How a physician found success and fulfillment living outside the box

An excerpt from the Docs Outside the Box podcast, episode 2: How a physician found success and fulfillment living outside the box

Dr. Nii: I have an exciting guest that I want to showcase for you. Her name is Dr. Melanie Watkins. She’s a psychiatrist who’s practicing in California. I’ve been following Melanie for quite some time on Twitter. She’s been known to have very poignant Twitter messages — whether they are motivational in aspects or encompass the whole aspect of mental health. As anybody who’s following her can see, she’s got her hand in many different things.

Truly, she is living outside the box, so I decided to take a reach and try to contact her to see if she’d want to be a guest on the show. And she said yes, and the rest is history. Just a brief introduction, she is a board-certified psychiatrist in California, but she’s also an author. She’s published short stories in various publications like Chicken Soup for the Single Soul. She’s also done Chicken Soup for the African American Soul, but I think she’s more known for being a author of her memoir: Taking My Medicine, which you can get right now on Amazon, but it’s about basically her challenges along her path from being a single mom in high school to overcoming some of those challenges, stigmas and becoming the board-certified psychiatrist you know today.