Equivalent Too

This week on Scilence, my guest has a very unconventional perspective on a woman’s place in society, turning what most us believe to be a woman's place, on its head.  Having been in STEM for three decades, she now considers herself to be in AI, but it’s an industry that did not exist at the start of her career.  In terms of motherhood, she wanted to get that process started young and this allowed...

This week on Scilence, I chat with an aerospace engineer, who shares her healthy attitude towards her abilities.  From the beginning, my guest had always had a strong sense of determination and focus, having been born a twin.  A near fatal car accident a few years ago brought her into crystal-clear clarity.     As with all twins, there is often a sense of comparison between them.  Her and her brot...

This week on Scilence, my guest, an aerospace engineer describes what she is going through, as a result of having recently had her first child.  Before childbirth, she was managing 25 people on a multi-million pound project.  As a result of getting pregnant, she feels like she’s desperately trying to hang onto her career and the reputuon and experience she so diligently built up over the years.  S...

This week, my woman in STEM chose engineering to avoid doing textiles!  As a result, the 3D Printing, she was exposed to in engineering class sparked her love for technology.  She was naturally good at maths and physics but she believes that it not a pre-requitse for engineering - although it helps.  We are all surrounded by engineering and she loves it - there is not one thing we interact with in...

This week on Scilence, my guest comes from a man’s world, as a construction engineer, yet she is responsible for many jobs.  As a result, it took her much longer to earn resect from her team.  She ignored any nasty comments, which helped her to gain resilience.   Her first job involved engineering railways, despite never having seen a train before.  Originally, she came from a very patriarchal cul...

This week on Scilence, my guest, a student in Biomedical Engineering, discusses developing confidence when you’re a new graduate.  She stresses the importance of making mistakes and describes her efforts in becoming comfortable with failure.  She is not so comfortable with the fact she feels that she represents all women in her field, therefore representing 20% of her class.  It poses additional p...

This week on scilence, a group of five mechanical engineering students, talk about their experiences in a typically unfeminine industry.  We bust the myths and stereotypes about this career and confirm that the key to success in this field is genuine passion, interest and self-confidence. My guests are early on in their Bachelors degrees and none of them willingly chose to study MechEng, but throu...

This week on Scilence, my guest has been determined to be her own self.  To her, following convention would mean death.  She has always followed her heart and in doing so has been true to herself.  She's fought too hard and worked too hard to pander to the opinions of others, yet she has also been able to function in a corporate structure to deliver successful results.  This female engineer knows...

Its clear from my guest this week on Scilence, that she's hugely successful in cyber security because she has an abundance of inner security.  She has always been oblivious to being in a minority, as a female in a male dominated world.  As a result, discrimination went straight over her head and she was able to stay strong through challenges and struggle.  This women has an attitude of steel, her...

This week on Scilence my guest has always been concerned about sustainability and regeneration, which oddly led her into a career in chemical engineering.  For someone so young, she is making a big impact in the beauty industry and most recently, she has finally found the stability and strength to explore her heritage.  Being mixed race, she has never felt a strong identification with either her m...

English is not my guests first language, yet she still manages to communicate the importance of using education to escape her difficult childhood.  Driven by the need to make her oppressed mother proud, she left home at 10 years old to find greener pastures.   Her relationship with her father was too difficult to discuss, yet this is a woman in STEM who appears to have it all, a prosperous career,...

This week, my guest, a software engineer is so super-chill for someone so young.  She takes everything in her stride, having gone through the challenges of being a black women coder.  She definitely feels the discrimination in her industry, but that doesn't stop her for striving for what she wants.  In actual fact, it makes her fight harder.     In this episode we talk about self-acceptance, impos...

This week on Scilence, my guest fell into her career thanks to curiosity and interest in physics and maths.  Her path hasn't been straight, but thanks to internships and a couple of rock bottoms, she found her way to a greater self-acceptance and inner security.  She speaks of the snobbery between physicists and engineers and warns that physics can be very exclusive rather than inclusive.  Unwelco...

Although my guest this week studied mechical engineering, she believes that there is no one set path into tech strategy.  She actually works in a very diverse team, where all members share a passion and genuine interest for tech.  What she has observed is that women fundamentally don’t see themselves as technologists, and therefore don’t see themselves as being in tech.  Despite attending one of t...

THIS WEEK'S EPISODE IS POWERFULLY INSPIRATIONAL.  My guest loved doing maths in her spare time and knew she wanted to make an impact through science.  Her mother was a nurse, so she spent many hours in hospitals.  For many years it was assumed that she would be a doctor.   No one in her family went to university, but her mother always encouraged her to make her own money and have her own independe...

My guest this week on Scilence admits that being a woman in tech, has its disadvantages.  Overall, she does find that STEM is a very democratic environment.  The challenges of being a woman in STEM has strengthened her character and taught her patience in building her reputation and pricing herself.  Looking back, she reflects that perhaps it was naivety that helped her to become an entrepreneur. ...

This week on Scilence, my guest is passionate about encouraging people to bloom where they are planted.  She uses the principles of agronomy and technology to connect and support people who live in remote areas of the world.   My guest is a total disruptor in her tech sector and has a very unconventional and refreshing approach to technology.  She was never any good at maths and physics, but doesn...

This week on Scilence, my guest started her own technology business because of motherhood. She firmly believes that working 9-5 was never designed for a family.  As a result, she is passionate about helping and supporting other women.   Working women have hidden themselves for too long and its time for them to step into their stories.  Often, as women we are dealing with the negative self-talk whi...

This week on Scilence, my guest, a Nanotechnologist admits to juggling three careers:  a day job, motherhood and running a non-profit.  She got into Nanotech because she couldn't decide which science discipline she enjoys most.  Nanotechnolgy encompasses physics, chemistry and mathematics, which was a perfect compromise for her.   As a result of following her true passions, she exceeds at her job,...

My guest this week on Scilence fell into the relatively new world of Cybersecurity.  From a young age, her adaptability as a character was perfectly suited for this industry, despite the fact that cybersecurity did not exist when she was a little girl.  She and the industry have grown together, and she has closely observed the differences between men and women in that process.      Women have a ve...

My guest this week kicks off series 2 of Scilence, as a technologist having come from an economics / banking background, become a mother of 3 kids and taught herself how to code.  She  always had a natural fascination with STEM, which led her to create a coding school for Mums.  In this episode we hear from someone who has become most successful, as a result of being her truest authentic self, tha...

Day 6:  To celebrate a whole year of Scilence, I've mashed up the best sound-bites of some 13 past-episodes.  Each day for a total of six days, you'll hear a some profound wisdom emerging from Episodes 27-39.   Its ~30 minutes of truth from a variety of trailblazing #womeninstem! Enjoy!

Day 5:  To celebrate a whole year of Scilence, I've mashed up the best sound-bites of some 13 past-episodes.  Each day for a total of six days, you'll hear a some profound wisdom emerging from Episodes 27-39.   Its ~30 minutes of truth from a variety of trailblazing #womeninstem! Enjoy!

Day 4:  To celebrate a whole year of Scilence, I've mashed up the best sound-bites of some 13 past-episodes.  Each day for the next six days, you'll hear a compilation of some of the best sound bites from Episodes 27-39.   Its approximately 30 minutes of wisdom from a variety of inspiring #womeninstem! Enjoy!

Happy birthday Scilence!!!  This podcast turned one years old on International Women in Engineering Day! To celebrate, I have put together 6 compilation episodes of ‘SciLence’, which feature an assortment of the best sound bites over the last quarter (episode 27-39)! The guests you’ll hear from, over the next six days are true WONDER-WOMEN in STEM, and as with all episodes, I deliberately keep the...