Navigating Business Challenges with Joy with Dr. Makda Majette

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Oh great. I'm so excited to be here with you, Dr. Una. I am just to introduce myself. I'm Dr. Magda Majed. I'm a family physician in Miami, Florida. I'm also a HIV specialist and I am a physician entrepreneur, newly physician entrepreneur. And I am still growing and and learning new things every day and I'm very excited to share some things that I've learned through my experience with you today.

Love it. And so learning you're always going to do. You're in a whole business school, so what can we say? Right, but so the conversation we're about to have is a spinoff from a conversation that happened in the On Trend Business School Vision retreat. So every year in October, we have a vision retreat. That's where we set our goals for the year. Right? So, like, everyone who listens to the podcast knows that I start my year in November, in October. And that's just because if you start in January, you're late. You know what I mean? The year already started. And so. So at that retreat, by the way, how was that retreat for you?

It was transformational for me, I would say. I think that's the. The term I would use. There was so much energy in the room. I don't think I've. I'm at. In my life, I've never been in a room with that many doctors, first of all, physicians that were happy, right? That had a strong vision and their life goes kind of in. In their mindset and were sharing so much intimately. And there was no competition in the room, which is the main thing, too. So there was no comparison or competition, but it was. I was in a room full of. I felt like I was in a room full of giants, but I did not feel insecure in any way.

Oh, that is so good. Yeah, that's amazing. And that's a really good read of the room. I wouldn't have used those words, but that's exactly what it was like. Wow. Okay. I'm glad I asked that question. Okay, so Dr. Makta was in this room full of giants, and she did not feel insecure because she's one of the giants. And it's a room full. I mean, we're talking vision people, all nine areas of their lives, what 2024 is going to look like. And we're working through mindset drama, all of this stuff. So I believe it was on the second day, and I was like, okay, we're going to be chasing down these business goals. We're going to be chasing down these life goals. What. How do you do this? And still. Right? And still have. So I started listing out some things, and one of the things I said was joy. Like, how do you work hard, push through obstacles, have to deal with challenges, go through the almost like a grind of everyday life, right? And be joyful because we're burning daylight, right? This is not the rehearsal. This is the life. And if we cannot have joy as we go after our goals, when are we going to have joy? Right? Right. Like, who wants to. Who wants to be 90 and you're like, I achieved everything. What, man, I didn't live any aspect of my life. Like, I just wasn't there. I wasn't present. I didn't enjoy. Who wants that? Nobody wants that. Okay. So I asked the question, and Dr. Magda came up to say, I have something to say. And when she got up, I was like, you know what? She. She is the embodiment. So if you're listening to this on the podcast, you. You. You don't get to see her face. If you're watching this on YouTube, it's. It's just joy. There's just this joy that she radiates, always has this big smile on her face. When you see her, you just smile. That's the way it is. So when she came up, I was like, okay, that's interesting. Yeah, I. You should be talking about this. So tell us what you told us then, your thoughts about that, how people need to approach that. Let's have some dialogue around them.

Okay. Well, I'm not sure if I'll. I'll word it, but it won't be exactly. Of course, what I said during the vision retreat. But what I said was, a lot of us. Well, if you have my. My personality in particular. So from. From my personal example, I made a conscious decision that I would be a source of joy for others even if I couldn't be for myself. And so in that respect, there's all sorts of things that we hear about. If you put on a smile, people smile back and they reflect that back to you, and then, of course, that will make you feel better as well. So I made that decision when I was little. So I've been smiling at people since. Since I was. Since I was younger. Right. So just because I. You necessarily portray joy to others doesn't mean you feel it or receive it all 100% back to you. So I had to learn. I had to learn to receive the joy that I get from others. And in doing that, in order to do that, it's. As physicians, we work hard. We're there to help people as much as we can. That's most of us. That's why we came into this field. We want to help our patients to feel better when they give us a compliment, where they say, oh, thank you so much. You made me feel better. We have to take time to receive all of our compliments and realize that, hey, I was the. I was the person that did that. Right? And it's not to. It's not to become egotistical. Right? So, of course, there's a balance. Right. We're humble, a lot of us, but it's not. You don't receive your compliments to become egotistical, but to acknowledge what you were able to do so that you can continue on and receive the happiness that you were giving your patients or the people in your life so that you can continue on doing that. Because if you don't, if you only give and you never receive the joy that you're giving others, then you will be completely depleted because you will feel like, I'm working, I'm working, I'm working. And then when people say, oh, thank you, Doc, you're thinking, oh, well, they don't know that I did this wrong. And then you. You're not really receiving your compliments. You're not really receiving what you have put out there. And then you will not be able to sustain. That's. That's a little bit of what I. What I said, so.

Good. Okay. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Go ahead.

Yeah, that's a little bit of what I was getting to at the Visionary. Of course, it's not exactly the same of what I. What I said there, but that's the main. The. The main point is that we have to be able to treat ourselves kindly. We treat. If you spoke to your patient the way you may speak to yourself at night, is that gonna sustain you?

Yeah. And I think you even talked about. Because you triggered this whole little movement in the entremd business school where people like Little Magna, really? Little Magda. Right. So talk to us about that piece where, you know, like, how we should look at ourselves. And this, I think this really triggers this whole concept of us being kind to ourselves.

Right. Which is very important. So we have to treat ourselves even as. Okay, so it goes in two ways. You can treat yourself as you were a baby. Right? So babies, they smile like a million times a day. Of course, that. That changes as we age, but it doesn't have to change to the extent that it does. And you can treat yourself kindly. Like, if. How would I speak to that baby? Would I want her to be happy? Would I tell her, oh, she's doing this wrong and she did this wrong and she can't get anything right. No, I would say, oh, wow, look at you. You improved from yesterday. You're speaking more words. Oh, you may not have pronounced that right, but you get it. And it's so cute when you mess that up. You're going to do better next time. And that's how we should treat ourselves. And the Other way you can see that is I had a mentor that told me before that was very pivotal in my life, was we have to look at ourselves the way God sees us and we have to speak to ourselves the way God speaks to us. Right? So. And, but it's also that that can go different ways because some people view God as a vengeance God and some people view God as a God with unconditional love. I'm talking about the unconditional, loving God. That's the God. That's the God that I'm speaking about. So treating yourself as an amazing being that was created to do wonders, wonderful things, and just being kind to yourself in that way, that's. That's what I'm going at.

Okay, so I want to start off by saying my natural bent would be to treat something like this as something soft. We don't need that. We just show up and do what we need to do. This is my natural bent. And as I've gone on my journey as a physician, as a mom, as a wife, as an entrepreneur, as all of these things and I've gotten older, I've realized that a lot of the things that maybe a type A kind of person will consider as soft are actually the things that we need to enjoy our lives is actually the things that will stop us from quitting in the hard times. And that is the reason why on a podcast where we're talking to people running seven figure businesses, we're talking about this, right? Because entrepreneurship is hard. It's doable, it's very rewarding, but it's hard. And if you can't figure out how to enjoy the journey, what's the point, right? Because most entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs like forever. I see people, they sell their businesses, they sell their businesses for 50 million. All of that, they take off for a year, go on all the trips, do all the things, and they're like, they start another business, right? Like entrepreneurs typically are just entrepreneurs. And it is very critical that we learn to build dream businesses and build our dream lives at the same time, right? So the things you've talked about here, they're simple, meaning we can do them, right? We can smile, right? We can smile at people. We can make that a habit. I'll tell you something funny. When I started doing videos, I would write smile on a post it note and put on the computer because that's not my natural band. I'm an introvert. I'm all, I'm in my head, I'm thinking. And I just put that there to remind myself to Smile. When I walk into a patient's room, I walk in with a big smile. Doesn't matter what happened before. I. Because I'm like, I could. I don't know, I might be the only smile they get today. Right. I don't know. And so I would do all of those things and. But you bring up something really important. The fact that we give it doesn't mean that we can receive. Right. And we need to do both parts. So someone can then say, oh, my goodness, doctor, no, you're amazing. Like, coming to your office to see is really the highlight of my day, blah, blah. And I'm just like, whatever, I'm doing my job. Right. Like, I could do that. But what I did is I just short circuited the process because it's supposed to be a give and receive cycle, and I just cut it off. So there are people listening. May or may not be me. I cannot confirm nor deny. But let's say somebody's struggling with the sight of receiving, whether that is compliments, gifts, thank yous, and all of those things.

What would you.

You've grown in your capacity to receive. Right. What would you say to that person? How do they start this process of building a habit of. Because for many people, it's awkward. Yeah, I'm just doing my job. And we. Your dress is nice. Yeah, I got it. From where Nobody asked you. Just say thank you. You know what I mean? Okay, so what would you say to that person?

I would say. I would say first, that was me a while ago. So it's not. I can speak to that person. But I would say first. Start with, if you're receiving a compliment, pause for a second before you. Your first thought is going to be, oh, I didn't really do that. Great. Right. So maybe. Or oh, it wasn't that good. It could have been better. That may be the first thought, but don't. Don't say that out of your mouth the first. Pause for a second and just say, thank you so much for the compliment. I appreciate it. Right. So. And just think about each compliment you get from someone or each gift you get for someone as a gift. And remember that gifts, we do not have to work for them or deserve them. So it goes back into. You are going back into thinking you are. You are worthy just as you are. You don't have to be anything different than you are to get the. To get the gifts that you're getting. Right. So it was. That was for you. Right. So if someone comes and says, oh, Dr. Una, you have impeccable style. And you, of course, you made the choice, this whole thing, which is fine. We've been taught to kind of humble our compliments and humble our. So that we don't sound egotistical in a way, I believe. But it's not. It's not your ego that's doing that. You. The person that's giving the compliment wants to give it to you. So when you give it back to them, they're just like, I'm not. I'm not gonna compliment her. I don't know if I'm gonna compliment her because every time I compliment her, she says something bad about herself. So maybe I'll just. I'll just.

I'll spare her the idea.

Yeah, I'll admire her from afar or. But it's very nice to accept those compliments. So if someone says, your patient says, oh, that's the best doctor I've ever had. Take a minute and read it, acknowledge it, and just say, my patient said, that's the best doctor I have. And it's not by your own abilities that you became the best doctor that this patient had. It's because, of course, you did the work, but you also had community. You had a higher power. You had steps. It took years to get there. Just acknowledge it. This patient, or whatever the compliment is, and just take a minute, acknowledge it, and then you can move on to something else. But don't immediately go to, oh, they're lying. This other one said, I'm bad. I'm bad. I'm going to believe the one that says, I'm not that great. No, just take a minute with each comment. Those things build us up so that we can manage challenging times. So that when the time comes where you get a bad review, you're like, well, I got a hundred great reviews. Two bad reviews. I'm not going to waste my time believing something that's not true. When I have accepted all of these compliments and I know that I provide a great service.

Yeah. Okay. People gotta accept the compliments. Okay, so let me run down what you gave us here. So the first, again, simple, number one, is smile, right? And we could all practice that more. We live in a world that's really strange at this time. So, yes, let's, let's. Let's do that one. The second one is being aware that you can give joy but not receive it. Right. Like, we want to have that awareness. And then the third thing, we want to practice receiving the joy whether it's a compliment, whether it's thanks or it's a gift, whatever that is. Practice not deflecting it. Right. Which is what we do. A lot of times it comes towards us, we deflect it. We either give it to somebody else or, or knock it down or say, it's not that. We can just say thank you. And thank you is a whole sentence. We do not need a paragraph here. You're like, oh my goodness, thank you. That's it, that's it. And in the beginning it'll be weird because I know because I did this. And after a while it just becomes normal. Thank you. And that's. I'm glad you would share that with me. And then the fourth thing is really practicing being kind to ourselves. Some of the things we say to ourselves, we would never, we would never say it to someone we love. We'll never say it to a patient, we'd never say it to a child. We never say it to anybody but us. And, and so maybe we want to start being nicer to ourselves. We're in times when I've seen a lot of people, we're talking people running eight figure businesses just go, I'm done. And a lot of it is, is tied to the fact that yes, they have the, the tactics, they have, the strategies they have, they know what to do, they have the team, they have all of that. But there's this inner life we need to start paying attention to and you can't see it. So it's kind of like, does it matter? And joy is a big part of that because a business without joy is kind of like a car without engine. Oil in the engine is. So yes. Could it still move? Kind of, sort of. But you know, there'll be smoke everywhere and noise and eventually it's going to pack up. Right. This is kind of like that oil that makes the journey smoother and easier and more fun and nice and you can keep going and you have challenges and you weather the storm, but you keep going because of these things. So, so amazing.

Enjoy the journey. Right? So it's not just we work so hard to accomplish, we sacrifice. Which part of that, as entrepreneurs, especially as physician entrepreneurs, we understand what sacrifice is, right?

Yeah.

Residency, we were taught to sacrifice to a large extent. And then we have to now as attendings, you have to enjoy each step.

Yeah.

You really have to enjoy.

I'm a hundred, I'm a thousand percent there with you. In fact, recently I was thinking, I was like, if somebody wrote my life story and took my name out and put another name. Am right. Replace me. If I read that book, I'll be like, oh, my goodness, she's amazing. Look what she did. Look at that. Look at her life. Look at. Look at how she thinks She's.

She's good.

I'll be highlighting it, right? And all of that. And I'm not saying that that's everybody's life. You listening to me? Like, it's. It's our lives. Like, if. If somebody wrote that and we read it, we'll be blown away. And I think one of the greatest regrets people would have is at the end of their life, they'll look back at their autobiography and realize, that was amazing. But I never enjoyed it. Like, I didn't enjoy any of it. Like, I didn't enjoy any win. I didn't enjoy any milestone. I didn't enjoy any of that. And that's a regret I don't want to have. And I want to start enjoying everything. Like, from right now. It requires a certain amount of self awareness and just stopping to look around to do that.

Stop and just think how amazing this life that we have is and how amazing each day that we have is. And remember, we thank God. It's not guaranteed, but we are here and we have an amazing chance to do something different or to try something new or to continue on with the same. Love our family, whatever it is, and just embrace it each day and make that. It's a. It's a decision.

It's a decision decision.

And you discuss that, too. It's a decision to wake up and say, I choose to find. And when you smile, you find things to smile about. So I smile so often that I just. Oh, that was kind of. You start finding things throughout the day to smile more about. And it's the same when I was not so happy or joyful. The same with crying. If I was upset, something made me upset. Next thing you know, I'm thinking of 10 more things that made me. That made me upset. Right? So if you can choose, you know, to spiral. Not spiral, but if you can choose your thoughts, which we can to a large extent, choose the ones that move you forward, choose the ones that make you happy, choose the ones that bring life, and choose the ones that improve your. Your life, your community, your family. Try not to let the ones that are harmful to you, to your family, to your business. Don't let them foster, and just choose the positive ones.

And guys, this is Dr. Magda for you. She smiled the entire time she's in the Altremity Business School. She has smiled this entire podcast, so I couldn't Imagine who else to bring here to talk about this. But thank you for coming to share this. You're on social media quite a bit, working on that personal brand and the other things happening. So tell people where they can find you so they can go over there, support you for all this good yumminess you've shared with everybody.

Thank you so much, doctor. You can find me @docmajette on Instagram. I'm also at, well, D O C Majette. M A J E T T E on Instagram, also on threads. And I'm working on opening my practice soon. So I look forward to seeing you all and hearing how this has helped you as well.

Oh, that's so good. And I can't wait for you to open because this is going to be fascinating. Okay, people, what I want you to do with this episode, I mean, you know how how it is in the healthcare space in the physician community. We could all use quite a bit of joy. So I want you to share this episode with the Docs in youn Life. You can take it, take a screenshot of this, share it on social media. You can tag me, tag Dr. Majette as well and let people know how it helped you and tell them, hey, go subscribe, go listen to the episode. And this is going to be really transformation. Imagine a ripple effect of joy. Like I'll sign up for that any day. So Dr. Majette, thank you for coming on the show. This was so good.

Thank you so much, Dr. Una. It's a pleasure.

Yeah. All right, people, so go share it and I'll see you on the next episode of the ontremd podcast. If you enjoy listening to the ontremby podcast, you have to check out the On Trend Trendy Business School. It's the number one business school for physicians who want to build six, seven and multiple seven figure businesses. You get the coaching, the accountability and the community you need to do the work so you can thrive. To find out if this is your best next step, book a call with my team on call. That's entre md.com forward/call. I can't wait to celebrate all the wins we can create together.