A Conference About Money And Marriage In Medicine?

Physician finance bloggers seem to be dominated by shift-based specialties (anesthesia and emergency medicine come to mind), so it's nice when a different specialist weighs in.

It would be impressive enough that Dr. Brent Lacey's career as a gastroenterologist requires him to handle Texan-sized colonoscopies, but there's more - he's also a physician finance blogger at the Scope of Practice blog (love me a good medical pun) and podcast, a financial coach, and a proponent that financially sound physicians enable more enduring and happier marriages.

Brent was a fellow speaker at WCI CON 20, where his zeal for spreading financial literacy among physicians was evident in his talks.

His latest endeavor? He's created an online conference and recruited a crack team of physician finance bloggers and relationship experts in hopes of helping partnered physicians reduce the fissures that disagreement over finances creates within couples.

The all star lineup is in many ways a reunion of the savvy docs I met back at Fin Con 18, including but not limited to:

• Dr. Bonnie Koo, a.k.a. Wealthy Mom MD.
• Dr. Jeff Anzalone, a.k.a. Debt Free Dr.
• Dr. Dawn Baker, from Practice Balance
• Drs. Nii and Renee Darko, from Docs Outside the Box
• Dr. Cory Fawcett, a.k.a. Financial Success M.D.
• Dr. Kate Mangona from Medicine, Marriage and Money (Dr. Victor Mangona, from 39.6 is her trophy husband and a great speaker in his own right)
• Doc G from DiverseFI
• Ryan Inman from Financial Residency

I think it's an interesting idea, and certainly worth exploring at the low introductory price of free.

There is an upgrade available for those interested in having continued access to the materials, attending live Q&A with the speakers, obtaining access to bonus lectures, receiving discounts on related courses, and who desire CME credit for their attendance.

Upgrading to an All-Access VIP Pass is priced as follows, with costs increasing over time:

• $99 before the conference starts on November 15, 2021
• $149 during the conference
• $249 after the conference ends on November 17, 2021

As an entrepreneur, Dr. Lacey has aptly perceived a niche in the market for physician financial counseling and assembled an impressive roster of speakers to provide the necessary education. Right idea, right timing.

As a person, Brent seems like an earnest soul trying to help his fellow docs understand money as a tool that can build a couple's foundation instead of a wedge that fractures it.

All in all, this sounds like a promising new conference for coupled docs where finances are a source of stress.

If you are trying to get on the same page with your partner regarding saving, spending and debt management, this conference might help you broach third rail topics with less emotion and more objectivity.

Go get 'em, tiger.

Should you opt to upgrade to the All-Access VIP Pass, I'd be grateful if you'd use my link. I make a modest commission at no cost to you.)