Working as a CSI is Jessica Liang’s love letter to her community. When a crime leaves families reeling and neighbors feeling helpless, her expertise directly impacts the justice that brings closure. It’s this knowledge that keeps her going through hours on her feet, gruesome sights, and the emotional toll of regularly bearing witness to humanity’s lowest moments. So what does it take to properly document these crime scenes? How does she protect evidence from tampering? And are CSIs actually time travelers?

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Find Jessica and her forensics training company, Finer Points Forensics, on her website, Instagram and YouTube.

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Music from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, Amaksi, Henry Mustafa, Grand_Project, and Fresh_Morning.

We’re told as kids to “shoot for the stars”. Well, how about shooting for the skies - as an airline pilot? In this episode, European airline pilot Raja Katz lets us inside the cockpit as we explore a career in aviation. How do flight school students practice flying outside an aircraft? Is a pilot’s license like a driver’s license? And what is auto-pilot really for?

The Women at Work series features episodes with international women in stereotypically male fields - finance, the culinary arts, and aviation.

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Find Raja on Instagram; learn more about the organizations for which Raja is a social media ambassador in her bio, or check out Elevate(her) and Cosmic Girls Foundation directly.

Music from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, Dmitry Taras, and u_v5w0uqcjky; sound effects by freesound_community.

If you think you can stand the heat, get into the kitchen. It’s how professional chef Hanalei Souza got started - and in less than a decade she is second-in-command at the largest restaurant in her city. How did Hanalei rise through the ranks without a culinary degree? What is it like to be a leader in the kitchen? And where does she get inspiration for new dishes?

The Women at Work series features episodes with international women in stereotypically male fields - finance, the culinary arts, and aviation.

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Hanalei is online as @ladylinecook on Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube, and her website. Check out her culinary memoir, “Nice Work, Boys”.

Music from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, music_for_video, Oleg Mazur, Alex Guz, Oleg Fedak, Anastasia Chubarova, and mini_Moss. Sound effects by freesound_community.

Are you looking for a woman in finance? Better yet, do you want to be a woman in finance? Meet Urmi Hossain, an associate in portfolio management in Montreal, Canada. She’s the first guest in our Women at Work series for Women’s History Month. Urmi shares how she worked her way through the industry to her dream role, the benefits of “extracurriculars” like Toastmasters, and what she’s learned from a career mistake in university.

The Women at Work series features episodes with international women in stereotypically male fields - finance, the culinary arts, and aviation.

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Find Urmi on LinkedIn, YouTube, or Instagram. You can find her book on Amazon.

Music from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, Jean-Paul Verpeaux, Alehandro Vodnik, Musictown, Melodigne M, Roman Villatic, music_for_video, and Ievgen Poltavskyi.

Doctors can seem (or even see themselves as) superhuman. But since only Superman can claim x-ray vision, doctors rely heavily on radiology - the practice of imaging patients by machine - to assess internal injuries. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Bryce Betteridge about what it’s like to interpret these images as a radiologist. He also sub-specializes in mammography (breast imaging). Does AI have a place in radiology? How does residency matching work? And do radiologists ever see patients?

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Learn more about the NRMP and their residency match algorithm.

Music from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, HUAILux, Natasha, Maksym Dudchyk, Ievgen Poltavskyi, Austin Johnson, Denis Pavlov, and gudsounds.

Happy Int’l Day of Women and Girls in Science! In this episode, we’re celebrating with paleontologist and children’s educator Bethany Franklin. How accurate are Hollywood portrayals of paleontology? What is commercial paleontology? And which dinosaur fuels the field’s biggest rivalries?

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You can find Bethany on Instagram or her BK Bones website.

Music from Soundcloud by KAIO. Also from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, Vital Nominate, Cyberwave Orchestra, Ievgen Poltavskyi, Vlad Krotov, Dmitrii Kolesnikov, Pastichio, Toby Smith, and music_for_video.

It’s the closest to being a wizard you’ll ever get: you wave your wand and music is conjured and controlled per your command. But the realities of musical conducting as an occupation are not quite so fantastical. You need marketing chops, communication savvy, a dash of humility, and a whole lot of hustle. Join me as I interview Callum Rookes, a musician-turned-conductor from the UK. What philosophy drives his repertoire choices? How does he direct musicians without ruffling feathers? And what was it like to conduct a video game orchestra?

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You can find Callum on Instagram. Check out his website for more info on Project Symphonic.

Music from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, Jerome Chauvel, Peter Barbaix, Nicholas Panek, Trygve Larsen, and Jekk Music.

They are wine experts in the fine-dining world, helping guests understand and enjoy the bottles that pair best with each meal. But to be a sommelier, you need to know more than just expensive labels and obscure tasting notes. As L.A. sommelier Loris Jones-Randolph shares in this episode, her work requires her to also be part dancer, part server, and part scientist. So how difficult is it to become a certified sommelier? And how does one learn to remember so many different flavors? (This last one may or may not involve tasting rocks!)

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You can find Loris on Instagram, or listen to her Wine Fairy podcast.

Sound effects from Pixabay by Aman Kumar, freesound_community, and from YouTube Audio Library.

Music from Pixabay by Sergio Prosvirini, Oleksii Holubiev, Artem Hramushkin, LuLu Poli, Dvir Silver, Vlad Krotov, u_98o9hlkn7r, Daniel Vargas Ruiz, and music_for_video.

Let’s keep digging into the field of deathcare! I continue my interview with Kari Northey, a mortician with decades of experience, for the dirt on what it takes to work in a funeral home. Does spirituality help or hinder in this business? What makes a good funeral? And how does a mortician find fulfillment?

This episode is a continuation of my conversation with Kari from Part 1 of this episode.

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You can find Kari on Instagram, YouTube, or her website.

Music from Pixabay by Won Jong Hwa, LFC Records, Lofium, music_for_video, Artem Hramushkin, and Sergei Chetvertnykh.

They put the “care” in “deathcare”. Also called funeral directors, morticians are a one (wo)man show - they do everything from sell caskets and write obituaries, to embalming and dissection, to hair and makeup. So I asked Kari Northey, a mortician with decades of experience, for the dirt on what it takes to work in a funeral home. How did she wind up in deathcare as a career? What do you learn in mortuary school? And why are most mortuary school graduates women?

Be sure to check out my entire conversation with Kari by listening to Part 2 of this episode.

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You can find Kari on Instagram, YouTube, or her website.

Music from Pixabay by LudoSoundX, Retrositive, HD Studio, Anastasia Kir, LFC Records, and Won Jong Hwa.