105. Ready for the Next Challenge with Orthopaedic Surgeon Stacie Grossfeld

105. Ready for the Next Challenge with Orthopaedic Surgeon Stacie Grossfeld

Introducing Stacie Grossfeld

Today I’m talking to orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Stacie Grossfeld about being ready for the next challenge.

Her Career Journey

While Stacie earned her BA in biology and chemistry from Indiana University Southeast, she began shadowing an orthopaedic surgeon and determined that this was the career path for her. She went to medical school at the University of Louisville and completed her residency in orthopaedics at the University of Minnesota. After an orthopaedics sports medicine fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, Stacie returned to the practice she had shadowed at as an undergrad. She then opened her own practice and has operated as an independent, non-hospital employed, orthopaedic surgeon for her entire career. Over the years, she has served as the team doctor for the University of Louisville, the Louisville Ballet, the WWE training facility, and many other teams.

Ready for the Next Challenge

As the owner of her own practice, Stacie operates outside of a hospital system in Louisville. Over the years, she’s needed to be creative to continue reaching patients to help them live the types of lives they want to live. Stacie’s learned new skills, from social media to marketing, and prides herself on being a person who learns new things. This mindset helped her to grow and adapt and ensured that she never fell into the trap of thinking her expertise in medicine was sufficient to make her business ventures successful.

Inside this episode:

    • Though she initially thought she wanted to be a physical therapist, shadowing as a college student helped her to realize that surgery was a much better fit for her personally. She saw, though, that both professions were different ways of pursuing the same vision of helping people become active.
    • Stacie recognizes the importance of paying it forward and welcomes the next generation of physicians into her practice to learn.
    • After fellowship, Stacie joined the practice of the physician she had shadowed during college before taking the steps to create her own practice. She prizes having been independent for her entire career and hopes to make young physicians aware of the possibilities. 
    • Throughout her career, she learned to define boundaries for what opportunities to take on to create balance with whatever else is going on in her life. Stacie acknowledges how hard this is after residency and fellowship where she was trained to work all the time and cover as many sports as possible.
    • Stacie runs multiple side businesses, including F45 training facilities, and attributes her success to making sure that her focus is always on the task at hand. 
    • She believes that physicians need to be aware of how business works and wishes that med school would offer at least an introductory class. Stacie keeps a growth mindset to continue learning new skills and be ready for the next challenge. 
    • Stacie encourages everyone to pursue what you’re passionate about and figure out how to make a career out of that.

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