Dr. Naomi Schmid Coaching

06/08/2026

If yesterday’s post made you think, “That’s me,” start here:
Don’t rush to fix your whole life.

Create a little space first.

Take 20 quiet minutes and ask yourself:
What still feels good about the life I’ve built?
What no longer feels like it fits?
What am I craving more of?
What am I tolerating because I’m good at tolerating things?

You may not need to blow everything up.
You may just need enough space to hear yourself again.

06/07/2026

You did all the things. You checked the boxes. You became the person you only dreamed of becoming 10 years ago.

And yet, maybe there’s still this quiet thought in the background:

Why doesn’t this feel the way I thought it would?

I think this is more common than we talk about, especially for high-achieving women.

Because success and fulfillment aren’t always the same thing.

You can have a beautiful life that you’re genuinely grateful for and still feel a little disconnected from yourself.

You can be successful on paper and still wonder whether the life you built actually feels like yours.

If that’s where you are, that’s the kind of work I do.

I help women create space to hear themselves again, reconnect with what actually matters, and build a life that feels aligned — not just successful from the outside.

If this resonates, send me a message. I’d be glad to connect.

05/26/2026

Grateful for the opportunity to be on the Dean’s Chat podcast!

Ep. 329 - Naomi Schmid “Physician Coaching and the Art of Realignment”

In this episode of Dean’s Chat, Drs. Jeffrey Jensen and Johanna Richey welcome Dr. Naomi Schmid for an open and personal conversation about medicine, burnout, coaching, and finding alignment in both career and life. Dr. Schmid shares her journey into podiatric medicine after discovering the profession during a gap year following college, and reflects on how meaningful patient relationships became a defining theme throughout her career. The discussion also highlights the influence of mentorship in shaping generations of podiatrists across decades of training.

05/21/2026

I often use the analogy that in life, we’re all juggling a lot of balls.

Some are glass.
Some are plastic.

Recently, one of my glass balls became very big, very time and energy consuming.

And when that happened, something interesting also happened:

A lot of the noise fell away.

The busy things.
The unnecessary things.
The things that suddenly didn’t seem all that important anymore.

There’s a clarity that comes when you’re forced to focus on what actually matters.

And it’s made me wonder: as this season passes, how do I keep from filling the space back up with things that don’t?

05/19/2026

This week on an introductory call with a potential client, she told me:

“I just don’t know how I’d find an hour every week for this.”

And honestly, I get it.

But my response was:

What if it ends up being the most valuable hour of your week?

Because for me, working with my own coach often is.

It gives me space to think clearly.
To figure out what actually matters.
To feel seen, heard, and understood.

And almost every time, I walk away feeling lighter.

The things that support us most are often the first things we convince ourselves we don’t have time for.

Just something to think about.

05/08/2026

The more we believe the next accomplishment will make us feel the way we thought it would, the more we just keep pushing.

And then we get there—and it doesn’t feel the way we expected.

It’s easy to think something’s wrong. Or that the next thing will fix it.

But it won’t.

Because that feeling you’ve been chasing?
It’s not out there.

And when you really start to see that, that’s when things begin to shift.

05/06/2026

You can be successful on paper and still feel deeply unfulfilled.

Underneath it all, as we start to peel things back, a lot of the women I work with don’t feel fulfilled—and some of them are unhappy.

They’re not always burnt out.

But what they thought this version of success would give them… it hasn’t.

So when everything looks good on the outside but feels off on the inside, there’s a quiet disconnect.

Am I just being ungrateful? Shouldn’t this be enough?

I don’t think it’s a gratitude problem.
I think it’s an alignment problem.

The better question is: where are you out of alignment in your own life?

05/02/2026

I spoke at 5:20pm yesterday—day two of a medical conference—on burnout.

But not in the way people usually hear it.

No extra tips. No “just take better care of yourself.”

We focused on a different question: What do you actually want?

And how purpose, boundaries, and control shape that answer—often more than we realize.

Because sometimes burnout isn’t about doing too much—
it’s about doing too much of what doesn’t feel aligned.

A reminder that even one small shift can create meaningful change.

Grateful for a room willing to slow down, reflect, and have honest conversations at the Wisconsin Podiatric Medical Association.

04/22/2026

Most of us don’t actually have a time problem.

We’re just really good at being busy.

But not always stopping to ask:
What do I actually want?

Because when life gets full, it’s easier to stay in motion than to get honest.

So here’s something to think about:
What are you busy doing that doesn’t really matter to you?
And what would it look like if your time actually reflected what you want?

That’s where things start to change.

04/15/2026

This is the part of coaching people don’t always see.

A client said to me recently,
“I could have gotten here eventually… but this got me here faster — and with so much more clarity.”

Most of the women I work with already know more than they think they do.

They know what they want. They know what isn’t working.

But life gets busy, and it’s easy to drift.

A lot of coaching is simply having someone slow things down, reflect it back to you, and help you stay aligned with what you already know.

Because most people don’t need more information.
They need support staying aligned with it.