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Dr. Sophia N. Johnson is a political economist and the Assistant Director of the Program for Economic Research at Columbia University. She is also the host of The Feminist Perspective, a NY-based public affairs television series featuring wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with cultural influencers, and offering interdisciplinary perspectives from which to understand the diversity of human experiences, from class, race, ethnicity, nationality and transnational movements. After finishing graduate school, Sophia felt lost. She had no clue what direction she wanted to take her professional life. In this episode, we discuss how career coaching and self-exploration helped her to recognize her successes and believe in what she had accomplished. Sophia shares how she started to understand the patterns in her life, and how she came to utilize the seeds she had planted in grad school to view herself as independent of her degree. Sophia is an advocate of saying yes to different types of experiences instead of sitting on the sideline waiting for the perfect professional opportunity. This mindset helped her find work that felt like an extension of the many facets of herself. Keep Up with Sophia: The Feminist Perspective airs Wednesdays at 9pm pm LMCTV (Channel 75 Optimum / 36 Verizon)