on vacations to Disney, how much weight she has lost in her entire experience of being in the group. If her story resonates with you or you know that the Unstoppable Group has been on your mind, it has been on the radar for a while. I really, really want to encourage you to consider applying in this upcoming cohort. You can get all of the details, the nuts, the bolts, the investment when we start, when we end. Over at www.burnstressloseweight.com/group and you will get all the details. There's a button that says Apply Now. I will ask you to answer a few questions, give me some details about you so I can get to know you, understand what your obstacles have been, and then we will get to talk either on a consult call or via text and decide if this is really a good fit for you. My favorite part about this group is that to me it is equal parts learning from a group coaching experience where you're with other very smart women across industry, where you learn from their coaching, their obstacles, which was one of the things that Kara shares in this podcast, how much she has learned from the coaching of other people. And also you have a level of personal support and attention that. I don't think you get in most group coaching containers. At least that's not my experience. To me, I think about this really as like a Goldilocks experience and sometimes the only way to know is simply to do it. So if that sounds like something you want to do, head over to burnstressloseweight.com/group. Don't wait the doors to the Unstoppable Group, summer cohort or open right now. There is an amazing bonus when you joined before this Friday, so I really want you to take advantage of that. Our next group is starting in just a few weeks, so I'd love for you to get a headstart on all of the material to go through the process, so you come into our first coaching call already, feeling better and down on the scale. Without further ado, let's get into my conversation with my wonderful client, Dr. Kara Geoghegan. Hey, unstoppable friend. You're listening to the Burn Stress, Lose Weight podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Priyanka Venugopal, a physician, turned a stress and weight loss coach for professional working moms and the founder of the Burn Stress, Lose Weight, Feel, Unstoppable small group coaching program. This podcast is going to inspire change at the root for you on and off the scale. I've lost a little over 60 pounds while being a busy physician mom with two young kids and an unpredictable schedule. And along my journey, which was full of many, many imperfect moments. I have learned how to skip past the fads and the gimmicks. I am on this mission now to share with you how you can have a real strategy and mindset skills to really have more of the life you want that you have worked so hard for. Let's get into it. Hello friends welcome back to the Burn Stress, Lose Weight podcast. I am joined by my lovely client. This is Dr. Kara Geoghegan. Kara, I'm gonna have you introduce yourself. Tell us a little bit about you and where you were before you joined Unstoppable. What was life like before you joined the group?

   

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: I am an OBGYN in private practice with a busy practice. Married to another physician who has a crazy schedule, and we have four children ages are 14, 13, 11 and 9 right now. I was very overwhelmed with life and had always had food issues growing up and yo yoed a lot with my weight and had tried everything and kind of was at my breaking point and saw your podcast and I thought, I think this woman knows something. I want to tap into her and so I reached out to you.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. When you kind of flashback, because I remember we first talked at the end of last year, and I'd love for you to kind of dive in a little bit more here is, you know, your life was very full. Everything is going well, but there's also right. Of overwhelm with hectic schedules, afterschool activities? Oh, yes. This person's schedule. My schedule, yes. Your schedule? Yes. What do you think it was about your life as a busy OBGYN with four kids married to another physician. What was it about the schedule that created your overwhelm?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Before we started working together, I think I wasn't putting any time on the schedule for me. So you're taking care of everybody else, but you're not taking care of yourself. And so that's why you feel the overwhelmed part.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: And I think from way back in that conversation when I asked you about like what is your plan? For you, there was no plan. There was no plan for you. Yeah. So if we kind of roll back to before Unstoppable, had you been trying to lose weight for a long time, what was it like for you?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Oh, I mean you, I did the keto diet. I, I mean, you name the diet, Jenny Craig, weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, Octavia, I. I mean, you name it and I've done it and I can be very disciplined and restrictive and follow through and lose the 50 pounds, but then I gain the 50 pounds back or I slowly started to creep up and I was tired. I just gotta, to the point where I've done it half Ironman, I can ize like no other. I mean, I can. Burn calories, but I was missing something. Something wasn't right. And I can even tell you when I joined the Unstoppable Groups, yeah. In the first coaching call, I was like, hold on a second. This isn't about weight loss. We're talking about feelings. And I was like, my feelings are good. Like I'm, I'm good with this part of my life. I'm here for the coaching call for weight loss, but. I've learned a lot obviously, that it is about here and here. You know what's going on there is affecting your food choices, which affects your weight loss. I've had a couple of sticky situations. I mean, one was the scale for me.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: That was sticky about it. I remember you posting inside the group around feeling like this dramatic moment, you step on the scale, it feels like a cloud is following you around the entire day.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Yeah. If I step on the scale and it's good, I'm happy. If I step on the scale, I'm mad and I punish myself, I let the scale control my feelings, and I've said over and over time before I get on the scale is a three digit number. Whatever it says is not, is not me. But I've also learned that I know when I get on that scale, it's gonna go down.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Right. How did you create that kind of confidence?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Because I have a plan. I am putting myself on my calendar. I'm meal planning. I never meal planned. I mean, never meal planned. I remember my oldest child said to me one time, mom, it's like normal for people to have dinner at home. And I was like. Oh gosh. Yeah. And so actually on Sunday I make a meal plan and I send it out to all my kids. So they all know the plan. I'm just putting it on my calendar. I'm scheduling myself. I'm scheduling the time, and it might not be perfect. You know, it might not be that we are 10 out 10 on the meal plan, but I even have options for if that's not, what are we going to do? Yeah. And I'm using resources. I, I am making a grocery list and having it delivered to the house and I'm just not making excuses and it's getting done.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. I think this is one of the big things that we coach on in the group is this idea like, I don't know if I have the time to meal plan and meal prep and grocery shop. Like when do I have the time for that? That's. Part of what, you know, before we started working together was I have overwhelm. Like I don't have time for this. Mm-hmm. And I think the biggest challenge that I have for anyone that says that is you don't have the time not to, to do it right. Plan for yourself. Like, I'm just curious, if you had to just ballpark how much time do you think you have saved in learning how to, you know, we call this magic action structure inside the group, but to really have structure built back into your life where your goal is prioritized, how much time do you think you save per week?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Oh hours. I mean 10 hours, 15 hours, 20 hours, because I don't have to think about it. It's all done. And honestly, once you start doing it. It's really fast. It doesn't even take that long to really do. But I think we just make up excuses that we have too much. You know, we don't have enough time. We don't have enough time. We don't have enough time. We all have enough time. It's what you choose to do at the time that you have. Yeah. And in the end, it saves you time.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: I remember you posted back in the group, this might have been in February or so, you actually inspired one of our core videos. You shared there's a lot of afterschool activities starting up. Mm-hmm. And you said help in capital letters. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. How do I meal plan? Mm-hmm. And that inspired the, I did a one-on-one training for just you. I recorded a video, I sent it to you. Mm-hmm. Called How to Meal Plan like a Rockstar. Mm. And I loomed it. I shared it with you. Mm-hmm. And actually that one video, so many clients have reached out and said, thank you for that one video because it is helping me save hours of time. So what was it for you, like the step by step to go from overwhelm into. Creating this process, having magic action structure built into Eureka, what has been the hardest part and what do you think has been the benefit for you?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: The hardest part is to sit down and find meals that all my children or majority of us will eat. That's the hardest part and not monotonous. Same thing every week. You know, I, I don't like that, but I do do the chat. GPT I'm still learning how to use technology. I'm not that hip on it, but I'm learning. Yeah. But I think that's the hardest is finding some variability. Something that, that we all can do. Or if I can't do, my kids can do for me. We're having family meals together actually at home, which is a miraculous event. Yeah. It's really good. We're eating healthier. All of us are eating healthier, which we just talk about when we were three girls, teenager, girls. I just want, food was an issue in my house. My, my sister had an eating disorder. My mom was a little unique with her food restrictions in our house, and so food was an issue and I have never want food to be an issue, so I'm really trying to be an example and picking fuel for your body, making healthier choices for my kids, and so I feel like that's been a big thing is that we've been focusing a lot on our house about protein and making healthier choices.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: You've been like on fire with doing your weekly retrospectives coming up and again of auditing your results. And one of the things that you said, which is what I really wanted to share on this podcast, which look, I am loving the process. Well, I wanna just dive into that a little bit because when most people think about weight loss, they hate it. They hate the idea of weight loss. They hate their strategy. They feel restricted and deprived. And worse yet, what you just touched on, we modeled this kind of very like ugly relationship with our bodies and with food to our children.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: I feel like I got that from you. 'cause I feel like you say if you don't love what it is, you're not gonna stick with it and that's my thing. I'm not here to lose 20 pounds in two months. That wasn't my goal. My goal was to, again, to find something that worked with me that I loved. I don't feel like I can't go eat at whatever restaurant, or it was my birthday and I can't have a piece of cake. I think about it now in a different way. I think about it first. I think about it as fuel, and then I think about it as is it something that I really want? If it's something I really want, I take it because if I'm gonna restrict myself so much, then this weight's never, it's gonna come back on like it always has. So I think I have to change how I think about things or it's not gonna work. And I had a really really shitty, probably the worst month of my whole 15 years of being out of practice in March. And I remember when I had a really bad day and I really wanted to come up here and eat all the crumble cookies. I said to myself, is that gonna make me feel better? No, it's gonna make me feel worse, so I'm not going to eat the crumble cookies that change in your mindset where you think about stuff, where before I would just eat the cookies. I mean, I didn't give fly and flip. I wanted to feel better, but now I realize that cookie doesn't make me feel better after a bad crappy day.. Yeah. You know, when I want to run away from it. Turning to food is not gonna solve the problem.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah, and I think that that's what we are wanting to model to our children. One of the things that I love about our process in Unstoppable is we're not villainizing any food. It's like, actually it's just food right now. There is a, a physiological process in your body when you eat certain foods versus other foods, but that's what I wanted model to the next generation. Like how can we get outta that toxic relationship with food and actually think about how do we wanna treat ourselves really well? What did you think initially coming in? Then what actually happened when you, when you came into the group, what did you think we were gonna be talking about?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Like meal plans and how many macros and calories and, Hey, this at Trader Joe's is really great and help me, I mean, I don't know. I just thought it was gonna be like tips we're all busy. What are tips and tricks that we're doing to meet our weight loss goals? That's what I thought it was gonna be about.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Right, and then I'm laughing so hard on the inside and on the outside, so what has it actually been?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Everybody has different struggles in their life, and what I'm learning is even though my work's great. My husband's good. My kids are, relationships are fine. You learn about our thoughts and our feelings and actions and like, just the way you're, you're talking about things I don't think I've ever had before, so. Mm-hmm. And most of times you're saying like, what feelings? And I'm like, oh, feelings. Okay, hold on. What feelings? And just with our training, and I think last week you were talking about as physicians a lot, we're supposed to not have feelings or not share our feelings and. That's wrong. I think that's totally not right. And even if he help with my patients, I had a patient who was crying even today, and she's like, I'm so sorry I'm crying. I'm like, why are you apologizing for crying? Like it's okay to cry. So I think we're just changing the mindset then how we've been trained for a long time.

   

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. You know, I, I think especially for physicians, I think this is probably overachievers across the board in lots of different industries, but for physicians, I do think that we were really applauded for being like head up, right? Like just being super intellectual and being very smart and kind of not cutting off your emotions, but kind of cutting off your emotions. And so when we experience a lot of stress or a lot of sadness or frustration mm-hmm. Or disappointment, it's no wonder that a part of our brain feels like something's going wrong. And then you want to numb out with the cookies or with the scrolling because it feels so terrible. One of the things that we talked about, especially last week in our coaching call, was how can we expand our emotional resilience? To feel every single emotion under the sun without sabotaging our dream goals for our body, for our mental health for our emotional health which it's a practice. I'm working on that.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: So it's like we're all different, but we're the same. And people have struggles at work with other people, and we've all had struggles with relationships, whether it be our kids or husbands, but it's, I think, also nice when you're with a group just to share that. So one other big thing I think that changed in my mindset was, and I talked about this I think in one of my coaching calls. Mm-hmm. I felt that in order to exercise. I had to do something in which I was like dripping wet. Like I only counted if I ran for three miles, and I would only wait after I did that because I'd always wanna be the lowest weight I possibly could be, right? So I didn't lift weights, I didn't walk. I didn't really do anything but run because that was the only thing I counted as exercise.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah, you said, I think you said like, oh, it doesn't count that, and I was like, what does that mean? Right. I don't.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Right. I wouldn't count it. So like I really changed how I look at exercise. It's about movement. I walk, I lift weights and I weigh when I haven't sweated profusely. Like that has been a big change for me. The also, I mean, I went on a vacation with my husband. We do it once a year. We call it our annual marriage retreat, but it's just, it's not a formal retreat of any sort. But we went and he booked this all inclusive resort, and I was like, oh, I've never done that before. I thought, how's this gonna be with my weight? I came back and I lost weight and they didn't even have a gym there. I couldn't even exercise in a gym. I couldn't run, but I moved moved my, my body.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. This is, this was wild. You didn't actually just do this. What? You did this with Disney too?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: You went to Disney. Yeah. So what do you think it was for you? You went on the, on a vacation, you went on this retreat. What do you think would've been your experience prior to Unstoppable in the process? Like what would you have come back as and what do you think specifically changed on your trips, your vacations, your Disney trip? What, what, what changed?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Okay. Well, I definitely would've came back positive. I mean, I, I've never been on a vacation and not gained weight. 'cause you're not eating your normal stuff. Yeah. And you're trying, I mean, desserts, every meal there was appetizers, Maine dessert. I mean, every meal. Now I will tell one thing, I'm not a big drinker. I never was a big drinker, but I really have not been drinking lately. Again, I don't really want it. It's not that I'm restricting myself saying, you can't have it. I did have a drink and I, I had a drink this week at a dinner with friends. I mean, I will have one. I just, when I think about, I just don't really want the empty, it's not worth the empty calories to me. Mm-hmm. So I think I'm just thinking of it differently. But anyway, I went on this trip. If the food wasn't good, I didn't eat it all. If it's great, I'm gonna eat it. I would focus on, again, protein. That's my thing, like eat your protein first. If there was bread out there, I did try the bread. It wasn't good, so I didn't eat any more of it. I tried dessert one night and I didn't like it. I didn't eat it, or I think before I would've finished it.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. You were able to see no. Without depriving yourself or restricting yourself.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Yes. I definitely, I do not feel like I'm restricting myself. From anything. If I want something, I'm not not having it, because again, if it's something I really want and I don't give it to me, then I will continue to, the weight will come back. Right. You've got to stick with at least having a bite of something if it's what you really, really want. Absolutely. I feel like we are ignoring our muscular system and so as I age and get closer to 50, I really feel like I need to that strength training. So I'm telling myself now that those still count, that that's still a good exercise.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: That was such an interesting coaching call when you, when you were saying like, if I'm not sweating, it doesn't count. It's just that. It just goes to show we have these beliefs in our mind that we just think are true. Yes. And I think when we start to challenge, that's what coaching is. And we're like, wait a second, why not? Why doesn't count? It's like we start to poke these little holes in some of our very longstanding beliefs that sometimes really shift the tide, right? In how we show up and in what works.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: And I realized when I said that out loud, it sounds crazy. I mean, when you say that you're like. Oh gosh, that sounds crazy that I only count when I am running, and so that was a big change. The other thing I think in the OB world is I will inhale my plate or whatever in like a minute. I am always the first one done at dinner with my family at dinner, with anywhere I go. I inhale food, and so I have really, I've purposely tried to be the last one to finish a plate. I'm slowing down. I'm not a big water drinker, so I've been trying to drink more water between my bites and really be cognizant. So that I worked on that with you sent me that stuff. Just slowing down my, my bites.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. So yeah, I think my, my favorite thing is, 'cause there's a couple of specific instances that you've posted in the group, which is like, wait, but how do I do this? Right? Like, how do I think you actually asked that question? Like how do I slow down that? That was actually one of the questions you asked. And I have a video on slowing down and savoring. Yes. Sometimes you can have. A step by step on a worksheet or in a workbook or even a video, but it's, you have to do it. Do it. You have to take it and mm-hmm. Just, just do it. Let it be a little awkward, let it feel a little messy. But once you start doing it, then you start to prove to your brain like, oh, actually this, not that hard to slow down and save for my food. Even as a busy OBGYN, as a physician, you're running into the or you're running in to see a patient. Mm. You can still take those few extra minutes and treat yourself with that much regard that you can slow down.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: I think I love what you have said. 'cause I was a pre eater too. If I was gonna go into the or, I always felt like that I had to eat because I never wanted to walk into a delivery room or the OR and feel like I was gonna pass out. Right. Right. So I'm like, oh, you gotta eat. You gotta eat all, I mean, you gotta eat breakfast. I mean, I never missed a meal. I, ate, ate, ate, ate 'cause I never wanted to pass out. Mm-hmm. And you're like, what's gonna happen if you don't eat? You're not gonna pass out. And I'm like, you know what? I've never passed out. Let's, let's try it and let's see how it goes.

   

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Right.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Guess what? I haven't passed out yet.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. Tell me whether this feels true for you. But part of the reason we pre-eat is because we have become so scared of hunger, because of how we have unfortunately tried to lose weight in the past. In the past. Like when you think about like the toxic diet culture, it is like just eat less, move more. Right. This kind a broad brush, like eat, let's move more and be in a calorie deficit. Like I know that that's the messaging and then it kind of subconsciously perpetuates this idea that you need to be hungry to lose weight. Exactly. Which is so, that's so not true. Unfortunate. And what we have been doing, especially as OBGYNs, we understand the importance of your hormone health, your metabolism. We have to support your metabolism as you lose weight. And what would you say to someone that sounds like this sounds too good to be true, that you can, 'cause what you're describing is you're losing weight at. Feel better as you go on vacation like it sounds right, like if somebody's just listening to this, they're like, oh, this is just too good to be true. How is this being possible?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: I'm, I know I'm that person. I'll be like, I can only tell you that I feel great. I feel great if I wasn't losing weight, if I still, I mean, I, yes, I'm losing like pounds or coming off every week, but I feel so good. I feel good. Like within my soul, I feel good, and that's why I don't care what the scale says because I know what the scale says because I feel so good. Right. I, that's what's so crazy to me. Yeah. I was 193 when I started. I'm now 176.6, so 17 pounds in three months, four months, and I have been to Disney. I have been to Dominica. I had a birthday. I had the worst OB month of my 15 year career .

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Hearing when we first talked at the end of last year, you were not planning, you were winging some of this like maybe we'll figure this out. You were living in a state of overwhelm and it felt very real because busy OBGYN four kids, right? Yes. It felt very real to you, but you had to make a change. You decided. When you joined the group and when there was a moment that came for you that was like, this is it. I'm done with overwhelm. I'm done with living this way. You actually had to put an effort and an energy to change this. That's correct. It doesn't happen by itself. Whenever someone says, it sounds too good to be true, I'm like, you're missing one of the most important things, which is it doesn't happen without you putting in the effort.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: A hundred percent. That's yes. Yes. I mean, I put in the effort, but I, I feel like. I was doing more before than I am now. I don't know if that makes sense. I feel like when I did the carb and keto diet and the training for an Ironman and running 13 miles, and I mean, that took up more of my time than now.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Part of it is when you were living in overwhelm, the amount of indecision, fatigue Yes. That you were in also wastes it's invisible. It's invisible hours that we don't actually, I do the math on it, and I tell you all about the math, right? Yes. It's invisible hours and not just hours that are passing in our day. It's invisible, like fatigue and drain on our brain. That is mm-hmm. Exhausting. And I think that that's one of the biggest things that we solve for.

   

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Mm-hmm. A hundred percent. I'm loving the process. And I don't think I expected that.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. How do you feel about like all the different pieces of the process? Are you like on board with all of it?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: I love the audits because again, I feel that I'm taking that time to do that, which I never did, and it doesn't take long. I mean, literally it takes 30 seconds. Now, I have learned, I'm not a very wordy person. Like I can answer a question like yes, no, I'm not a very detailed Yeah, personally when it comes to a lot of that stuff, but I still like answering it because like you said, you have to take time and learn. From where you've been this week, what worked, what didn't work, and what are you gonna change? And lots of times I'm like, listen, it's going great. I'm not changing anything. I'm gonna keep going. This how I am. 'cause it's working for me. Yeah, no, I'm a hundred percent efficient. Let's get it done. I'm, I'm not worried. It doesn't take much time, but I, I like that. I think it took me about, I don't know, a month or so to really felt like I was getting the hang of everything. And then once I feel like I kind of got the hang of it. 'cause you want people to go at their own pace and I understand that, but I, once I got the hang of it, then I, I understood.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: I think about Unstoppable, kind of like this buffet where you know, we want to take into account where you are in your journey, right? We wanna take into account what your obstacles are, and then we want to be able to pick and choose to craft your strategy. So your strategy and kind of your structure for your week is going to be different than somebody else's in the group, right? But the only way that we get to your strategy is if you come in, right? You raise your hand, you ask questions, you look. Raise your hand and like help. How do I meal plan? It was a very simple question, but it helped guide your solution.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: It's nice because with us as physicians, I mean, although I have a day off on Wednesday, guess what? It's not always a day off. Sometimes you get called and you gotta go do stuff or things come up and. I mean, I've had my day off Wednesday for the last 15 years, and sometimes you have appointments that you can't get out of. You gotta go, you know? And that's the only time they can do it. So I love it that I can watch the call if I miss it anytime I want. And again, you can ask a question anytime you feel like it, you can pop on and ask it and get an answer. Yeah. I definitely feel your availability is. Amazing. Like, uh, yeah. I don't know how you do it.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. Well, I share this on our coaching calls. Like coaching my clients is literally my number one favorite thing to do in my entire week. It is the favorite, like my favorite part of my work is coaching you all so I think that. Maybe that's part of it that I actually love what I do love kind of getting in there, but I also know that it's also easy to hide. Yeah. Like you can be in a group and never ask a question and never raise your hand. Yeah. And you can hide too. What do you think about that? Like being able to hide in a group versus like what you have to do to at least to get the results you want to get a return on your investment? How do you show up in the group to get a return on your investment?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: I think I've even learned from other people, like when they say something and you ask, the way you ask the questions, I mean, we're all asking ourselves or I am, I'm asking myself that question, like, how would I feel here? And you can see with the person you're coaching, the light bulb's going off in my head too. So that's what I learned from as well. A lot of the coaching calls are things that people have going on, which are relatable to all of us. Doesn't mean you have to say, Hey, me too, but I mean, sometimes we all be like, yeah, we're all there. Yeah. You see people nodding their head like, oh yeah, that's me all the time bear with you. So, I mean, again, like I said, a lot of us. Women, we all, and we know that from being an OBGYN, I mean you see patients every day, they get the same, we all wanna have the same complaints that are going on. So I think it's very, very similar, but you don't have to speak out if you don't want to, but you can still learn from, or I feel like I've learned, even though I'm not maybe saying, yeah, that's me too, or, you know, that's me. I'm still learning in, in the calls.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: As busy professional women. There's something very. Validating about that. Mm-hmm. Like, oh, I'm not alone in this. And there's a solution like Right. And that's what I really love when we think about our community, is we get to learn from those coaching moments of other people and also realize we're not alone in it. Which is amazing.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Yeah. And it's a very safe environment. Like I've never felt like anyone is judging. I mean, I feel like we're all, like, we understand we're there. Yeah. Yeah. I, I feel like it's very safe. I, I've never felt. Anything but that you could share anything and everyone would be there with you.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: Yeah. I think actually we're our own harshest critics, our own harshest. We're like, people are gonna judge me. We're like, no, no, no, no, no. It's like we're all actually having those same kind of thoughts and experiences, which is I think, really powerful. Yes. So if somebody, you know, it's a serious investment to join the group, Uhhuh, what would you say to someone that is interested in doing this work in, they've been considering the Unstoppable group for a while, but they're like, oh, but it is a serious investment. Like how did you make the decision to invest in yourself seriously to make the decision to actually do it?

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Because I'm worth it. I mean, in the end, how can you argue an investment in yourself? Yes, it's a lot, but what are you doing now Or what are you spending your money and time on now? I feel like. And really it, it's well worth it.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: If you could leave us with a closing thought. Someone is on the fence. They're considering it, they're not sure they have questions like before you came into the group, you thought you knew. Mm-hmm. We're gonna be talking about tips and cooking recipes and it's been totally different. What would you say that that person, they. Are kind of interested, but they're, they're just kind of on the fence about it.

  Dr. Kara Geoghegan: Do it. I wish you could pull my office in here. I think they've all left, but I wish you could even interview them because they would say that I, I'm different and that they can see the changes. So yes, it might have been not what I thought it really was, but it's been the best right now. The best investment and process. And I gotta tell you, every week I'm loving the process.

  Dr. Priyanka Venugopal: I love it so much and I also really love Kara, like the entire, 'cause you started with the scale feels like a dark cloud over my head. I still remember you posting that. I know when you posted that there were so many emojis under it because so many women have felt the same way as you. And to see you kind of moving through that experience, it's not that maybe the scale is 100% neutral all the time. No, but just you sticking with it and moving through keep you kept your foot on the gas. You show up and you do your retrospectives every single week to me is such a. Badass power move. It's like you get to come out the other side and change your relationship with that number on the scale as you hit your goal, which I just think is amazing. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast and sharing your story. This is so fun for me, and I'm so grateful for you. See you all next week. Bye. I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Kara. She was so transparent and hilarious and forthcoming and I really, there's a few points that she shared on this podcast that I really loved and my number one favorite is that she has discovered a process. She's taken everything that she's learned inside this group and made it her own. She has understood how to structure her life, even as a busy physician who's on call with four kids and a lot of afterschool activities, and yet found a way to prioritize. Herself, herself, and I think what I really loved is that she gets to have a process that she isn't just losing weight with, but that she feels proud to share with her daughters, which to me is really a big problem in the weight loss industry. There's so much toxic diet culture, so much toxic thinking around food and how we should be thinking about food and our bodies, and I really want to change that narrative. I want to change that narrative for more professional women. I want to help you really turn your experience of weight loss upside down over on its head, because I promise, if you love your weight loss journey and if you can fall in love with the process, there's no reason that it wouldn't last a lifetime. What we do together in the group is you learn how to grow your emotional capacity your emotional resilience. So even when you do feel stressed or bored, or even unmotivated, you learn how to take action on yourself without sabotaging your goals. And when you learn that skill, the results you get will last for a lifetime. And I want that for you. So this is interesting for you don't wait. Our amazing bonuses ending this Friday. So I would love to see you join the group before then. You can go and apply to join the group over at burnstressloseweight.com/group. All of the details are there, and if you have a question, apply to the group and I will email you. We can have a conversation via email or hop on a Zoom call and talk about whether this group is really going to be a good fit for you. I hope you guys have an amazing, amazing week, and I will see you at the next one. Bye. Thanks for spending this time with me on the Burn Stress, Lose Weight podcast today. I hope that you are leaving today's podcast episode feeling a little lighter and more inspired than when we started. It turns out that you don't need to have a stress-free life to hit your goals. On and off the scale, but when you feel more empowered to respond to your real life stresses. With true strategy, we will game change, how we show up, and how we hit our goals. If you wanna take what you are learning here on the podcast and put it into real life implementation, it might be time for us to work together in the Burn Stress, Lose Weight, Feel Unstoppable Group coaching program. Head over to burnstressloseweight.com and you can learn all of the details, the nuts, the bolts, when the next group is starting and exactly how you can join. Okay, friend, I'll see you next time.