Following Your Passion with Sports Medicine Physician Shelley Street Callender

02/15/22 • 43 min

Today I’m talking to sports medicine physician Dr. Shelley Street Callender.

Shelley is a team physician and Chief of Sports Medicine and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Mercer University. While she was training in internal medicine and pediatrics, Shelley never thought that sports medicine was in her future. That all changed when she started working with a local high school girls' basketball team. Many years later, she’s working as a team physician and helping to encourage the next generation to get after their dreams.

We talk about:

The encouragement from her family and mentors that helped her pursue a career path she had never seen before
How following her passion at every turn led her to where she is today.
Finding a home and a support network within AMSSM and the honor of serving as a board member.

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Today I’m talking to sports medicine physician Dr. Shelley Street Callender.

We talk about:

The encouragement from her family and mentors that helped her pursue a career path she had never seen before
How following her passion at every turn led her to where she is today.
Finding a home and a support network within AMSSM and the honor of serving as a board member.

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Instagram: @theMadamAthlete
Facebook: @MadamAthlete
Twitter: @MadamAthlete

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Defining Your Values is the First Step to Taking Ownership of Your Career

On today’s episode I’m talking about how the practice of clearly articulating your values is one of the very first steps to taking ownership of your career. Too often we have our head in the sand, or we're hustling through all the work, and we don't stop and take a look around to see if what we're doing is in alignment with our values.
Because knowing your values, and being in alignment with your values at work, can improve job satisfaction and happiness. And with the rates of burnout and all around misery right now... this feels VERY important!

To help you out, I created a free exercise to help you identify your personal values so you can start taking ownership of your career ASAP. I’ll walk you through the simple steps to clarifying your key values so you can take a quick gut check on how your current job situation is aligning with your values (if it is) and start thinking about what changes you can make to achieve better alignment, which will help you feel better within that job.
Grab your free exercise to start pinning down your key values today!

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Finding Variety in Your Career with Sports Psychologist Lisa Lewis

Today I’m talking to sports psychologist Lisa Lewis.

Lisa is a licensed psychologist with her own practice where she often helps athletes with complicated problems beyond their sports performance. Her mission is to help her clients uncover what motivates them, but it took her years to figure out that motivation was her focus and her mission all along.

We talk about:

How when things didn’t go as expected out of college, Lisa took advantage of unique opportunities which were later valued by her doctoral program.
How Lisa grew her sports psychology practice from something she did one night a week into her main business while still leaving plenty of time to take on other projects.
How she’s a self-described “decathlete in psychology,” and keeps many different irons in the fire by teaching, running continuing education classes for people in the fitness world, and consulting for a tech start-up.

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