Farewell, DCS

This is a deeply personal and pivotal episode as I officially close the chapter on The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast for now.

After six years of showing up every single week without missing a single episode, I’m reflecting on the journey, the lessons, and the promise I made to myself that shaped not only this podcast, but who I’ve become.

This isn’t just an ending. It’s a transition.

In this episode, I share why I’m pausing the podcast, what I’ve learned through building DCS, and what’s next as I step fully into building Attentii™, a tech company designed to support high-achieving women with ADHD.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

•  Why I made the decision to pause The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast
•  The commitment I made in 2020 and how I kept it every single week 
•  What consistency and self-trust really look like in practice 
•  The behind-the-scenes reality of building a business and building in public 
•  Why I’m choosing to go all in on Attentii™ in this season 
•  The emotional impact of serving and coaching women over the past six years 
•  What’s next for me, including a sneak peek at my upcoming podcast 

Key Takeaways:

•  Keeping promises to yourself builds unshakable self-trust 
•  You don’t have to carry every commitment into your next season 
•  Growth sometimes requires letting go, even of things you love 
•  You can pivot without abandoning your purpose 
•  You are allowed to not have every next step figured out 

A Personal Note:

To every listener, client, and coach who has been part of this journey, thank you.

Whether you’ve been here from the beginning or just recently found this space, your presence, your time, and your trust have meant everything.

This chapter has shaped me in ways I’ll carry forever.

What’s Next:

While The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast is pausing, this is not the end.

A new podcast is coming soon:
The High-Achieving Hot Mess Podcast

Stay tuned for updates on when it launches 👀

Resources & Next Steps:

👇🏾 Join  Attentii™ Founding Members:
https://attentii.com

👇🏾 Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes:

•  TikTok: @drkimmy 
•  Instagram: @thedrkimmy 
•  Facebook: Kimmy Rey

Final Words:

This isn’t goodbye. It’s see you soon.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

Peace and love.

Let's Connect:

• On Instagram
• On Facebook
• On LinkedIn
• On TikTok
• On my website

Transcript

0:54

Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Doctor Coach School podcast. Wow. Um, that is the last time that I will be uttering those words, which is insane. Um, I have made the decision in some ways difficult decision and in some ways a very easy decision. To end the Doctor, coach School podcast, I really should say, to pause the Doctor Coach School podcast because you never know what the future holds. As of right now, this will be my last episode. I wanna talk through why. I wanna talk through some of the lessons I've learned. In the six years that I have been podcasting, and I want to talk about, what's next in terms of my podcast. Last week I talked about what's next in terms of my business. I wanted to talk about what's next in terms of the podcast. I am still a podcaster. I plan to always have a podcast. So I wanna let you know kind of. Where to find me next. Um this decision, as I said, in some ways is simultaneously super easy, just very straightforward. I didn't really overthink it too much, but it did start to hit me this week when I knew that this was going to be the last episode. Um, I am just. I am gonna talk through a little bit about my podcasting journey, briefly, just in case you may not be aware. And then, like I said, talk about how I came to this decision and what is next in terms of the podcast front, where to find me. All of those things. So I started my podcast on February 3rd, 2020. The very first podcast I hosted was called The Productive On Purpose Podcast, and once I started. Helping doctors make money in their business. I transitioned it to the High Ticket Doc podcast. That podcast, as of the time of this recording, is still live. If you go back to the earliest episodes for like about the first year and a half, I was podcasting on the very things that I am now dedicating. Most of my time too, which is just a full circle moment. That is just it. It blows my mind every time I think about it.'cause I just never thought I would be, I would be back here. Obviously not the A DHD angle'cause I didn't know about that, but definitely, productivity, you're a cave woman. How to get things done, how to overcome procrastination. All of those things. So, I wanna say it was in June of 2022. That is when I transitioned from the High Ticket Doc podcast to the Doctor Coach School podcast. I never missed a week in between that transition. So it was just like a seamless, we're shutting this down, we're starting the next thing. It was just bad bing bad boom. You can actually go find the High Took It Doc podcast and find the last episode I did. And I was just basically like, meet me on my new platform. Um, when I started my podcast, I had the idea to launch a podcast in October. Wow, that's crazy. October of 2019. That's insane that it has been that long. It started off as a blog and I transitioned to a podcast, and because I struggled with procrastination for so long, I made a commitment. Well, it was really for two reasons. Number one, because I struggled with procrastination for so long, but number two, also because I don't like when people fall off of their podcast and you just don't hear from them anymore. So because of those two things, I made a promise to myself that as long as I have a business. And I'm running my podcast, I'm never going to abandon my audience. That was a commitment I made to myself, as an avid podcast listener for years and years and years. There's just something really powerful about connecting with a podcast host because hearing their voice like is a really intimate thing. Even if you've never. Met the person, right? So there's so many of you who listen to the podcast and, some of you have never met me. But there's something really powerful and really intimate about like listening to someone's voice and their perspective week after week after week, and then when the podcast would just disappear and go away with no. Like, no warning, no message, no nothing. I kind of felt abandoned and I was just like, where are you? Where'd you go? Is everything okay? Are you still alive? Like, what's going on? And the person had just stopped. And so for that reason, I made that commitment. But also, again, as someone who struggled with crippling procrastination for so long. It was a promise that I made to myself. It was a promise that I made to myself, and it was a testimony to the frameworks that I teach, the frameworks I've created, the belief flow. The pop method, the zone of proximal greatness. Some of these I don't talk about as much on this podcast because they are more so related to my prior podcast, but, you guys know the action belief process, you know, the belief flow, the pop method. I don't talk about as much on here, but those are very much a part of my, of my process and I wanted to validate my work. Uh, through myself. Like I wanted to be my first client essentially. And so what I said to myself is, if I can, maintain this podcast without procrastinating and without falling off, it really speaks to the work that I do. And I just, I wanted to keep that promise to myself. Nobody was making me, but I just, that was. How I want it to show up. So I am so proud and pleased to announce that from February 3rd, 2020 to now, I'm recording this on March 19th, 2026. There has never been an a week, there has never been a Monday that my podcast has not gone live. We have had an episode every single Monday since. February 3rd, 2020, several weeks with more than one episode. If I was doing like, you know, a special launch event or a challenge or something like that, to me that is incredible. I'm so proud of myself. I'm so proud of, that accomplishment that I was able to do that, that I kept that promise to myself when I made the decision to. And this podcast, my initial thought was, well, I'm just gonna keep going. I'm just gonna roll right into the next one. That was, that was the decision I made, because I wanted to keep the streak going. But then I realized like I had created this, like I created this goal. I created this promise to myself and. I have fulfilled that promise in a very powerful, meaningful way. Most podcasts don't, I think they said like 90% of podcasts don't make it past episode four. And I have, I mean, I can go look. Well, actually no. They took out the, episode numbers off of Apple Podcasts, which is. Silly to me. So I feel like I can't count the number of episodes anymore. But, definitely, whatever, six times 52 is, plus all of the other like, special episodes and bonuses and things like that. That's a lot of podcast episodes. That is a lot. Let me do the math. Hold on. Okay, so at least 312. But I would venture to say I have probably recorded 400 or more podcast episodes over the course of my podcasting career. Insane. Absolutely, absolutely insane. I'm so, so, so, so, so proud of that. Um, yeah. It's, it's. Really a huge feat. It's a huge testament to keeping your promises to yourself. And so when I made the decision that this would be the last podcast in the doctor coach school era, again, I was gonna just hop into my next one. I already know the name. I already started working on podcast art. I started, you know, brainstorming my first few episodes, like all of that. I was just like, let's hop right over into that. And then again, I questioned it and I was like, why? Why am I doing that? Is that something I have to do? Who said like, challenging my assumptions right? In this season where I am changing a lot of things, in this season where I have a lot of irons in the fire, if is that the saying? I don't always get the sayings right. I usually say them wrong. But in a season when I have a lot of different things going on, it was just like, do I actually have to jump into another podcast? It is still keeping my promise to myself that I have recorded an episode every single week since February, 2020. And yeah, I wanted to. Just like question, is that something that is true? Do I absolutely 100% need to continue? What is the reason? Just, you know, challenging my own brain and my own brain's assumptions? And I made the decision that as I'm ending this podcast, it doesn't necessarily mean that I have to start the next one. Immediately. Again, I kept my promise to myself. I recorded an episode every single week for the life of this podcast, and now that it's over, I have decided to take a break. I've decided to take a break and to really go all in on building the, the. Infrastructure for attendee, which is my technology company for high achieving women with A DHD. I made the decision to. Step away from podcasting. For now, I am still a podcaster, in terms of I want to have a podcast I want to share in that way. I think I have a lot of strategies and tools and just my story that I think can benefit so many people, but I am in a whole new world that is. Requiring a lot of me, at the end of my work days, I am mentally drained. I am exhausted because I mean, starting a coaching business, starting a coaching company and helping other people, other women start their coaching businesses, is something that is very challenging, very hard. But I've been doing it for so long that it doesn't necessarily like, I'm, I'm not confused. I know the terminology. I know how to market. I know like I know how to sell, like I know how to do those things, right. It's not really, it's not really like mentally taxing this new endeavor that I have embarked on. Yeah, it is. Probably going to be the hardest thing I've I ever do, and I'm a physician. I did residency with an infant at the number one piece program in the country, and I still believe, I still believe that this is going to be, I, I'm under no illusion. I know that this will be the hardest thing I ever do, and so, and I know that just because I am just in the very early stages, and like I said, I am tired all the time. I am working really, really hard and most of the work is mental, right? Because I'm learning, I'm making decisions. I am hearing so many different, you know, folks. With all this input, all this advice, and then I have to make the decision as the founder and CEO, where do I wanna go? What do I actually wanna do? Who do I want to be investing in the work that I do? So it is just, it's requiring a lot of me, it's requiring more of me than I think I, was really. Really prepared for honestly, like when you have an idea, that's one thing, but when you are like, so committed, like I'm so committed to getting this idea into the world, I know it's gonna transform lives, and really shake things up, and I am still just like, whoa. Right. When you're so committed to getting your idea in the world, and you're like full steam ahead, but everything is new. It is just, it is a lot. And so, fundraising and building the infrastructure of the company. Is requiring a different level of investment of my time, my energy, my focus. And so I really wanna go all in on attendee again. And I said this a couple weeks ago. When I did that episode, I said that I will always be a coach and I. Plan on returning to DCS. What we've built here is absolutely incredible. Um, I plan on returning to DCS and I plan on, growing that company as well. But I don't have the mental capital, financial capital resource, capital, human capital. I don't have. Uh, all of that to build two companies at the same time, to scale two companies at the same time. And because attendee I know is a global brand, will be a global brand, is venture backable, meaning I will be taking investment dollars from established venture capital firms to have the capital to scale the business. Because I'm doing that. I need to be all in on that. And so even as I'm still working with my DCS clients right now, I'm still working with that, um, with those folks and they are killing it. I'm so grateful for the coaching calls that we have. I'm so grateful to still be serving them in that way. In terms of right now, growing and scaling. The doctor, coach school to the level that it deserves is not something that I am currently able to do, but I will be back. I will be back. DCS is not going anywhere. The frameworks I have and what I teach and what we've been able to create at DCS is so incredibly powerful that, It's not going anywhere. It's just for now we are pausing our marketing in terms of having new cohorts come in, et cetera, et cetera. We are still ser certifying our doctor coaches, in the DCS method. They'll become certified doctor coaches. So that is still happening. But in terms of actually like growing DCS to the level that I know it can go to, I am. Holding off on that for now. And in the meantime, I am going to be building a attendee and growing this company. Um, I am so grateful for everything I've learned over the past almost four years of. Building DCS of building this podcast, this community. I'm thankful for every, every, every, every single doctor coach that I have ever come across or interacted with or had the privilege of coaching, had the privilege of serving. The work that I do in DCS really does feel like a part of my ministry. It feels like a part of why I am here. And that cannot be. Understated at all. I am who I am because of every single woman that I have come into contact with. I have learned from every single one of you, I have taken something away from all of your stories, from your journey. I am so proud of every single one of you. I am proud of you. It doesn't matter how much money you've made in your business. I'm so proud of you. I'm proud of you for even just taking that initial step for saying yes to wanting to walk in your purpose. I'm proud to have served as your, or wow. I did not expect to get emotional. Um, I am proud. To have served as your coach and as your mentor. Um, I'm so grateful again to each and every one of you this, this. Was this past season from productive on Purpose days in 2020 to now has been the hardest thing I've ever done. Um, it's so hard to put yourself out there. It's so hard to, build in public. It's so hard to, to put your name on something and to make a promise and to make a bold statement like, I can help you do this, that's so hard. And that's what I've done for so long. Just out of a sense of, um, of love and service to women doctors. Again, I am not. Under any illusion that this will not be, this next season will not be the hardest thing. It is going to trump everything that I thought this season was. But I can do hard things. I know that now, and I used to wake up and say those five words. I used to wake up and say those five words just to get outta bed, and I couldn't really get outta bed. It was hard and I couldn't do just like basic things. And now that's a core of my identity. It's why I am diving head first into this next thing because I know I can do hard things. And I do them through Christ who strengthens me. And that is just, it's just so beautiful. It's so powerful. It's, As I said when I talked about attendee, I'm scared out of my mind. I don't know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing in terms of the ip, the, actual like inputs of the company in terms of how the company is going to interface with the clients we serve. But everything else is just. I am diving headfirst into, into, I don't even know what, and I think it's actually a mercy and a blessing that I actually don't know what I'm getting into because like I said, I know that this is going to be the hardest thing that I do, that I've ever done, and it's so worth it already. I'm in the challenge, the no s news challenge with the ladies right now. And um, just to see the wins we've had in four days is absolutely incredible. It's absolutely incredible. Thank you. There are some of you who listened to this podcast who I have never met, I've never interacted with, and yet you show up every week. Thank you. Thank you for, for listening. Thank you for. Saying yes to dedicating your time. I don't take that for granted that you dedicated your time to being here. Thank you for, just being a part of this. Again, like I said, every single woman who has ever come through the doctor coach school, you guys are, you don't know how powerful you are. Hopefully, you know a little bit more now that you've worked with me, but, when I see each and every one of you, I see nothing but beauty and strength and power and greatness and, I'm so grateful to be just a small part of your journey. This feels so weird, like this is the last time I'm gonna be here, talking to y'all in this way. Like I said, I am gonna start another podcast. I just don't know when I'm giving myself permission to, not have to know every single next step. When I do know, I will come back on this platform and I will let you know where to find me next. In terms of podcasts, where to find me. Um. well, you know what, I will just, I'll, since you guys are my people, I will give you all a little bit of a sneak peek. The name of the podcast will be The High Achieving Hot Mess podcast because child, listen, that's what I was, and in some cases still am, in a lot of cases, still am so. You can also, you can search for that in the future. Again, I don't know when I'm gonna launch, but, um, I plan on coming back on this podcast and sharing once the new one goes live. Thank you again. I told myself this would probably be a five minute episode and I am on minute 27 because that tracks, because that's me. I am, I hate may have a DHD, but I am not. I am not brief. That is for sure. I don't think that'll ever change. Uh, man, I guess I'll just end it here. I don't know what else to say. So I'll end it here. I love you all so much. It has been so real. I. I will be back. I'm still here. I mean, listen, follow me on TikTok, okay, Dr. Kimmy. I am there. I am there. I am showing up there. Um, so follow me there. Go to attendee.com and join us. You can become a founding member of Attendee, um, and help us develop the app and get. Other amazing bonuses and perks as well. What else, what else, what else? Instagram, you know, the Dr. Kimmy, actually, you might not know because I had a, I had changed my name. I've changed my name several times on Instagram. Right now. It is the Dr. Kimmy. And I don't think I'm gonna change that again. And on Facebook, I'm Kimmy Ray, or I think you can search for Dr. Kimmy and I come up, um, on Facebook. But that's it, that's all. I love you all so much and I guess, I guess I'm signing off for now. I will see you guys. Not on another episode of the Dr. Coach School podcast, but I will see you all in the future in some way, shape, or form. Hopefully, I see you all in the attendee app if attendee is for you, and, um, I'll see you in this somewhere in this great big, crazy, weird world that we live in. And I will end by saying peace and love y'all.