Career Transitions with Assistant Professor and Sport Scientist Catherine Saenz

Madam Athlete

On today’s episode, I’m talking to Assistant Professor and Sport Scientist Catherine Saenz about career transitions.
Catherine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on how exercise and nutrition impact energy metabolism at the molecular level and translating this into personalized performance prescriptions. With one year to go in her PhD program she followed her advisor from UConn to Ohio State which meant she had to retake classes and extend her training. And then again in her first job out, she was one year away from going up for tenure when an opportunity to go back to Ohio State came up and she again took the risk and made the transition. Before pursuing an academic career, Catherine thought she would do clinical work and completed an internship in Dietetics at Iowa State University and a postdoctoral fellowship with the Cleveland Guardians.
We talk about:

• How to navigate career transitions
• The trap of excusing not getting started by over-preparing and being stuck in a learning mode or student-mentality
• Building your confidence and your voice to share the work that you love

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