Meaningful Conversations with Stereotype Breakers

Technology has disrupted career paths - and now you can use your background and skills to create something completely unique and non-traditional. My guest today, Dr. Sarah Habibi is the perfect example of that - she is building her own company in science communication and is constantly discovering new career opportunities that open up for her!

Dr. Sarah Habibi, PhD (she/her) is a molecular biologist, science communicator, and digital content creator. She is a popular TikTok scientist, with over 130,000 followers. You can follow her on TikTok and Instagram @science.bae.

Learn more about Dr. Sarah Habibi and follow her on social media:

https://www.sarahhabibi.com/

https://www.tiktok.com/@science.bae

https://www.instagram.com/science.bae/

Are you being fairly compensated? Let me take you through the steps that will help you figure out whether you're being paid a market rate for your job, experience, skills, and location.

Join our Salary Database, the Get Paid Equally Project, by filling out this form with your salary data: https://forms.gle/UjfmEsPCRuiUycpo6

Salary Research Tools video: https://youtu.be/45c_2UE7ZKs

My framework on how to approach career goal setting and planning for the upcoming years, both: long-term and short-term goals - which should flow one out of the other. This technique helps you create sustainable goals that account for the uncertainty and unpredictability of the world we live in these days!

Get my career goal planning template here: https://www.stereotypebreakers.com/career-goals-framework

Social media has made sharing information about our lives so easy and natural. However, could we be oversharing and putting ourselves at risk by exposing our PII (Personal Identifiable Information)? Listen to our conversation with Caroline to see how you can stay safe online and protect your privacy.

Caroline Hsu is a technologist and ethicist who investigates how identity shapes online experiences. She cares deeply about how these experiences can move people to co-create a more socially responsible, human-centered future of technology.

Her experience spans sales engineering and solution architecture for Fortune 500 clients and she holds a degree in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, with additional studies in economics and tech ethics.

Caroline is co-founder of Cyber Collective, which empowers people to think critically about their relationship with the internet while helping them become more private and secure online.

Learn more about Caroline and her work: https://www.carolineh.su/

Check out and follow Cyber Collective:

Website - https://www.cybercollective.org/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cybercollectiveorg/

Join our Cybersecurity Challenge to take improve your safety online in 4 simple steps: https://www.stereotypebreakers.com/cybersecurity-challenge

We all know it, but until it properly sinks in, we don't act. It's much easier to take the victim route, waiting for things to happen to us - and much harder to take control over your life and dreams. But it is your life and it's your responsibility to make things happen. So take control over your reality!

Use this guide to hack your habits and build new ones on top of the old ones:

https://www.stereotypebreakers.com/build-habits-that-stick

Limiting beliefs are unavoidable, everyone has them in some shape or form. We may not realize it though, so that's why talking about them is important - it helps us recognize those patterns in ourselves. Can't wait for you to listen to our interview with Aida about limiting beliefs and entrepreneurship!

Connect with Aida on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidakandil/

Learn more about MyTindy: https://mytindy.com/

Follow MyTindy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytindy/

More about Aida:

Aida Kandil is a serial Moroccan entrepreneur who is very passionate about supporting her country, so after studying in Canada, she decided to go back and make an impact in a vital sector: handicrafts.

MyTindy.com was born in 2019 to empower handcrafters in Morocco to connect and sell to an international audience, with the vision to expand to the entire MENA region. It supports them in their digital transition and allows them to promote their business internationally. MyTindy supports them by providing training and taking care of the logistics for their vendors. The marketplace has already onboarded more than 250 artisans that have sold products in over 35 countries.

Manifestation is somewhat of an unconventional approach to job search - at least for now. Well, it worked for Rachelle! Listen to our conversation to learn more about that + Rachelle's experience and thoughts on building that confidence muscle.

Rachelle is passionate about being multifaceted and following numerous interests. She is a yoga teacher, software engineer, content creator, board game designer, and outdoor enthusiast! She is passionate about increasing the number of women in STEM fields and aims to help working professional women prevent burnout, achieve work-life harmony, and feel empowered in all aspects of life!

Learn more about Rachelle here:

https://www.rachellepulver.com/

https://www.instagram.com/rachellepulver/

Subscribe to the Meaningful Conversations podcast here:

https://www.stereotypebreakers.com/podcast

Brainstorming is great, but with the way our brain works, that idea generation process can be flawed - and we might come up with solutions that aren't optimal. Introducing Framestorming, which has been a game-changing tool for problem-solving - at least for me.

Winning the Brain Game (book): https://amzn.to/3G4XDVK

Subscribe to the Meaningful Conversations Podcast on the Podcasting platform of your choice: https://www.stereotypebreakers.com/podcast

Let's talk about personal branding because that can be an overwhelming topic. Where does one start? How can you do it all? Behind the scenes vs. Curation? I've chatted to Kelly Brito, the mastermind behind the Stereotype Breakers' new brand identity on the topic and asked her some of the most burning questions about building a powerful, intentional personal brand. Kelly started her business because her love for coding and web development, back in the MySpace and AOL days. While her clients came to her asking for a custom website, they had no logo, no choice of colors or fonts... They had no brand! And they actually assumed branding came with web design. This led Kelly to specialize in brand identity design, and then branding strategy, to better serve her audience, while educating them on what branding truly means. In 2021, as the meaning of branding is once again lost in the internet noise, Kelly started Branding With Purpose. A design studio, a podcast, a course, and a branding movement!, where the mission is to educate and empower women who want to build a heartfelt brand that supports their unique positioning in the market. Learn more about Kelly and her work here: https://www.instagram.com/heykellybrito/ https://kellybrito.com/

Jenny shares her learnings through life's ups and downs. Including incredible advice for anyone going through tough times.

Jenny is a Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, Real Estate Investor, and a simply wonderful human. You may know her as Codenbyte on Instagram already :) Learn more about her story from our conversation!

Follow Jenny on social media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codenbyte/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZu6E2lJf9bZ2ff80sZRcWg