Reinvention isn’t just about making a decision—it’s about discovering who you are and having the courage to follow the path that feels right. In this episode, we dive deep with Dr. Jane Carrol Reed from MoonShadow Haven, whose journey of reinvention took her from a small-town upbringing in South Texas to a thriving career in OB-GYN and urogynecology, and now to an entirely new adventure as a business owner. What shaped her path? What lessons did she learn along the way? And how did a single moment in the operating room signal it was time for a bold new chapter? From breaking barriers in medicine to embracing the unexpected, Jane’s story is proof that transformation comes from within. If you’re ready to look inside and embrace change, this episode is for you. Let’s get into it!
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Career Reinvention Beyond Medicine with Dr. Jane Carol Reed
Welcome back to the show. I am Dr. Angela Walker with my co-host, Dr. Sylvia Morris. We are so excited to have you here with our wonderful guest, Dr. Jane Carol Reed. She is an OBGYN, urogynecologist, turned venue wedding event host at their business, Moon Shadow Haven. We’ll also find out in this episode that she is a Harley or as some would say a hog rider and a well-rounded beautiful soul. We look forward to getting into this episode.
Sylvia, before then, I want to talk a little bit about the idea of going outside your comfort zone and what that means to you. I can tell you what I felt was outside of my comfort zone. It goes back to motorcycle riding. When I practiced with Dr. Reed, my husband had always been a motorcycle rider. I met him in high school while riding a motorcycle. I rode on the back of his motorcycle very comfortably.
He had ridden motorcycles since he was a little bitty thing. I never had any qualms about being on the back of a motorcycle. I think going outside my comfort zone, I was encouraged to get a Harley of my own after one had already been purchased for me. I did everything that Dr. Reed said. I took the safety lessons. I learned to ride on one of those little small motorcycles. When I say small, it’s small. You’re doing all the safety things, “I got this. I can do this.” I got on that Harley. At the time, I had not just one, but I had two girls.
Harleys are very heavy bikes too.
They’re very big heavy bikes. We’re riding in the neighborhood. If you are learning correctly and you know how to lay it down, you’re not going to lose control of it and go in a circle. I laid that thing down and I said to myself, “How does this look? I got two babies in the house and I’m out here. If something happens, I just couldn’t.” I was fine riding on the back of my husband’s bike. We no longer ride.
I guess the part that was empowering to me is that I learned. I could ride one of the smaller ones. I don’t know that I could if I wanted to master the Harley but I tried it. It was something I wanted to do and I tried it. I think going outside your comfort zone for me is determining what you want to try and what you want to learn. As empowering as the episode was, if somebody tells you, you can do it and you believe it, you can do that thing. How about you Sylvia?
Getting around my comfort zone, I’m not a hiker. Most recently I was vacationing and there was an opportunity to do a sunrise hike. First of all, I’m only a morning person by occupation. Second of all, if you tell me I can go to the beach or something, I’m perfectly fine with that. I did this sunrise hike. The thing that saved me is that for me, it was an opportunity to walk and talk with someone that I didn’t know.
We had this great conversation and I was distracted because I was thinking about what they were saying. I was responding to them. Every now and then, you would look up and you’re like, “That’s the sun. It’s rising. When was the last time I’ve been up at sunrise?” Being out of my comfort zone, there are two things I get credit for. One is being up at sunrise and then two is going on a lazy undulating hike.
I love it. I love both of those. We look forward to sharing more with Dr. Reed in this next segment. We’ll get back to you afterward to share our gems and takeaways.
I know I gave a formal introduction of who we’re talking to in this episode, but I cannot contain my excitement because I have known this woman for decades. I could cry if I thought too hard about this. I’m going to say this woman is a friend, a mentor, and someone that I have patterned the way I practice. I am always in awe. She gave me my first shot as a newbie OBGYN on the block. I was pregnant at the time.
I had interviewed with a practice that I thought I was interested in going into. It was close to my home and was in the perfect area where Carl and I wanted to land. It’s so happened I interviewed with Dr. Reed, and the rest was history. What sealed the deal for me in terms of making the right decision is I was about eight weeks pregnant when I interviewed and did not realize it at the time. That’s why IUDs are better for me than birth control pills. That’s a whole nother segment. If you’re a woman, you know.
Long story short, when I told the gentleman that I interviewed with who I liked the practice that I could grow with, his response was, “You knew when you interviewed with me.” I was like, “I didn’t.” When I told her, she was like, “Great. We’ll do whatever needs to be done. Yes, great. The more the merrier. You have a baby now.” I was like, “She’s the one.”
We’re going to get into this interview with Dr. JaMemorial Hermann Medical Groupne Carol Reed. In the end, I won’t have to say a whole lot because everything that comes out of her mouth is golden. As we start off, Jane, I want to know if you can give us a little background on what it was like being little Jane growing up in South Texas. At that point in time, did you know you wanted to be a doctor or what do you think shaped you? What pushed you in this direction?
Early Life And Influences
When I was growing up, we lived in a little tiny town on the coast in South Texas. I had a motorboat before I had a bicycle. It’s to be a ship captain or an oceanographer. No one had ever been to college in our family. They raised me by saying, “You’re going to go to college. You’re a girl, but you can do whatever you want and be whatever you want.” That’s how I got started. I didn’t get interested in OB-GYN until my second year of medical school when I got pregnant. It wasn’t popular back in 1978.
You were pregnant in medical school? How did that work?
The usual way.
Fair question, fair answer.
I had PCOS. My periods weren’t regular, so I didn’t have a clue I was pregnant. I was tired and gaining weight. Finally, I went in and talked to the doctor about what was wrong with me and they did a pregnancy test. I was twelve weeks pregnant with the IUD still in there. I was at the University of Texas, Houston. I went to the medical center library and did a bunch of research about what are the chances of getting pregnant with that particular IUD. If you get pregnant, what are the risks of taking it out?
That’s when I started thinking about doing OBGYN. It was my second year of medical school that I got pregnant. I started going in that direction. I had been in graduate school working on a PhD in neurophysiology. When I went to medical school, I didn’t like the research very much. I was teaching medical students at Baylor Medical School as a graduate student. I realized that I was enjoying more of what they were learning than the research I was doing. I never considered going to medical school for graduate school.
It’s organic. I love that. A lot of us choose our careers. You think you’re going in one direction and then you’re exposed to something different. I’m going to regurgitate some of what you said. The way I heard it is they told you that you can do whatever you want to do, which is empowering in and of itself when you were growing up. You go into research and then that leads you to medical school. You’re in the second year of OBGYN. I’m imagining at this point in time that you had not considered starting your own practice.
I wasn’t even thinking ahead at that point.
Coming out of medical school, I was very timid and new. I didn’t feel empowered to think that I could do this all by myself. I’d love for you to share with the audience, especially some of the younger women who are coming out and maybe thinking the same as me, how did you do it on your own?
Starting A Solo Practice
At that time, it seemed like the right thing to do. I didn’t even interview with any of the group practices or anything. We were living close to the Texas Medical Center. I got pregnant on purpose in residency. In my third year of residency, I had my second son and I wanted to be able to raise them in a community that was nicer than the inner Houston area where we were living. The hospital where I started my practice opened two months before I started my practice there.
It seemed like the right thing to do. I remember buying a book about starting your own practice. They used to make that “You too can be a doctor” book. I got a loan, leased some office space, and started. I knew nothing about marketing. I didn’t realize that might be necessary. It wasn’t as it turns out. When I got up there and started the practice, it was the good old boy crowd. They had their system of referring to each other down.
Can you share with us what year this is to give people perspective?
I finished my residency in 1985. I took a month off and opened my practice in July of 1980.
I wasn’t raised to be an openly accepting person, but I figured out who I was at fifteen. Even then, I was far more accepting of other cultures, races, and preferences—that's just who I was. Share on XSolo OB practice. I want to make sure that’s clear.
The freakiest part about it was moving from the Texas Medical Center to a tiny community hospital that did not have a NICU. They didn’t have 24-hour anesthesia coverage in the hospital. At that point, the biggest risk or stress-inducing factor was that you had to think way ahead of the complications that could occur and try to plan for them. I didn’t have any big disasters. It’s different being in a community hospital than being down in the Texas Medical Center. That hospital is big and busy now.
That’s an understatement. You mentioned your parents a little bit and they said that you could do whatever your heart desires. Can you talk about the important people in your life and then what lessons you learned from them?
My parents are number one. Growing up, I never even considered there was something that I wouldn’t be able to do. That’s huge. I didn’t have a lot of contact with people who had gone to school, college, graduate school, or whatever. I had a second cousin or whatever. He was my grandmother’s sister’s son, and he was born with cerebral palsy. He couldn’t speak very clearly. He had a little bit of trouble walking. Otherwise, was able to do a lot more than kids with severe cerebral palsy care. He went to college and did great. He got his master’s. I was like, “With all the challenges of being able to speak clearly and even being able to walk without having to be very careful.” He’s always been a big influence in my life. Teachers are my big heroes.
You grew up in such a small town. Do you feel like that was more of part of your empowerment coming from a small town or a hindrance?
It’s more of a hindrance because I didn’t realize what a big world was out there. My school had 50 kids. I rode the school bus 16 miles to get to the school. The school was two-thirds Hispanic, so I was in the minority. They were a bunch of great people though. When I graduated from high school, I never even considered going somewhere other than a Texas school. Texas A&M in Kingsville is one of the most popular colleges from where I was from. I was like, “I’m not going to do that.” I decided to go to Texas A&M instead. I could have applied to some of the Ivy League schools, but I didn’t even think about that. It didn’t matter anyway.
Embracing Diversity And Inclusion In Medicine
It’s interesting the diversity in which you grew up. I can speak on how I felt welcomed into your practice and how it maintained its diversity. I always appreciated that, and appreciated how you treated everyone as a human being. The testament to who you are speaking loudly from your practice. The people who I met after you had been in practice for a couple of decades at that point were some of the first people who had started with you.
Just the longevity of the employees and for anyone that has any type of company that can keep their employees employed speaks to the employer. I have so many accolades and so many great things I can say about you. Along those lines, who do you feel like you got that from? It sounds like you have a wonderful parents. Anyone else that played a role in your outlook on life and the way that you’ve lived your life, or did that come naturally for you?
I knew that you all were going to be asking these questions, so in the last three days, I tried to examine growing up and figure out if there was one person or two people who were very instrumental. I think it was more like my whole community. I was not raised to be an accepting liberal person. I figured out who I was when I was fifteen years old. I was still a whole lot more accepting of other cultures, races, and preferences. I think that’s who I was.
I get that. I know our audience wants to know this. I told them that you have gone from this wildly successful OBGYN in your own practice for decades to Harley riding. We rode with you briefly. I got the bug. I feel like you’ve always gone with what felt right. I know you love the Hill Country and I remember riding through there with you. Now you and Jim, your partner in life, your husband, and now partner in your business have this new venture, Moon Shadow Haven, which is not so new anymore, but a wedding and event venue. How do you make the boss leap from a successful OBGYN to a very successful urogynecologist where you’re operating and treating women with urogyne problems, and then into this?
The Decision To Retire
It seemed like the natural way to go. If you’re talking about going from general OBGYN to urogynecology, I’d pretty much always done some complicated surgeries and stuff. I decided I was getting too old to stand all night delivering babies. I went back and got my subspecialty certification in male pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. I’ve always loved doing surgery.
In the very last surgery I did, I had a hereditary neuropathy and my hands weren’t working right. You don’t know this story, Angela. It’s easy to remember the day. It was January 6th, 2021. I went in there for surgery. The surgery went great, but I had to tie a few knots and you can do this in your sleep after 30 years or 5 years even. My hands weren’t working right. I said, “This is a sign from above. It’s time to start something else.” I was 66 at the time. I told him, “My hands are not working right.” This neuropathy has never been very severe, but it’s to the point where if I had a huge emergency and needed fine motor skills, I wouldn’t be able to do my absolute best. I had to change careers.
Launching Moon Shadow Haven
I retired, and then we had this property over here in its Mountain Home, Texas, which I’d never heard of until we bought the property. We had 7 acres and we decided we needed to start a business and we figured out options. We thought about doing an Airbnb or RV, and then someone told us, “You should do a wedding venue there. It’s gorgeous.” I did not think of that. We did a lot of research and looked at the demographics, looked at the economic situation, the average size of weddings, and all that stuff. We had a lot of consultants when planning the business.
It’s good for the medical business too but I didn’t do that when I started the practice. This one, we had loads of consultants. We planned the venue and built it. I was telling you the story earlier, it was one of those weird coincidence things that our contractor had a daughter and she got engaged during the construction of the reception hall. She ended up being the very first bride to get married that had a reception in our reception lot. It turns out I had delivered her 23 years before that.
It comes in full circle.
Her parents lived over here. That’s one of those strange coincidences.
If that’s not another sign you’re doing what you should be doing, I don’t know what it is.
It’s the same thing when you do an OBGYN work. You hope that everything works out beautifully, the parents are happy, and everything is working. It’s the same with weddings, except it’s a lot less stressful.
Tell our audience what would you tell your younger self. The woman who was a second-year medical student and who was pregnant, what would you say to her?
Expect some of your male mentors to not look favorably upon it, especially that long ago. Now, people are a little more accepting. They don’t expect you to get pregnant to go home for nine months and stay home for the rest of your life raising the baby. That’s about it. When I was pregnant. My first son was born in the first week of June, I was taking the last test of the second year.
That was convenient. That’s pretty good.
That was huge. The doctor was doing an oral exam and he said, “What are you doing here?” “My final.” He goes, “You should be at home.” That’s what he told me, “You should be at home.” “Okay.” I was up for honors and I got a pass.
It’s a different world then than it is now. Now more than 50% of the OBGYN classes are female. We’ve almost been forced to accept the fact that you are going to have pregnant women in medical school. You’re going to have pregnant women in residency and coming out as I did in the first year in practice. You’re always told or I get asked this question frequently, “When is a good time to have a baby?” There’s not one. It happens when it’s the right time, but there’s not a perfect time.
Sometimes you get to plan and sometimes you get some hiccup. Magic happens any other way now. I’m extremely proud of the men that my boys have turned out to be and their families.
They’re still in LA. We mentioned it, but safe in LA right now and in DC.
The older son was in DC. He went to school longer than I did. He got into applied mathematics, scientific computing, and astrophysics. He now works at Livermore Lab at Berkeley.
I don’t think I knew that.
He’s set for a good job.
I know. Along those lines, you have two amazing sons, but that also gave you two amazing grandchildren. How did that change your life?
I almost moved to California. I applied for and received my medical license in California. We were thinking about it because that was ten years ago in my full-time practice. I even looked at some hospitals out there that might be looking for a urogynecologist. I looked at the cost of living there versus the cost of traveling. I went there at least once a month to see.
You’ve made some boss elite moves throughout your career. What advice would you have for someone who’s looking to transition from a full-time clinical physician to doing some other things and looking for that next step in life?
Transitioning From Medicine To A New Career
From my point of view, you need to look inside. I love my medical practice. I care about women, and it was fulfilling. If you’re going to change, you need to find something that is as rewarding but not financially. I never worried about making money a whole lot being a doctor. To me, it’s all about being happy with what you’re doing and feeling like you’re doing something to help someone else and doing your best job at it. That’s what we’re doing now with the weddings. As I said, it doesn’t have a lot in common with a medical practice other than my job is to make the brides and grooms or couples have whatever wedding they’re looking for. It’s a great fun.
You mentioned finding consultants. You didn’t have that when starting a medical practice, which none of us get in terms of any type of business acumen whatsoever, at least from medical school. You did consult for Moon Shadow Haven. If you want to go into business, how do you find the consultants that you can trust?
It’s like anything else. Do your research, check online, and then check references. People worked with that consultant before and had a good result. We were ecstatic with the people that we were able to engage in planning this business. It’s started off slowly and now it’s booming. I work pretty much every day. Not only do we get everything ready and take care of the wedding. First of all, with the venue, all you have to do is make sure the venue is perfect.
If you're going to change, you need to find something that is rewarding beyond just financial gain. It's about being happy with what you do, helping others, and always giving your best. Share on XThat’s all. The small little thing.
Compared to a lot of the jobs that folks have. I’m a retired surgeon. I now clean floors and toilets. I clean the floors in the area and make sure everything’s perfect for them.
Along those lines, I know that whatever you’re doing, your partner in life is doing right along with you. I have to bring up, Jim. Most of the time, we’re talking about our amazing women who are on, but I know so much intimately about you guys and how your relationship came about. I know everybody has things that we don’t see, but how beautiful your relationship was when I was there and how it has continued to be. Can you give us and those who are tuning in relationship advice and how you used your picker and picked the right one this time?
The Power Of Partnership And Overcoming Adversity
It was my second marriage. My first husband was also my professor in graduate school. Jim and I have been together for 30 years now. It was after he left the practice that Jim came in and took over being the office manager. That’s why I had an office manager who embezzled. She bankrupts the practice. We did not declare bankruptcy. Jim and I both cashed in our retirement plans. We sold some property, but we kept the practice going. I had employees who had been with me for 20 to 25 years and they deserved to be paid.
Jim and I were able to work together. That was twelve years and we didn’t have issues with being together that much, which isn’t as much as it is now. The biggest key is communication. When you communicate a lot, you grow together instead of growing apart. You accept each other’s faults and shortcomings. I certainly have enough of mine and Jim puts up with me. I love him for it. The other thing with Jim is it’s hard not to love him. He’s very talkative. He has been such an amazing piece. He’s much like my kids. He’s their stepfather. They are as close to him as to their father. It’s a wonderful thing.
That’s beautiful. How can women better support each other? Certainly, you’re an OBGYN. I’m sure your colleagues have been women. Sometimes for women, depending upon the age group and our ability to communicate with each other, it may not always be as smooth as possible. What recommendations do you have for that?
Advice For Women And Future Generations
I know these two doctors who do this amazing podcast. The other thing is you talk about being supportive. It’s being there for your friends, your coworkers, or whatever, and making sure they know that they can come to you if they have a problem or a question or something they need to get off their chest. I guess the best advice I would have was like my parents when I was growing up and like I do now to my grandkids is that you can do and accomplish whatever you want to, as long as you set your mind on it and work hard to get there. We all know so many amazing women that go out there and rule the world.
You cannot understate the power that a child gets from hearing that, particularly from a parent, but it could be any trusted adult. Speaking that is a common thing that we’ve heard during the episodes, which is you don’t fail to take the opportunity to encourage any woman, a friend in particular, but some of the younger ones coming behind you, and particularly children. We appreciate that. I want to know, as amazing as you are to everyone who loves you and all the people that you touch, what do you do to take care of yourself? What is your self-care regimen? What do you love to do? If there’s something that you’ve been wanting to do? What do you look forward to doing?
Things have changed. We’re talking about riding Harleys earlier. Jim and I used to take a two-week trip. I had my own bike and he had his own bike. We went for two weeks every single year. That got crazy. I talk about thinking I was going to be a ship captain or on the ocean all the time. I still love the ocean. Scuba diving is wonderful. The rest of it is realizing you need rest, good healthy food, good relationships, and enjoy it.
I know you’ve done all of those things and you’ve done them well. You’ve taught those who have worked beside you and come after you to do the same, how to treat people well in everything that you do, whether it’s patients or colleagues or friends and family.
The goal works everywhere.
It does. I have one question. I’m mulling over the fact that in your practice, your office manager embezzled, but you continued to move forward. I didn’t hear that you sold the practice to one of the academics or one of the big groups in town. What I’m hearing, and please clarify for our audience, is that you continued in solo practice. You move forward.
It wasn’t exactly solo practice. When that happened, I was the practice owner. At that time, I had 5 physicians and 40 employees in the office. A lot of those employees were paycheck to paycheck. That was their budget. I didn’t see any other way of approaching it other than working hard and keeping the practice going. I did end up selling the practice three years before I retired to Memorial Hermann and was part of the Memorial Hermann Medical Group. It was at the end of my career. I knew it wasn’t going to be very long anyway. That was great. I’m glad I didn’t do it earlier.
Is it easier leaving medicine doing it that way than if you had maintained it?
Absolutely. I had no idea that was going to happen with my hands. It’s hereditary. I’ve had it my whole life. I’ve never had any significant incident, but it was so clear to me at that point that I needed to stop. I think it would have been a lot more difficult if that hadn’t happened. Since the hospital had bought the practice, they bought all of my equipment and everything too.
That makes life so much easier.
That did make it easier on us. Even that didn’t go the way I planned it, but I think it worked out for the best. It’s like getting to medical school. That wasn’t the plan either.
Thank you for sharing and being candid.
I cannot think of anything that I would change in my life other than maybe not hiring that woman. On the other hand, who knows? It made me stronger.
You can achieve anything you set your mind to, as long as you stay determined and work hard. Share on XI have a silly question. For the woman out there who is tuning in to this and is like, “She rode a Harley.” When I say you rode a Harley, I picture she had the ponytail swinging in the wind. I’m holding onto my husband on the back with my helmet on. Anyway, it’s a freeing experience. It’s a beautiful experience. I know you enjoyed the heck out of it. I understand there are times when you stop doing it, but for that woman who says, “I want to ride a Harley. I want to do this,” any advice for the budding motorcycle rider out there?
Safety, take courses, learn to avoid danger. In the Hill Country, there are so many deer on the highway.
I bet. I cannot imagine.
Everything is a trade-off. Being on two wheels, you’re not protected by the steel base around you, but you’re more maneuverable. The advice would be to learn to ride well and how to be safe. It’s a wonderful experience. I do miss it.
I think you got the best out of it.
Lots of great trips.
Dr. Jane Reed, thank you for sharing your journey with us on Boss Leap. We are so grateful for trailblazing women such as yourself in medicine. We look forward to all the other wonderful things that you’re doing and the continued success of Moon Shadow Haven.
It doesn’t feel like work. I loved talking to you ladies. I would like for you all to come do a girls’ trip up here.
We would love to. I want you right now to take the opportunity to tell our audience how to get in touch with you guys, how to book, and how to look you up if you want to share. We’ll put it in our show notes, but anything you want to say.
It’s very easy. Our website is MoonShadowHaven.com. That’s pretty much all you have to do. We’re in Mountain Home, Texas, which has one little flashing stoplight and post office. Now it has a wedding venue.
It’s between Austin and San Antonio, yes?
It’s about one hour West of San Antonio. We’re only 2 miles off of I-10. It’s about 35 miles from Fredericksburg.
That’s a cute town to see.
The wineries in Texas are nearby. We’re very happy here.
We’re coming. Whether it’s the girls or my kids in tow and Carl, we’re coming. We cannot wait.
One of the best rides in Texas is down the road. If you’re in the mood, bring the motorcycle. We’ll go ride. I haven’t been doing it.
My best days were with you guys and I’m going to be surrounded by steel from now on. We enjoyed having you, Dr. Jane Carol Reed. In my intro, I cannot say enough wonderful things about you. I’m so grateful to have you in my life. We don’t talk as much. I haven’t made the best effort to stay as close in touch, but know that you have truly inspired me. I look up to you and you have made a difference in my life. I love you and we will speak soon. To our audience, we want you to know that we love you as well. Until we meet again, may you be well.
May you be well.
I feel the same way about you.
I know. I feel it. Thank you.
Thanks guys.
Takeaways
Dr. Angela, we receive so many gems in our conversation with Dr. Reed. I know for certain that one of my favorites was when she talked about her self-care regime. She emphasized rest, good food, and relationships. Those are some of my favorite things. I’m working on rest and sleep. There’s a book called, Rest Is Resistance. I am completely in agreement with her as far as self-care. What gems did you have?
Her being one of my mentors, there are so many, but I already knew a lot of them. I think one of the important ones that I emphasized during the interview is being empowered with the knowledge that you don’t have limits. Someone telling you or giving you that expectation that you can do anything. I felt that growing up. I didn’t feel like this was not the role for you. You cannot do that. Although my parents played traditional roles or were in traditional roles in a marriage, there were no limits to what I could do in my life.
I love that aspect. You cannot emphasize that enough for people in general, but to impart that to kids is very powerful. She and her husband hold a special place in my heart. If you’re around them for a brief period of time, you can see the genuine friendship and love that they share for each other. One of the important things she mentioned in relationships is being able to accept people’s faults. I do agree with that 100% but I do think in relationships, if we’re both growing, then communication is the key to being able to say what doesn’t work for you.
Just accept the fault, but if it’s something that is not helpful to you or is keeping you from growing, then you have to be able to communicate that. As women, that’s something important to share. There are a lot of good pearls. I loved her candidness. I knew she would be transparent. She always is. I love what they’re doing at Moon Shadow Haven. It’s a beautiful property. I’ve seen it in multiple pictures. I look forward to visiting. Maybe we’ll do an all-around girls’ trip there.
An hour from San Antonio, absolutely. She left us with some great gems. One more that I’m going to take home is to look inside if you’re going to change. We know that the change starts from within and then our outside changes. We change in here and then we can change everything in our environment. It just takes some time. Those are great gems.
To our audience, we thank you again for joining us on this journey. Until we meet again, may you be well.
May you be well.
Important Links
- Dr. Jane Carol Reed on LinkedIn
- Moon Shadow Haven
- Dr. Jane Carol Reed on Facebook
- Rest Is Resistance
About Dr. Jane Carol Reed
Owner/Manager at Moon Shadow Haven Wedding and Event Center | Former Physician at Specialists for Women
Jane C. Reed is the owner and manager of Moon Shadow Haven Wedding and Event Center, a beautiful 17-acre venue in Texas Hill Country. With stunning views of Johnson Creek, her venue offers various spaces for ceremonies and receptions, including creekside or in an air-conditioned chapel. Jane’s venue also provides lodging for up to 30 guests, perfect for multi-day events such as weddings and private parties.
Before her career in hospitality, Jane worked as a physician for over 35 years at Specialists for Women in The Woodlands, Texas. She specialized in obstetrics, gynecology, and urogynecology, dedicating her career to caring for women. She holds an M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and previously pursued a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine.
Jane’s transition from medicine to event management was driven by her desire to create a peaceful and joyful space for others. Together with her husband, Jim, they established Moon Shadow Haven to celebrate love, life, and memorable moments.