Equivalent Too

Khaoula has such a positive attitude towards equality and diversion in engineering. This comes from being in a nurturing work environment, where gender equality is encouraged and an openness to diversity is practiced. She also has healthy work/life boundaries, but this wasn't always the case. Khaoula approaches life with logic and rationality, all the things you would expect from a process engineer and she shares her wisdom with us on how to feel like and be an empowered women in STEM.

Ujjwal Chahal is a data scientist stemming from an education in software engineering in India. Having qualified from Imperial College in London, she know analyses data to improve business. I got a chance to chat to her about her south east Asian roots and how that has affected her career path in a typically male dominated industry and get to learn a thing or two about standing strong in your own skin, after having been replanted away from your cultural roots.

Chinwe Odili is originally a civil engineer now working in offshore. She has taken the time to really get to know herself and her heritage, which has given her the confidence to stand strong as an under represented person in her industry. There is clearly so much power in truly knowing yourself.

Abby is pretty outstanding. So passionate about her research with many strings to her bow! It's inspiring to hear her focus and determination. She's certainly someone who works hard and takes none of her talents and skills for granted. In today's world where everything is about the surface, she's making a point of looking beyond what's superficial - and not just with turbine blades!

Dr. Cat Gardner was a girl from Grimsby, who wasn't a straight A student, but now has a PhD in Physics and bags of experience to be able to command authority with her expertise amongst her 90% male-dominated team at Rolls-Royce. I'd say she's empowered. She opens up to us about her career journey and the personal development she has embarked upon to boost her confidence and pride in who she is today, because that didn't come with her achievements. Cat is completely lovely and really inspiring. Check this convo out!

Fiyin is just starting out on her own career journey, but she is already helping other women in Nigeria through a charity she started, which provides them with access to further education after secondary school. In her short career in Finance, she has already learned so much about resilience, self-belief and determination and she shares all of that with us in this conversation..

I speak to family friend that I haven't seen in decades. We cover a variety of topics, including allowing children to discover their purpose and how the educational system can be shaken up! We put the world to rights in this heavily abridged conversation, where you get to be a fly on the wall, as two Sri Lankan women catchup on old and new times!

Megan Pormer has worked hard on her education, her emotional well-being, her health and her inner contentment and connection to a power greater than herself.

As a strong Iranian woman, educated in the UK and currently living and working in the USA she has finally found independence.

Megan radiates beauty, not only externally but most importantly from within.  She has found freedom through adversity, despite systems which tried to keep her muted for so long. Her words made me question my own inner narratives and constraints and they will do the same for you too.

We all want to live with purpose and peace and Megan shares her own roadmap in finding hers.

As a woman in STEM having completed a degree in Zoology, Laura now finds herself in the middle of a debate between government, education, industry and youth on encouraging people into STEM. It's a tough task to unite everyone in this discussion and Laura is tackling this firmly, one step at a time, by asking young people what they want!

Fran Scott is a true engineer at heart. She loves making stuff and her work is highly visual and exciting at she plays with fire and makes things explode, in order to shows audiences how fun and wondrous STEM can be! Our conversation gets really honest and heartfelt as we discuss the discuss the choices and reflections we have made as women in predominantly male-industries and celebrate the fact that we are doing exactly what we love!