Dr. Heather Bartos, MD - Broadway to Babies: Growing A Business By Filling A Gap

Heather is an OB/GYN, entrepreneur and a staunch advocate for women’s health. Her journey to becoming a doctor and business owner was one of unexpected turns, but her go-with-the-flow attitude and being open to wherever her journey takes her is one of the things that makes her story so fascinating. Today Heather has a successful medical practice that takes a holistic approach to supporting the health needs of women. After finding more and more patients coming to her for help with sexuality, she recognized this was an area that was missing in traditional healthcare and now specializes in it. In today’s episode, we delve deeper into Heather’s path to entrepreneurship and how she went from dreams of performing on Broadway to joining the military and going to medical school. Heather reveals how she made the leap from corporate medicine to her own practice, how she found a gap in the market that she could fill, and how she balances being a doctor and an entrepreneur.Finally, she shares the lesson she learned from trusting someone else to sell her vision and her hopes for how her work can impact traditional medicine and empower women to be their own health advocates…plus many more golden nuggets and laughs along the way.Skip to topic:01:52 How Heather went from aspiring broadway actress to Navy Doctor09:23 Making the leap from corporate doctor to entrepreneur09:50 Downsizing due to the pandemic11:49 Practicing a new brand of medicine13:18 Applying principles of entrepreneurship to healthcare14:09 How she launched her side business by filling a gap15:13 How to know when to take a step back and regroup after rejection17:21 Unique challenges to being both a doctor and an entrepreneur23:23 How she balances her scientific mind with her creative streak in her business30:10 The surprising challenge she’s faced with finding and keeping clients36:07 How her work can impact traditional medicine 37:40 Ideas for expanding her business in the future39:19 What she learned about writing and publishing a book41:44 The big lesson she learned about letting someone else sell her vision46:10 The one truth she’s discovered about the reality of being an entrepreneurFollow me on Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | TwitterSupport the show