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Find Your People: A Conversation About Meaningful Connections

Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear:

How part of the hidden curriculum is the support networks you need to create for yourself;

How you create that by “finding your people” and what qualities to look for in those people;

Determining whether they belong in an advisor, mentor, thought partner, or academic friend role, and ways those relationships may transcend time and institutions;

Barriers to making connections and to being authentic;

And the importance of asking, “does this have my best interest at heart?”

Dana’s personal examples of why we need to be intentional in…

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