From Physician to Healer: Dr. Leonaura Rhodes on Curing Burnout with Neuroscience

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Dr. Leonaura Rhodes, a UK-trained physician turned executive coach and neuroscience expert. Dr. Rhodes shares her powerful journey from the front lines of medicine, where she experienced severe burnout, to founding her own practice dedicated to solving this pervasive issue. She discusses the pivotal moments, including a life-threatening bout of COVID, that solidified her mission to help a million people overcome stress and achieve peak performance by leveraging brain-based coaching and holistic wellness strategies.Dr. Rhodes delves into the current state of her business, detailing her multifaceted approach that includes one-on-one executive coaching, corporate training sessions, and a newly developed self-paced program designed to make her expertise more accessible and scalable. She openly discusses the challenges of marketing and client acquisition as a solo entrepreneur, her experiments with online advertising, and her goal to get her stress management program into 30 companies within the next year. The conversation concludes with a key piece of advice she would give her younger self: to hire help for sales and marketing much earlier to accelerate growth and impact.