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Podcast: Significant Impact: from K Award to Your First Big R01
Episode: When Every Funding Opportunity Feels Urgent (And How to Know Which Ones Actually Are)
Description: If you're a K award recipient right now, your inbox probably feels like a minefield of "opportunities" — RFAs, collaboration requests, suggestions from mentors — and every single one feels urgent. Meanwhile, you're toggling between two competing feelings: a defeated, what's-the-point nihilism and a panicky, I'm-running-out-of-time anxiety. In this episode, I talk about why those feelings are coexisting right now, what it costs you when you let panic drive your grant decisions, and how to tell the difference between an opportunity that genuinely deserves your attention and one that just looks fundable on paper. I share four questions to ask yourself befo...