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Dr. Elissa Gartenberg trained at Mayo Clinic. Now, the resume line everyone expects to hear next: insurance-based practice, packed schedule, burnout by forty. Rather than build the career she was handed, she built a concierge practice around the medicine she actually believes in. Bold. Or maybe just honest.

Then motherhood didn't go the way she'd planned. You know that feeling, when the life you pictured rewrites itself without asking permission? She found her way forward anyway, through foster care, and later, adoption of her son.

We talk about building a career on your own terms, what fostering really feels like day to day, and what it takes to keep moving toward the life you want, even when it looks nothing like the one you first imagined.

Here's my conversation with Dr. Gartenberg.

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