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Welcome back to the podcast!In this season, we're digging into exploring how to figure out what we really want, which can be a challenge for so many of us. Today, I'm sharing my perspective on why what we want matters as well as my recent exper
Welcome back to the podcast for the start of Season Two!I’m excited to be back with you! Today, I’m returning to orient around the question we often have for ourselves of “What do I really want?”. You would think that this question of would be
Welcome back to the podcast!Today, I'm talking about how the question of "what can I take out of my life?" can help us focus on living our values, as well as how this relates to my personal approach to the summer. I also talk about my plans for
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I talk about my perspective on how overwhelm from the numerous components that require our attention when making big changes in our careers can contribute to that scary feeling that happens when we a
Welcome back to the podcast!In this slightly nostalgic episode, I look back on my favorite role in bench science at a start-up pharmaceutical company! (And some slightly comical and absurd moments in the role I held prior to the start-up compan
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I'm delighted to chat with Dr. Kristine Averill, who shares her inspiring story of transitioning from a successful 15-year academic career in Plant and Crop Sciences to become a passionate Somatic Mi
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, we talk about REST. Giving ourselves permission to rest (which can be a challenge due to our conditioning, particularly coming from academia), dissociating rest from an expectation for it to feel goo
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I enjoyed chatting with Dr. Sierra Simpson, a PhD scientist with a background in investigating the connections between the microbiome and addiction. Sierra shares her story of how she moved away from
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I explore how thinking about the impact of our work can help guide our decision-making as well as hold us back when we're feeling nudged towards making changes. We talk about possible ways to conside
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, we explore the relationship between allowing ourselves to dream (i.e., imagining our wild and outrageous ideal) and becoming even more of ourselves. We go through a few factors relevant to scientists
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I share a previously recorded episode that I almost deleted because I felt it wasn't perfect, until I remembered that sharing even the incomplete, imperfect ideas is part of how we co-create, relate,
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I talk about some thoughts-in-progress that have been on my mind recently around the connection between moving out of our comfort zones and the question of "how do I want this to feel" while moving t
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I'm delighted to chat with Dr. Emily Dangremond, a PhD ecologist with an interest in plants, climate change, and conservation. After earning her PhD from UC Berkeley, doing a postdoc at the Smithsoni
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, I share a new project that I've been working on and what has been holding me back from letting people know about it. We talk about how this situation relates to testing the hypothesis that we can ach
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, we talk about what it means to get quiet and how giving ourselves permission to expect nothing of ourselves frees up the space to allow insight and new ideas in. I share my mini-story of how I approa
Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode, we talk about: Why it can feel like failure when the original goal (or the path to achieving our goals) no longer feels right. How any goal actually has an infinite number of successful outcomes.
Welcome to the first guest episode of the Sequel to a PhD Podcast! Dr. Bryan Quoc Le is a food scientist, food industry consultant, and author of the book, 150 Food Science Questions Answered. He earned his PhD in Food Science from the Univers
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, we talk about: My personal story from the past two years of shifting my approach to work and what I want to do.How a recent moment of stress flipped around and became a symbol of living out my values
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, we talk about: Why looking at job postings is not the right place to start when thinking about career change choicesA three-part framework for exploring what's next based on who you are nowApproachin
Welcome back to the podcast!In this bonus episode, we talk about: Reframing what's actually happening when you show up with less than 100% effort, and why these phases are critical to get to where you're headingThank you for listening! Want to
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, we talk about: A super simple technique for making progress on that big, overwhelming, or intimidating thing you really want to doReal-life examples of how I use this tool in my own life on a daily b
Welcome back to the podcast!In this episode, we talk about: Why uncertainty can keep us stuck and stop us from moving forward, even towards something we really wantHow to shift that "stuck-ness" by changing our lens on what uncertainty represen
Welcome to the podcast! In this first episode, we talk about: This podcast as an experiment in allowing imperfection and expressionExperiences and conditioning that can make it hard for us, as scientists or academics, to remember that it's okay
Coming soon: The Sequel to a PhD Podcast! Equipping PhDs to make inspired career and life movesAs PhDs, we often define our career, identity, ambitions based on the story we wrote for ourselves before starting our PhD. But what happens when we
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