Your Unapologetic Career® Podcast
Are you ready to become the CEO of your career? Join Kemi Doll – physician, surgeon, researcher, coach, and career strategist – as she guides you on the journey to transform your academic life, so that you can channel your ideas, passions, and skills into a successful and nourishing career. In each episode, she’ll be taking a deep dive into one CORE growth strategy so you can gain confidence and effectiveness in pursuing the dream career in academic medicine that you worked so hard to achieve. Tune in for an always authentic, sometimes a little raw, but unapologetically empowering word. Learn more at www.kemidoll.com.
Your Unapologetic Career® Podcast
216 Writing Woes - Quality Thought Partners
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Career isolation doesn’t just affect morale, it can quietly shape the quality of your writing, limiting creativity, clarity, and the willingness to take intellectual risks.
In this episode, Kemi explores how isolation shows up in academic and grant-writing spaces, especially when you are the “first,” “only,” or navigating environments without shared perspective. She highlights why strong writing isn’t built in a vacuum: it’s strengthened through supportive networks.
Tune in for a perspective shift that may change how you approach feedback, collaboration, and the plan you need to rebuild the conditions that make excellent writing possible.
If you'd like to learn more foundational career navigation concepts for women of color in academic medicine and public health, sign up for our KD Coaching Foundations Series: www.kemidoll.com/foundations.