Naba Rivzi, a 5 time-changer of majors, a Google Women Techmaker Scholar and author of the blog Technically Muslim is on the show today. In this part we talked about mental health as a woman and a minority in a male-dominated industry and how we could use our female or male voices to become better advocates for ourselves...without yelling.

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Approximate Timestamps

1: She’s a Google Women Techmaker Scholar.

5: Still, she suffered/suffers from math anxiety because of a harsh teacher in middle school.

8: Having low confidence despite winning three hackathons

13: She shares experiences with academic and workplace harassment as a woman and minority in tech.

“Imposter’s syndrome—that’s anxiety; just with a different name.”

19: Developing the ability to advocate for yourself and using your voice as a woman to better advocate for yourself.