OLA Online Workshop: Building your Financial Routine
Building your Financial Routine Workshop
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Zhou
This online workshop explores the concept of financial independence and the influence that your finances have on your wellness. Dr. Stephanie Zhou shares how her experience of burnout as a family physician led her to develop systems and teams for managing finances and time, optimize billings, and explore alternative career paths which has allowed her to spend more time with her family.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how finances can build personal wellness through income streams, optimizing billings, and taking breaks from medicine (i.e. parental leave or sabbaticals)
- Examine common personal finance mistakes new grads make when it comes to incorporation, building a financial team and debt repayment.
About Dr. Stephanie Zhou
Dr. Stephanie Zhou is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto where she created the financial literacy curriculum. She is the clinical director of Addiction Medicine at Sunnybrook and is the Family Medicine Lead at Don Mills Family Health Team. She is on the Board of Directors for Toronto Public Health and chairs the Scientific Planning Committee for the Ontario College of Family Physicians.
Dr. Zhou immigrated to Canada and grew up in subsidized housing, which led to her investing in education and housing initiatives through philanthropy. She founded the annual Physicians Financial Wellness conference, a national, philanthropic conference for physicians on financial education and practice management. The ticket proceeds were used to establish The Equity Award, an endowment fund supporting students with financial need.
Dr. Zhou received Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women award and the Ascend Canada Social Impact Award for her work in improving economic mobility through financial literacy. Dr. Zhou is a nationally invited speaker on personal finance and runs a popular financial education blog on Instagram and YouTube called Breaking Bad Debt.
