Boss Doctor

Medical school taught her how to treat patients. Business taught her everything else.Dr. Tisha Rowe has spent more than a decade building healthcare companies and raising over $1 million in capital, joining a small group of Black women founders who have reached that milestone, and she did it without venture capital. Along the way, she learned what no one teaches physicians or founders: how to raise capital, vet investors, negotiate deals, protect your vision, and survive when a partnership turns into a legal battle.Raised in Opa-locka, Florida, by entrepreneurial parents, Dr. Rowe grew up where survival and ambition lived side by side. Her mother's advice to "mind yuh book" set her on a path to medicine, but it was entrepreneurship that gave her ownership. She launched a telemedicine company before telehealth was mainstream, built a clinic from the ground up in Houston's Third Ward, and learned firsthand what it takes to build something meaningful in a broken healthcare system without unlimited resources.In Boss Doctor, Dr. Rowe shares the wins, the expensive mistakes, and the hard truths behind her journey. She opens up about trusting the wrong people, taking money that came with strings, fighting investors who broke their promises, and standing at moments when walking away would have been easier than continuing. Readers will learn:• How to raise capital when you don't have connections or a safety net• What due diligence really looks like before taking on investors or partners• How to recognize red flags and protect your vision• Why some opportunities are really beautifully packaged problems• What medical school and business school never teach about money, contracts, and leadership• How to balance building a business with family, relationships, and faith• How to keep going when the dream seems to be falling apartPart entrepreneurship playbook, part memoir, Boss Doctor is an honest look at the cost of ambition and the price of abandoning it. It's a reminder that dreams rarely arrive fully funded, that vision often comes before capital, and that sometimes the first person who has to believe in you is you. Resilience doesn't mean you don't break. It means you decide what to do after you break.Whether you're a physician thinking about starting a practice, a founder preparing to raise money, or anyone who has ever bet on themselves, Boss Doctor offers the real-world lessons you need to build something of your own, protect what matters, and stand ten toes down when it counts.