Yay we get a chance to talk to Dr. Aimee about her career journey!
She hilariously explains why she decided not to be a doctor, Dr. Toni is still laughing.
She takes us through how she evolved into the amazing scientist-teacher that she is despite her high school biology teacher giving her some discouraging advice and how she fell in love, like literally fell in love with immunology.
Shout out to being stubborn and John Lammert from Gustavus Adolphus University.
She takes us through the challenges of her PhD experience, her two post docs, some not so fun teaching and landing her dream job of teaching all the students including medical, dental, pharmacy, and physician assistants.
Shout out to URMC where our friendship budded over offering chocolate and motrin to Dr. Toni's dysfunctional PCR machine!
Shout out from us both to Tim Bushnell who carried both of us through our PhDs!!
It is so important to get more than one mentor and to surround yourself with people who promote you and help you grow, not bring you down and say that you can't. You may not be able to do it now but gosh darn it if there is a will there is a way! And just because it looks different doesn't mean you haven't achieved success. Maybe it will take longer than you thought. So what? Find your people. Ask for help. Be patient. Don't lose sight of the goal. And keep on swimming. There were so many humans that took the time to mentor and inspire Dr. Aimee that we couldn't list them all and the story is likely incomplete. No one has achieved anything without some form of support. If it is not your family, then it is a teacher or a group of teachers. If it is not your teachers then it is your social circle or someone you connected to through your social circle. And if it is nothing like that then it is a book or a song, a presenter or a poem, a portrait or a character. You can be inspired and supported no matter the dream, it just depends on your perspective. Find your people and open your heart and you will get where you want to go no matter how long it takes.
Thanks to Jeff Jeudy for providing the music!
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