Today we’d like to introduce you to Zarya Rubin.
Hi Zarya, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I’m a Harvard-educated physician, TEDx speaker, and burnout expert. I help high-achieving women in midlife break free from burnout to reclaim their passion, purpose and joy. Combining expertise in neurology, functional medicine, mindfulness and nervous system healing, I create a multidisciplinary approach to breaking the burnout cycle. I also host the podcast “Outsmart Burnout,” where I interview women experts on aspects of burnout and healing every week.
My journey through medicine and burnout is what inspired me to become a burnout expert and functional physician. I had always wanted to be a doctor from a very young age, but I didn’t consider that a desire to help people and an aptitude for science wasn’t exactly the recipe for career satisfaction. I found myself very unhappy in medicine for a number of reasons – the hierarchical structure, the lack of autonomy, the moral injury of being unable to help patients due to systemic constraints, the overwhelm due to being empathic with my patients and being unprepared to deal with the realities of death and dying on a regular basis. I was beyond burned out, but kept going, kept pushing until my mind and body were no longer able to. I needed a serious wake-up call to make me realize how desperate the situation was, and that came in the form of the sudden death of my best friend’s husband. Recognizing my own mortality allowed me to leave medicine and forge a new path. One in which I help other women recognize the signs and symptoms of burnout and change their lives before burnout has severe consequences for their physical and mental health, as well as their personal lives and careers.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has definitely NOT been a smooth road! I joke that it has been a long and circuitous road to find my true purpose, or as the Japanese say, “Ikigai,” I faced many setbacks, failures, health challenges, autoimmune disease, the pandemic and parenting a small child, and overcoming chronic trauma so I could be present and serve others. I also struggled to find a career path that made sense with my skills, abilities, passions, education and nervous system. So often we get stuck on one path, in one career, on one long, straight road. But my favorite saying is “No matter how far you’ve gone down the wrong road, turn back.”
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Dr. Zarya – Speaker & Coach?
I’m a Harvard-educated physician, TEDx and international keynote speaker, and burnout expert. I help women leaders step out of survival mode so that they can change the world without burning out. I combine my expertise in neurology, functional medicine, mindfulness and nervous system healing to create a multidisciplinary approach to breaking the burnout cycle.
I am a keynote speaker and love speaking about burnout to various audiences, whether at a conference or retreat, online workshop or webinar. I also offer 1:1 coaching for those who need a more hands-on, individualized approach to healing burnout and reclaiming your sense of passion and joy, I just launched The Burnout Blueprint – a 90-minute, 1:1, customized experience where we get to the root cause of chronic stress and burnout and develop a step=by=step plan to address it. I also host the podcast “Outsmart Burnout,” where I interview women experts on aspects of burnout and healing every week.
Any advice for finding a mentor or networking in general?
I think most people would be surprised to hear that finding a mentor can be easier than you think. Many of us who are more experienced on our career journey would love to help a young person just starting out to find their footing. It’s a very satisfying experience, particularly for those of us who are coaches and teachers, to watch people grow and thrive and reach their potential.
In terms of networking, I think it gets a bad rep as something awful you have to go through, part of being in “business.” I take a different approach to networking – I only attend events where I actually want to connect with the people in attendance, and I come from a place of connection and service “how can I help this person?” rather than “what can they do for me?” or “what can I sell them?” That is when networking can become much more enjoyable and productive!
Pricing:
- Save 100$ on The Burnout Blueprint during launch
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.drzarya.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drzaryarubin
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drzaryarubin/
- Other: https://youtu.be/xfubAfgkUzE?si=MtfUp7XFGySkZZkl
