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I Think I’ve Outgrown My Own Podcast-Final episode under Find the Root Cause
•Dr. Jennifer Jeanty
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For months, I thought I needed better topics, stronger titles, and more discipline.
The truth was harder to admit: I had outgrown the version of the podcast I created years ago.
In this personal final episode under Find the Root Cause, I share why recording began to feel like an obligation, what this show gave me, and why changing direction does not mean the original chapter was a mistake.
This is a conversation about identity, honesty, creative exhaustion, and recognizing when something that still looks right from the outside no longer feels true on the inside.
welcome to the Find the Root Cause podcast. If you are a woman who knows that something feels off in your body, but you are tired of being dismissed, rushed, or told everything is normal, you are in the right place. I'm Dr. Jennifer Gentie, but my patients call me Dr. J. Each week, we'll connect the dots between your symptoms, your hormones, your energy, your gut, your mindset, and the deeper root causes that may be keeping you stuck. Because your body's not broken, it's communicating. Let's find the root cause Ooh, okay. Let's do this I have sat down to record this episode at least five different times. Every time I turned the microphone on, the device on, I stopped. Not because I did not know what to say. I think I knew exactly what I needed to say. I was just not ready to say it this honestly. Four months, four weeks, I have felt like something was off. Not because anything terribly happened, not because I stopped believing in the work that I do, not because I no longer care about helping women. Something felt off in me. You know when you have that feeling that something is just off? And if I'm being completely honest with you, I have been recording this podcast more out of obligation than excitement. That has been difficult even now to admit because the podcast has been part of my life for years. It has help and held so many versions of me. It has given me a place to teach, a place to develop my voice, a place to share the things that I wish more women understood, and I will always be grateful for that. But somewhere along the line, I realized I was no longer excited to press record. I could still do it. I could still sit down, prep the topic, organize the information, research it, and record the episode, but I was completing it, I was performing, and I was not feeling it, and that is the difference I think I have outgrown my own podcast. There I said it. And even saying it out loud feels so vulnerable because when you have invested years into something, it is difficult to admit that it may no longer fit you, especially when nothing is technically wrong with it. The podcast did not fail. I did not suddenly stop loving medicine. I did not run out of things to teach. I simply began to feel like I was trying to fit the woman I am now into a space created by an earlier version of me, and that space started to feel so small. All right. When I started this podcast, I was very clear about what I wanted to do. I wanted women to understand that what they were experiencing was not random, not normal. They weren't crazy. I wanted them to ask deeper questions. I wanted them to know that they did not have to settle for being dismissed or told to simply live by how they felt, by their symptoms, to settle for less, really. I wanted to take complicated health information and make it understandable. I wanted to help women connect the dots that has been never been connected for them. And at that time, that was exactly the work I needed to do. The Dr. Genti has something to say. She wanted to teach. She wanted to prove that there was more to the conversation. She wanted women to feel seen. She believed that if she could explain things clearly enough, maybe a woman listening will stop thinking she was imagining stuff and just believing in themselves. I love that version of me. I am so part of that version. I do not regret one episode I recorded, not one title, not one lesson, not one moment where I sat in front of a microphone and tried to make something clearer for someone I will probably never met. That is exactly where I was when I began this journey. But beginnings are not always where you are meant to stay So for a long time, every time I prepared to record, I started with the same kind of questions. What health topics should I record? What symptoms should I discuss now? What should I explain? What are women searching for? What problem should I help them solve? And those are not bad questions, but eventually I noticed something. I was no longer creating from curiosity. I was creating from expectations. I had built an invisible box around myself. I am the doctor, so I should discuss this. My audience expect health information, so I should record that. It is Thursday, so an episode needs to be finished. I should stay consistent. I should keep going. I should make this work. There were a lot of shoulds and very little excitement. The funny thing is, the conversations that were energizing me were not always happening when I was recording. They were happening after appointments, after workshops, during conversation with my patients, while making difficult decisions in my business and in my life, while questioning something I had always believed, while reflecting on marriage, leadership, identity, success, healing, purpose, and the different versions of ourselves we become throughout our lives. Those were the conversation I kept thinking about after, over and over. Those were the conversation that made me reach for my phone and write down my thoughts and some notes. The conversation about why women felt guilty receiving support, why capable women continue caring roles that are exhausting them, why we confuse being needed with being valued. Why growing into a new season can feel beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time. Why some decisions are difficult, not because we do not know the answer, but because the answer changes how we see ourselves. This conversation felt alive. They were deep conversations. But then I would sit down to record and tell myself, "Nope, that does not fit the podcast. Come back to the health topics." And every time I did that, I felt a part of myself left the room. So recently I got married And when I shared a little bit of that season of my life online, I noticed how people responded. Of course, there were likes, congratulations, thoughtful words, messages, but that was not what stayed with me. It was the warmth, the messages, the curiosity, the feeling that people were not simply reacting to an event. They were connecting with another side of me. They were seeing the woman behind the doctor, and that stopped me because I realized that perhaps some people do not only need another doctor giving them information. There's already more information available than most of us could ever use. You can search almost any health topics online. You can watch videos. You can read articles. You can ask AI, artificial intelligence, to explain a condition, suggest questions to you for your doctor, organize a wellness plan. Information is everywhere. But information is not the same as connection. It is not the same as perspective. It is not the same as sitting with someone who is willing to say, "This is what I am seeing. This is what I have learned. This is what I got wrong. This is what this season of my life is teaching me, and this is how it may connect to something you are living through right now." Maybe people do not need me to keep proving how much I know. Maybe they need me to let them know me, and not every private detail, not every part of my life, but my perspectives, my personality, my questions, my lessons, my mistakes, the way I connect health with the life a woman is actually trying to live. That realization felt exciting, and also, if I'm being honest with you, very uncomfortable because expertise can become a very safe place for me to hide. When I'm teaching, I know my role is as the doctor. I have prepared the information. I know where the conversation is going. But showing more of myself asks something different of me. It asks me to be present without always having a lesson perfectly packaged. It asks me to trust that the way I see the world has value, even when I am not standing behind a medical topic. It asks me to let the conversation breathe, and I think I am ready for that now I have been asking myself, what does the world actually need from me in this season? Does it need another episode where I can explain something people can actually search for themselves, or does it need someone willing to have honest conversations about how all things connect? Health, relationship, business, ambition, identity, marriage, leadership, purpose, mistakes, healing, becoming, because these are not separate lives. We do not have a health life, a business life, a relationship life, and a private life that never touch one another. We have one. One life. The way we work affects the way we feel. The way we love affects the way we receive. The way we lead affects the way we rest. The way we perform affects what our bodies carry. The choices we delay affects how much energy we spend pretending we are undecided, and the version of ourselves we are have outgrown can become heavy long before we are willing to admit it. That is the conversation I want to have. I still care deeply about health. I am still a doctor. That will always be part of how I see the world. I am no longer want health to be in the box. I want it to be one doorway into much bigger conversation. I still believe healing begins un- beneath the surface. I just no longer believe that the surface is limited to lab work, to diagnosis, to symptoms. Sometimes what is beneath the surface is a belief, a relationship, responsibility, a decision, a fear, a business, a role you have been playing for so long that you no longer know who you are without it. Sometimes the body's part of the story, and sometimes the story is what the body has been carrying. I want room for both. And maybe this conversation is not only about my podcast. Maybe there's something in your life that still looks right from the outside but no longer fits true on the inside So, what if you have simply outgrown the way you have been doing things for so long? A role, routine, definition of success, a version of strength, a dream you choose, right? We do not always outgrown things because we were bad. Sometimes we outgrown them because they did the job. They brought us here, and then they became too small for who you were becoming. That does not mean this past is a mistake. It means that the past was a chapter. And chapters are allowed to end. Everything's allowed to end. So I am not leaving. I am expanding. This is not the end of my podcast. This is the beginning of something that feels more honest, more spacious, more alive, more like me. The next time you hear from me, you will notice that some things have changed. There will be a new name, a new look, a new direction, but the heart of why I began has not disappeared. I still want women to feel seen, heard, appreciated, loved. I still want to help people connect what they have not been able to connect. I still want to ask better questions. I still want to create conversations that help someone understand herself more clearly. I am simply allowing those conversations to become bigger. There will still be health, but there will also be life. There will be business and the parts no one talks about when they tell you to follow your dreams. There will be marriage, relationship, receiving purpose and identity. There will be mistakes I have made, things I am still learning, decisions I am processing, ideas I cannot stop thinking about. There will be conversations that begin in medicine and end somewhere completely unexpected. And I think that is exactly what has been missing. Not more information, more truth, more perspectives, more humanity, more room. So I do not know exactly where this next chapter will take us, and normally that uncertainty will make me want to plan every detail before saying anything publicly, but I do know how I want it to feel. I want it to feel like a real conversation. I want it to feel like you are sitting with me, not being lectured by me. I want it to feel thoughtful, honest, useful, and alive. I want to share what I know, but I also want to share what I am learning. I want to talk about health. I also want to talk about what we want to be healthy enough to experience I want to talk about the woman behind the symptoms, the person behind the title, the life behind the polished picture, the becoming behind the success. And for the first time in a long time, I am excited to press record again because I'm not boxed in anymore. 'Cause my topics, the conversation's gonna be deeper, bigger, more expansive. That brings joy and excitement. So no, this is not goodbye. It is growth, and I cannot wait to meet you in the next chapter Thank you for listening to the Find the Root Cause podcast. If this episode helped you feel more seen, more informed, or more hopeful, share it with another woman who needs to hear that her body's not broken. Follow the show, leave a review, and check the show notes for your next steps. I'll see you in the next episode
