Women in STEM Career & Confidence

Dr Hannah Roberts

Women in STEM Career & Confidence is the podcast for scientific and professional women who want to restore confidence, make meaningful impact and balance the things and people that mean most to them. Dr Hannah Roberts will be sharing with you insights and inspiration into the mindset and skillset to help you navigate your career and lead powerfully. read less
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Inspiring Stories 039 - Becky Adlington OBE
Dec 27 2023
Inspiring Stories 039 - Becky Adlington OBE
Inspiring Stories 039 - Becky Adlington OBE Becky really does not need an introduction because her amazing track record precedes itself. I had a bit of a fan girl moment interviewing her because she is an English former competitive swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the 400 and 800m freestyle. She was Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908. 4 years later she won bronze medals in both events in the London 2012 Olympics. In this episode we talk about: How despite being a two-time Olympic champion, she viewed swimming as selfish.The mental shift when she retired from swimming and went into business boardrooms, and just how amazing swimming is for transferrable leadership skills.Her mission to enable every child to gain the lifesaving skill of being able to swim and how she is going about making that difference in the world. Connect with Becky Insta: https://www.instagram.com/beckadlington/ Twitter: @BeckAdlington LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-adlington-544bb11a1/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beckyadlingtonsswimstars Find out more https://www.beckyadlingtonsswimstars.com/ Kickstart your Intentional Careers Journey Take the Career Accelerator Scorecard Register for a free Intentional Careers workshop Read The Book 'Intentional Careers for STEM Women' Connect with Hannah https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts X (Twitter) @HannahNikeR Instagram @drhannahroberts
Inspiring Stories 038 - Dan Fenwick
Nov 17 2023
Inspiring Stories 038 - Dan Fenwick
Inspiring Stories 038 - Dan Fenwick Dan is on a mission to standardise 'a life-enhancing recruitment experience'. His experiences as a child and transformation becoming a parent himself have led to the emergence of a man committed to finding purpose, in passionately and joyfully pursuing his potential – and carving a path for others to do the same. Growing up in the UK seaside town of Morecambe required Dan to hustle his way through school and this entrepreneurialism has seen him climb sales leader boards, set up businesses and grow companies – namely in automotive, marketing services and management consulting. Previously as MD of a leading management consultancy, CMO of a Berlin-based Leadership Development company, Founder of a community-driven physical and mental health and wellness CIC (Community Interest Company) and now Co-Founder at Venture 10 – Talent Matchmaking Specialists, Dan spends his time developing winning strategies, building all things Sales and Marketing – from systems, to teams, to brands – and coaching leaders to think bigger, be better and go bolder. You can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him directly. In this episode we talk about: How recruiters can help you in your career strategy and what information you should take to a potential recruiter.Why large organisations, not just small ones, outsource recruitment.What to look out for when aligning to a recruitment agency. Find out more: Scorecard - https://venture10salesrecruitment.scoreapp.com/ Website: https://www.venture10group.co.uk/ Connect with Dan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfenwickuk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanFenwick_ Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Find out more:  Visit my website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Career Accelerator Scorecard: https://scorecard.intentional-careers.com/strategy Free strategy session: https://intentional-careers.com/workshop/ Read the book 'Intentional Careers for STEM Women' here    Connect with Hannah LinkedIn  Facebook Twitter Instagram
Inspiring Stories 036 - Nir Eyal
Sep 13 2023
Inspiring Stories 036 - Nir Eyal
Inspiring Stories 036 - Nir Eyal Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.   Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Bloomberg Businessweek wrote, “Nir Eyal is the habits guy. Want to understand how to get app users to come back again and again? Then Eyal is your man.”   He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.   Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, “the best business book of 2019.”   In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.   Nir invests in habit-forming products that improve users’ lives. Some of his past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Kahoot! (KAHOOT-ME.OL), Canva, Homelight, Product Hunt, Marco Polo, Byte Foods, FocusMate, Dynamicare, Wise App, and Sunnyside.   Nir attended The Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University. In this episode we talk about: How being distracted is a decision point and how to make time for traction instead based on your value system.Nir gives a much-needed formula for releasing the guilt of taking time to yourself.He gives an outstanding response to my final question on advice, alongside a very valuable answer to one of my community members on how to avoid doom scrolling when your place of work requires you to use two-factor authentication using your mobile. Find out more about Nir’s work: Indistractible – the book: http://geni.us/indistractable Indistractable bonus content is here: http://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/ Top articles: https://www.nirandfar.com/best-articles/ Connect with Nir: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nireyal/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/nirandfar Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 035 - Professor Alexandra Knight
Aug 30 2023
Inspiring Stories 035 - Professor Alexandra Knight
Inspiring Stories 035 - Professor Alexandra Knight I’m thrilled to introduce my next inspiring stories guest, Professor Alexandra Knight. Alex is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society. After a career of over 15 years in Industry working in engineering consultancy and innovation, she founded STEMAZING – a social enterprise dedicated to inspiration and inclusion in STEM. Through the organisation’s two key themes - STEMAZINGWomen and STEMAZINGKids, Alex leads several not-for-profit initiatives to empower women in STEM and link this to inspiring our future generations of innovators and problem-solvers. To date STEMAZING has supported hundreds of women in STEM globally to level-up as visible role models and run over 80,000 STEMAZINGKids experiments for 7 – 9 year olds. Alex is also a Visiting Professor with the Royal Academy of Engineering at Brunel University London, regular keynote speaker at events and schools, and has featured on TV shows on Channel 5, Prime and CuriosityStream. In 2023 so far Alex has been included in the Top 30 Inspirational Business Women in STEM at the House of Lords and shortlisted for the Agent of Change award at the Northern Power Women Awards. In this episode we talk about: The barriers Alex faced as a woman in engineering and leadership which made her acutely aware of the need for role models.How she activated her vision for STEMAZING.Alex’s rallying call for STEM Women to join the mission. Connect with Alex: LinkedIn: Alex and STEMAZING Facebook: www.facebook.com/STEMAZINGltd Instagram: www.instagram.com/stemazingltd Website: www.stemazingltd.com Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 032 - Dr Lucy Woods - Client Story
Jul 7 2023
Inspiring Stories 032 - Dr Lucy Woods - Client Story
Inspiring Stories 032 - Dr Lucy Woods - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Today on the Women in STEM Career & Confidence podcast, I interview one of my clients, Dr Lucy Woods. She joins us from Singapore where she recently started a new role at Bruker as the Commercial Director of APAC. Lucy has always been very intentional in her career design. Even at A-Levels she had the forethought to pick complimentary subjects to science, rather than a full grouping of the sciences (like me).  Completing her PhD was a strategic decision to progress her industrial, rather than academic career. However, being intentional in our careers, doesn’t always mean that everything works out smoothly. During this episode Lucy talks about: The importance of learning self-awareness as a way to restore confidence, after being unsuccessful in an internal promotion. Using your career values to actively make choices in your career. In Lucy’s case some interesting decisions about following her value for adventure. She also highlights, how understanding her natural talents aided her to build a complimentary team. And that we are not alone in our careers. We benefit from a wide range of support including coaches, managers, colleagues, friends and family. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 031 - Dr Alice Holly - Client Story
Jun 9 2023
Inspiring Stories 031 - Dr Alice Holly - Client Story
Inspiring Stories 031 - Dr Alice Holly - Client Story Today I am joined by Dr Alice Holly, Technical Sales Manager at Cambridge Bioscience. In today’s episode we talk about: - How Alice went about asking work to pay for her coaching, and to her surprise, just how delighted they were to support her. - The result of reordering her life values, so that vitality is now in top spot, instead of career. You might assume it would mean a decrease in focus and productivity at work, but actually, the opposite is true. - Being able to speak up in the boardroom and get ideas across in a way that is really listened to. - Using bridging rituals to help form strong boundaries between home and work, to be fully present in the evening, for the people and things that mean most to her. Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 030 - Dr Kasia Zmarzly - CLIENT STORY
Jun 2 2023
Inspiring Stories 030 - Dr Kasia Zmarzly - CLIENT STORY
Inspiring Stories 030 - Dr Kasia Zmarzly - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Today on Women in STEM Career & Confidence I’m joined by Dr Kasia Zmarzly, Programme Manager at LGC supporting management of NIHR and NHS England funding calls. During this episode Kasia talks about her coaching journey: And how she learnt that leadership starts with self-leadership. Putting yourself first is not selfish, it’s essential for your success. How Kasia felt capable but it wasn’t translating to confidence, until we stopped the old patterns of behaviours from repeating, using trigger tracking and by unpicking bonding patterns (our default position in relationships). How Kasia has had a big shift in her approach to work, becoming an advocate for work-life balance and that means being able to speak up and say the uncomfortable things. You are going to love Kasia, so let’s dig in. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 029 - Dr Mihaela Taranu - CLIENT STORY
May 19 2023
Inspiring Stories 029 - Dr Mihaela Taranu - CLIENT STORY
Inspiring Stories 029 - Dr Mihaela Taranu - Client Story Today I am joined by one of my clients, Dr Mihaela Taranu, a psychologist specialising in metacognitive therapy and a postdoc at Aarhus University Denmark. We talk about how making a shift in your career also changes your identity. The more we cling to our old identity, the more we will ignore evidence it is not a match for us. This is why taking the next step in your career is an emotional journey as much as a practical one. Mihaela talks about her favourite part of the Career Design Mastermind programme. Aligning your purpose-mission-vision to understand your next career pivot. We also bring distinction to the Inner Critic and how to have a more supportive internal narrative. Connect with Dr Mihaela Taranu: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihaelataranu/ Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 028 - Dr Erika Parkinson - CLIENT STORY
May 12 2023
Inspiring Stories 028 - Dr Erika Parkinson - CLIENT STORY
Inspiring Stories 028 - Dr Erika Parkinson - Client Story Understanding our natural talents is crucial in career design and fulfilment. Often, we make ourselves bad and wrong for not being talented at a particular skill. For example, not being a big picture thinker, or not being great at networking. As a result, we end up not being able to appreciate when we are adding great value, because those things feel too easy. When I first started working with Dr Erika Parkinson, she was employed as the Project Manager of Dorset Clinical Trials Unit at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation. Up until that point, she had been forcing herself to deliver outside of her leadership strengths to the point of burnout. Putting in more hours to compensate, can only work as a strategy for so long. Through our coaching work, she became clear on her talents and is now able to appreciate and add her unique value as Director of R&D at TopMD with a sustainable work-life balance. Connect with Dr Erika Parkinson: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erika-p-parkinson/ Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 024 - Dr Ciara Keating - CLIENT STORY
Mar 24 2023
Inspiring Stories 024 - Dr Ciara Keating - CLIENT STORY
Inspiring Stories 024 - Dr Ciara Keating - CLIENT STORY When we are anxious and overwhelmed, unfortunately the situation does not stay linear, it gets worse over time. In today’s episode we talk to Dr Ciara Keating, postdoc at Glasgow University about her coaching journey and how a 70hr week was affecting her health and how she set boundaries with her time as well as people to manage the diagnosis of endometriosis and fibromyalgia. She also discusses the challenges she faced surrounding her confidence and the application of non-confrontational conversation templates such as saying no, asking for what you need and boundary setting were invaluable. Ciara is now a big advocate for leaning into your network and supporting yourself through coaching and therapy when needed. Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 025 - Dr Natasha Rhys - CLIENT STORY
Mar 17 2023
Inspiring Stories 025 - Dr Natasha Rhys - CLIENT STORY
Inspiring Stories 025 - Dr Natasha Rhys: Client Story When I first started working with Dr Natasha Rhys she was employed as a King’s Prize Research Fellow at King’s College London. A series of life events had rocked her confidence and she wanted to focus on improving her career and confidence. What made the most profound difference was uncovering the underlying limiting beliefs and patterns of behaviour which were replaying out in multiple different areas of her life. By implementing tools and techniques to deal with the underlying emotional allergies she was able to identify her true purpose and took her first career pivot as an independent Researcher Development Consultant. Having gathered insights from this experience, she is now working on integrating her natural talents into her next career pivot. I can’t wait for you to hear Natasha’s story in her own words. Listen on your favourite platform. Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety
Inspiring Stories 023 - Lara Lalemi
Feb 25 2023
Inspiring Stories 023 - Lara Lalemi
Inspiring Stories 023 - Lara Lalemi Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Today I talk to Lara Lalemi, CEO of Creative Tuition Collective and aerosol chemistry PhD student. Lara is also involved in LGBTQIA+ projects and a decolonising science consultancy. Definitely a woman with a strong navigational purpose on a mission in the world. Lara is a London-born researcher with a passion for bringing new, innovative and progressive practices to more than just one of her environments.   Drawn to the world of environmental research and climate change, Lara upon receiving her undergraduate degree took to completing a Doctorate in Aerosol Chemistry at the University of Bristol, studying properties which affect the growth of clouds.   Currently, as the Chief Executive Officer of Creative Tuition Collective (CTC), Lara is striving to increase accessibility and opportunities in STEM for people from all walks of life. CTC offers young people from marginalised groups free and inclusive STEM tuition, skills building workshops and professional mental health support groups.   As part of her role which ranges from leading change-making conversations to organising undergraduate courses. She explores how the scientific community can begin to address the inequalities within it through her DEI and decolonisation training courses. By creating spaces that integrate supportive mentoring, curriculum diversity, and interdisciplinary work, she hopes to foster sustainable social mobility for young people through the use of science and technology.   Connect with Lara Website: www.creativetuitioncollective.com Instagram: @creativetuitioncollective Twitter: @creativetuiti0n LinkedIn: Creative Tuition Collective  www.DecolonisingAcademia.org.uk Resources: Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/ Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhannahroberts/ Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety