Dec. 19, 2023

Finding the right leader for your career

Finding the right leader for your career
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Finding the right mentor to lead your career is critical. But who is qualified to take on the leadership you need? This episode explores the complexities of mentorship and the need to step up to be the leader that you need to lead your career,

Key Points Discussed:

  • Authentic Care: Importance of a career leaders who is genuinely invested in your success.
  • Unveiling Unseen Potential: Necessity for your career leader to recognize your potential where you might not see it yourself.
  • Navigating Ups and Downs: Significance of leaders supporting you through both your triumphs and challenges.
  • Facing the Leadership Reality: Acknowledgment of the rarity of finding an all-encompassing ideal mentor, prompting self-leadership in career development.

Call to Action:

Reflect on nurturing your own leadership qualities so that you can step up to take ownership of your own career advancement.

Sponsor/Advertising/Monetization Information:

This episode is sponsored by Coag Coach LLC, a leading provider of coaching resources for clinicians transitioning to become research leaders. Coag Coach LLC is committed to supporting clinicians in their academic and research endeavors.

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,860Welcome to the Clinician Researcher podcast, where academic clinicians learn the skills200:00:05,860 --> 00:00:11,260to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor.300:00:11,260 --> 00:00:17,340As clinicians, we spend a decade or more as trainees learning to take care of patients.400:00:17,340 --> 00:00:22,380When we finally start our careers, we want to build research programs, but then we find500:00:22,380 --> 00:00:27,780that our years of clinical training did not adequately prepare us to lead our research600:00:27,780 --> 00:00:29,200program.700:00:29,200 --> 00:00:35,480Through no fault of our own, we struggle to find mentors, and when we can't, we quit.800:00:35,480 --> 00:00:40,580However, clinicians hold the keys to the greatest research breakthroughs.900:00:40,580 --> 00:00:46,200For this reason, the Clinician Researcher podcast exists to give academic clinicians1000:00:46,200 --> 00:00:51,800the tools to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor.1100:00:51,800 --> 00:01:01,160Now introducing your host, Toyosi Onwuemene.1200:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,080Welcome to the Clinician Researcher podcast.1300:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,480I'm your host, Toyosi Onwuemene, and it is a pleasure to be talking with you today.1400:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,480Thank you so much for tuning in.1500:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,280Today I'm talking about how to find the right leader for your career.1600:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,280And I have a feeling that this one's going to be short.1700:01:17,280 --> 00:01:22,960Yes, the moment you say it's going to be short, then it's awfully long, but I do have seven1800:01:22,960 --> 00:01:25,120things, but I think it'll be really short.1900:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,040So how do you find the right leader for your career, and why does it even really matter?2000:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,960And I think back to earlier on in my career where I had no clue what I was supposed to2100:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,640do as an academic faculty, and you could say, well, that's on you.2200:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,120You should have gone to figure it out.2300:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,760I guess I was figuring it out.2400:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,440And in the meantime, I thought my mentors were going to tell me they were going to be2500:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,440the ones to help me.2600:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,960And I really counted on them for so much.2700:01:51,960 --> 00:01:52,960And I was disappointed.2800:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,560And I think I was disappointed because I just put so much on people.2900:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,160And at the end of the day, nobody cares about your career like you do.3000:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,800Nobody's thinking about your life like you are thinking about your life.3100:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,280And so there I was thinking, oh, I'm not getting the mentoring I need.3200:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,240Oh, people are not really caring about me.3300:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,560Oh, my goodness, they're not helping me move forward.3400:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,120And I think what I didn't recognize is that any gift you get from anybody is a gift, and3500:02:17,120 --> 00:02:18,880you just take it as that.3600:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,160And people are just people.3700:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,460And there are some people that they connect with more.3800:02:22,460 --> 00:02:25,680Some people they feel like they can see themselves in more than others.3900:02:25,680 --> 00:02:31,520You know, your mentor looks at you and they think, wow, that's exactly how I was 10 years4000:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,520ago.4100:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,480Or they look at you and they're like, I can't even imagine what you were like 10 years ago.4200:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,480Right.4300:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,760And so it's just a different experience for different mentors.4400:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,200And mentors are not superhuman.4500:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,520They're only human.4600:02:43,520 --> 00:02:48,840And if we have challenges in general, right, as far as like how people move forward in4700:02:48,840 --> 00:02:55,140their careers, you know, it just it just also applies to our academic institutions as well.4800:02:55,140 --> 00:03:02,640So anyway, just saying that mentoring doesn't always get you where you think it should take4900:03:02,640 --> 00:03:08,200you because you have expectations that sometimes don't match what is reality for you as far5000:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,600as the mentors you have available to you.5100:03:10,600 --> 00:03:15,440So anyway, so I wanted to share with you a couple of things as to how to find the right5200:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,520leader for your career.5300:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,160And the first thing I want to say is that this leader that you find for your career5400:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,480has to really care about you.5500:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,040Like they've got to care.5600:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,480They've got to say, wow, you know, they're going to be thinking about you.5700:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,320They've got to be wondering, OK, how do I make things better for this person?5800:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,400They've got to really, really care about you.5900:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,720And why is that relevant?6000:03:36,720 --> 00:03:41,600Because, you know, mentoring or leading someone's career is a big deal, right?6100:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,760You're considering what are the challenges that they are running into?6200:03:44,760 --> 00:03:46,760What are the things that they really need?6300:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,920You know, you're thinking about them to some extent.6400:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,600It kind of is like having a child.6500:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,200I guess we could call it you're a scientific parent as a leader, as a mentor, helping someone6600:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,280navigate their own career.6700:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,880And it works best when you actually care about the person whose career you're helping to6800:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,000navigate.6900:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,040And so as you're thinking about who's the right leader for my career, you've got to7000:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,880recognize that it's going to be someone who actually cares about you.7100:04:08,880 --> 00:04:14,040And I think that there are many people in academia who, you know, they're neutral about7200:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,040you.7300:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,360I mean, you're someone who needs help and they're available to help.7400:04:18,360 --> 00:04:19,360They're happy to help.7500:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,400But it doesn't mean like they're invested in you or that they really, really are like,7600:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,440I want you to succeed by all means.7700:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,840There are not too many people in life who actually I mean, not that they don't want7800:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,120that for you, but they're not too many people who care that much.7900:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,320You know, it's like, hey, I've got a lot to think about.8000:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,600I've got a lot on my plate.8100:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,560And I'm not really thinking about you beyond just our interaction here.8200:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,800And so you just got to recognize that not everybody deeply cares about you like that.8300:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,280And but but if you're really going to have someone help you lead your career, you do8400:04:51,280 --> 00:04:54,320need to find people who actually do care about you.8500:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,000And so you may have mentors or you may have people who help you lead your career who don't8600:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000care about you like that.8700:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,360You know, there are different things that you're getting from them and that's OK.8800:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,640But when you're looking for the one person that you're really going to put your career,8900:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,680you know, you're going to put your career in their hands, you want to make sure that9000:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,880they actually really care about you.9100:05:12,880 --> 00:05:13,880OK.9200:05:13,880 --> 00:05:19,720The next thing is that this leader actually needs to see your potential where you can't9300:05:19,720 --> 00:05:20,720see it.9400:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,000And so the challenge is that we have so many blind spots.9500:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,640When we start out in our academic careers, we don't even know what we what we can and9600:05:27,640 --> 00:05:28,640cannot do.9700:05:28,640 --> 00:05:29,640Right.9800:05:29,640 --> 00:05:30,640We don't know our potential.9900:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,280We don't really recognize how powerful we are.10000:05:33,280 --> 00:05:35,720We have no idea who we are.10100:05:35,720 --> 00:05:41,960It's like, you know, Superman, who is like, yeah, I'm like, I have all these powers and10200:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,880it's kind of weird, but I just don't think much of myself.10300:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,440I think I'm just ordinary like everybody else or maybe better still.10400:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,880It's like the chicken or the eagle that grows up among chickens.10500:05:51,880 --> 00:05:57,080I've heard that story before where you don't even know how far how much you can fly or10600:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,440soar because you've been surrounded by chickens who don't fly, who don't soar.10700:06:02,440 --> 00:06:08,120And so it takes another person who's like thinking about you and thinking, wow, you10800:06:08,120 --> 00:06:09,360have potential.10900:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,700You're an eagle.11000:06:10,700 --> 00:06:11,700You can do this.11100:06:11,700 --> 00:06:12,700Right.11200:06:12,700 --> 00:06:14,920And they've got to see potential where you can't see it.11300:06:14,920 --> 00:06:15,920OK.11400:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,400The next thing is that this leader actually needs to have a bird's eye view of your entire11500:06:20,400 --> 00:06:21,400career.11600:06:21,400 --> 00:06:27,120Now, I'm not just talking about your career as in, you know, your your academic advancement11700:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,440or your patient care.11800:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,680They really got to just look at your whole life.11900:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,200Like, where are you in life?12000:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,520Are you in a place where you have small children at home and you're not really able to make12100:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,560the kinds of investments that people who don't are?12200:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,680Or are you in your career and a place in your career where maybe you have parents who are12300:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,120aging and really need your support at this time?12400:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,400Do you are you in a place in your career where you have someone who's a loved one that you're12500:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,840primarily responsible for who's going through a major illness?12600:06:54,840 --> 00:06:55,840Right.12700:06:55,840 --> 00:07:01,320So this person has really got to be able to take into consideration your stage in life,12800:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,360everything that you're going through.12900:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,920And they've got to really be able to support you through that.13000:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,280Again, you know, it's like what this is so idealistic.13100:07:10,280 --> 00:07:16,280But this is important because I think in academia, so many times we're so focused on the products13200:07:16,280 --> 00:07:24,440of the academy, on papers, on manuscripts, on publications, on grants and presentations13300:07:24,440 --> 00:07:29,360and showing up internationally or nationally, you know, all the stuff that helps us move13400:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,480forward and those things are good.13500:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,000It's good that we're focused on them.13600:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,360Where else would we be focused on them?13700:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,720But they've also got to take into account your big life, your big picture.13800:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,680And so if we are focused on these things to the exclusion of the big picture of your life13900:07:45,680 --> 00:07:51,140and the challenges that are going on in your life, it puts stress on you because even while14000:07:51,140 --> 00:07:56,500nobody else is acknowledging what's going on with you, you know, you're acutely aware14100:07:56,500 --> 00:07:58,480you're having to manage it.14200:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,680And so this leader has really got to have a bird's eye view, not just of your academic14300:08:02,680 --> 00:08:08,200career, but just who you are and where you are in life and what you need at this particular14400:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,800time of your experience.14500:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,400Okay.14600:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,840This leader needs to ride with you through the highs and the lows.14700:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,320So I'd love to say, and you know, that we are not always high, right?14800:08:20,320 --> 00:08:25,080You love to say that, oh, my goodness, everything is always so awesome and life is always so14900:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,080good.15000:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,400But there are times when that's not true and things are challenging.15100:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,680You know, there's the unexpected funeral that, you know, you have to deal with.15200:08:34,680 --> 00:08:37,920There's an unexpected illness that you weren't preparing for.15300:08:37,920 --> 00:08:44,320There's an unexpected accident where now you need to fix your car or there's an unexpected15400:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,760pull out of an au pair and now you're kind of left looking for support for your children.15500:08:48,760 --> 00:08:55,720And this person has got to be able to go with you through those highs and those lows.15600:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,280Number five is that this leader needs to support you even when doing so is a sacrifice to their15700:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,400own personal lives.15800:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,520So it's like, okay, you need support right now.15900:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,920I'm going to do it even though it costs me.16000:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,320And that's a big deal.16100:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,800It's a big deal to ask people to do things that could potentially cost them.16200:09:13,800 --> 00:09:19,640Maybe promoting you may mean that they have to forego like their leadership position.16300:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,060They're like, you know what?16400:09:21,060 --> 00:09:23,960I think you should go, you should move into this leadership position.16500:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,440I'm stepping back so that you can step forward.16600:09:26,440 --> 00:09:27,680That's a big deal, right?16700:09:27,680 --> 00:09:29,360That's a huge deal.16800:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,400But really, it's someone putting you forward.16900:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,200It's someone giving you a platform.17000:09:34,200 --> 00:09:41,040And for you to really have someone who's the right leader for your career, they've got17100:09:41,040 --> 00:09:46,360to really support you even when it's at a personal cost to them.17200:09:46,360 --> 00:09:47,860Okay.17300:09:47,860 --> 00:09:52,480So I say all of those so I can let you know that I really have just created the picture17400:09:52,480 --> 00:09:57,400of an idealistic leader who does not exist in human form.17500:09:57,400 --> 00:10:02,480And so you may have a little bit of this in so many different people, but it's a little17600:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,800bit of each thing in so many different people.17700:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,000But what you probably don't have is all of it in one person.17800:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,840So if you think about the person who really cares about you, maybe it's really a parent.17900:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,260And they certainly are not in your academic environment.18000:10:17,260 --> 00:10:21,160Maybe you work with a family member or maybe your parents are in academia.18100:10:21,160 --> 00:10:22,160Good for you.18200:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,480But most of the time, it's not the way it is.18300:10:24,480 --> 00:10:30,720And so yes, you have different people who embody these different things, but you don't18400:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,720necessarily have one person who embodies all of it.18500:10:34,720 --> 00:10:40,880And so if you are not going to be able to find one person who embodies all of this,18600:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,720then you do have to go to the next best thing.18700:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,480You have to go to option number two.18800:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,640So there's no ideal person.18900:10:49,640 --> 00:10:54,360And there might be some people are able to find mentors who they gel with, they connect19000:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,320with, and the mentor is like, I'm like a parent to you.19100:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,400I'm going to do everything to promote you.19200:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,800Some people do find that.19300:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,560But I want you to know it's very few.19400:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,980It's less than 20% of people.19500:11:06,980 --> 00:11:12,440And so for the rest of us, the next best thing, which is number seven, is to recognize that19600:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,400the next best leader is you.19700:11:15,400 --> 00:11:20,760And as I say that, I see people saying, oh, wait a minute, me, haha, don't even really19800:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,480care about myself like that.19900:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,560I totally see no potential in my life.20000:11:25,560 --> 00:11:30,600I have a struggle with birds eye view of my entire career because I have no idea where20100:11:30,600 --> 00:11:31,920I am right now.20200:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,840And I can't even ride with myself through the highs, much less the lows, right?20300:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,080You look at yourself and you're like, me, definitely not.20400:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,320Can we find someone else who will lead my career?20500:11:42,320 --> 00:11:48,600And I am sorry to have to break it to you, but it's you.20600:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,760You cannot find the ideal leader who's going to be all things to you.20700:11:53,760 --> 00:11:58,460And so the next best thing is that you step up and you take ownership.20800:11:58,460 --> 00:12:01,040You take ownership for your experience.20900:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,800You take ownership of your, you take leadership.21000:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,440You take up the leadership mantle for your own career.21100:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,480But what does that mean, though?21200:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,320It means you've got to do things a little bit differently.21300:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,080It means you first of all, got to actually start to really care about yourself.21400:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,800So the whole thing, maybe this is not you, but for somebody hypothetically who doesn't21500:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,720care enough about themselves, right?21600:12:24,720 --> 00:12:31,400Who is not sleeping enough, not eating right, not exercising, right?21700:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,800Not really caring for themselves as they should.21800:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,560Then what do they do?21900:12:36,560 --> 00:12:38,640Well, you got to get there.22000:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,520You've got to do the work to be able to really see yourself as someone you really need to22100:12:43,520 --> 00:12:44,520care for.22200:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,360And sometimes it's hard because I think in medicine, our training leads us to kind of22300:12:48,360 --> 00:12:55,600put ourselves last and to some extent sacrifice our personal experience on the altar of other22400:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,760people's moving forward, especially patient care.22500:12:58,760 --> 00:13:03,080And so sometimes it's hard for us to actually really care for ourselves.22600:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,960And it takes time.22700:13:04,960 --> 00:13:06,080And it takes work.22800:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,880And for some of us, it takes going to therapy and so that we can do that work and do that22900:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,500work in therapy.23000:13:12,500 --> 00:13:18,080Or for some of us, then that's work that we have to do in coaching.23100:13:18,080 --> 00:13:24,120And whatever the venue where you do the work, where you learn to care for yourself and take23200:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,240care first of your own oxygen, right?23300:13:26,240 --> 00:13:31,480You take care of putting on your mask first before you go on to try to save the universe,23400:13:31,480 --> 00:13:32,480right?23500:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,520You really got to do that work so that you can do that well.23600:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,160And the other thing you need to do as you want to become this best leader for yourself23700:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,060is you got to just go get the training needed, right?23800:13:46,060 --> 00:13:49,760You want to read books, you want to attend professional development, you want to attend23900:13:49,760 --> 00:13:50,760career development events.24000:13:50,760 --> 00:13:56,080You want to do things that help you grow as a person because when you grow as a person,24100:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,560then you're really able to lead your career as you're supposed to.24200:14:00,560 --> 00:14:05,940And so you really, really, really have an opportunity where there's a gap.24300:14:05,940 --> 00:14:07,680There's no one to lead.24400:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,640You may have a great mentor, but most people do not.24500:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,460There's an opportunity to lead.24600:14:12,460 --> 00:14:17,720There's an opportunity to really lead the people who are helping you lead your experience,24700:14:17,720 --> 00:14:18,720right?24800:14:18,720 --> 00:14:19,720So you do have mentors.24900:14:19,720 --> 00:14:24,000Okay, maybe there's not one of them that's like a superstar mentor leader, as I've just25000:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,840described, but you do have those who are around you and are there to help you.25100:14:28,840 --> 00:14:34,320And so you get the training you need so that you can help them give you the kind of advice25200:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,640that helps you get where you're going, right?25300:14:36,640 --> 00:14:42,820It means disclosing things as needed to say, hey, I know that this next two weeks is crunch25400:14:42,820 --> 00:14:47,880time for this abstract, but I'm going to sit this abstract submission out because x, y,25500:14:47,880 --> 00:14:48,880z, right?25600:14:48,880 --> 00:14:55,980It's you being able to be bold and confident to say, I'm going to take the leadership mantle25700:14:55,980 --> 00:15:00,440for my own career because I actually really understand what I'm going through and what25800:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,000needs to be done.25900:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,480But it will take time for you to get the training that's needed to become the leader that you26000:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,640need to be to lead your own career.26100:15:08,640 --> 00:15:13,440So the question I want to ask you to consider as you go on to this week is what do you need26200:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,960to do to develop the leader within you?26300:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,480How do you move this leader forward?26400:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,380How do you help this leader succeed?26500:15:19,380 --> 00:15:24,800How do you help yourself succeed so that you can lead yourself in the way you want to?26600:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,920And it's important because as you learn to lead yourself, then you're really open to26700:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,280leading a lot more other people.26800:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,360And to be honest, we need leaders like you.26900:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,640We need leaders who care for themselves well enough where we know that, well, if you treat27000:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,440yourself well, it's a sign that you're going to treat other people well.27100:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,240But if you treat yourself poorly, then we're suspicious that you're going to treat other27200:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,720people under your leadership poorly too.27300:15:47,720 --> 00:15:52,120And so what do you need to do to begin to develop a leader within you so that you can27400:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,840really lead yourself in your experience and then turn around and lead others as well?27500:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,640OK, so just to summarize, this leader's got to really care about you.27600:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,840They've got to see potential where you can't see it.27700:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,480They need to have a bird's eye view of your entire career.27800:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,120They need to ride with you through the highs and the lows.27900:16:08,120 --> 00:16:13,480They need to support you even when doing so would be a sacrifice to themselves personally.28000:16:13,480 --> 00:16:18,100And I list all these things and let you know that this leader probably doesn't exist in28100:16:18,100 --> 00:16:19,100human form.28200:16:19,100 --> 00:16:23,680And so the next best thing is you is to develop yourself to be the leader that you need to28300:16:23,680 --> 00:16:24,680be.28400:16:24,680 --> 00:16:25,680All right.28500:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,120I think that is short.28600:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,320I am coming to the end of it.28700:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,280And I just want to thank you for taking the time to listen to today's episode.28800:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,840And I look forward to talking with you again the next time.28900:16:36,840 --> 00:16:37,840Have a great day.29000:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,880And please share this podcast episode with someone.29100:16:41,880 --> 00:16:42,880All right.29200:16:42,880 --> 00:16:50,640Bye.29300:16:50,640 --> 00:16:56,000Thanks for listening to this episode of the Clinician Researcher Podcast, where academic29400:16:56,000 --> 00:17:01,400clinicians learn the skills to build their own research program, whether or not they29500:17:01,400 --> 00:17:02,800have a mentor.29600:17:02,800 --> 00:17:08,920If you found the information in this episode to be helpful, don't keep it all to yourself.29700:17:08,920 --> 00:17:10,640Someone else needs to hear it.29800:17:10,640 --> 00:17:14,680So take a minute right now and share it.29900:17:14,680 --> 00:17:20,160As you share this episode, you become part of our mission to help launch a new generation30000:17:20,160 --> 00:17:25,920of clinician researchers who make transformative discoveries that change the way we do health30100:17:25,920 --> 00:17:26,920care.30200:17:26,920 --> 00:17:41,480Right now, suit yourself.30300:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,580There.