You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Being “First Only Different” doing the kind of work that we do comes with a needed level of hypervigilance. It’s necessary so that we can be sure that we are not experiencing what otherwise would be a default: lower quality support, pay, space, etc. However, the longer we do that, the easier it bleeds into places it doesn’t belong. If we're constantly having to keep tabs and make sure that we are being supported or we're getting pai...
Apr 11, 2023•56 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Mentorship is a valuable aspect of academic medicine. And although mentors and mentorship are not perfect, it's impossible to be successful with no mentorship. That would be a mess! So, this episode is directly for the Mentors. We thank you. We appreciate you. And also, some of y'all need HELP. This episode is about starting that conversation about help. Listen in as Kemi sheds some light on what she has learned from coaching mid an...
Apr 04, 2023•37 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Despite the fact that it's normal to grow and change over the course of our lives and careers, the culture of academic medicine is not built in ANY WAY to reflect this. We spend at least 7 years going from medical school to training to faculty and all the way through it’s reinforced over and over that once we make the transition to faculty, that's it - the last transition. The norm and the expectation is that we're going to stay in ...
Mar 28, 2023•36 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! In this episode, we are continuing our conversation from Episode 100:Unapologetically Vulnerable: Kemi's Interview Part 1 . Kemi is back in the hot seat, being interviewed by her friend and incredible executive coach, Monique Shields of Seven Pines Leadership . And this week Kemi is revealing a secret pleasure project that’s in the works. Join in as Kemi steps further into vulnerability and shares Her secret pleasure project Her res...
Mar 21, 2023•39 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! It's a celebration y’all!! We are celebrating our 100th episode of the Your Unapologetic Career Podcast. Thank you all for listening to the podcast and sharing it with your peeps. This is as much your celebration as it is ours, so thank you. We appreciate your continued support. To celebrate, we have a special treat for you. Kemi is taking the hot seat and is being interviewed by her friend and incredible executive coach, Monique Sh...
Mar 14, 2023•33 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Creating quality work in our careers is a goal that we all have. But how do we do that consistently? Kemi defines it as work that is intentionally impactful to the people, audience, and place that you desire it to be. And that this impact is durable so that people can go back to it repeatedly and still experience its power. In this episode, Kemi shares the components required to create quality work and how to consistently produce th...
Mar 07, 2023•29 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! ENCORE EPISODE! 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 emai...
Feb 28, 2023•27 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! There are many norms around leadership and managing people, yet there are no norms around self-management. It’s true for academics and beyond. Why is this important? Because the skill of self-management is a major component of a successful leader. Listen in as Kemi shares her own experience with various leadership roles, why an expert level of self-management is required to be an effective leader, and the key features of self-manage...
Feb 21, 2023•34 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! It's not surprising that as women of color in academic medicine and public health, a lot of us have the experience of being the first person of color in our division or department or doing the kind of work we're doing. We know and live this, right? When discussing this experience of being “first, only, or different,” we're talking about it from an identity perspective, which is incredibly critical, but this is just ONE kind of being...
Feb 14, 2023•41 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Barnes is an Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research examines the social-emotional well-being of minoritized populations. She has published papers in several journals including Infant and Child Development, the Journal of School Violence, Aggression and Violent Behavior, and Beyond Behavior. She is the creator of the Scholarly Self-Care podcast and is the 2021 reci...
Feb 07, 2023•30 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! We are talking today about how to find our career spark in 2023. Kemi defines career spark as the connection to a sense of possibility and growth for the future. This is something that we all want. BUT - how do we know what our career spark is? And once we’ve found it, how do we protect it? Listen in as Kemi walks us through three steps to finding our career spark and keeping it alive for ourselves. Have a topic you want me to cover...
Jan 31, 2023•32 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! When we want our entire experience to change, we will do something odd: we will want that deeply... while sitting around hoping it happens. Instead of considering the usually inconvenient things that we know work...we will just wait for a miracle. That's not how change works and we are about to get dragged! LOL Listen in as Kemi challenges us to create the experience we want in our careers by answering this question for ourselves: R...
Jan 24, 2023•26 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! We’re taking you back to an oldie, but a goodie, one of our top episodes of 2021, and a forever skill to help you bring ownership to your time and energy. {ENCORE} 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 Kemi tackles one of the biggest self-imposed causes ...
Jan 17, 2023•46 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! As we begin a new year, there are usually some things that we declare that we don't want to be the same at the end of next year. Whether that thing is tangible or not, what we're trying to do is engineer a transformation so that we have a different experience in our careers. This is excellent - and it is important to identify for ourselves the actual experience that we want to have while changing. Because the process of engineering ...
Jan 10, 2023•40 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! As women of color in academic medicine, public health, and allied fields, we simultaneously have the following qualities: 1) a desire to serve the greater good and 2) a strong interest in tangible productivity. Because of this, it's common to feel like we lose ourselves in our work. The reason for this is that the academic culture is effective at taking what's already there - our desire to serve and our desire to have tangible produ...
Jan 03, 2023•31 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Our Top 10 most popular episodes of 2022 and some behind the scenes of how they came to be. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Have a topic you want me to cover on the podcast? To submit your Listener Letter, send an email to podcast@kdollcoach.com with your question, and let’s go! 🎧 🎙{Bonus} Top 10 Episodes of 2022. Check out this week’s episode of Your Unapologetic Career today!...
Dec 19, 2022•40 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Michelle Ogunwole is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a health disparities researcher, social epidemiologist, and General Internal Medicine physician additionally boarded in obesity medicine and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Ogunwole’s research focuses on racial disparities in maternal health among African American women with a specific interest in African American women's e...
Dec 13, 2022•33 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 t...
Dec 06, 2022•55 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Mya Roberson is a social epidemiologist, health services researcher, and assistant professor. She is also an Associate Editor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at JAMA Dermatology and a Board Member Trustee at Brown University. In 2021, she completed her Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar and a Truman Scholar (PA...
Nov 29, 2022•32 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 ...
Nov 22, 2022•50 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 t...
Nov 15, 2022•34 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 abl...
Nov 08, 2022•49 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 goa...
Nov 01, 2022•39 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 wh...
Oct 25, 2022•54 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 ...
Oct 18, 2022•18 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Toyosi Onwuemene is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Hematology at Duke University School of Medicine and has clinical and research interests in hemostasis/thrombosis and therapeutic apheresis. Her long-term goal is to develop and run therapeutic apheresis multi-center trials with a focus on applications of therapeutic plasma exchange in thrombotic disorders which disproportionately affect women of color. She is also an alumna...
Oct 11, 2022•22 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! 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 ...
Oct 04, 2022•32 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Relationships have the power to both help you grow and stunt your growth. That is why discerning between healthy and unhealthy professional relationships is an important skill. In this episode, Kemi discusses frenemy energy. What it is, how it shows up, how to discern it, and how you can minimize the impact of it on your professional life and the career moves you're trying to make. Let's go! Have a topic you want me to cover on the ...
Sep 27, 2022•47 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Unpopular opinion: successful integrated research careers and the folks who get successfully funded don’t just get there by luck. There is a gap between the dream academic medicine sells and the reality of the research training, or lack thereof, that is provided. As a field, Kemi would like us to stop lying about that gap. Listen in this week for why Kemi thinks it’s critical to tell people the truth about the kinds of careers they ...
Sep 20, 2022•34 min
You can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Ufere is a transplant hepatologist and medicine instructor in the gastroenterology division at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Her work focuses on building palliative and supportive care interventions and increasing health care system empathy to improve the quality of life and care for patients with advanced liver disease and their caregivers. She is also an alumnae of our Get That Grant ...
Sep 13, 2022•34 min
