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What would make a doctor walk away from pathology residency just one year from finishing?

In this inspiring episode of BootstrapMD, host Dr. Mike Woo-Ming welcomes Jackie Dallas: physician by training, actress by passion, and women’s health advocate. She explains how she treated acting as a business rather than waiting to be discovered, leveraged her real medical background to book early roles, and navigated early typecasting as an Asian actress. Listeners hear the story behind her breakout role in Stranger Things Season 1 and her recurring role in the Netflix hit The Hunting Wives.

Jackie also discusses her return to medicine through advocacy, launching HerHealth101.com to educate women about underdiagnosed pelvic floor conditions, self-advocacy in short appointments, and the ongoing underfunding of women’s health research.

She closes with practical advice for physicians curious about creative careers: start small, treat it like a business, and don’t quit your day job until you’ve tested the waters.

Three Actionable Takeaways:

The sunk-cost fallacy keeps many physicians stuck; Jackie left with one year of residency remaining because she knew the path wasn’t right for her.

Acting is a business, not magic: Treat it like any other career; build credits, develop skills, get representation, and persist through rejection.

Physicians have unique advantages in creative fields: (authenticity in medical roles, research skills, discipline). Jackie now channels that same training into women’s health education via HerHealth101.

About the Show:

Bootstrap MD is the ultimate podcast for physician entrepreneurs looking to escape traditional healthcare and control their financial futures. Hosted by Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, a successful physician, entrepreneur, and investor, the show delivers actionable insights on starting businesses, creating passive income, and navigating healthcare entrepreneurship. Featuring interviews with industry leaders, physicians, and experts in telemedicine and digital health, it’s your guide to building a profitable, fulfilling career.

Tune in weekly at http://bootstrapmd.com

https://youtu.be/98CbEdsqLJI

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Officially your Peoples Choice Sexiest Man of the Year. I’ll try not to let it go to my head. 😉🏆

Huge thank you to everyone who took the time to vote and show love! And a special thank you to @reelshortapp for giving me the opportunity to bring these characters to life and be part of some incredible projects. Grateful for the journey, the people I’ve worked with, and all the support along the way. ❤️

Here’s to what’s next!🍾

-How can I explain this at my kids career day at school😅

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GORDON RAMSAY’S HELL’S KITCHEN AIRS ITS LANDMARK 25TH SEASON ON THURSDAYS ON FOX AND NEXT DAY ON HULU!!!!

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Achieng Agutu! It was such a pleasure to stand by your side. When people think of influencers/digital creators, “real” may not be the first word that comes to mind. But Achieng has taken that notion and flipped it on its head. Her content shows us how to embrace confidence with honesty and humility, and her success shows us that it’s possible to stay true to ourselves without holding back or fitting any sort of mold. These are some snippets that didn’t make the cut of the final @popsugar Secret Teller interview, but I highly suggest you listen to them too because they’re nuggets of wisdom worth taking with you (and a testament to Achieng’s love for her job). 👉🏼

#achiengagutu #confidencequeen Sarah Wasilak and Achieng Agutu walk down the street in NYC. It’s a candid shot and they are walking towards the camera. Achieng wears a black body conscious JPG tank dress with a sculptural, exaggerated hemline around the sleeves and neckline. Sarah wears a blue striped button-down and buttercream silk midi skirt. Sarah holds the Popsugar microphone and Secret Teller prop in her hand. They are both wearing their hair down.

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Thanking American Trends and Lifestyle Show, for having Olympia LePoint on air on TV stations across the United States, to speak about the dangers and different types of Artificial Intelligence, AGI, and Super Intelligence. Thanking ICON PR and American Trends producers for this opportunity.

@americantrendsandlifestyle @olympialepoint @icon_pr

#AI #AINews #OlympiaLePoint

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#Streaming ✨ In Season Two of The Hunting Wives, Jackie Dallas returns as Jia-Yi, now moving even closer to the center of the political game driving the series. After spending the first season positioning herself for power, the strategist takes on a crucial role in Jed Banks’ campaign for governor — and begins to discover what happens when ambition, public image, and personal interests no longer unfold exactly according to plan. For Dallas, one of the most compelling questions of this new chapter is: “At what point does their desire to win at all costs overcome their intention to do the right thing?”

In the interview, Dallas discusses discovering new sides of Jia-Yi, exploring the divide between private identity and a carefully curated public image, and drawing on her former medical training to observe the smaller details of human behavior in performance. She also reflects on leaving a stable career in medicine to pursue acting, explains why inner conflict is essential to the characters that fascinate her, and speaks about the importance of women understanding their own bodies and advocating for themselves within the healthcare system.

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Olympia LePoint appears on BBC News on The Today Show in Australia as an AI Professor to speak about the requirements for human safety amid reports of (1) Rogue AI Agents, (2) Human Data Breaches and (3) Nuclear Energy guidelines for human a safety with emerging AI technology.

Visit: AiRatingScale.com
Visit: AnswersUnleashed.com/book4
Visit: OlympiaLePoint.com

Thank you to BBC News, and ICON PR 🙏 for this news placement.

#AI #AINews #OlympiaLePoint

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Beyond honored to be recognized by @ebonymagazine as one of their #EBONYPower100 honorees! So grateful to be in the Generation Next category alongside so much Black excellence. This year is all about “The Stories We Shape,” and I’m grateful to have my story and work recognized as part of it. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity Ebony, and thank you to everyone who has been a part of my journey who will celebrate this milestone with me. See you at #EBONYPower100 on November 9! 🏆🖤

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Thank you @officialbroadwayworld for the opportunity to chat about my new album ‘Bout Time

Full article linked in my stories and bio

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Kristy Cox 🚨 🎶

New album "Winds of Change" is dropping Friday October 9th. 💿🗓️

🙌 This album will invludes song like "No Regrets" and "Hurricane" go jump on that presave and run her numbers up! 📈🎧

@kristycoxmusic 🎤🌟📢

#musiccitymindset #mindsetmatters #noregrets
#nashvillefit #musiccity

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🪕🎶 NEW EPISODE!

Today on Too Opinionated, we welcome Nashville-based Australian bluegrass powerhouse Kristy Cox to celebrate her deeply personal new album, Winds of Change, arriving October 9 on Billy Blue Records!

Known as “Australia’s Queen of Bluegrass,” Kristy is a #1 Billboard-charting artist and seven-time Golden Guitar Award winner whose unmistakable voice has taken her from South Australia to Nashville and stages around the world.

🌪️ Winds of Change was born from one of the most transformative periods of Kristy’s life. Following her 2025 divorce, she poured heartbreak, growth, faith, resilience and self-discovery into an album built around the bluegrass sounds of banjo, guitar, mandolin, upright bass and fiddle.

As Kristy puts it, sometimes “the chapters we never planned become the ones that shape us the most.”

We talk:

💿 The story behind Winds of Change
🎶 New single No Regrets
❤️ Turning heartbreak into music
🌪️ Learning when to hold on—and when to let go
🪕 Taking bluegrass from Australia to Nashville
🏆 Seven Golden Guitar Awards
🥇 Reaching #1 on Billboard with Let It Burn
🎤 Her evolution as a singer and songwriter
👩‍👧‍👦 Balancing music and life as a single mom of two
☕ Running her own Australian mobile coffee business in Nashville
🌎 Helping grow bluegrass internationally as an IBMA Board member

Winds of Change isn’t simply about what Kristy lost—it’s about finding the strength to embrace where life takes you next.

💿 Pre-save Winds of Change:
https://listen.billybluerecords.com/kc_woc

🎶 Listen to No Regrets:
https://listen.billybluerecords.com/kc_nr

👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@MeisterkhanPod

You can watch on YouTube at Meisterkhan Pod. https://youtu.be/jTFIQ9cE-Yg

You can listen at Meisterkhan.com or on your favorite podcasting app. http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/meisterkhan18/KristyCox_TooOpinionated_Final.mp3

Reaching fans in 151 countries, Too Opinionated is your next obsession!

#kristycox #windsofchange #noregrets

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A beautiful evening for a beautiful cause. Thank you @coreresponse for hosting a fun and intimate gathering with @stellalefty and @foreignerlive! #fundraiser #coreresponse @icon_pr

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