How to Build a Peer Support System With Associate Professor and Research Scientist Johna Register-Mihalik

On today’s episode, I’m talking to Associate Professor and Research Scientist Dr. Johna Register-Mihalik about how to build a peer support system because you don’t have to go it alone in your career.

Johna works at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an Associate Professor of Athletic Training and a Research Scientist studying mild traumatic brain injury. While still in undergrad, Johna cold-emailed a preeminent concussion researcher and managed to create an internship that changed the course of her career. In addition to her academic work, Johna has served on the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina’s Board and USA Baseball’s Medical and Safety Advisory Committee, as well as pursuing active professional service in national organizations like the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the American College of Sports Medicine.

We talk about:

The importance of getting different perspectives and why she chose to leave academia for her first job to try something new.The benefit of building a peer support system of badass women and how to do it when you’re in a male-dominated field.The difficulty of accepting failure and feedback while separating that from your self-worth and how you believe in yourself.

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