Complex PCI expert Margaret McEntegart, MD, PhD (NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY), discusses how personal challenges affect her professional choices, what it’s like to reach a career pinnacle—and move halfway around the world to accept it—and how she uses manifestation and visualization practice to breed success and inspire trainees.

Structural cardiologist and CardioNerds co-founder Amit Goyal, MD (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX), discusses how he came to embrace new cardiovascular learning pathways while allocating time and care to both his clinical duties and personal desires.

Interventional cardiologist and outcomes researcher Robert Yeh, MD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA), discusses how he chooses his provocative clinical research projects, dealing with FOMO on the regular, and finding time to balance family life between it all.

Electrophysiologist and translational researcher Barbara Casadei, MD, DPhil (Imperial College London, England), reflects on the calculated leaps she’s taken throughout her career, her changing definition of success, and tackling her new role as Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Cardiology.

Cardiovascular surgeon and translational researcher Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY), talks about knowing his path at 10 years old and his desire to collaborate with colleagues of different backgrounds to best serve patients. Tune in for a story about his pet bunny, who once almost put his research career in jeopardy!

Structuralist and cost-effectiveness researcher Suzanne Baron, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA), talks with host Yael L. Maxwell about her journey to interventional cardiology through a desire for continuity of care, what it was like to present two late-breaking clinical trials in a single session, and the challenges she's faced related to having a family while pursuing her career.