Equivalent Too

Fiyin is just starting out on her own career journey, but she is already helping other women in Nigeria through a charity she started, which provides them with access to further education after secondary school. In her short career in Finance, she has already learned so much about resilience, self-belief and determination and she shares all of that with us in this conversation..

I speak to family friend that I haven't seen in decades. We cover a variety of topics, including allowing children to discover their purpose and how the educational system can be shaken up! We put the world to rights in this heavily abridged conversation, where you get to be a fly on the wall, as two Sri Lankan women catchup on old and new times!

Megan Pormer has worked hard on her education, her emotional well-being, her health and her inner contentment and connection to a power greater than herself. As a strong Iranian woman, educated in the UK and currently living and working in the USA she has finally found independence. Megan radiates beauty, not only externally but most importantly from within.  She has found freedom through adversit...

As a woman in STEM having completed a degree in Zoology, Laura now finds herself in the middle of a debate between government, education, industry and youth on encouraging people into STEM. It's a tough task to unite everyone in this discussion and Laura is tackling this firmly, one step at a time, by asking young people what they want!

Fran Scott is a true engineer at heart. She loves making stuff and her work is highly visual and exciting at she plays with fire and makes things explode, in order to shows audiences how fun and wondrous STEM can be! Our conversation gets really honest and heartfelt as we discuss the discuss the choices and reflections we have made as women in predominantly male-industries and celebrate the fact t...

Grazia Vittadini is a magnificent women and completely in her power. She's smart beyond comprehension speaking five languages with a penchant for the arts as well as the sciences. Yet her most alluring quality is her emotional intelligence. She knows exactly how to maintain her superiority when others are trying to drag her down - and she does this in the most humble, kind and fairest of ways. She...

This conversation was more of a mentoring session for me! Judith is so accomplished yet so wise and chilled. Often as intelligent women, we want to prove our intelligence to the world and get angry when not acknowledged for our brains - Judith knows exactly how to handle such circumstances, having been in many male dominated situations with her research and them with grace, power and laughs! She i...

Becky's journey into engineering hasn't been conventional! She didn't follow the classic maths physics route. However, she caught the F1 racing bug, ever since attending the UK Grand Prix - and now she's a design engineer working on the cars themselves! Find out how she fell into her dream job, her story is inspiring for anyone wanting to follow their own career dreams, despite the odds...

In this conversation, Dawn Bonfield, MBE and I get extremely honest about the problems that still exist in engineering. We are a long way off from being diverse and inclusive in this industry and there are still many things that need to change. We discuss why change is necessary and the small steps that can be taken to breakdown the bias that exists in the development of future technologies.

Talking to Claire Rose was up-lifting. Civil engineering finally seems to be changing for the better, to be more inclusive. Companies realise the positive impact of diverse teams on their success. Homogenous groups of engineers simply cannot not effectively design infrastructure for an entire population. Women and other underrepresented groups are essential for broadening design scopes. Claire Ros...

Zainab Adigun, a structural engineer and mother of twin boys can do anything she puts her mind towards.  After our conversation, it was clear that very little holds us back, other than what is between our ears.  She has been through trails and challenges juggling motherhood and career, and what got her through all of it was her resilient attitude and strong and supportive inner circle.  Its women...

Dr. Leanne Armitage was recognised by HM Queen Elizabeth II for her charity, The Armitage Foundation, which aims to increase the diversity and inclusivity in medicine. She is also a very inspiring young woman who owns her underprivileged background, knowing that it gave her empathy and compassion towards others. Her work is crucial and her story is uplifting.

When Whitney Udigwe (a STEM A'Level student) reached out to me via my website asking for mentorship, she got me thinking about how mentorship might help others too. In the first of its kind, I aim to answer all questions that Whitney has about her own career direction and I'm sharing this conversation with you. Around the age of 16-18 we usually have to make big decisions about our careers. In thi...

After we have laid our HM Queen Elizabeth II to rest, time seems to be revealing what she meant to me. She was a symbol of duty, service and purpose. I edited this conversation with Computer Engineer, Sanskriti Devi with this in mind and what I have learned from our Queen and see from Sanskriti is that knowing one’s purpose in life is key. Knowing what you were put on this Earth to do, allows you...

Women in Innovation and Technology share their experiences and what they have learned in order to survive and thrive in a male-dominated world. In this episode, we hear from sisters Abigail (scientists) and Donna (Engineer) about the network of STEM sisters they are trying to create.  This conversation is so heart-warming because you feel the actual sisterhood between a biomedical scientist and me...

5 years later and I still have weekly conversations with incredible women in STEM. why, because it keeps me humble and grateful as a human being. This conversation was no different. It took a sudden twist when I learned that she had lost her Dad. My own Dad has been such a massive influence in my own life. He has probably been at the core of all my life decisions, some positively driven and some d...

I grew up watching Maggie Philbin on Tomorrow's World, the stories she covered on this iconic BBC science and tech magazine show, were the core of many family discussion at the dinner table, about pie in the eye tech that would be part of our future.  All of these ideas came true and now Maggie has turned her attention to inspiring diversity into science and technology through teenagers!  She offe...

In this conversation we talk about striving to achieve it all and get realistic about the challenges and sacrifices involved in ticking all of the boxes as a woman in engineering and STEM. Its amazing how the first few years of our lives shape the rest of our futures too!

UNIQ+ research internships are designed to provide students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds who are ordinarily resident in the UK, with the opportunity to experience postgraduate study. Dr. Tom Crawford (mathematician/fluid dynamicist), Dr. Sagida Bibi (immunologist) and I get together on a panel to talk about our experiences doing doctorates. Its a 90-min chat, where we take...

This conversation gets really honest about under representation in STEM and life. We open up about cultural differences and navigating being different! This conversation offers so much solution, but also gets raw about the problems. This episode is an eye-opener to mental well-being and empowerment.

It’s so inspiring meeting young women who have a strong drive and ambition to build careers in STEM.  Thendral Kamal is one of those women.  She is so focussed on becoming the first Indian woman on Mars, that she is leaving no stone unturned in getting there.  Not only is she an aerospace engineering student, but she is also so knowledgeable about NASA, that one would think that she already works...

She is an engineer through and through. She sees the world through an engineering lens. Totally head led, totally, rational and loving protocol, because it allows her to think outside of the box and solve problems - like all great engineers do. She’s a mechanical engineer and more, who believes in the power of repeatability. Practice is key, which she applies to all multi-dimensions of herself. Ni...

Watch out boys, girls are increasing in empowerment. We want independence and don’t want to have to rely or report to men. Its time to level up to what women bring to the table! Prachi Gupta was raised in India, a place where women are still assumed to have a subordinate role to men, but the young women of India are starting to find this mentality completely unacceptable to them and in this conver...

Anete Dowling is passionate about machine learning, especially when applied to social robotics.  She works hard and pushes herself to be the best she can be in this field.  At the same time, she has also been blessed with good looks because she is also a fashion model.  I have a chat with her about doing these seemingly contrasting jobs and I find her attitude towards her work really refreshing an...

Chloe Sales is truly inspiring.  Our conversation contained so many mic-drop moments because she has clearly done a lot of soul-searching.  Her early 20’s were hard as she muddled around figuring out what to do.  However, she has surely found her groove with work as a welder, and discovered a treasure trove of confidence, resilience and strength of character.  I need to listen to the episode on a...