WISEcast

How much do you know about personal finance? Do you want to become wealthy? Listen to this conversation to learn how with 15 minutes every day you can take control over your financial future and explore your financial personality. Give WISEcast some monthly listener support or make a one-time donation  → Paypal . Our goal is to create a community that inspires and engages all women in the lif...

Does fostering equity at work lead to 100% job satisfaction? Listen to learn the answer to this question and also, why organizations with diverse leaders are more financially successful with improved employee retention and engagement. Give WISEcast some monthly listener support or make a one-time donation  → Paypal . Our goal is to create a community that inspires and engages all women in the...

The game of golf has frequently been used as a metaphor for life starting with an abundance of optimism, deteriorating somewhere in the middle, and abruptly coming to an end. But this episode of WISEcast will have you longing for the game, whether you have played it or not. Join us and Tina Fox , Co-owner of Women on Course and Founder of TERN mentoring, as we learn about the benefits of playing g...

Have you ever wondered whether you should actually have a mentor? Or would you like to have a mentor, but just don't know how to find one? Melissa Lawrence, CEO and Founder of Your Worthy Career, clues us in on the benefits of having a mentor, how to find one, and what you can expect. We discuss how to play the mentorship long game and what to do if you are worried you don't have the stamina. Meli...

Are you ready to ditch stress and optimize your focus with a 20 minute brain hack? Tune in to this episode to learn about the power of meditation and how by doing less you can actually be more. Also during this season of giving, support our volunteer based team so we can continue to bring more episodes of WISEcast in the new year! Support → Paypal . Our goal is to create a community that inspires...

Have you ever thought about pursuing a career away from the bench? In this episode we discuss many of the non-science based skills you gain through laboratory research and PhD/postdoctoral studies.  Our guest on this episode Prof. Dr. Eleonore Soei-Winkles is the Founder of Postdoc Transformation. She is a serial career transitioner who graduated with a PhD in neuroscience, spent time as an I...

When you leave the room…do people think of you for opportunities? According to our guest Jen Dalton, your personal brand is 90% what people think about you. Listen to this important conversation to begin building your personal brand. Support all our great content on WISEcast here! → Paypal . Our goal is to create a community that inspires and engages all women in the life sciences and STEM. Check...

We all hold multiple identities (parent, spouse, educator, scientist, executive, lawyer, athlete, etc) and some times the pressures of one identity can interfere with the performance of another identity. Does this interference occur between the woman and scientist identity? We discuss these identity pressures and how to combat them with our panel of guests from EFeMS.  Empowering Female Minds...

Do you know what it takes to get into the boardroom? Are we getting any closer to parity? We discuss the importance of having more women on boards, if this is enough and how to navigate this path with our guest Jeanne Hecht. She gives some great tactical pointers on how to prepare for a seat in the boardroom. Our partner, Women in Bio has a series of initiatives geared towards executive women look...

Have you ever had a big miss when it comes to science communication? I’m pretty sure we all have and the recent pandemic has given us some striking examples. Join us and Panagiota Pimenidou as we discuss what happens when we miss the mark with science communication and specific strategies that can have you hitting a homerun every time because now more than ever effective scientific communication i...

Richa and Amber share their failure stories and how they healed from those traumas. In this episode they speak to Lisa Haisha, the founder of SoulBlazing about how to navigate failures and instead fail forward. Lisa is wrote the book SoulBlazing and is also a mother, life coach, author, transformational speaker, TV host and avid traveler, with an MA in Spiritual Psychology. Her humanitarian work c...

Are you a bit of a perfectionist? Setting the bar high and knocking it out of the park every time? Even if you don't, do your friends call you an overachiever? Join us and Amanda Goodman, Research Scientist at Dow, as we discuss the pros and cons of being an overachiever. In this episode, we discuss the circumstances that create the overachiever culture, when it's a bad thing, and how to prevent t...

Welcome back to Season 3 of WISEcast! We are discussing how to take the right steps on a nonlinear career track. Our conversation features Stephanie Wisner, Co-founder at Centivax, Forbes 30 Under 30,  and the author of Building Backwards to Biotech : the Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting-Edge Science to Market, which she wrote  to help demystify the industry of biotech for thos...

Support WIB x WISEcast here → Paypal . Enjoy our 22 episodes from this Season while we take a short break to go into a creative space to plan Season 3, premiering in August. Visit and subscribe to The Wisest Children on YouTube ! Our young scientists are making science accessible and fun through some STEM activities for kids! WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! V...

Turns out urgency culture stems from FOMO. Why does it feel like everything needs to happen right now? Tune in to our conversation about how to stop urgency culture in its tracks - because let’s face it. That feeling of succumbing to urgency can be dangerously addictive and harmful. Support WIB x WISEcast here → Paypal . We are joined by Dr. Sarah Kurley who understands urgency culture all too wel...

We’re sorry to interrupt your day, but think you really should listen to our latest episode, don’t you think? Nothing undermines our authority and career progression like tentative language.  gives about In spite of current trends in trying to reframe tentative language as affiliative, our guest Robin Toft,  advises and empowers us to tap into our higher self and bring joy and confidence...

We are all guilty of internal misogyny when we subconsciously project sexist ideas onto other women and ourselves. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Patricia Tavormina, geneticist and science fiction author, as we dive deep into our subconscious minds to reflect on how we judge ourselves and other women through the lens of the masculine default. Donate here → Paypal . You can get in touch with...

Let’s go after this paradox - how and why should we manage our bosses? Channeling some Office Space vibes in their dress for success segment (Admit it - you love this movie as much as we do!). Drs. Amber and Richa make fun of the stereotype of a manager who just pushes and pushes and asks for unreasonable favors while leisurely sippin’ on his coffee. Truth is in today’s work environment everyone i...

This episode is a scheduled, reflective rewind. Our last episode " WISEcast Under Fire! Do we deserve equal pay without equal effort? " featured a debate with our friend Neil Thompson about this topic inspired by this rewind episode, Knocked Up or Knocked Out? Part 2 , which we endearingly term KUKO. KUKO featured four accomplished women in different STEM careers from science, academia, technology...

We are under fire…but not besieged! We have a friendly debate with WISEcast’s good friend and male ally Neil Thompson on whether we as women deserve to get equal pay without equal effort, especially when it comes to the high-stakes act of negotiation. Neil brings a unique perspective to this conversation that hails back to one of our first episodes in Season 1, Episode 6: Knocked Up or Knocked Out...

If you ever felt bad about making difficult cuts or unpopular decisions, this episode is for you. Andrea Martin discusses with us when you should be cutthroat, or as she puts it - strategic. We discuss when and how you should compete with yourself, the Queen Bee Syndrome, managing up and creating team loyalty. You will definitely walk away more empowered after listening to this episode, and if you...

Donate here: Paypal . In this bonus episode, Director of Content and engineering student at Texas A&M University, Liliana Hildebrand is joined by Mikayla Benjamin, her co-worker who is a Genetics major at Texas A&M University. These young women discuss the issues BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) experience in STEM as an "after party," and our recent episode " BIPOC and Healthcare -...

Donate here: Paypal .  We have an eye-opening conversation with Dr. Omolara Uwemedimo about  challenges Black women in medicine face and the obstacles BIPOC face in receiving optimal healthcare. She speaks about "weathering," and how BIPOC as a group disproportionately face chronic stress, mental and physical health break down, infertility issues, autoimmune disorders, and more. BIPOC st...

In this bonus episode, these two Gen Z women discuss the "I" in I-gen and pause to reflect on the areas that they may need to examine and change to improve their mental health.  Our Director of Content and engineering student at Texas A&M University, Liliana Hildebrand exclaims, "Dang...she was speaking about my people." Liliana's reaction is to Dr. Crystal Tran's knowledgeable assessment...

Donate here —> GoFundMe . The mental health pandemic is the most urgent issue we as a society face. In this episode, we discuss why it is especially challenging for our youth from a social and biological perspective. There is a way out, and we as a society need to address the extrinsic and intrinsic factors to help our youth. This episode features Dr. Crystal Duc Tran, Ph. D ., an Assistant Pro...