Author: Brent W. Lacey, MD

My name is Brent Lacey. I’m a gastroenterologist with a passion for financial management and career coaching. As a fellow physician, I understand how overwhelming it can be to step out of clinical training and into a career, and I have seen first-hand the lack of education on how to run a practice and manage finances.

Through planning, hard work, and sacrifice, my wife and I were able to pay off all of our student loans before finishing fellowship, and we got a big head start on our retirement savings. Because we were debt-free, we were in a financial position for her to choose to stop working and stay home with our two amazing boys. It was a tremendous blessing that we were in the position to make that choice. Unfortunately, I discovered that too many of my colleagues were not in the same position.

After fellowship, I felt God calling me to start teaching financial management classes. I created a Financial Discipleship Ministry at my church and developed a personal finance curriculum for my hospital. Working with colleagues who didn’t benefit from early financial training inspired me to become certified as a Master Financial Coach through Ramsey Solutions. In this new role, my first 300 coaching clients paid off over $1.2 million of debt in just 2 months.

I have spent hundreds of hours coaching and teaching these principles to people at all stages of their career. It has been incredibly rewarding to see friends and colleagues experience the joy of achieving financial independence and success in managing their clinical practice.

To learn more about Brent Lacey, connect with him on LinkedIn (Brent Lacey), follow him on Instagram (@thescopeofpractice), listen to The Scope of Practice Podcast, or visit his website at thescopeofpractice.com.