MULTIPLE HATS: STEM Careers | Reinvention | Entrepreneurship |Thought Leadership
Episodes
MedTech Success Explained with 6 founders - The Triangle of value, The Team, and The Story That Gets Funded
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if your MedTech solves a real problem, shows great data… and still never gets used?🔍 What You’ll Learn:Most STEM professionals focus on bu...
Firechat on the mindset shifts, skills, and trade-offs no one tells you about building beyond the lab with Ben Wright co-founder of Mimetic foundry
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if the thing holding your career back isn’t your skills, but the beliefs you keep repeating?🔍 What You’ll Learn:Most STEM professionals do...
Why Great MedTech Fails, and What It Really Takes to Build a Company That Works with Ben Wright, co-foudner of Mimetic Foundry
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why do some of the most brilliant medical technologies never reach patients, even when the science works?🔍 What You’ll Learn:If you’ve ever tho...
Building support network in STEM, leadership leaps and big career pivots as a Boeing aerospatial engineer with Cassie Leonard
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Building Your STEM Safety Net: Cassie Leonard on Being the Only Woman Engineer at Boeing and Leaving Corporate to Coach and PublishThe episode of Mult...
Why Women Leave STEM, How to Spot Burnout, and Advocate for Real Change- Beyond the Pipeline with Belinda Di Bartolo, Jessica Borger and Cassie Leonard
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond the Pipeline: Why Women Leave STEM, How to Spot Burnout, and Advocate for Real ChangeThis episode will put words on what many women in STEM fee...
"Thriving in STEM: Rethinking Career Pathways for Women with Cassie Leonard
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond the Leaky Pipeline: Redefining Success and Keeping Women in STEM with Cassie LeonardThe episode of Multiple Hats, hosted by Angelique, addresse...
STEM Careers Feel Too Narrow? How to Create Breadth Without Blowing Up Your Job, Quick Win from the interview with OnQ Recruitment
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why job descriptions are narrow by design, and how to read between the lines to shape a bigger role.This is my takeaway episode from my interview with...
STEM Self-Limiting Beliefs Holding You Back, Transferable Skills, Done vs Perfect, and Taking the First Step, Fire Chat with Catherine O’Mahony
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A rapid-fire reality check on why STEM professionals stay stuck, and how to move anywayWhat if the real thing holding your STEM career back is not you...
STEM Careers Beyond the Job Description, How to Own Your Path and When to Build Your Own Box, with STEM founder Catherine O’Mahony
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You are a STEM professional and you tick every box on paper, so why do you still feel boxed in, underused, or quietly restless at work?🔍 What You’...
Career Reinvention for entrepreneurial STEMM Professionals and aspiring change makers
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Reinventing STEM Careers: Unscripted Stories of Courage and Creativityif you're looking for a podcast to find your vision and make it happen, that's f...
From Underfunded Science to Award-Winning: The Drug Discovery Rollercoaster with Dr Chris Burns
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What keeps a drug alive when the science is fragile, the funding dries up, and the company name changes four times?A 20-year survival story of near-de...
Derisking Biotech: Smarter Indications and Better Resource Stretching for Early Teams
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Derisk you biotech assets with 3 key coniderations. Learn from drug development expert Angelique Greco and medtech-biotech founders and investors with...
What Biotech Investors Look For: The Real Checklist For Funding Your Drug or Device
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From pitch decks to de-risking strategies — how to turn promising research into an investible opportunityYou’ve got strong data and maybe even a b...
Your crashcourse in biotech commercialisation Part 1 - key considerations on the core science and adjacent considerations to take your drug to market- STEM essentials
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve got strong data and maybe even a first-in-class idea, but do you know what it really takes to get your molecule from the bench to the bedside...
Reinventing Your STEM Career: Three Tactics I Learned from Nina Hooper That Change How You Spot Opportunities
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From student curiosity to space entrepreneurship, discover how enthusiasm, visibility, and action can unlock unexpected doors in STEM careers.Ever fel...
STEM Career Myths: The Sneaky Beliefs That Stall Your Progress with Nina Hooper
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Which career myth is secretly holding you back: thinking hard work is enough, that skills don’t transfer, or that your work will speak for itself?🔍...
STEM Career Pivot: How Nina Hooper Turned Curiosity into Career-Defining Moves from Harvard to Space Tech
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if your enthusiasm—not your credentials—was the spark that could turn your STEM career into a launchpad of endless opportunities?🔍 What Yo...
Thought Leadership for STEM Professionals: A 5-Minute Framework To Get Seen For Your Expertise
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could draft your first piece of thought leadership in just five minutes — and start shaping how opportunities find you?🔍 What You’l...
Get Seen for Your Expertise: A simple brand audit to check if your voice matches your ambition
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When someone asks, “So, what do you do?” — does your answer reflect your ambition, or just your current job title?🔍 What You’ll Learn:If yo...
Why Thought Leadership Isn’t Just for TED Speakers: How to change the way opportunities find you in STEM
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever felt that your hard work should “speak for itself” — yet the right opportunities never seem to find you?🔍 What You’ll Learn:A...
STEM Portfolio Careers: Finding Your Thread and Communicating It With Confidence with Dr Chloe Lim
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does your career feel like a jumble of unrelated projects — and your to-do list like a slow-motion burnout plan?🔍 This is a quick win episode wh...
STEM Career Change: What to Do When Academia Pushes You Out with Dr. Chole Lim
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever felt like the door to your academic career was closing — and wondered if it could actually be the opening to something bigger?🔍 Th...
Portfolio Careers in STEM: How to Build Income Streams Without Burning Out with Dr. Chole Lim
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever feel your 9-to-5 can’t contain everything you’re capable of—and that putting all your energy into one income stream is a risky bet i...
Medtech Commercialisation: Three steps to spot real problems and rally support with Medtech founder ShanShan Wang
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder why some people always seem to make progress—while others stay stuck Googling for answers?Here’s the truth: Success often starts with ...
How to handle self doubt as a first time medtech founder, with Shanshan Wang
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Busting career-limiting beliefs and unlocking smart, strategic action for STEM professionals💥 Are your beliefs about being “just a scientist” q...
Medtech Entrepreneurship: How a weekend project became Shanshan Wang’s investor backed startup
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you saw a path to a life saving device? Would you have the courage to turn it into a company—and convince others to come with you?🔍 What ...
How a cancer researcher shifted her STEM career and built a clinical research startup, with Dr Sue Nguyen
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
❓What if the real barrier to your next career move isn't your capabilities but your plan B? 🔍 What You’ll Learn:For every STEMM profession...
Why interdisciplinary thinkers in STEM will shape the next wave of medtech founders, with Dr Anushi Rajapaksa
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Creating Your Own Path as a STEMM Professional with Dr. Anushi Rajapaksa "If not me then who" - why you may actually be the one who shoul...
Why breaking old industry norms takes more than technical skill in STEM, with Sophia Kurianski (founder of Jinolo)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️From Uni to CEO: How Mechatronic Engineer Sophia Kurianski Took on Decades-Old Industry Norms with JinoloChallenging outdated 3D design process...
From Startup to Global Impact: Ida Tin’s Role in the Femtech Revolution—Entrepreneurship in STEM Without a STEM Degree
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Femtech revolution with Ida Tin, founder of ClueDid Apple "forgot" to add a period tracker to the Apple Heath tracker at a time when Femtech was n...
Rising Above the Critics and Embracing your differences: Boldest Lessons from STEMM Career Changers, entrepreneurs and change makers in 2024
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ 2024 Wrap-Up: Dream, Surround Yourself Right, Embrace Your Patchwork, and Take the LeapReal-life examples and mindset shifts to help STEMM pro...
From STEM Fresh Grads to Founders: How Two Google Software Engineers Turned Chronic Illness into a Health Startup and set their own entrepreunarial journey
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Fresh Grads to Founders: How Two Google Software Engineers Turned Chronic Illness into a Health StartupAnnabel Zhou and Vivian Shen la...
STEM Startup Sparks – Stories from the UNSW Founders Program building the future entrepreneurs - Turn your ideas into reality and into a start-up
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Series Trailer: Startup Sparks – Stories from the UNSW Founders ProgramReal stories from founders and program leaders inside one of Australi...
Forging STEM Founders Early: How UNSW’s New Wave Program Helps Women Start Something New and launch their start-up
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Forging Founders Early: How UNSW’s New Wave Program Helps Women in STEMM ( and others) Start Something NewVictoria Rose Tucker on why it’...
How a Biotech Student Project Brewing Beer Led to a Bioplastics Startup: Alinta Furnell on Spotting Unexpected Opportunities and turn them into a STEM start-up
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Episode Title:How a Biotech Student Project Brewing Beer Led to a Bioplastics Startup: Alinta Furnell on Spotting Unexpected Opportunities💬...
From Ophthalmologist to Social Impact Innovator: Dr. Sarah Crowe’s STEM Career Reinvention with OOXii Global, a start-up making prescription glasses accessible
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Ophthalmologist to Social Impact Innovator: Dr. Sarah Crowe’s Career Reinvention with OOXii GlobalWith her kids grown and gone, Dr. Sar...
From Biomedical Engineer to Startup Ecosystem Builder: How Dina Titkova amplified the impact of her STEM career by scaling Health Innovation at UNSW Founders
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Biomedical Engineer to Startup Ecosystem Builder: How Dina Titkova Scales Health Innovation at UNSW Founders With a global career spannin...
Supercharge your impact when social impact meets engineering - How building a STEM NGO from scratch on the other side of the world changed Tom Jacobs life, entreprenarial career and improved the lives of many
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You want to make an impact but you're not up to shooting rocket to Mars?No worries. You can use your skills to make a difference without being born a ...
From Academic Research to Medtech start-up Founder: Dr. Maryam Parviz’s STEM Career Reinvention through entrepreneurship, with SDIP Innovations
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Academic Research to Medtech Founder: Dr. Maryam Parviz’s Career Reinvention with SDIP InnovationsFrom lab bench to global accelerators...
From Aerospace Engineer to Women-in-STEM Coach: How Cassie Leonard Left Her Prestigious Role at Boeing, embraced entrepreneurship, published a book and launched her own coaching business
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Aerospace Engineer to Women-in-STEM Coach: Why Cassie Leonard Left Her Prestigious Role at BoeingAfter a high-paying corporate role at Bo...
This Academic Crystallographer Challenged Science Education: The Neurodivergent Entrepreneurship Journey of Dr. Lorien Parker who reinvented her STEM career and launched her education start-up
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Crystallographer Turned Neurodivergent Educator: How Dr. Lorien Parker Built SciencePlay Kids from ScratchAfter leaving academia and navigati...
Find your vision and make it happen - how to supercharge your STEM career and design work that matters to you
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
That's a wrap up for Multiple Hats and 2023!What a great ride we had with our amazing founders sharing their journey and what it takes to be an entrep...
From Science and Finance to Healthtech Entrepreneur: How Alison Gartner Combined STEM Degrees to Co-Found a health start-up- Evidentli and Rethink Impact Without a PhD
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Science and Finance to Healthtech Entrepreneur: How Alison Gartner Combined Degrees to Co-Found Evidentli and Rethink Impact Without a P...
From Chemistry to Science Commercialisation: Leveraging 10+ Years of STEM Experience to Build a Sustainable Business from Day One with Natalie Chapman, a reinvented STEM entrepreneur
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Chemistry to Commercialisation: How Natalie Chapman Leveraged 10 Years of STEMM Experience to Build a Profitable Business from Day One A...
Design work that matters to you: From Lab Scientist to MedTech start-up Founder at 22: Starting a PhD While Launching a Startup and Turning Discovery Into Real-World Diagnostics with Dr. Dharmica Mistry
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ **From Lab Scientist to MedTech Founder at 22****Starting a PhD While Launching a Startup and Turning Discovery Into Real-World Diagnostics**H...
STEM career reimagined - Combining a PhD in marine biology and art to create a new job as a Visual Storyteller: How Dr. Sue Pillans Designed a Portfolio Career That Mirrors Her Values ( from the beach) - Full STEAM ahead
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ After a decade in marine science, Dr. Sue Pillans swapped research papers for sketchbooks—founding a visual storytelling business that helps...
Complete Rewiring from a STEM degree working in Corporate Pharma as medical science liaison to Social Entrepreneur building an E-Commerce: Turning Workplace Discrimination into a Mission to Empower Mothers with Oriane Juncker
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Complete Rewiring from Corporate Pharma to Social Impact E-Commerce: Turning Workplace Discrimination into a Mission to Empower Mothers with ...
From STEM PhD and vaccine lab work to social entrepreneurship: how powering her own career change from academia to industry led Dr. Melina Gerorgousakis to tackle the Gender Brain Drain in the biomedical sector
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From PhD and Lab Work to Social Entrepreneurship: How Powering Her Own Career Change from Academia to Industry Got Dr. Melina Georgousakis to ...
360 turn from Engineering and Sales without overthinking: Transitioning her STEM career into a high performance coach and author with Lison Mage " Act Before You Overthink"
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Overthinkers Beware!Have you ever fallen into the rabbit hole? Thinking and thinking, stuck into analysis paralysis?🎙️ From Engineer to High-Per...
From Science Journalist to STEM Media Entrepreneur: unleash your big vision with Heather Catchpole STEM entrepreneurship journey - Refraction Media Transforming STEM Storytelling
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ From Science Journalist to STEM Media Entrepreneur: How Heather Catchpole Co-Founded Refraction Media to Transform STEM Storytelling After a ...
MULTIPLE HATS: Career Reinvention for entrepreneurial STEMM Professionals and aspiring change makers
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
STEMM entrepreneurs wannabe, listen up!Have you ever thought that there was something more that you could bring?Is it an idea or perhaps a change you ...