Intro
In this episode of White Coat Black Sheep, Dr. Civelli sits down with Mary Rose Gutierrez, a healthcare business development professional, aspiring actress, and luxury wellness travel expert who has spent her career selling five star escapes to the Maldives while quietly working through a reset of her own. They cover everything from her surprise role in a new Filipino-American series to the fifteen pounds she has lost since an IVF process last year, and what a gut microbiome test taught her about the way she eats.
Topics Covered
- Splitting her career between healthcare business development and luxury resort sales
- Her background role in the new Filipino-American series Nurse the Dead
- An upcoming short film headed to the California Film Festival
- A modeling blooper from a cigar commercial shoot during her med school years in Chicago
- The biggest luxury travel booking of her career, a $400,000 stay, six nights
- Building a business around wellness travel, not just vacations
- What actually happens once you land at a five star Maldives resort
- Cultural rules she had to learn quickly doing business in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
- Years spent living and working in Malaysia, Singapore, Grand Cayman, and St. Kitts
- Why she stepped back from full time nursing to focus on the business side of healthcare
- Her current skincare and supplement routine
- Why she believes Bakersfield is ready for its own medical grade wellness destination
- Her IVF process and the fifteen pounds she has lost since through intermittent fasting
- What a Viome gut microbiome test revealed about her personal food list
- Her scuba certification story, including a scary boat dive
Mentioned in Episode
- Nurse the Dead (iWant series)
- California Film Festival
- Sun Ventures
- Recovering Co, a Bakersfield sauna and recovery studio (worth confirming exact spelling before this goes out)
- Viome gut microbiome test
- Dior foundation
- A collagen supplement discovered through a Facebook ad (brand name not confirmed on air)
- Spoiled Child gummies
- Flame and Skewers, a Bakersfield restaurant
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What is White Coat Black Sheep?
Hosted by Dr. Val Civelli, White Coat Black Sheep explores physiology, functional medicine, and the medical questions most people are told not to ask.
This is where evidence meets curiosity, where dogma gets uncomfortable, and where real world medicine takes priority over headlines.
From understanding your lab work to debunking hormone myths, medication misconceptions, and optimization strategies, this podcast helps you understand what is actually happening inside your body.
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