{"podcast":{"title":"Docs Outside The Box","slug":"docs-outside-the-box-323291","podcast_index_feed_id":323291,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1983294.rss","website_url":"http://www.drniidarko.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/07i3h5mncr7oeumj1llnhap7s8x7?.jpg","author":"Dr. Nii Darko","episode_count":568,"summary":"Hosts Dr. Nii (Ghanaian) and Dr. Renee (Haitian) are first-generation physicians who paid off $662,000 in student loans in 3 years - while figuring out contracts, career moves, and money management that their colleagues learned at home. Every episode covers what first-gen docs need to know: Contract negotiation and career decisions Paying off debt without family financial guidance Building wealth from scratch The questions you don't know to ask (but your colleagues already knew) Real strategies from doctors who had to figure it out on their own. Subscribe and build your blueprint with us. Download: The First-Gen Doctor Blueprint","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T02:18:11.823657+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/docs-outside-the-box-323291"},"episode":{"title":"We Were Paying Off $700K in Student Loans. And Doing IVF at the Same Time. #480","slug":"we-were-paying-off-700k-in-student-loans-and-doing-ivf-at-the-same-time-480","published_at":"2026-07-30T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/docs-outside-the-box-323291/we-were-paying-off-700k-in-student-loans-and-doing-ivf-at-the-same-time-480","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/docs-outside-the-box-323291","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/www.buzzsprout.com/1983294/episodes/19574347-we-were-paying-off-700k-in-student-loans-and-doing-ivf-at-the-same-time-480.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/www.buzzsprout.com/1983294/episodes/19574347-we-were-paying-off-700k-in-student-loans-and-doing-ivf-at-the-same-time-480.mp3","summary":"SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! We got married in our thirties. Started IVF in the middle of paying off $700,000 in student loan debt. And Nii was working locums shifts several states away — the very thing funding our fertility journey was also making it harder. This is the episode we've never been able to fully tell. Until now. You'll hear: → Why we got married later — and what that cost us biologically → The rule we made when pay...","meta_description":"SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! We got married in our thirties. Started IVF in the middle of paying…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3116,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/docs-outside-the-box-323291/episodes/we-were-paying-off-700k-in-student-loans-and-doing-ivf-at-the-same-time-480/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/docs-outside-the-box-323291/we-were-paying-off-700k-in-student-loans-and-doing-ivf-at-the-same-time-480.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}