About Aligned Impact

What is Aligned Impact

Aligned Impact is so much more than an newsletter. This is your home. Your sanctuary. Your safe space to unravel the default path that is no longer working and start rebuilding a life and career that actually fits.

Aligned Impact is for you if you…

→ Are DONE chasing someone else’s version of success

→ Feel like there is more to life than the “get a good job, take 2 weeks of vacation a year, and save for retirement” script from society.

→ Want to find a way to do meaningful work + still have the freedom to live a joyful life.

→ Probably watched too much Disney Channel growing up in the 90’s because you have the unrelenting urge to follow your dreams.

What you’ll find inside:

• The Diaries: behind the scenes of my ongoing journey of building a life and business that feel like me. I go first and share it all with you- the doubts, the pivots, the faceplants, the joy. So it doesn’t feel like such a mystery when you’re in the middle of your own becoming.

• The Resources: a library full of tools to help you create a life of alignment. It’s my goal to provide you with step by step guidance to help you move through confusion, career shifts and identity loss- with more ease, intention and self trust.
  

  📌 Start Here → The Alignment Method: My 6-step roadmap to meaningful work and a joyful life- created for the woman who’s ready to stop performing and come back to herself.

• The Podcast: a mix of interviews with inspiring guests who are creating their own version of success and solo episodes from the heart. A place for honest conversations about the messy middle.

Who am I?

If you are new to me, Welcome, I’m Chelsea (aka Coach Chels MD)

In 2019, I did something a little crazy. I quit my OBGYN residency during my second year, sold all my stuff and bought a one way ticket to South Korea.

I know it sounds absolutely nuts, but I was following this pull from intuition. This still small voice that kept telling me

"you’re meant for more”

I think if you are here reading this… you actually know exactly the voice I’m talking about (and I think you’ve experienced your own too).

Since leaving medicine in 2019, my entire life has completely transformed. I have…

• Built a six-figure business ($380,000 in revenue in the past three years alone!) doing work I LOVE.

• Started a podcast and interviewed my idols.

• Lived and worked in 56 countries.

• Wrote a book called Residency Dropout that made it to the bestsellers list on Amazon → Read it here

• Done epic bucket list travel experiences on the reg (safaris in the Serengeti, trekking in the Himalayas, wild camping in Mongolia).

• Created a community of 15,000 like-minded healthcare professionals.

• Helped clients resign from their jobs, start blogs, podcasts, and launch their dream businesses.

But that’s just the surface level stuff. In this substack- I want to go deeper.

Because to me, building a career on your terms isn’t just about leaving a prestigious path and building a new, more fulfilling life. It’s so much more than that.

It’s about discovering and embracing my full, authentic self. Learning how to feel my feelings. Having hard conversations. Appreciating the small moments. Pushing myself beyond my limits- in a way that doesn’t lead to burnout. Balancing the masculine drive of ambition with the feminine pull toward stillness.

It’s learning how to navigate life as my truest self. Which is no easy feat, because as one of my clients said… “life isn’t casual”.

Where to Start?

If you're new here and wondering what to read first, here are three places I recommend beginning:

If you want step-by-step guidance on how to build a life that actually fits

→ Start with The Alignment Method: My 6-step roadmap to meaningful work and a joyful life.

If you want to learn more about my story

→Read Residency Dropout, my bestselling book

→ Listen to Episode 1 of the Podcast

If you’re not sure what you need yet — that’s okay.
Just subscribe below and we can figure it out together