🎙️ The Ranting Doctor meets Maverick Med Two women. One conversation. Zero filters.

This episode wasn’t an interview. It wasn’t a debate. It was a real, unguarded conversation between two women who have lived medicine from very different angles and survived it with humour, grit, culture, and (obviously) red lipstick intact. 💄

I sat down with Hannah Brew - GP, mother, Maverick Med host, and a woman living unapologetically with myasthenia gravis. What followed was honest, funny, uncomfortable in places, and deeply affirming.

We talked about:

• 🩺 The emotional cost of medicine in ICU and in primary care

• 🔥 Being “tough on the outside, soft on the inside” as a survival strategy

• 👩🏽‍⚕️ Sexism in medical training (yes, even in 2022 - yes, said out loud)

• 🤍 Pain, childbirth, and why women - especially women of colour - are still not believed

• 👑 Powerful women, culture, identity, and showing up fully as yourself

• 💄 Why a red lipstick is sometimes better than a motivational quote

Some lines that stayed with me:

“I’m not nice. I’m kind. And there’s a difference.”

“You can’t give what you don’t have emotionally, spiritually, or mentally.”

“Anything people do when they’re drunk, I do it sober.”

“Nice girls don’t get corner office is my one recommended book for all girls.”

Power doesn’t always look loud. Sometimes it looks like boundaries. Sometimes it looks like humour. Sometimes it looks like showing up exactly as you are culture, illness, softness, strength and all.

If you care about:

• women in medicine

• leadership without pretending

• culture, confidence, and calling out nonsense

• or just listening to two doctors tell the truth

🎧 This episode is for you.

👉 The Ranting Doctor meets Maverick Med - now streaming on all podcast platforms

Let me know what line hit you hardest.