Dr. Darria Long Gillespie is a Yale- and Harvard-trained emergency physician, author of the new book Mom Hacks (Hachette Book Group) and a regular TV expert on HLN, CNN, The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, and Fox News.
A mom of two herself, Dr. Darria is quickly becoming the national ‘go-to’ doctor for women and parenting health – Dr. Oz refers to her as the “make-life-better-for-women doctor”.
Dr. Darria is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School, MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and residency training from Yale School of Medicine.
Mom Hacks has also been endorsed by Dr. Oz, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN anchor Lynn Smith, and Dr. William Sears. The point of “hacks” is that they are the smallest incremental and most scientific shortcuts to make good wellbeing (and sanity) doable, and to help moms everywhere get back their “I’ve got this”.
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Sneak Peek Into What You’ll Learn…
3:27 – As an ER doctor, it bothered Darria that she could say “I’ve got this” at work, but not in her personal life. She tells me more about why she wrote Mom Hacks.
5:32 – How did we get here? Darria describes how we live with a cave woman brain in a modern world. She suggests healthier ways to respond to chronic stress disequilibrium.
24:03 – When it comes to exercise hacks, Darria’s favorite is ‘temptation bundling.’ She illustrates how that works and gives us a few more exercise tips.
27:25 – Getting started is fun but maintaining good habits can be hard. Darria talks about the tenets of a habit and why you need cues to develop resilience.
30:10 – What is Darria’s secret to holding it all together, maintaining the energy and momentum to keep doing what she does? She reveals the answer.
32:13 – Darria recounts her journey to national TV and then explains why she paused medical school to get an MBA.
40:39 – Brass Tacks: The lightning round of concrete advice and tips
Quotable quotes:
“Kids’ foods in general have about two to four times as much sugar than adults’ foods.”
“After a couple of weeks of doing this, [keeping a gratitude journal] studies have shown that people actually become more optimistic. Their brain changes.”
“When you have something that you feel that there is a need for–that you feel that you can do better than anybody else who’s doing it out there right now–go do it.”
“Never accept ‘no’ from someone who doesn’t have the power to say ‘yes.’”
