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Cultivating a self-leadership mindset is a crucial part of building a successful career on your terms. 

In this episode, Kemi revisits her concept of the CEO, the Scientist, and the Worker Bee and offers clear insight into how 1) they impact our success and 2) how we can organize them in order to make the important shifts to up-level our careers.

For more on this topic check out our previous episode: Episode 02: The CEO, Scientist, and Worker Bee.

And if you'd like to learn more foundational career navigation concepts for women of color in academic medicine and public health, sign up for our KD Coaching Foundations Series: www.kemidoll.com/foundations.

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“If I achieve this, then I will have balance, enjoyment, freedom, and flexibility in my career.” Sound familiar? The sneaky underbelly of this statement is that achievement comes first, then your well-being comes after…

When important things like balance, enjoyment, and freedom are nice to have but *not* required in our day to day, they will always come last or not at all. And success will always be synonymous with sacrifice.

High achievers, it's time we detox from this mindset!

Tune in as Kemi invites us to decouple success from suffering and offers strategies for how to do this.

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J. Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Wilson's research interests include reducing substance use-related health disparities, with an emphasis on opioid use disorders in adolescent and adult populations. This includes integrating harm reduction into primary care settings, developing low threshold models of care to improve engagement and retention of historically marginalized and racially and ethnically minoritized populations, and improving resilience and coping using mindfulness as a strategy to mitigate chronic pain. 

She is also an alumnus of our Get That Grant® coaching program!

Listen in as we discuss her coaching journey and: 

• Striking a balance between the work that has to be done and what you desire to do
• How she transformed the academic environment she was in to give her space to do her most satisfying work
• What caused her grant writing process to evolve from suffering to enjoyment

 Loved this convo? Please go find Dr. Wilson on Twitter @DrDeannaWilson and show her some love!

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Our struggle with boundaries is so often about using the wrong tool at the wrong time.   

Tune in as Kemi highlights a critical piece of effective boundary setting – our identities – and discusses how this root orientation can either enforce or dissolve boundaries!

For more on this topic check out Episode 16: Creating Effective Boundaries in Your Career.

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When it comes to asking for help we often do everything but actually ask. This makes sense in a passive-aggressive culture of academics. While this is understandable why it happens, it doesn't have to be this way.

Listen in as Kemi offers insights on the things that we should think about when we plan to ask for help to improve the quality of our information gathering and, ultimately, our success.

If you'd like to learn more foundational career navigation concepts for women of color in academic medicine and public health, sign up for our KD Coaching Foundations Series: www.kemidoll.com/foundations.

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Dr. Crooks is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing and an affiliate faculty at the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (CDIS) in the UIC Department of Medicine. Her community-engaged research program centers on protecting Black female sexual and reproductive health. She has developed a conceptual model describing the sociocultural processes and conditions influencing Black female sexual development and STI/HIV risk funded by the NIH (F31NR016624). She recently created the IMARA for Black Male Caregivers And Girls Empowerment (IMAGE) program, which engages Black male caregivers in the protection of Black girls to reduce early sexual engagement, sexual violence, and STI/HIV risk.

Dr. Crooks’ other research projects focus on developing a measure to identify girls at risk for early sexual debut, sexual trauma, and STI/HIV, improving Black maternal health, and health outcomes among sex workers in Chicago.

She is also an alumnus of our Get That Grant® coaching program!

Listen in as we discuss her coaching journey and: 

• How she fell victim to burnout and who came to the rescue
• What it looked like for her to set and hold boundaries for herself
• A pivotal moment in the coaching application process that solidified her decision to join the cohort
• When transparency and vulnerability became key ingredients to her success

If you'd like to learn more foundational career navigation concepts for women of color in academic medicine and public health, sign up for our KD Coaching Foundations Series: www.kemidoll.com/foundations.

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The concept of ‘fundable ideas’ is both an important component of understanding grant strategy and a nebulous barrier rife with bias. Listen in as Kemi offers thoughts as to how Fundable Ideas applies to researchers with marginalized perspectives and topics -  often the case for women of color in academic medicine or public health. 

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Today's conversation is about a very juicy topic, collaborations. And this is not going to be a surface-level discussion. Kemi and her guest, Dr. Whitney Robinson, are going all in! 

 Dr. Robinson is an Epidemiologist whose work focuses on gynecologic conditions like fibroids, endometriosis, and unexplained bleeding. She is also a very devoted podcast listener and an amazing collaborator.  

If you're ready to be inspired to have better collaborations, then listen in as Kemi and Whitney break the mold of what we typically think about what a collaboration really entails so that you can have a more fulfilling experience. 

Highlights from this episode: 

• What are collaborations with heart 
• Kemi and Whitney's collaboration story 
• Elements of a successful collaboration 
• Establishing trust for an effective collaboration 
• How you can work through disagreements with mutual respect  
• The importance of feedback around the work and also the collaborative relationship 

 If you loved Dr. Robinson as much as we do, you can also find her on Twitter @WhitneyEpi to connect more real-time. 

 If you'd like to learn more foundational career navigation concepts for women of color in academic medicine and public health, sign up for our KD Coaching Foundations Series: www.kemidoll.com/foundations. 

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So many faculty have worked so hard for so long, created so much benefit, and poured into mentees, yet they don't get to experience the actual enjoyment of their career.

This may have been your experience, or you’ve witnessed it with a colleague. Listen, we can have better. There is more available. 

 In this episode, Kemi shares that when you want better balance and don’t see immediate improvement, this quickly turns into no longer believing that what we truly desire in our career is really possible. There is an underlying reason why we aren't seeing the kind of progress we want to see in our career expansion – and it has to do with your learning style!

Tune in as she reveals the internal problem that results in stagnation when searching for work-life balance and how to dig ourselves out of that place.

If you'd like to learn more foundational career navigation concepts for women of color in academic medicine and public health, sign up for our KD Coaching Foundations Series: www.kemidoll.com/foundations.

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Dr. Leslie Appiah is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Division of Academic Specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. She is a fellowship-trained pediatric and adolescent gynecologist and Director of the Fertility Preservation and Reproductive Late Effects program at the Comprehensive Cancer Center and Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. 

Dr. Appiah’s clinical and research interests include team science and outcomes research in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult fertility preservation, reproductive late effects in cancer survivorship, and hormone replacement therapy in the medically complex patient. She is passionate about improving the health of girls and women so that they may pursue life, career, and education unencumbered by reproductive health concerns. She is also an alumnus of our Get That Grant® coaching program!

Listen in as we discuss her coaching journey and: 

• How to say NO with pleasure, peace, and confidence as a leader with many varying responsibilities
• How keying into her energy balance has improved her productivity and leadership ability
•  How she *finally* shifted away from the strategy she learned in every other coaching experience and found greater balance AND impact
• Her advice to mid and senior-level academics thinking about coaching and want to experience a similar transformation as she did 

 Loved this convo? Please go find Dr. Appiah and show her some love on Twitter @DrLeslieAppiah and Instagram @drleslieappiah

If you'd like to learn more foundational career navigation concepts for women of color in academic medicine and public health, sign up for our KD Coaching Foundations Series: www.kemidoll.com/foundations.