WISEcast

Support WISEcast here --> PayPal. We need your support as we are in the process of becoming a nonprofit and increasing our reach to serve women and underprivileged populations in their STEM career journeys!

In this episode, our Director of Content and engineering student at Texas A&M University, Liliana Hildebrand, and our newest intern Tahmina Fayezi discuss our recent episode "Explore Your Strengths to Optimize Your Career."  --> Make sure you subscribe and review our podcast - we have more career advice coming up this season!

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship and partnership opportunities, send us an email at [email protected].

Support WISEcast here --> PayPal. We need your support as we are in the process of becoming a nonprofit and increasing our reach to serve women and underprivileged populations in their STEM career journeys! In this episode, Dr. Julie Rennecker makes the argument to align our career goals with our strengths rather than focusing on our weaknesses. 

Dr. Rennecker, the Founder & Chief Catalyst of Syzygy Teams, is a scholar-practitioner committed to using and teaching evidence-based methods for improving organization performance. Her research and consulting projects have taken her behind the scenes of companies ranging from startups to Fortune500 firms in diverse industries including healthcare, med tech, automotive, high-tech, and oil & gas. She earned her doctorate in Organizational Behavior from MIT’s Sloan School of Management where she studied teams and technology change. She then served on the Information Systems faculty at Case Western Reserve University where she taught in both the MBA and Executive Education programs. With more than 20 years’ experience conducting research and advising executives, Julie brings a unique synthesis of academic knowledge and field-tested methods to bear on the “soft” side of complex organizational challenges. She is Certified Practitioner of Appreciative Inquiry, Strengthscope™, and the Chief Reinvention Officer Method.

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship, send us an email at [email protected]. Sound engineering for this episode is by Rachit Taneja (email: [email protected]).

Support WISEcast here --> PayPal. Listen in for a special offer from Theresa Merrill, Career Development Coach, that is only available until Oct. 31st!

In this negotiation masterclass, we discuss the importance of the "ask" in salary negotiations and address the fears many people have going into these conversations. Theresa offers tips and pointers on language, psychology, and how to react and respond in specific situations. Get your notepad out because you'll want these nuggets of wisdom to help you increase your salary this year! 

Theresa partners with C-level executives, managers, and women to be their own best advocates by helping them navigate performance reviews, salary negotiations, interviewing and career pivots. Theresa believes that everything in life is a negotiation. What makes her unique is she combines her sales and marketing background with her deep expertise in career coaching to help clients get the job they want and the salary they deserve. Her coaching strategies enabled clients to negotiate significant increases in their comp plans, sometimes doubling their salary.

Connect with Theresa on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresamerrill/

Check out her website to learn more about her coaching options:  theresamerrill.com

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship, send us an email at [email protected]. Sound engineering for this episode is by Rachit Taneja (email: [email protected]).

Our Director of Content and engineering student at Texas A&M University, Liliana Hildebrand, and our Director of Marketing and pre-dental student Caroline Romo discuss our recent episode "Ambition is Contagious - Build Your Tribe" which features Ebun Ojekunle, a scientist at Pfizer.The girls discuss how the negative connotation for ambition is not prevalent in their circles. They also discuss that role models and people you don't know in real life can be a part of your tribe. Do you agree? --> Make sure you subscribe and review our podcast - we have more career advice coming up this season!

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship and partnership opportunities, send us an email at [email protected].

“I wish women would have the confidence of the white man…” - Ebun Ojekunle, Senior Associate Scientist at Pfizer 

Support WISEcast here --> PayPal. In this episode, we have a round table discussion with Ebun on what it takes to maintain and grow your ambition. You need to surround yourself with other high-achieving individuals, build your tribe with a mix of mentors that are men and women, and as always, keep persisting.

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship, send us an email at [email protected]. Sound engineering for this episode is by Rachit Taneja (email: [email protected]).

Our Director of Content and engineering student at Texas A&M University, Liliana Hildebrand, hosts special guest Rahul Gopalan, one of her engineering peers from TAMU to discuss our recent episode "Girl, Interrupted: Communication Strategies to Overcome Mansplaining and Manterrupting" which features Richa Bansal, the founder of Pink Careers. Not only do we get a Gen Z perspective on these issues, but we also get to enjoy the male perspective! --> Make sure you subscribe and review our podcast - we have more career advice coming up this season!

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship and partnership opportunities, send us an email at [email protected].

Support WISEcast here --> PayPal. In Girl, Interrupted, Richa Bansal, MBA, PMP, the founder of Pink Careers, speaks to us about using "Assertive Communication" and other communication strategies to overcome mansplaining and manterrupting. Definitely take notes! This episode was inspired by the VP debates of 2020 when VP Kamala Harris, to counter the repeated interruptions, said "Mr. Vice-President, I'm speaking" and Kim Goodwin's viral tweet (linked) featuring a flow chart to determine if a man is mansplaining. 

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship, send us an email at [email protected]. Sound engineering for this episode is by Rachit Taneja (email: [email protected]).

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Richa Bansal is a seasoned professional with a decade of experience in strategy, operations, engineering, supply chain, and management. As one of the only women in the room for most of her career in the Oil & Gas and the IT industry, she has seen first-hand the struggles of young professional women as they navigate the corporate ladder.

Support WISEcast here --> PayPal. No woman in STEM should feel stuck or unhappy in their job with such lucrative and marketable STEM skills. In this episode, we discuss owning your identity as a scientist and executing a career pivot from academia to industry. Featured guests include  Dr. Kate Stumpo, former tenured professor and mass spectrometrist, and our very own co-host Amber Miller, a flow cytometry specialist and former director of a STEM Success Center. Both of these emboldened women found the courage to leave the ivory tower for jobs in industry.

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship, send us an email at [email protected]. Sound engineering for this episode is by Rachit Taneja (email: [email protected]).

The "Wisest Girls" Alma Hernandez, Director of Marketing and Liliana Hildebrand, Content Creator are joined with special guest Kristen Stubenazy to discuss our recent episode "Use Self-Advocacy to Level-Up Your Career. Start Now.", which features Stephanie Slocum the author of the Amazon bestseller She Engineers.  These three Gen Z college women reflect on confidence and its relationship with your ability to self-advocate, how it's easier to advocate for others, how you can lift others through advocating for yourself, and so much more. --> Make sure you subscribe and review our podcast - we have more career advice coming up this season!

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship, send us an email at [email protected]. 

You can immediately change and level up your career after listening to this episode. We discuss  strategies to improve your ability to self-advocate. We are joined by Stephanie Slocum, PE (she/her), the founder of Engineers Rising LLC and author of the Amazon.com bestseller She Engineers. She also provides useful insight on how to handle situations where you have been wronged. These strategies will help any professional woman in STEM level up her career. Make sure you subscribe and review our podcast - we have more career advice coming up this season!

WISEcast is featured as the Top 45 Women in STEM Podcasts by Feedspot! Help keep our momentum going and visit our website thewisestwomen.com, and follow us on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. For information regarding sponsorship, send us an email at [email protected]. Sound engineering for this episode is by Rachit Taneja (email: [email protected]).

You can touch base with Stephanie Slocum by email at [email protected] and check out her website: www.engineersrising.com

Stephanie can also be reached on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.