On this episode of Cosmic Confluence, host Sana interviews emergency physician-turned-health strategist Maureen Gibbons (DrMoe) about her book Freedom to Shift and a counterintuitive idea: the problem isn’t time management — it’s bandwidth. Maureen explains how health, sleep, and reducing internal “food noise” create the capacity to make better decisions, scale sustainably, and build systems that let high-performers periodize hustle without burning out. Listen for practical steps to protect evenings and sleep, create margin, channel chaos into systems, and move from urgency-driven living to intentional growth. Ideal for founders, clinicians, executives, and anyone feeling maxed out who wants a pragmatic road to health, time, and income freedom.
About the Guest:Maureen Gibbons, MD (DrMoe) — Emergency medicine physician turned health strategist and author of Freedom to Shift. She helps high-performing professionals reclaim energy and create “health freedom” so they can achieve sustainable time and income freedom.
Key Takeaways:-
The real limit for high-performers is bandwidth, not clock hours — solving bandwidth requires creating margin, not another planner.
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Health is foundational: prioritizing sleep and metabolic health increases decision capacity and productivity.
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Protect your evenings: stop heavy work after a set time, stop eating early, and prioritize sleep to improve next-day performance.
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Remove habitual “vices” (the things that drain energy) before focusing on diet; behavioral removal builds momentum toward better health.
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Internal locus of control matters: shift from external expectations (“keeping up”) to values-driven choices that free mental space.
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Channel chaos with external systems — “paint lines on the road” so a snow-globe brain can focus and finish projects.
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Healthy hustle is seasonal: periodize effort (build systems, ramp, recover) rather than sustain redline intensity year-round.
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Monitor inputs: awareness versus immersion — limit news and unnecessary cognitive load to preserve bandwidth.
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Shifts are possible at any age — Maureen’s own midlife career changes and family health wins show it’s not too late.
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Start with small, practical practices (evening routines, vision time, breathing pauses) that expand bandwidth and enable strategic growth.
Website & resource hub: ShiftWithDrMoe.com (search or visit ShiftWithDrMoe) — this will link to her book Freedom to Shift, podcast, and programs.
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