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 coach
- Securing a K23 in a well-respected institution and something still being off
- The coaching tool that finally helped her gain a unifying clarity on her career goals
- Finding sanity and a different relationship to work in the midst of a pandemic with a 3-year old at home
- How shifting to see grants as the tool, and not the goal, led her to do something she’d never done before with her R34 application
- What it’s really like to be in a radically authentic community with a shared process
If you loved this convo, please go find Kiara on Twitter (@kalvarezphd) and show her some love!