Latest Academic career Podcast Episodes
126 Assessing The Fantasy Of Support From Mentors And Institutions
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - September 12, 2023 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Welcome back to the show, folks! You are in for a frank and enlightening conversation about a common scenario that many of us have found ourselves in. You know the situation: a friend rambles on about someone being head over heels ...
125 Do More By Choosing Less
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - September 05, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Say goodbye to overwhelm and hello to focused success! In this episode, Kemi reveals the surprising path to productivity. Tune in as she takes us on a transformative journey through the power of intentional choices by sharing how ...
124 Coaching Client Spotlight: Sheila Rajagopal M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - August 29, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Sheila Rajagopal received her M.D. at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, during which she also received an M.P.H. in quantitative methods with a focus on genetic epidemiology at the Harvard School of Publ...
123 Ensuring Progress Amidst Unexpected Challenges
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - August 22, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! On this week's episode, Kemi reflects on a recent coaching group's quarterly gameplan call, revealing how high-achieving women of color in academic medicine and public health consistently navigate setbacks and emerge stronger. Li...
122 Ending Toxic Mentor Relationships Part 2
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - August 15, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! This week we are continuing our conversation on the significance of setting standards to achieve sustainable success aligned with our career mission. Don't miss out on this empowering discussion as Kemi shares how to discover the...
121 Creating Effective Mentor Relationships Part 1
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - August 08, 2023 09:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! In this episode, Kemi discusses the significance of setting standards to achieve sustainable success aligned with our career mission. She explains that the key to effective mentor relationships lies in honesty and clear communica...
120 Mothering As a High Achieving Black Woman in Academia - With Dr. Tamorah Lewis
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - August 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! This episode is all about the intersection of motherhood and ambition, particularly for high-achieving Black women! We are so excited to welcome Dr. Tamorah Lewis to the podcast! Dr. Lewis is a physician-scientist (MD PhD), Divisi...
119 Structuring Your Excellence
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - July 25, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! We are naturally in professions where the culture is that the “ends justify the means.” We actually prize people who will put their comfort, their sleep, their family secondhand, and just work, work, work, work, work. This can be a...
118 Revisiting Your CEO, Scientist, and Worker Bee
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - July 18, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Cultivating a self-leadership mindset is a crucial part of building a successful career on your terms. In this episode, Kemi revisits her concept of the CEO, the Scientist, and the Worker Bee and offers clear insight into how 1) ...
117 Decoupling Success From Suffering
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - July 11, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! “If I achieve this, then I will have balance, enjoyment, freedom, and flexibility in my career.” Sound familiar? The sneaky underbelly of this statement is that achievement comes first, then your well-being comes after… When impor...
116 Coaching Client Spotlight: Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - July 04, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! J. Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Wilson's research interests include reducing substance use-related health disparities, with an emphasis on opioid use disorders in ad...
115 The Secret Sauce To Effective Boundaries
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - June 27, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Our struggle with boundaries is so often about using the wrong tool at the wrong time. Tune in as Kemi highlights a critical piece of effective boundary setting – our identities – and discusses how this root orientation can eit...
114 How To Ask For Help
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - June 20, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! When it comes to asking for help we often do everything but actually ask. This makes sense in a passive-aggressive culture of academics. While this is understandable why it happens, it doesn't have to be this way. Listen in as Ke...
113 Coaching Client Spotlight: Natasha Crooks, PhD, RN
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - June 13, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Crooks is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing and an affiliate faculty at the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (CDIS) in the UIC Department of Medicine. Her commun...
112 Choosing Fundable Ideas
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - June 06, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! The concept of ‘fundable ideas’ is both an important component of understanding grant strategy and a nebulous barrier rife with bias. Listen in as Kemi offers thoughts as to how Fundable Ideas applies to researchers with marginaliz...
111 Conscious Collaborations With Dr. Whitney Robinson
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - May 30, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Today's conversation is about a very juicy topic, collaborations. And this is not going to be a surface-level discussion. Kemi and her guest, Dr. Whitney Robinson, are going all in! Dr. Robinson is an Epidemiologist whose work f...
110 Learning In Public - Again.
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - May 23, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! So many faculty have worked so hard for so long, created so much benefit, and poured into mentees, yet they don't get to experience the actual enjoyment of their career. This may have been your experience, or you’ve witnessed it w...
109 Coaching Client Spotlight: Leslie Coker Appiah, M.D.
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - May 16, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Leslie Appiah is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Division of Academic Specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. She is ...
108 The Financial ROI From Career Coaching
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - May 09, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! There is a part of academic culture that says we do this all for the greater good therefore, if we're too focused on finances and money, then somehow, we are not pure to the calling. Don't fall for the okey-doke of the academic cu...
107 Steps To Support Betting On Yourself
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - May 02, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! The truth is that for high-achieving WOC, betting on ourselves is the norm. We have gone through training programs, spent six figures of debt getting degrees, etc. But that kind of betting on ourselves is structured and normalized ...
106 Academia vs. Corporate: Which Is Better For WOC? With Executive Coach Monique Shields
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - April 25, 2023 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! We are so excited to welcome back Monique R. Shields to the podcast! Monique is an executive coach for women in the C suite, founders, entrepreneurs, and women of color in academic medicine and public health. Listen in as Kemi ...
105 Coaching Client Spotlight: Dr. Sukeshi Arora, M.D.
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - April 18, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou can text us here with any comments, questions, or thoughts! Dr. Arora graduated from the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas, and completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Medical Hematology and Oncology Fellowship at UT Health San Antonio. She holds th...
104 How Hypervigilance Can Ruin Your Career
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - April 11, 2023 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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...
103 Dear Mentors
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - April 04, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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...
102 Normalizing Transition From Clinical Work
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - March 28, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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 traini...
101 Unapologetically Vulnerable: Kemi's Interview Part 2
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - March 21, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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 Shie...
100 Unapologetically Vulnerable: Kemi's Interview Part 1
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - March 14, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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...
99 Creating Quality Work Amidst Chaos
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - March 07, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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 thi...
98 {ENCORE} Learning How To Quit
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - February 28, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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 lea...
97 What's Missing In Academic Leadership
Your Unapologetic Career Podcast - February 21, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsYou 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 ...
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