This week's episode features Melanie Flores, an MIT-trained chemical engineer, theater arts aficionado, and two-time TEDx speaker, who currently applies her multidisciplinary skills to her work as Director of Solutions Consulting at SymTrain, a firm that automates and scales role-play training and coaching.

We discuss a range of issues such as:

- Melanie's fascinating career journey - themes and common qualities in her various roles   - The importance of feelings and human emotions in professional environments, even those where technical skills are emphasized   - When and from which influences Melanie's interest and aptitude in writing and communication originated   - How Melanie unveils the value of emotional intelligence and storytelling through setting an example, not lecturing    - Melanie's professional role and why she enjoys it   - How Melanie's experience teaching pre-school helped her in the engineering and - more broadly - the business world   - Recommendations for engineers and other technically-focused listeners who want to add or enhance communication skills in their own toolkit