Best Derek Dickson Podcasts (2026)

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Inspiring Stories 072 - Emma Monk 43:30

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Emma Monk Emma is a researcher and writer debunking and demystifying the headlines to bring the real facts and truth to counter the huge wave of misinformation online. In this episode we talk about: The truth behind the covid headlines and how politicians spin statistics as a blame game. Emma's personal journey from viewing herself as 'just a mum' …

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Inspiring Stories 071 - Dr Lucia Moreira Teixeira - Client Story 39:59

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Dr Lucia Moreira Teixeira - CLIENT STORY Lucia is the Immunology Lead at Sanofi. In this episode we talk about: The benefits and challenges of living and working in different countries. How leveraging the Career Pivots® Compass methodology has resulted in rapid progress from Principal Scientist > Principal Scientist II > Team Lead in under 5 years.…

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Inspiring Stories 069 - Bronwyn Friedlander - CLIENT STORY 40:50

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Bronwyn Friedlander - CLIENT STORY Bronwyn has an extensive background in media and PR, notably as Head of Media Relations at the Royal Society and previously at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She recently made a bold career pivot and is now in the second year of an Occupational Therapy degree at the University of East London. Listen in for… How to re…

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Inspiring Stories 068 - Derek Miller 31:35

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Derek Miller Former scientist now creating tools for research & STEM education. He is founder of Genius Lab Gear and owner of Laser Classroom In this episode we talk about: The safety and systemic challenges facing pregnant women in STEM conducting lab work. Survey and real-world experiences of how pregnant women in STEM are currently trying to man…

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Inspiring Stories 067 - Dr Anna Frangou - CLIENT STORY 32:23

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Anna is the Research Strategy and Communications Lead at MPI-CBG – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Listen in for… What to do when multiple offers are on the table How your natural talents inform role choices and contribute to high-performance teams Making the shift from doer to leader with clarity and confidence Connect …

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Inspiring Stories 066 - Dr Lisa Kerr - CLIENT STORY 41:55

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Lisa is a Senior Director of Patient Engagement at Evinova. Listen in for… How to connect the events throughout our lives into an intentional career path The immense opportunities that visibility on LinkedIn can unlock The power of working with a coach who isn't afraid to challenge you Connect with Lisa https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kerr-patient…

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Inspiring Stories 065 - Dr Stephanie Ma – CLIENT STORY 41:02

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Steph is the histology R&D Lead at Quotient Therapeutics. In this episode we talk about: Using other areas of life as clues to understanding your strengths and future career role profile alignment. Knowing what to do with one hour a week of personal development time. How to shift from a proving to pro-active approach in your career design. Connect …

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Inspiring Stories 064 - Dr Valeria Barattini - Client Story 55:35

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Valeria is a client relationship manager at Alphalyse. In this episode we talk about: The curse of tolerance when a role is not aligned for you and how to erodes confidence over time. How it's easy to assume you did something wrong or you are to blame when you are made redundant. Leveraging the power of LinkedIn and your second-degree connections t…

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Inspiring Stories 063 - Dr Rachel James 38:25

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Dr Rachel James – CLIENT STORY Rachel is a writer and a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Edinburgh and a former Daphne Jackson Trust fellow. In this episode we talk about: The decision-making moment of pausing her academic career for motherhood and overcoming the fear of failure. How the Daphne Jackson Trust enabled Rachel to return to …

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Inspiring Stories 062 - Hazel Dickson - Client Story 37:32

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Dr Hazel Dickson – CLIENT STORY Hazel is the Social Media and Content Principal at Waters Corporation. In this episode we talk about how insights from the Career Design Mastermind supported Hazel to: Negotiate a secondment at work aligned with her Talent Dynamics profile resulting in a new role and promotion. Gain an understanding of her anxiety ar…

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Inspiring Stories 070 - Anna Reader - Client Story 36:25

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Anna Reader - CLIENT STORY Anna is currently Head of Equality and Diversity at the University of York and is about to start a very exciting new career pivot to work for the Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN). Listen in for… What to do if on paper everything looks good but you have lost your spark. How to pivot out of mid-career stagnation whe…

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Inspiring Stories 061 - Ellen Thomas 37:26

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Ellen Thomas Ellen is the Chief Medical Officer at Genomics England. In this episode we talk about: How to navigate internal career opportunities. The importance of self-management in leadership. Normalising mental health challenges. What I'm really taking away from this conversation is how to be brave, have fun, and make a dent in the world. Conne…

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Inspiring Stories 060 - Dr Abaynesh Gebreyohannes 43:00

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Dr Abaynesh Gebreyohannes – CLIENT STORY Abaynesh is a Senior Research Scientist at Osmoses In this episode we talk about: What to do when the plans you made in your career are no longer viable. In this case due to civil war in Ethiopia. Navigating living and working in different continents when you require a VISA. How to take up space and ask for …

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Inspiring Stories 059 - Dr Emma Standley 43:17

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Dr Emma Standley – Client Story Emma is a child and adolescent mental health and neurodevelopment Research Fellow at The University of York. In this episode we talk about: The journey Emma took herself on through the Career Design Mastermind to conclude that she was exactly where she needed to be for her next steps. Emma's most loved tools from the…

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Inspiring Stories 058 - Samantha Bradford 45:26

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Samantha Bradford IFA Sam is a multi-award winning chartered financial planner and advisor. She lives in a 400-year-old cottage with her husband, 2 dogs, 5 chickens and 3 beehives. She has volunteered as a scout leader for over 15 years and is a bell ringer too! In this episode we talk about: The six steps to planning your financial future. How to …

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Inspiring Stories 057 - Nicola Newby - Client Story 38:18

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Nicola Newby After 25 years at GSK, in a variety of positions including director level operations management and co-chair of the Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI), Nicola has taken voluntary redundancy to explore 'what's next?' in her own career and has already taken a voluntary board position with the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA)…

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Inspiring Stories 056 - Dr Chiara Trovatello - Client Story 46:40

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Chiara is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow and Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano as well as an Optica Ambassador. In this episode we talk about: The importance of trying out new opportunities before committing to them long-term (such as moving countries). How our Pusher part gets driven by the need to avoid failure so can result in…

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Inspiring Stories 055 - Dr Kat Fish - Client Story 41:33

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Dr Kat Fish – Client Story Kat is a Research Fellow at The University of Sheffield. When Kat was diagnosed with endometriosis, she often employed the push through and reactive approach to work, but this came at a cost. When she was diagnosed with a second chronic health condition ME, this strategy (and others she had tried) were no longer working e…

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Inspiring Stories 054: Dr Lauren Mullin - Client Story - Part 3 48:51

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Dr Lauren Mullin CLIENT STORY – Part 3 This is the final part in our three-part series with Dr Lauren Mullin. Just as a reminder, Lauren is Lead Analytical Scientist at Arxada and founder of ChemHerstory blog, which is dedicated to communicating the stories of the lost women in the history of STEM. You will be blown away are the details Lauren shar…

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Inspiring Stories 053 - Client Story - Dr Lauren Mullin - Part 2 39:09

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Inspiring Stories 053 - Dr Lauren Mullin - Client Story (Part 2) Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. This is the second part in our three-part series with Dr Lauren Mullin. Just as a reminder, Lauren is Lead Analytical Scientist at Arxada and founder of ChemHerstory blog, which is de…

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Inspiring Stories 052 - Dr Lauren Mullin - Client Story (Part 1) 41:04

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Inspiring Stories 052 - Dr Lauren Mullin - Client Story (Part 1) Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Lauren is Lead Analytical Scientist at Arxada and founder of ChemHerstory blog, which is dedicated to communicating the stories of the lost women in the history of STEM. Over the next…

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Inspiring Stories 051 - Dr Antigone Marino 46:40

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Inspiring Stories 051 - Dr Antigone Marino Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Antigone is a research lead at the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI) at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). She also holds many leadership positions from President of t…

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Inspiring Stories 050 - Anna Fuller - Client Story 44:28

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Inspiring Stories 050 - Anna Fuller - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. With more than 20 years' experience in scientific research and management, Anna is now the Operations Manager at star* scheme in Cardiff. In this episode we talk about: Not letting other people's a…

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Inspiring Stories 049 - Dr Helen Bridle - Client Story 36:32

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Inspiring Stories 049 - Dr Helen Bridle - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Helen is an Associate Professor in bioengineering at Heriot-Watt University and Director of Let's Do Engineering, an EPSRC funded engagement project designed to tackle stereotypes around engine…

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Inspiring Stories 048 - Professor Melissa Gladstone - Client Story 40:50

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Inspiring Stories 048 - Professor Melissa Gladstone - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Melissa is a clinician and a professor in international child health and neurodevelopmental paediatrics at the University of Liverpool. In this episode we talk about: Managing the g…

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Inspiring Stories 047 - Lily Satterthwaite 49:06

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Inspiring Stories 047 - Lily Satterthwaite Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Lily is a Regional Lead at Microsoft, the Global Technical Women Committee Lead and a Board Member of the Asian & Social Mobility ERG. In this episode we talk about: Lily's top tips for negotiating salary …

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Inspiring Stories 046 - Dr Joanna Martin 50:14

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Inspiring Stories 046 - Dr Joanna Martin Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Jo is founder of One of Many™, the fastest growing women's leadership and empowerment organisation. It is a real privilege for me to interview Jo because her description of superwoman was the catalyst to me …

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Inspiring Stories 045 - Professor Angela Davies - Client Story 37:58

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Inspiring Stories 045 - Professor Angela Davies - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Ang holds a dual role at The University of Manchester as a Professor in Healthcare Science & Education and as an academic leadership position within a strategic cross-institutional chan…

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Inspiring Stories 044 - Debbie Neiteler 37:27

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Inspiring Stories 044 - Debbie Neiteler Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Debbie is a mother of two children and a Partner at Austin and Carnley Solicitors. At heart Debbie is a humanitarian and is constantly seeking ways in which she can make impact through her work both for the p…

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Inspiring Stories 043 - Dr Alice Redmond 44:25

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Inspiring Stories 043 - Dr Alice Redmond Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Dr Alice Redmond is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at CAI with over 30 years' experience. Alice is a founding member of Women in Technology and Science (WITS) and is on the ISPE Women in Pharma (WIP) commi…

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Inspiring Stories 042 - Dr Lucy Fernandes - Client Story 45:58

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Inspiring Stories 042 - Dr Lucy Fernandes - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Lucy is a Senior Customer Success Scientist at Protein Metrics and has a really interesting career journey that completely makes sense when you connect the dots looking backwards. In this epi…

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Inspiring Stories 041 - Kate Marshall - Client Story 36:39

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Kate Marshall – Client Story After 17 years working at GSK, Kate made the big bold move to join Protak Scientific Limited and is now their Technical Director. In this episode we talk about: How Kate believed so much in the technology it enabled her to take the leap to Protak. Overcoming her fear of public speaking and now it is an integral part of …

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Inspiring Stories 040 - Dr Margaret Dominguez 47:57

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Inspiring Stories 040 - Dr Margaret Dominguez Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Margaret grew up on a pig farm in Mexico and her love for Physics fuelled an incredible meteoric journey to becoming an optical engineer at NASA. In this episode we talk about: A serendipitous moment en…

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Inspiring Stories 039 - Becky Adlington OBE 49:13

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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 Ol…

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Inspiring Stories 038 - Dan Fenwick 48:22

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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.…

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Inspiring Stories 037 - Dr Faezeh Gholami 44:21

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Inspiring Stories 037 - Dr Faezeh Gholami I'm thrilled to introduce my next inspiring stories guest, Dr Faezeh Gholami. Fae has worked at IBM for nearly 7 years and is currently the STSM – Chief Architect for IBM zSystems I/O Development and Data Centre Connectivity. Fae was one of over 70 attendees at Optica's Level Up Leadership 4-day event in Ma…

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Inspiring Stories 036 - Nir Eyal 41:56

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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 Platt…

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Inspiring Stories 035 - Professor Alexandra Knight 42:04

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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 in…

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Inspiring Stories 034 - Dr Madison Rilling 42:33

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Inspiring Stories 034 - Dr Madison Rilling I'm thrilled to introduce my next inspiring stories guest, Dr Madison Rilling, Executive Director of Optonique based in Quebec. In this episode we talk about the changes required to move from learning leadership to implementing them. Using your voice as a platform for leadership and advocacy, even if you d…

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Inspiring Stories 033 - Dr Emma Beale - Client Story 33:14

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Inspiring Stories 033 - Dr Emma Beale - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. In today's episode, I interview one of my clients Dr Emma Beale, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland. We talk about her career pathway, and what led her to emb…

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Inspiring Stories 032 - Dr Lucy Woods - Client Story 38:01

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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…

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Inspiring Stories 031 - Dr Alice Holly - Client Story 30:02

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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 tha…

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Inspiring Stories 030 - Dr Kasia Zmarzly - CLIENT STORY 39:03

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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…

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Inspiring Stories 029 - Dr Mihaela Taranu - CLIENT STORY 39:09

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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 ignor…

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Inspiring Stories 028 - Dr Erika Parkinson - CLIENT STORY 41:00

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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 apprecia…

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Inspiring Stories 027 - Dr Noémie Hamilton - CLIENT STORY 42:17

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Inspiring Stories 027 - Dr Noémie Hamilton - CLIENT STORY Noémie was feeling lost, alone and demoralised working as a part-time Research Fellow. She wanted to be in a position where she could see a path in front of her, not just a wall. During this episode we look at Noémie's coaching experience through the three areas of balance, confidence and fu…

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Inspiring Stories 026 - Cassie Bradley 44:02

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Inspiring Stories 026 - Cassie Bradley Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Cassie holds extensive experience in developing viable solutions in plastics recycling while often working against many misconceptions and lack of awareness around the emerging technologies of plastics recycli…

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Inspiring Stories 024 - Dr Ciara Keating - CLIENT STORY 46:29

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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 …

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Inspiring Stories 025 - Dr Natasha Rhys - CLIENT STORY 49:06

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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 t…