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Hosts Dr. Nii (Ghanaian) and Dr. Renee (Haitian) are first-generation physicians who paid off $662,000 in student loans in 3 years - while figuring out contracts, career moves, and money management that their colleagues learned at home.Every episode covers what first-gen docs need to know:Contract negotiation and career decisionsPaying off debt without family financial guidanceBuilding wealth from scratchThe questions you don't know to ask (but your colleagues already knew)Real strategies from doctors who had to figure it out on their own.Subscribe and build your blueprint with us.Download: The First-Gen Doctor Blueprint
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- 1 weeks ago25 min
2012: The Year I Stopped Asking For Permission. #485
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Most people can point to one year that changed everything. For me that year was 2012. I finished my trauma surgery fellowship in Miami. Had a contract negotiation go sideways when a trauma director yelled at me over the phone. Called Renee. She said one sentence. And then I went silent. That silence changed my life. In this episode I'm taking you back to 2012 — the year I said yes to everything that scared...
- 3 weeks ago26 min
A Dental Student Just Ran Out of Money. The Government Did This. #484
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! A first-year dental student posted a video on Instagram that stopped me cold. He's run out of federal funding. He's run out of private funding. He started a GoFundMe just to stay in school. The culprit: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. And here's why this felt so personal. This didn't happen to me. But it could have. Renee and I both needed private loans AND co-signers to finish our education. Without that ...
- Sep 29, 202633 min
20 Years Later — What I'd Tell Every Medical Student. #483
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Twenty years after medical school, I went back to Kansas City with Renee and our boys. Walking through the place where it all began brought back memories of my father driving me there from New Jersey, the first time I was rejected from medical school, and the life I could never have planned... In this episode, I’m sharing things I wish I could tell the student I was back then. You’ll hear: → Why getting re...
- Sep 15, 202642 min
Want to Do Global Surgery? Start Preparing Now. #482
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! A first year general surgery resident slid into my DMs after our previous episode on how GHANA MADE ME BETTER. She’d been following the show for almost 10 years, and she had one question: “How can I best start preparing for global surgery, especially in places like Ghana?” That question deserved more than a simple reply. It deserved an entire episode. So I’m sharing what I’ve learned from 14 years of human...
- Sep 1, 202646 min
We've Taken Our Kids to Ghana Every Year for 14 Years. Here's What Humanitarian Medicine Actually Looks Like. #481
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! In just a few days, we leave for Ghana, and this year, our boys are coming with us. This is our 14th year doing humanitarian work at KNUST University Hospital in Kumasi with International Healthcare Volunteers. Before we board that plane, we’re talking about what humanitarian medicine actually looks like. Not the Instagram version. The real version. You’ll hear: What International Healthcare Volunteers act...
- Jul 30, 202651 min
We Were Paying Off $700K in Student Loans. And Doing IVF at the Same Time. #480
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! We got married in our thirties. Started IVF in the middle of paying off $700,000 in student loan debt. And Nii was working locums shifts several states away — the very thing funding our fertility journey was also making it harder. This is the episode we've never been able to fully tell. Until now. You'll hear: → Why we got married later — and what that cost us biologically → The rule we made when pay...
- Jul 14, 202646 min
2 Docs No Nanny. #479
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Nearly 50,000 people watched our co-parenting reel and asked the same question: "Why don't you just get a nanny?" People expected us to have full-time help. We don't. Not because we can't afford it. Because we made a different choice. In this episode, Nii and Renee pull back the curtain on the real systems, the real schedule, and the real financial trade-offs behind running a two-physician household with t...
- Apr 6, 20261h 20m
7% of Med Students Don't Match. Do These Things Instead. #478
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! You didn't match. Now what? Every year, roughly 7% of U.S. medical students don't match into residency. If you're one of them, you're not alone—and this isn't the end. Reddit Question We're Answering: "M4 here. Didn't match into the only specialty I cared about. No backup plan. Would it be insane to just get off the hamster wheel? Years of sacrifice, crushing debt, and the light at the end of the tunnel is...
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About Docs Outside The Box
Hosts Dr. Nii (Ghanaian) and Dr. Renee (Haitian) are first-generation physicians who paid off $662,000 in student loans in 3 years - while figuring out contracts, career moves, and money management that their colleagues learned at home.Every episode covers what first-gen docs need to know:Contract negotiation and career decisionsPaying off debt without family financial guidanceBuilding wealth from scratchThe questions you don't know to ask (but your colleagues already knew)Real strategies from doctors who had to figure it out on their own.Subscribe and build your blueprint with us.Download: The First-Gen Doctor Blueprint
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