The F Podcast

Dr. Erin Bobicki has spent her career at the intersection of hard industries and climate impact, from mineral processing and semiconductor manufacturing at Intel, to founding a hydrogen company before turning her focus to cement. With a deep academic background in chemical engineering, Erin went from mine sites in northern Canada to building CURA, a climate tech company with a proprietary electroc...

Rachael Ferrera has spent nearly two decades at Zachry Construction, a Texas-based heavy civil contractor that builds the highways, bridges, and waterways much of the country runs on. A civil engineer by training, Rachael went from estimating multi-year, multi-billion-dollar highway projects to leading the document management build and ERP transformation that now powers Zachry's work in AI, an...

Alice Leung is a construction technology investor at Brick & Mortar Ventures who spent over a decade on the jobsite, from building UCSF Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital with DPR Construction, to launching DPR's Southeast Asia HQ in Singapore as their resident BIM/VDC expert. Alice walks us through her years in construction, what it really takes to digitize one of t...

Dr. Nevena Musikic is a biomedical engineer and researcher who uses multimodal machine learning, speech acoustics, and facial kinematics to develop digital biomarkers for diseases like ALS. Nevena walks us through her research spanning assistive devices for laryngectomy patients, brain-controlled spinal stimulation that restored arm movement in paralyzed patients, and AI-powered pipelines to detec...

Sabine Bois is a MedTech executive who has built and led global medical device companies across cardiac and dental systems. From early-stage capital raises in the 2000s to the C-suite of cardiac device and dental systems companies based in Germany, we explore how she has scaled distribution across 80 countries and navigated both European and American investor markets. This is a conversation about...

Pauline Lam operates at the intersection of psychotherapy, behavioral science, and applied mental health. We explore the path that led her into psychotherapy, how different therapeutic approaches are applied in practice, and what it actually means to support individuals through complex emotional experiences. This is a conversation about the next frontier.

Camille operates at the intersection of data science, AI, and enterprise systems. Across startups, digital marketing, and large consulting environments, she has seen how the role of data has evolved, from isolated analysis to deeply embedded infrastructure. We explore how organizations manage data at scale, how models are deployed in practice, and what this shift means for how companies operate to...

Hana Fahim grew up in Egypt, started a career in investment banking across the Middle East and Africa, and then walked away from it entirely to study the natural world. From the trading floors of Cairo to the rainforests of Peru, and now pursuing a PhD in movement ecology at the University of Toronto, we explore what drives animals to move, what their movement reveals about ecosystem health, and w...

Lindsay Kruit shares her journey from a small town on Vancouver Island to becoming a CFO across industries including forestry, retail, steel, and technology. From graduating into the 2008 financial crisis to navigating leadership across vastly different sectors, we explore how careers take shape, how financial leaders guide organizations through uncertainty, and what it takes to build perspective...

Dr. Wintta Ghebreiyesus shares her journey from aerospace research to lunar mining, and how artificial intelligence is transforming exploration in some of the most complex environments on Earth and beyond. From aerospace engineering to frontier capital, we explore how risk mitigation, machine intelligence, and long-term thinking enable progress in industries where failure is costly and success res...