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In this episode, we are chatting with fashion consultant, costume designer, Writer, Curator, and Archivist Rebecca Pietri. 

• She has been delivering design projects for over 20 years. Her clients include A-list celebrities such as Questlove, The Roots, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Justin Timberlake, U2, corporate giants, leading editorial voices, studios, museums, and corporate executives. African and American traditions and designs highly influenced her work. Rebecca shares with us how it all started, how she fell in love with design and fashion and how she entered the field via a path less travelled.  

The interesting thing for the episode :

In this episode, we discuss the article that has been published in Nature entitled “Largest-ever study of journal editors highlights ‘self-publication’ and gender gap” - Read more 

The main content of the week

• Rebecca tells us about how growing up in New York made an impact on her life and how she learned to fit in with the clothes she decided to wear. This was an interesting learning in an early age which she extended and cultivated. 

• Another learning Rebecca tells us is about the importance of building relationships and brining people together. This is the way she got her first introduction to the world of fashion. 

• Power of “No” is an important idea discussed during the podcast where Rebecca advice the young people about how important it is to listen to your body and mind and reflect on the path forward. 

• Furthermore, Rebecca tells us about the way Influences she had while she perfected her craft and how she continue to learn even after being at the top of the field. 

Books that made an impact

• Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld by Byung-Chul Han - Read more
• Yield: The Journal of an Artist - Read more
• Work by Theaster_Gates - Read more 
• The house of Spirits - Read more

Upcoming projects by Rebecca Pietri

• Contributing writer and donor to the ‘Fresh, Fly and Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style’ Exhibition at the Museum at FIT

More about Rebecca Pietri

• Website - Click here
• Linkedin - Click here to learn more
• Instagram - Click here

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In this episode, we are chatting with Professor Stephanie Willerth. She is a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Victoria. Over the years Professor Willerth has held many distinguished positions. This includes being the President Canadian Biomaterials Society.

Professor Willerth did her undergraduate at MIT and completed her Phd at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a published author and has over 4500 citations. 

In addition to sharing her experiences, Professor Willerth will share with us some of her favourite books and why they made an impact on her life. 

The interesting thing for the episode :

In this episode, we discuss about application chatGPT. Recently the journal Nature published an article discussing how chatGPT was utilised to create abstracts for journal articles. The abstracts that were created (in some cases) were able to fool humans into thinking its the real deal. Click for the full article here.

We celebrate, as humans, we have been able to create something extraordinary. However, there are concerns about using chatGPT such as privacy, biases that maybe included in the model and various other questions. 

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The main content of the week

Professor Willerth discusses her childhood and the importance parents and guardians play in encouraging children, especially girls, to experiment and be different. Furthermore, she talks about her focus and goals all the way through high school, university and PhD. In addition, Professor Willerth, speaks about the importance of discussion, collaboration, and building relationships. There are many golden nuggets of advice to Phd students, Postdocs and other academics. 

Universities and research centres discussed

• MIT - Read more
• University of Washington in St Louis - Read more
• UC DAVIS - Read more
• Stanford University - Read more
• University of Victoria - Read more

Advice to PhD Students 

• Are you doing a PhD? Watch out for these common problems. Click here to read more
• Should you go into industry or Do a Phd ? 9 questions to ask yourself when deciding if to do a PhD or go into industry? Click here to read more.

Books that made an impact

• The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank - Learn more
• Ring of Fire: The Inside Story of Valentino Rossi and MotoGP - Learn more
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race -

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#004 - Greater fools

In this episode, we are chatting with Economist,  Lecturer,  Analyst, Researcher, and Consultant Dr. Frédéric Schneider. Dr Schneider completed his PhD at the University of Zurich and has held posts at the University of Cambridge, Yale University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Furthermore, he has been cited more than 700 times.  Dr. Schneider shares with us how he fell in love with behavioural psychology. In addition to sharing his experiences as a researcher and an economist, Dr Schneider shares with us some of his favourite books and why they made an impact on his life. 

The interesting thing of the week

Theory of greater fool The theory of the greater fool suggests that one can sometimes make money through the purchase of overvalued assets. In this context, one "fool" might pay for an overpriced asset, hoping that he can sell it to an even "greater fool" and make a profit. The idea of a greater fool can be interpreted that, someone who believes they can do better when others have failed. 

Why is this relevant now - more than 26000 people are likely to lose their jobs that worked in AWS and Salesforce alone. This is due to the economic downturn.

One avenue for these individuals will take would be to start their own business or start-up. We wanted to do our part, to support these individuals. if you are starting something new, we would love to talk to you about your startup, how it came about and why you are passionate about the idea. 

Please reach out to us. 

The main content of the week

Dr. Schneider, discuss his childhood and the important role teachers play in inspiring kids to be passionate about a subject. 

Universities and research centres discussed

• The University of Zurich - a Center of academic excellence in Europe
• https://www.uzh.ch/en.html
• The University of Cambridge - https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/
• The University of California at Berkeley - https://news.berkeley.edu/
• The University of Yale - https://www.yale.edu/

Problems faced by PhD Students 

• Are you doing a PhD? Watch out for these common problems. Click here to read more
• Should you go into industry or Do a Phd ? 9 questions to ask yourself when deciding if to do a PhD or go into industry? Click here to read more.

Books that made an impact

• My uncle Napolean by Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad 
• Palace walk by Naguib Mahfouz 
• Books by Elinor_Ostrom - Click here to read more

More about Dr Schneider

• Linkedin - Click here to learn more
• Twitter - https://t

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In this episode, we are chatting with Isi Casas del Valle Pacheco

She is a lawyer, lecturer and Space leader. She talks to us about Space law. Just like general international law, Space law comprises of a variety of international agreements, treaties, conventions, and United Nations General Assembly resolutions and rules and regulations of international organizations. 

She trained as a lawyer and now focusing exclusively on Space law while working as a community manager with the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

The interesting thing of the episode 

The Artemis -1 launched on 16 November 2022. It is the beginning multi-year project to take humans back to the moon exploring much more of the lunar surface than ever before. In addition, Artemis mission will land the first woman and first person of colour on the moon. The lessons learned from the moon mission would be utilised to take the giant leap; that is sending the first astronauts to Mars. 

The extremely complex launch vehicle (Space Launch System), with the most powerful rockers ever built, launched the Orion spacecraft. It’s an incredible accomplishment for NASA, and its partners.

Interview

Isa talks about how she overcame adversity to find her vocation in the field of Space law. Isa works with various organisations including the european southern observatory (ESO) to make Space accessible to the next generation of Latin Americans. Isa mentioned, "You are a product of your decisions and not your circumstances". We agree. Resilience, determination, passion, and grit are vital to make anything successful. 

Books that made an impact

• Start with Why(Simon Sinek) 
• The subtle art of not giving a fuck (Mark Manson)
• The compound effect (Darren Hardy)

If you would like to get in touch with  Isa you can do so via:

Instagram - @isi_space

Linkedin - Isi Casas Del Valle P 

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In this episode, we are chatting with journalist and political scientist Marcos Lema. He has contributed to many news publications over the years, including El País, and El Confidencial and today we will discuss how it all started and why being a journalist is his vocation. In addition to sharing his experiences as a journalist, Marcos will share with us some of his favourite books and why they made an impact on his life.

We talked about life in A Coruna to the current development in news and publishing. In addition, we talked about some of the books that made an impact. Marcos told about the importance of culture and critical thinking and how these aspects should play a bigger part in the education curriculum. It truly was a great pleasure to chat to Marcos and learn about his journey. 

The interesting thing of the episode
In the UK we have a new chancellor of the exchequer after a bit of turmoil in the British government. So why is it interesting or relevant to creators or professionals? There are two important lessons to learn from all this drama. 

The first lesson is to ease things in when you are making significant changes. Drastic changes, in a short space of time, almost always face resistance and usually negative reactions. As professionals, entrepreneurs working with colleagues or others always need to keep this in mind. A lot of companies try to do digital transformation or other types of programs fail because the change management is done properly

The second lesson is the importance of feedback. Feedback is gold and it gives an independent validation of the idea. A review as it were. Another reason that the UK government got into this situation was that they didn’t engage or utilise the Office of budget responsibility or OBR. If the OBR was engaged, they would have provided a review of the budget and forecasted its effects which would have given more confidence to the market. 

Interview 
Critical thinking, which is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement should be a key part of Education from early childhood, according to Marcos Lema. The combination of critical thinking and curiosity is essential to be successful in any field Marcos explains. We agree. Listen for more insights. 

Books that made an impact

• Morning Star (Xosé Miranda)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
• Decalogue Of The Good Citizen (Víctor Lapuente)
• A Cynic wouldn't Suit This Profession: Conversations about Good Journalism (Ryszard Kapuściński)

What’s something cool Marcos is working on?
Marcos and his colleagues are working on an interesting project - Brújula Global. It is a new take on subjects that matters to many of us presented in comprehensively and elegantly. We encourage you to check it out. 

If you would like to get in touch with  Marcos you can do so via:

Twitter - @marcos__lema

Linkedin - marcoslema

Brújula Global. - https://www.brujulaglobal.com/

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We have a brand-new podcast and I am really excited about this new project. Podcast will consist of three main parts. 

• The interesting thing about the episode: We will try to cover something that interesting. This would typically be about something related to creators or professionals. We really want this to be a collaboration. So please send us your question, projects you have done or interesting ideas you may have had. Simply get in touch and we would love to hear about an interesting project you are doing and how you are getting on. 
• Main content: This is the main part of the podcast where we would be interviewing and discussing something about 
• Question of the episode:  This is about answering the most burning questions you may have as a creator or professional. Please send them to us and we will pick the most interesting ones and try to answer them. If we cannot answer them, we will try to bring someone on to the show that will be able to answer the question in much more detail. 

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