Your Unapologetic Career Podcast

It's been nearly a year in the making......

Introducing our Get That Grant Program Coaches! These are fantastic, accomplished faculty in their own right who all went through Get That Grant themselves as clients. They are now trained Program Coaches and excited to help other women of color faculty get free.

Listen in for:

WHO these amazing ladies are...

WHY they decided to move from client to coach...

REAL TALK on what's challenging about coaching in Get That Grant...

Their FAVORITE coaching moments thus far...

And what may be next!

Kemi also opens up about her journey of being ready to hire coaches and expand her reach. This is a great BTS episode to check out!

This episode is a beautiful story of Kemi’s career evolution.

Listen in as Kemi describes how for her 40th birthday, she read through her journals from the previous two decades, reflecting on all the changes and growth she has experienced. She shares the importance of taking time to journal and set clear intentions for your time and your life.

Often we disregard the "underneath progress" (the growth of our roots) and only focus on the flowers. Meaning, we start counting our efforts based on when it was visible and discount the things we wrestled with to cause the bloom in the first place. This is why it is easy to undervalue ourselves and edit down our true value and potential, even when we feel like we're moving from a very empowered space.

Let's rewrite the story of where things started for us because all of that internal work, all of that struggle - all of that, counts! Let's go!

There is a theme in academic medicine that rolls around annually where newbies start tweeting questions like how are you all doing all these meetings and still getting your work done or how do you balance XYZ?

This is definitely the culture of academic medicine, yet every year it feels like a new problem where we just woke up and realized that the way that the academic culture is set up is not actually designed for anybody to be able to functionally do all of the things within the time given.

Think about how powerful a culture must be that it is so deeply dysfunctional yet we are all on the train.

Listen in as Kemi dissects the power of academic culture and how we can flip it around for ourselves.

A main ingredient in creating your unapologetic career is clarity.

We have established review and evaluation processes for gaining clarity around the more tangible things we do for our jobs but what does this look like for the other things that we constantly bring up difficult such as:

• organization
• time management
• navigating politics and power
• optimizing mentor and leader relationships
• developing your vision into actual tangible goals, ETC.

All of these things are available to learn, integrate, and master. In this episode, Kemi is helping us get a little bit more clear about how we assess ourselves and our progress by sharing a self-assessment tool that might be helpful for you as you move from learning to mastery of your career experience. Let’s go!

Adapting to survive in the insane structures of academic medicine and public health is a superpower. However, when you adapt to survive in your careers, you are recreating the exact circumstances that you do not want. In this episode, Kemi calls for you to stop using this old strategy to try to create your unapologetic career because it doesn't work.

To be clear, this skill of adapting is not a bad thing. It got you really far to where you are. She simply wants you to be able to update your strategies to match what you actually want in your life and career - by adapting to THRIVE instead. Listen in as she shares how to make this shift. Let's go!

Being in cycles of disappointment is exhausting. But we high achievers often create and sustain them unknowingly, because they are linked to how we succeed in the first place. When what you use to be successful - which is learning what people's expectations are of you, and going hard and crushing it - trying not to do that feels insane. So, we’ll disappoint ourselves instead, then try to make up for that – and launch the cycle. End the madness!

There is another option, listen in as Kemi explains what that option is and why this approach leads to growth and freedom. Let's go!

There are two very powerful characteristics that are admirable in high-achieving women of color faculty in academic medicine and public health: 1) a dogged determination to get things done and 2) a private, inner working world These same two reasons can also cause so much pain, challenge, and frustration for you and your career. In this episode, Kemi celebrates these characteristics and shares how they can be transformed into tools that can be used in service of you, your own freedom, and building the career that you want.

Let's go!

Being overwhelmed is a common feeling for faculty who engage in research as a big part of their role.

As we approach the end of the year, we begin to have thoughts about all the places we thought we would be versus where we actually are. Add to that the holiday season to-do list and festivities and it’s the perfect recipe for feeling out of control at a time when you want to just relax and ease into the end of the year.

Being able to get to a place where you can recognize and then manage your way out of overwhelm is a key professional and personal development skill that you want to be able to learn and then hone for yourself.

In this episode, Kemi shares three tangible action steps you can take to decrease overwhelm.