In episode 4 of Corporate Women Speak, I sit with Dr. Tamika Lott. Dr. Tamika was born and raised in Waterbury, CT. She completed her undergraduate studies in biology at Bryn Mawr College in PA. After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Dr. Lott completed a year of post-graduate studies at Boston University. She is a board-certified Family Physician and received her medical degree from Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in NJ in 2002. Medicine is not just Dr. Lott's profession; it is her ministry, inspired by tremendous life challenges. By Dr. Lott's first year of college, she lost her father to congestive heart failure, her grandmother to complications of diabetes, one brother to AIDS, and another brother to a drug overdose. By her senior year of college, she would lose two more siblings to AIDS and the heroin and crack epidemic that plagued black communities in the 1980s. These experiences helped mold Dr. Lott into a humble, caring, compassionate physician and healer.
We discuss choices and options, prioritizing yourself and not becoming the job. In addition, Dr. Tamika touches on what one's needs to consider to be successful, including advocating for oneself and boundaries. We also discuss the stigma associated with mental in black and brown communities, asking for help, and moving past generational trauma such as substance and alcohol addiction.
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