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What happens when “there has to be more than this” becomes the start of a completely different career. 🔍 What You’ll Learn: Many STEM professionals assume career reinvention starts with a perfect plan, a business idea, or a dramatic leap. The reality is usually much messier. In this episode, Rachel Service shares how a period of burnout and depression eventually led her to build a multi-million d...

What if the biggest thing holding your career back isn’t a lack of skills, experience, or opportunity, but a belief you’ve been carrying for years? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: Many STEM professionals underestimate the value of their skills, overestimate the need for perfection, and assume hard work alone will create opportunities. In this quick-fire episode, Rachel Service tackles four common beliefs th...

Have you ever looked around at the career you worked so hard to build and thought, “Surely there has to be more than this?” 🔍 What You’ll Learn: Many STEM professionals spend years building expertise, only to find themselves feeling flat, bored, frustrated, or disconnected from their work. The challenge is not always burnout. Sometimes you’ve simply outgrown the role, environment, or version of y...

What if starting something new in your STEM career is less risky than staying stuck in a path that no longer fits? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: When STEM professionals think about career change, entrepreneurship, or starting something on the side, we often treat it like a one-way door. As if trying means burning the whole house down. But after interviewing multiple STEM founders, one pattern keeps coming...

What if the biggest thing holding back your STEM career change is not your skills, your experience, or your resources, but the beliefs you keep treating as facts? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: This Firechat episode challenges four common beliefs that keep STEMM professionals stuck in the same lane for too long: “I’m just a scientist,” “I need to work harder,” “my work will speak for itself,” and “I’m not...

What if feeling “not ready” is not a sign to stop, but a sign you are waiting for certainty that career reinvention never gives you? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: If you are a STEM professional sitting on an idea, a side path, or a career move that does not fit the traditional box, this episode is for you. Shilpa Agarwal is a clinical operations professional who built a portfolio career across clinical re...

What if your MedTech solves a real problem, shows great data… and still never gets used? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: Most STEM professionals focus on building something that works. But in MedTech, success is decided by something far less obvious, whether your product fits into a complex system of people, incentives, and decisions. In this episode, Angelique pulls together insights from six founders who...

What if the thing holding your career back isn’t your skills, but the beliefs you keep repeating? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: Most STEM professionals don’t lack capability. They lack translation. This short fire chat cuts straight through the common beliefs that keep people stuck in roles that don’t reflect what they’re actually capable of doing. Why “I’m just a scientist” is a dangerous story to keep t...

Why do some of the most brilliant medical technologies never reach patients, even when the science works? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: If you’ve ever thought “build a great technology and the rest will follow,” this episode will challenge that fast. Because in healthcare, the system decides what survives, not just the science. This conversation breaks down what actually makes or kills a MedTech company,...

Building Your STEM Safety Net: Cassie Leonard on Being the Only Woman Engineer at Boeing and Leaving Corporate to Coach and Publish The episode of Multiple Hats, released for International Women’s Day 2024, revisits a recorded interview with aeronautical engineer Cassie Leonard, who spent 16 years at Boeing after entering a 35-man team as the only woman. Cassie describes her path from aerospace st...

Beyond the Pipeline: Why Women Leave STEM, How to Spot Burnout, and Advocate for Real Change This episode will put words on what many women in STEM feel but have not articulated. The podcast episode critiques performative International Women’s Day gestures and focuses on lived experiences behind why women leave STEM, featuring three co-authors of the collaborative book Beyond the Pipeline: Cassie...

Beyond the Leaky Pipeline: Redefining Success and Keeping Women in STEM with Cassie Leonard The episode of Multiple Hats, hosted by Angelique, addresses why women leave STEM,. Citing a global survey where 50% leave due to burnout and lack of support, 40% for greater fulfillment, and 30% because of bias in career advancement, the authors of beyond the pipeline argue that the real challenge is reten...

Why job descriptions are narrow by design, and how to read between the lines to shape a bigger role. This is my takeaway episode from my interview with Catherine O’Mahony , the founder of OnQ Recruitment (Recruitment in Life Sciences). If you are delivering well but still feel boxed in, is the problem really you, or the way roles are designed? Either way there are ways to expand! 🔍 What You’ll Le...

A rapid-fire reality check on why STEM professionals stay stuck, and how to move anyway What if the real thing holding your STEM career back is not your skills, but the story you keep telling yourself? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: This short Fire Chat is for STEM professionals who know they have more range than their current role allows, but keep hitting the same mental brakes. In a fast, no-fluff format...

You are a STEM professional and you tick every box on paper, so why do you still feel boxed in, underused, or quietly restless at work? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: If you are a STEM professional who has done everything right but feels stuck in a narrow lane, this episode is for you. We unpack the dynamics shaping recruitment and job seeking and how you can find breadth beyond the job description and whe...

Reinventing STEM Careers: Unscripted Stories of Courage and Creativity if you're looking for a podcast to find your vision and make it happen, that's for you. In the inaugural 2026 episode of Multiple Hats, host Angelique Greco reintroduces the podcast dedicated to STEM professionals who seek to reshape their careers and find meaningful work. Angelique highlights her journey and the essence of the...

What keeps a drug alive when the science is fragile, the funding dries up, and the company name changes four times? A 20-year survival story of near-death science, offshore funding, and final impact. 🔍 What You’ll Learn If you want a real look at how drug development and STEM careers work behind the scenes, this episode gives you the straight version, not the polished one. You’ll learn: • Why dru...

Derisk you biotech assets with 3 key coniderations. Learn from drug development expert Angelique Greco and medtech-biotech founders and investors with tangible examples that show how real de-risking plays out. 🔍 What You’ll Learn Drug discovery feels like a maze when you're early in your career, especially when you're trying to build a biotech path without wasting years or cash. This episode give...

From pitch decks to de-risking strategies — how to turn promising research into an investible opportunity You’ve got strong data and maybe even a breakthrough idea, but can you convince an investor or pharma partner that it’s worth their millions? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: In this second part of the Drug Discovery Roadmap series, we move from the bench to the boardroom. If you’re a STEM researcher or...

You’ve got strong data and maybe even a first-in-class idea, but do you know what it really takes to get your molecule from the bench to the bedside? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: If you’re a STEM researcher, biotech founder, or academic thinking about commercialising your work, this episode breaks down the unseen steps between great science and a viable medicine. You’ll learn: • Why promising discoveries...

From student curiosity to space entrepreneurship, discover how enthusiasm, visibility, and action can unlock unexpected doors in STEM careers. Ever felt stuck in a career box, unsure how to take the next step? What if the secret wasn’t a perfect plan — but contagious enthusiasm that opens doors you didn’t know existed? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: If you’re a STEM professional ready to design your own ca...

Which career myth is secretly holding you back: thinking hard work is enough, that skills don’t transfer, or that your work will speak for itself? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: In just 10 minutes, Nina Hooper, astrophysicist turned entrepreneur and now business development director at Interlune, shows you how to reframe the beliefs that limit most STEM professionals. If you’re ready to stop playing small...

What if your enthusiasm—not your credentials—was the spark that could turn your STEM career into a launchpad of endless opportunities? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: If you’re a STEM professional who feels boxed in, Nina Hooper’s story shows how you can turn your own spark of curiosity into life-defining opportunities. From interning with a Nobel Prize winner to Harvard and Stanford, launching startups, an...

What if you could draft your first piece of thought leadership in just five minutes — and start shaping how opportunities find you? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: Feeling underutilized, pigeonholed, or stuck in roles that no longer light you up is a common frustration for STEM professionals. The solution isn’t waiting for the perfect job ad — it’s owning your narrative. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why y...

When someone asks, “So, what do you do?” — does your answer reflect your ambition, or just your current job title? 🔍 What You’ll Learn: If you’ve ever felt uninspired by job ads, overlooked for projects, or disappointed by the opportunities that land on your desk, the problem isn’t your qualifications — it’s clarity. This episode helps STEM professionals shift from vague intros and stale job titl...