You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Bertha Hidalgo is an Associate Professor with Tenure, genetic epidemiologist, and science communicator at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Public Health. Her work focuses on genomic risk assessment of cardiometabolic diseases and public health messaging in the COVID19 pandemic. She is also an alumnae of the Get That Grant coaching program and an ongoing amazing coaching client. Take a listen to hear some real behin...
Feb 08, 2022•36 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Transitioning into motherhood as high-achieving women of color means that nothing will be the same. There is no normal to go back to nor can we reclaim the pace we had before. The bottom line is that the career life that we were living before becoming a parent has died. The transition into motherhood, however, is an incredible opportunity to radically change how you think about productivity, success, and impact. It may be baptism by...
Feb 01, 2022•35 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! When it gets to that point where the definition of who you are, your goal, and why you're doing what you're doing is the list of activities that you have to complete, this is a sure sign of a total lack of career control. In this episode, I want to talk about this loss of career control to help us truly understand where and how the switch happens. I'll also provide you with strategies to reclaim career control and get back on track!...
Jan 25, 2022•17 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Most grant-getting workshops focus on the "how-tos" of writing and on deciphering between the requirements of the various sections of the grant and avoiding major pitfalls. While these skills are important and necessary, they are not sufficient – not even close. If your goal is to secure funding doing the work you love, you’re gonna need more, period. In this episode, I offer what I think are four critical skills, not just to write ...
Jan 18, 2022•38 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Tiffany Green is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Schools of Public Health and Medicine in the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her work focuses on improving outcomes and saving the lives of Black birthing people and their infants from her powerful and unique view as an economist. She is also an alumna of the Get That Grant coaching program! Take a listen to hear some ...
Jan 11, 2022•34 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! I don’t know about y’all but I’m tired of setting low expectations because “who knows what’s going to happen this year.” If this is the new normal, I still know I want *more.* Last year taught me a major lesson on hard work and surrender. Seeds planted bloom when they are ready. This week, I'm sharing a powerful formula – the type of seeds and the right intervals - to set up your fantastic 2022. Happy New Year and let’s GO! Do you h...
Jan 04, 2022•26 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Short and sweet. Three steps to transformation for Your Unapologetic Career. Happy Happy New Year! Do you have a question for the podcast? To submit a Listener Letter, send an email to podcast@kdollcoach.com with your question, and let’s go! 🎧 🎙 EPISODE 39: The Only 3 Steps You Need...
Dec 28, 2021•7 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! An episode to support end-of-year reflection – Are you Coasting, Ghosting, or Growing? I know I do all 3, do you? Take a listen this week to walk through a process of review of how we show up and why it matters. Do you have a question for the podcast? To submit a Listener Letter, send an email to podcast@kdollcoach.com with your question, and let’s go! 🎧 🎙 EPISODE 38: Are you Coasting, Ghosting, or Growing?...
Dec 21, 2021•31 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! This episode basically starts with a pet peeve of mine. It’s not because there’s anything wrong with people saying “I want to be more X” - X = confident, focused, disciplined, or ‘boundaried’ – it's just that I have SO much to say in response and I usually have to hold back. I mean, who wants to be coached AT by a random colleague?! But y’all are my peeps, so it’s a safe space. This week on the podcast, I’m talking about THE fundame...
Dec 14, 2021•24 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! I don’t think we consciously delegate responsibility for our career dreams, but it is the default setup of academic medicine. We get used to our role being ‘securing the spot’ and our institution’s role is to deliver on the promise. That is the entire setup for training and in many ways is still the setup for faculty members. Works great - as long as you don’t have specific goals and dreams for your career. Well – that ain’t me or m...
Dec 07, 2021•39 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! There are 3 things that happen to me every single time I know I’m ready to grow. Without fail. Like clockwork. First, I am suddenly crystal clear on what I no longer what to be doing. #Reclaimingmytime. I could write a dissertation about why I am ‘done done, for real.’ Second, I feel a growing hopefulness for what is possible for the future and I can start to articulate what I DO want. And then there’s the third thing – the sticker....
Nov 30, 2021•27 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Part of career development is simply learning the unspoken rules and some very valuable tips on strategy to help you avoid rookie mistakes. But that’s just part of it, and honestly, that’s the easy part. The real meat of any true career development – which is actually both professional and personal development – is learning how to translate *both* your value and your values from internal desires to external structure, focus, and suc...
Nov 23, 2021•28 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! The road as faculty in academic medicine and public health can be bumpy – some bumps are expected and have a lot of narrative built around them (paper rejection, grant just missing the pay line) and those are fine. I’m talking this week about the bumps that are…worse. The things that can throw us way off – like making BIG mistakes – that aren’t so cozily wrapped up in pep talks. These things make us question ourselves and our abilit...
Nov 16, 2021•34 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Marjory Charlot is an Assistant Professor, thoracic medical oncologist, and health equity researcher at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Her work centers on the experience and outcomes of Black patients with cancer in order to intervene and eliminate racial disparities in cancer outcomes. She is also an alumnae of the Get That Grant coaching program and an ongoing amazing coaching client. Take a listen to hear som...
Nov 09, 2021•34 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! So - career transformation is not a walk in the park. I will never stop preaching how important it is for us to uproot the trainee mindset that has overwork, overwhelm, and dissatisfaction to be the norm in academic medicine. We must uproot this and replace it with building a career based on your value. However, I acknowledge – it’s not easy! Most powerful things aren’t. In this week’s episode of Your Unapologetic Career, we talk th...
Nov 01, 2021•18 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! I don’t know about y’all but I never learned how to quit anything in academic medicine. And yet, unless you have some kind of 100% perfect “No” response from the minute you started on faculty, you likely have at least 1 thing on your plate that just needs to go. Knowing it needs to go doesn’t mean you are any closer to quitting – because that’s just not what we do. It’s not about not knowing what to write in the email, we have to go...
Oct 26, 2021•27 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! We all do this. We know we do it, but it’s still so hard to stop. Or we have gotten much better with our Nos, but it’s still painful and energy-draining to execute. Yet, we know we have to say No – a LOT more. This week I tackle one of the biggest self-imposed causes of overwhelm. When we stack our schedule with things we don’t actually want to be a part of, we lose time and we compound resentment. This cycle has to stop! In this we...
Oct 19, 2021•42 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! This Listener cannot get a hold of the clinical work that keeps seeping in around her boundaries. The triple threat – clinical, research, and teaching excellence – is always the goal, but the bottom line is clinical works just *has* to happen, so what gives? Raise your hand if this is relatable! 🙋🏾♀️ This week on the podcast, I honor this struggle and offer you my step by step process of breaking down what’s happening and buildin...
Oct 12, 2021•28 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Jessica Chen is a practicing psychologist and health services researcher focused on the equitable delivery of care for PTSD in the setting of chronic pain and co-occurring substance use disorders in the VA system. She is also an alumni of my Get That Grant coaching program and an ongoing amazing coaching client. Take a listen to hear some real behind the scenes of her coaching journey: The primary fear that triggered her to cons...
Oct 05, 2021•36 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! This Listener knows she’s ready to leave. But how to go about telling people? And what about the scars from her current position? This week I answer her questions and go deeper – into the worry behind these questions and what we must to do optimize both the job search and starting a new institution. To submit your Listener Letter, send an email to podcast@kdollcoach.com with your question, and let’s go!...
Sep 28, 2021•25 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! We define Early Career by the number of years you have been around, being pre-promotion, and/or pre-funding. Sure, it has structural functions to define it this way, and benefits in the grant game. If you want to inventory yourself for an Early Career mindset, take a listen to this week’s episode of Your Unapologetic Career podcast today!...
Sep 21, 2021•34 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! This is one of those HOW episodes. Specifically, the How of leveling up your support for your unapologetic career. Many of us are surrounded by wonderful cheerleaders and expert advisors and yet we lack the most crucial element of support – the one that matters the *most* when your back is against the wall with frustration, challenge, or exhaustion in your career. That support is not generic – it’s specific. It’s not ‘tough love’, e...
Sep 14, 2021•36 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Carrie Francis is an Associate Professor in the Pediatric Otolaryngology Division of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC). She is also a woman on a mission to improve workforce development and innovation in academic medicine, an expert in medical education and serves as the inaugural Associate Dean for Workforce Innovation and Empowerment. She started her coaching jour...
Sep 07, 2021•30 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Yep, let’s go there. This can be a taboo topic in academic medicine and it shouldn’t be. Whether it’s paralyzing fear of the consequences of an exit or being so stuck in settling that we’ve stopped imagining better – we avoid the question of leaving our institutions - to our detriment. But you know what, there is no need to avoid it! In fact, I offer to you that embracing this question no matter how you feel about your current job i...
Aug 31, 2021•32 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! If you are serious about creating the career of your dreams, you probably know that getting advice is critical. The problem is what to do with it! How to judge whether the advice is good or bad, helpful or not, is a hazy maze without a framework. The truth is that ensuring you are following the right career advice requires an internal clarity that most folks are avoiding. No more! This is a big topic and I’m covering it over 2 episo...
Aug 24, 2021•20 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! If you are serious about creating the career of your dreams, you probably know that getting advice is critical. The problem is what to do with it! How to judge whether the advice is good or bad, helpful or not, is a hazy maze without a framework. The truth is that ensuring you are following the right career advice requires an internal clarity that most folks are avoiding. No more! This is a big topic and I’m covering it over 2 episo...
Aug 17, 2021•35 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Kiara Alvarez is a child clinical psychologist, a researcher focused on mental health inequities in the field of youth suicide prevention and the wellbeing of Latinx and immigrant youth and their families. She is also an alumni of my Get That Grant coaching program and an ongoing amazing coaching client. Take a listen to hear some real behind the scenes of her coaching journey: - What her ‘unicorn’ criteria were for finding a co...
Aug 10, 2021•31 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! It’s easy to say No to the things you don’t want to do. But what about all of the things you DO want to do?! How do those fit into the regular rules of space and time? This advice came smack in the middle of the roller coaster ride of 2020 and remains urgently applicable today. If you are struggling with FOCUS amid ‘all the things’ in your career – this week’s episode of Your Unapologetic Career is for you. I want you to claim focus...
Aug 03, 2021•19 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! We are not robots and we are absolutely going to miss deadlines and not get things done! We can give ourselves grace and still want to be clear on how to avoid repeating the same patterns. The bottom line is that some of our productivity wounds are self-inflicted. Not *all*, but some. We usually only have one refrain for this – being angry or disappointed and then trying again. Rinse and repeat. We can get away with this, it’s just ...
Jul 27, 2021•19 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Most of us start out with aspirational boundaries that crumble under pressure – and that’s normal. We don’t need to judge ourselves for this! We do need to know that these reactionary, two-dimensional boundaries are where we may start, but not where we have to end. Effective boundaries are a mandatory requirement of a successful, sustainable, and nourishing career. They are not optional, they are essential. In this week’s episode, I...
Jul 20, 2021•26 min
