Today I want to welcome my next guest, who like many of my previous guests is an inspiration and role model to many people. As if growing up as a minority and daughter to Egyptian parents in Texas and Minnesota wasn’t hard enough, she chose a career path dominated by men and also known to be owned by the “old boys club” in the United States. Choosing to become a doctor and on top of it, a surgeon comes with a lot of sacrifices and traditionally our society has been discouraging women to enter the field. Kind of an outdated vision if you ask me, but so it was for Dr. Rania Habib, who is currently an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

To many known as a male-dominated field (for context, only about 8% of all OMS’s are female), she did not shy away from the challenge and followed her passion and since never looked back. Her passion for treating children in need, lead her to pursue additional training in Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery, and today she teaches young students at the University and inspires many more through her social media channels on Instagram and TikTok, just like she was inspired by her own parents and many of her mentors.

She is a great example of how well parenting and mentorship cultivates your passion, motivates you to reach for the sky and ultimately leads to success. In a society where we are so quick to blame lack of opportunity, bad influence from the outside, or demonize social media, we have forgotten to hold ourselves accountable for our own actions, successes, and failures.

While most people get caught up in pontificating and thinking about what they want to do or better even, think about thinking, until they find 10 reasons why they won’t be able to succeed, the Ranias out there just go out there and do it. They don’t look for excuses and instead look for solutions to their problems keeping only one goal in mind, follow your passion, no matter what the odds say.

I always tell people, if you know only one person that has done it, that means you can do it too. Period!

So listen in and hopefully her story will inspire you as it has inspired me.

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