MULTIPLE HATS: STEM Careers | Reinvention | Entrepreneurship |Thought Leadership

🎙️ **From Lab Scientist to MedTech Founder at 22** **Starting a PhD While Launching a Startup and Turning Discovery Into Real-World Diagnostics** How does a 22-year-old STEMM graduate go from the lab to co-founding a Medtech startup? Dharmica shares how she co-founded BCAL Diagnostics while starting her PhD, using her thesis to validate a product rather than pursue pure academia. it’s a roadmap fo...

🎙️ After a decade in marine science, Dr. Sue Pillans swapped research papers for sketchbooks—founding a visual storytelling business that helps scientists, educators, and policymakers communicate complex ideas through art, all while living life by the sea. 🔍 What You’ll Learn: How to combine your talents and passion with yout science degree and turn it into something unique ( in this case marine...

🎙️ Complete Rewiring from Corporate Pharma to Social Impact E-Commerce: Turning Workplace Discrimination into a Mission to Empower Mothers with Oriane Juncker After leaving the pharmaceutical industry, Oriane Juncker founded Spotz—a mum-to-mum marketplace reshaping economic agency and flexibility for women through community-powered commerce. 🔍 What You’ll Learn: How to spot opportunities in your...

🎙️ From PhD and Lab Work to Social Entrepreneurship: How Powering Her Own Career Change from Academia to Industry Got Dr. Melina Georgousakis to Challenge the Gender Brain Drain in the Biomedical Sector How community can address the women brain drain in academia 🔍 What You’ll Learn: Why staying in academia isn’t the only way to make an impact in health and science How to recognize the warning sig...

Overthinkers Beware! Have you ever fallen into the rabbit hole? Thinking and thinking, stuck into analysis paralysis? 🎙️ From Engineer to High-Performance Coach: How Lison Mage Helps Overthinkers Make Decisive Moves After a global tech career at Salesforce and Oracle, Lison Mage pivoted into coaching and authored Act Before You Overthink —teaching professionals how to trade analysis paralysis for...

🎙️ From Science Journalist to STEM Media Entrepreneur: How Heather Catchpole Co-Founded Refraction Media to Transform STEM Storytelling After a decade in science journalism, Heather Catchpole co-founded Refraction Media—now publishing 2 million magazines globally—proving there’s a scalable, sustainable business in making STEM visible, visual, and inspiring ( and recognized by Barack Obama for thei...

STEMM entrepreneurs wannabe, listen up! Have you ever thought that there was something more that you could bring? Is it an idea or perhaps a change you want to see happen? For the last few months, I've bebusen meeting with some pretty amazing people who have done just that. If you want some inspiration, a little nudge or gold nuggets of wisdom from people who have taken the leap and created their...