Episode 237: Interview with Brigette Serfaty, PharmD

Dr. Brigette Serfaty and I discuss mindset, meditation, mindfulness, her YouTube Podcast (Minding your Minutes), and her business Aligned Engagement Strategies.

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Bio (Summer 2023)

Brigette Serfaty, PharmD, is a passionate advocate for well-being and mindfulness, dedicated to helping driven professionals and entrepreneurs find balance and purpose in their lives. With a background in nuclear pharmacy, quality & safety, and workers’ comp clinical pharmacy, she brings a wealth of experience and understanding to her coaching practice.

As a mindset and integrative health coach, Brigette empowers her clients to reframe limiting beliefs and focus on what they truly want for their health, joy, and happiness. Through 1:1 coaching, group programs, workshops, and retreats, she incorporates various modalities, including mindfulness, Positive Intelligence, NLP/hypnosis, breathwork, yoga therapy, and more, to guide her clients towards sustainable well-being strategies.

As a faculty member and coach, Brigette witnesses firsthand the stress that students and healthcare professionals experience. She is dedicated to providing mindfulness training and self-compassion to healthcare workers, aiming to combat burnout and promote resilience.

Brigette’s own transformative journey into integrative health and lifestyle medicine began in 2016, leading her to rediscover what truly mattered in her life. This personal realization and deep study in health and healing have influenced her coaching approach, impacting the lives of her clients positively.

With expertise in various areas, including mindful leadership, clinician and pharmacist burnout, executive resilience, and thought leadership, Brigette continues to make a meaningful impact through her coaching, workshops, keynotes, and YouTube Podcast. She cherishes the joy of witnessing her clients reconnect with themselves and create space for intimacy, creativity, meaning, and balance in their lives.

Highlights from our interview

At the June 2023 Medipreneurs Summit in Kansas City, MO, Dr. Brigette Serfaty introduced me to a combination of mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing. I experienced loud chords of sound from crystal bowls, but I was also able to focus on the meditation portion of the experience. I liked it.

Dr. Serfaty works with a variety of individuals at the intersection of mindset and well being:

- Students and faculty at The University of Arkansas
- Busy professionals (including healthcare professionals, like pharmacists)
- Group trainings
- Retreats

There is evidence to support that mindfulness works. KORU is a mindfulness app Dr. Serfaty uses with her students. The Oura Ring https://ouraring.com/ has meditations inside their app as well; data is available to show measurable (heart rate) changes while meditating.

We discussed Positive Intelligence Training and the Saboteur Assessment. The results give names to the voices in your head. Once you know your saboteurs, you can be more mindful about which voices you listen to and the mindset you adopt.

Perfection and imposter syndrome were part of our conversation. Normalizing failure helps others, especially students, understand that failure is a learning tool – not a barrier to success. Failure is painful, but it’s part of learning.

Brigette has a YouTube Podcast called Minding Your Minutes. She hosts a variety of guests, including wellness practice owners and lifestyle medicine practitioners. The content is conversational, educational, and sometimes cathartic. The name of the Podcast (Minding Your Minutes) is reminder that mindfulness can take just minutes.

Connect with Dr. Brigette Serfaty on LinkedIn, and subscribe to her YouTube Podcast!

Links from this episode

Aligned Engagement Strategies website https://www.aligned-engagement.com/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigetteserfaty/

All social media links 👉 https://linktr.ee/mindingyourminutes

Minding Your Minutes – YouTube

https://www.aligned-engagement.com

KORU Mindfulness App https://mindfulness.uams.edu/koru-mindfulness/

Medipreneurs https://www.medipreneurs.com/

University of Arkansas https://pharmacy.uams.edu/

Positive Intelligence Training https://www.positiveintelligence.com/program/

Oura Ring https://ouraring.com/