Laure interviews USDA field ecologist Richard Mankin who has a rare muscle disorder that impacted his mobility. Tested by his own will to do science in the field, Richard learned to find creative, out of the box solutions to enable his active and mobile career.

Megan interviews newly minted government scientist David Payne about his undocumented condition called aphantasia. David didn't know until after graduating from his PhD that he didn't have a mind's eye. It was like discovering that everyone else had superpowers. He talks about how he found ways to subconsciously cope with his differences, and how post-PhD the effort to cope is much more mindful.

Continuing the mini-series on overcoming obstacles, Laure interviews current graduate student, Katharine Seton who suffers from myelitis encephalitis, or chronic fatigue. Katharine talks about how she started to understand her condition better in graduate school. As she learned to define and ultimately embrace her limitations for herself and among her peers, her life and success as a student improved.

Megan and Laure introduce the series on overcoming obstacles by sharing their own experiences. Megan talks about her visual muscle disorder which caused a life-long challenge with reading, and Laure discusses how she was only aware of her dyslexia late in life. Their stories open up the broader conversation on how obstacles should not discourage people from pursuing their passions. 

Laure and Megan bring the series interviewees, Audrey Bascoul, Jamie Meadows, and Timothée Poisot, together for a discussion and debate about imposter syndrome. One thing they can agree on... imposter syndrome is universal and ubiquitous in science.

A culture of elitism in academia wrote his imposter into being. Before graduate school he did not consider how other's might see him. Now, he struggles with the idea that up and coming students will follow his ideas. Ecologist and professor Timothée Poisot talks with Megan about his imposter syndrome. 

Laure interviews current AAAS fellow, Jamie Meadows, about how imposter syndrome played a role throughout her scientific career.

Civil engineer Audrey Bascoul, double MS and PhD, talks about her imposter and how it continues to affect her even after completing her PhD. Milestone after milestone, accomplishment after accomplishment, she can't seem to shake the feeling that she doesn't belong.

Laure and Megan have an honest discussion about their own experiences with imposter syndrome and why they want to dedicate an entire series to the subject.

Megan interviews Marina Gardasevic, a graduate student in the UK, about how she finds balance in life as PhD through mixed martial arts.