Your Difference Makes You Valuable: An Interview with Dr. Kemi Doll

Key points discussed:

• Struggling academically through undergrad, going for med school anyway [3:30]
• How Kemi spends her time, with many different aspects of her career weaving together to form the whole [8:30]
• The multidisciplinary life [13:00]
• How she got started coaching [15:00]
• Coaching vs. the paternalistic mentor/apprentice model [19:00]
• Power dynamics, privilege, and imbalance in academia, and what to remember about being free [22:30]
• The glorification of suffering in academia [25:30]
• Racism and patriarchal systems in academia [28:30]
• Creating the career you want from the very beginning [33:30]
• The impacts of isolation and the benefits of community [41:00]
• Kemi’s programs for women of color in academic medicine [44:00]

Key Quotes:

“It was hard the whole time.” -Kemi Doll

“I’m going to go for this anyway.” -Kemi Doll

“I want to do research as a big component of my life.” -Kemi Doll

“I’m not being pulled in either direction…everything is weaving together into the bigger picture.” -Kemi Doll

“So what doesn’t fit here?” -Kemi Doll

“I was always that person that people came to when they were like ‘I’m trying to make a decision, I can’t figure out what to do.’” -Kemi Doll

“Academia is: conform, and coaching is: no.” -Kemi Doll

“You don’t see the behind the scenes.” -Cathy Mazak

“You’re basically an independent entity, creating something new.” -Kemi Doll

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Connect with Cathy:

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