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The Defiant Career | Career Strategy for Women in Medicine episodes
- S2E3 Dr. Emma Wiley - Leading Change with Faith and Action
In this episode, Dr. Emma Wiley shares
- her path into medicine
- how the growth mindset impacted her journey
- the importance of maintaining faith
- her incredible work with the Muslim Women of Merton in advocating for Muslim women and combatting Islamophobia
- her work with the British Medical Association on hijab and bear-below-elbow policy for Muslim women working in the operating room (or operating theater as they call it in the UK!)
To follow Dr. Wiley's work, follow her on Twitter @EmmaWiley16
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32 min - S2E2 Expectations vs. Reality
After you prove yourself and surpass all expectations, you're given the respect you deserve and opportunities to advance in your career, right? Sadly this expectation is inconsistent with the reality of the workplace, especially for the minoritized and underrepresented. In this week's episode, we discuss the importance of developing a strategy early in your career and how you can take control of your career trajectory.
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18 min - S2E1 Muslim Women, Leadership and Why We Need a Defiant Career Strategy
Welcome to Season 2! We're so excited to be back. We're picking up right where we left off after a two-year pandemic break. Our personal and professional lives have significantly changed since the start of the pandemic. So in this season, we'll be doing things a little differently. We'll introduce the new format of the podcast, our respective roles, and new exciting segments and projects we have in store for you. Happy listening!
Check out Defiance Academy for more information.
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33 min - Episode 24: Covid Comeback; The pandemic, struggle for racial equality and the 2020 Election
Welcome back! The ladies of The Professional Muslim Women podcast sit down and catch up on all that 2020 has dropped into their lives. As front line healthcare workers in the pandemic, their personal lives have been deeply affected and they discuss what they have been up to in the intervening months.
They also discuss the protests for racial justice and the ongoing struggle for racial equality, particularly through the lens of the healthcare system. They discuss the impact Covid19 has had bringing into stark relief the racial disparity in health outcomes. .
They give their take on the upcoming Election and discuss how voting is a powerful tool for progressive change. We are not powerless and they offer some ideas on how to use our power to improve our lives and our communities.
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36 min - Ep 23: Finance is a Mindset Game: How to Build Wealth and Improve your Financial Wellbeing with Saima Ali
Building wealth is not as hard as you think. The secrets have been out years ago. We just have to remind ourselves again and again and make a conscious effort to follow it.
What comes to mind when you hear terms like the stock market, bonds, investment, and other financial jargon? It sounds intimidating and scary, right? And you feel like you'll just lose money if you invest it, so you never really bothered. But it doesn't have to be.
After listening to this episode, you'll learn useful financial information to get you moving towards building wealth!
Our guest is Saima Ali, a neurologist who has a deep passion for finance and teaching others the financial skills they needed to improve their financial wellbeing. She shares important resources to manage your debt and make saving money easier.
Saima talks about the difference between halal and haram investments, and things you need to know about life insurance. She also speaks about what it means to live below your means and pay your future self first and how to set your mindset for financial success.
Her goals are to have every woman retire as a millionaire. She created a free introduction to the stock market training, which can be accessed below.
In this Episode, We Talk About:
- The story behind Saima's finance projects
- Resources to improve your financial wellbeing
- Managing debt wisely
- Building your credit score
- What it means to live below your means
- Why finance is a mindset game
- Instant pleasure vs. delayed gratification
- How to make saving money easier
- The FIRE movement
- How to ensure your assets
- What you need to know about life insurance
- Halal vs. Haram investments
Where to reach Saima Ali
- Instagram @wealthymuslimwomen
Resources:
- The Stock Market: mini-training
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46 min - Ep 22: The Journey from Employee to Entrepreneur with Samira AliQuitting your job to start your own business is probably one of the riskiest paths you'd ever take. It's full of uncertainties. What if you fail? You will surely scratch your knees along the way but once you get past the trying times, the results are going to be gratifying! Join us in this episode as Samira Ali shares her inspiring journey of entrepreneurship and how she left her secured employee position to start her own company. She shares her experience being in the field of HR and how it is like to do volunteer work for a charitable organization. We also touch the topic of self-worth and how you can stand up for yourself. Find out what compelled Samira to leave her secured work and follow the risky path of being an entrepreneur.
In this Episode, We Talk About:- How Samira got into the field of HR
- Volunteering for a charitable organization
- Samira's journey to entrepreneurship
- What the star method all about
- Self-worth
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49 min - Ep 21: Faith, Science, and Islam with Marium Husain MD, MPH
Science and faith are often in conflict but our guest for today has integrated both science and faith into her own life that created the synergy to accomplish her aspirations.
Join us in this episode as we discuss the rich tradition of faith and science in Islam with Oncology Hospitalist Marium Husain! She is a hematology-oncology at The Ohio State University. She actively works on community service projects and has volunteered with the WHO on nutrition-related projects. Religion is the opposite of scientific principles, but Marium will educate us about the impact of Islam and the contributions of Muslim scientists to medicine and science in general. Marium also talks about the importance of finding your talents and pursuing a career that you love to enjoy life and fulfill your purpose!
In this Episode, We Talk About:- What led Marium to the field of hematology-oncology
- Marium's experience working in international medicine and abroad
- Sustainability, science, and faith
- The role of Islam in relationship to Medicine and Science
- Finding your talents and pursuing a career that you love
Where to reach Marium Husain
Resources:
- IMANA
- Science Jummah
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30 min - Ep 20: Small Actions Lead to Greater Things with Deqa Gelle
Know that you will fail. Know that you will scrape your knees but you will be okay and you'll be so much stronger. — Deqa Gelle To get to where you need to be, you must take the initiative and take action to get there. You won't learn how to run unless you learn how to walk. In this episode, we explore Deqa's journey in finding her path and how she started One Stone HR. Deqa is an experienced Recruitment Manager with 10 years of experience in the recruitment industry. She helped build successful and harmonious teams for corporate organizations and she currently helps individuals and corporations in cultivating their brand. She talks about how taking action - big or small helps her show up every day for herself and others. Find out how Deqa overcame her adversaries and what motivates her to push through and take continuous action.
In this Episode, We Talk About:- Deqa's journey to HR Recruitment
- What drives Deqa to keep pushing on
- Making the leap and getting over self-doubt
- The stigma around divorce
- Action, action, action
Where to reach Deqa Gelle
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29 min - Ep 19: Making Your Mark with Dr. Samira Hassan
"Make your mark and don't be afraid."
-Dr. Samira Hassan
Dr. Hassan, General Practitioner, Family Medicine Specialist and vice president of the British Somali Medical Association shares with us her unconventional path to medicine.
On this episode, we explore Dr. Hassan's journey of finding her self through the culture shock of being transplanted in the Somali community as a teenager, her meandering path to solidifying her interest in medicine including turning down an offer of admission to medical school, and dealing with the agony of rejection after re-application and how she learned the importance of seeking feedback in the face of it. She also shares her passion for community outreach in addressing health awareness and literacy including mental health awareness as well as creating career fairs for the youth. She has certainly made a mark and has influenced Somali youth globally with the spread of her Careers Fair platform on a global scale.
In this Episode, We Talk About:
- Dr. Samira's journey to medicine
- The value of listening to your inner voice
- The value of finding yourself and what your true passion really is
- Community outreach
- Hidden blessings
Where to reach Dr. Samira Hassan
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42 min - Ep 18: Pregnancy and Breastfeeding in the Workplace
It's never easy being a mom and having a full-time job. Balancing work and home is always a very challenging feat but is it really impossible to become successful at both? Recently, the Harvard Business Review published an article that talks about women, being an ideal worker or a perfect mom. The article was demeaning as it deems that women have to choose between motherhood and career if they want to excel and meet society's high standards. Join us in this episode as we break that narrative that society continues to throw at us. We will also tackle the issue of pregnancy and breastfeeding in the workplace as well as debate on why the article written by Harvard is wrong in many ways.
In this Episode, We Talk About:
- Pregnancy and breastfeeding in the workplace
- Why there is nobody who's an ideal worker and a perfect parent
- Filtering out people who aren't good candidates for you to work for or work with
- How to advocate for yourself
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About The Defiant Career | Career Strategy for Women in Medicine
From the publisher's feed
The Defiant Career is a podcast about career strategy for women in medicine, hosted by Dr. Qaali Hussein, a double board-certified trauma surgeon and mother of six. It teaches women physicians how to advance their careers and navigate hostile workplace cultures without burning out.
For three years, I interviewed accomplished women on this show. Surgeons, founders, lawyers, executives. Different fields, different decades, different lives.
Every one of them had been handed the same advice: work twice as hard, prove yourself, earn your seat, and figure out the rest of your life on the side. Every one of them paid the same price. Burnout. Exhaustion. Health and relationships. No guarantee the success was even waiting at the end.
I know, because I am one of them. After 15 years of becoming a trauma surgeon, raising six children, and following every rule I was given, I nearly walked away from medicine in my first year as an attending.
That is not bad luck. When the same advice produces the same outcome across every field and every decade, it is not a personal failing. It is a strategy problem.
I call it the compliant strategy. It works exactly as designed. It just was not designed for you to win.
This show is about the alternative. I call it the Defiant Career Strategy, and it is what I built out of necessity the year I almost quit.
Every other week, I go deep on one decision the compliant strategy has been quietly making for you: when to speak up and how to survive it, what caregiving actually costs your career, how to advance inside a workplace culture that was never built for you, and why the burnout was never a discipline problem.
This is for women in medicine who are done being told to persevere. Women of color who have watched their specific challenges go unaddressed even in the rooms built to address them. Physician mothers who were promised the career and the flexibility and only ever got the career.
You cannot out-excel a system that was never built for you.
Two places to start:
Take the 2-minute Career Diagnostic to see what the compliant strategy is costing you: https://www.defianceacademy.com/defiance-career-diagnostic
Join the Strategy Room inside Defiance Academy: https://www.defianceacademy.com/the-strategy-room
New episodes every other week. Subscribe so you don't miss one.
Formerly the Professional Muslim Women Podcast.
Dr. Qaali Hussein is a double board-certified trauma surgeon, founder of Defiance Academy, and author of DEFIANCE: A Career Strategy for Women the Rules Weren't Written For.