Getting tenure as a professor takes many years. It’s hard and intense work and men and women are equally skilled and ambitious about this. However there is a point in the process where women start to drop behind or out all together, usually in their 30’s when they start to have children. Men traditionally at this point have wives at home to take care of the childcare but women aren’t so lucky. As a result, as in many professions, we have lost brilliant women because they just don’t have the capacity to excel in two jobs. In fact only 20% of fully tenured professors in STEM today are women. And the effects of this on our lives and our economy are wide ranging. Most of the devices we use today, from our phones to cars to the airbags that deploy in an accident, were all designed by men, for men’s bodies and how men think. 

Our guest today is a woman who is determined to change all this. Dr Carin Bondar is a Canadian biologist, writer, filmmaker, speaker and television personality and we are very proud to say, a recent She’s on Top member.  She is also the visionary behind STEM Angels, a registered charity that supports women continuing in the science and technology sector of higher academia. The STEM Angels Foundation is the first of its kind in the world so we were thrilled to learn more about this subject and to be able to share this information with you.

Some of the questions we ask:

1. What is STEM?
2. How did you get into STEM and why?
3. Let's talk about the crazy statistic on your website that only 20% of fully tenured professors in STEM subjects are women. Why is that?
4. Why does it matter? Why do we need women in STEM? 
5. What can maternal perspectives in science achieve?
6. How do we fix this?
7. What is the STEM Angels foundation and how can we help?
8. What have been some of your biggest struggles around getting recognition and having a seat at the table?
9. Advice is there for women who want to get into this field

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Learn more about Dr Carin Bondar and STEM Angels:

STEM Angels Foundation  https://stemangels.ca/

Dr Carin Bondar:

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carin.bondar

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carin-bondar-6860a233/

J.Kelly Hoey transformed her career through networking and in the process became an expert on the subject. Today she is a sought after keynote speaker, has a podcast on the topic and recently released a book ‘Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World’. Business Insider exclaimed that Build Your Dream Network “completely changed the way I think about networking” and we do too.

Like many of us this is an area where we struggle, which is why we jumped at the chance to learn from her expertise. Kelly believes that there is no one-size-fits-all formula when it comes to networking but there are a few tips that can make you better at it. She offers a fresh approach to mastering this essential but timeworn skill in a world where “everyone is frantically posting, liking, and friending”; yet too many people are failing to successfully make the lasting, genuine connections their careers need. 

Some of the topics we cover:

1. How did you become a networking expert?
2. Are there different networks for men and women?
3. What should the structure of your network look like? 
4. Is it different networking online? 
5. What networks do women need?
6. How can you leverage your male network to increase your female network/community?
7. Research shows that successful women leverage their networks better than anyone else. How and why?
8. Top tips for creating a network.
9. How do you make networking more fun?

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Learn more about J.Kelly Hoey

Website: https://jkellyhoey.co/

Book: Build Your Dream Network. Forging Powerful Relationships In A Hyper-Connected World. https://jkellyhoey.co/books/book-build-your-dream-network/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyhoey/

It’s our first podcast of 2022 and we are celebrating it with our first male podcast guest, Aloe Blacc. Aloe is a Grammy nominated musician, singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and philanthropist. Aloe fell in love with hip-hop as a kid and started writing rap songs when he was nine. His illustrious career has focussed on love, good energy and positivity. “When I signed a major-label contract, I recognized the power of having a larger audience, and I promised myself that I’d use my voice for social change” he says. And that’s just one of the many things we admire about Aloe and why we wanted to share his philosophy and point of view with our audience. 

Aloe also believes in empowering women so their voices can be heard too. Their perspective and point of view are needed in music and we chat with Aloe about how we can achieve this goal. We also talk about the importance of community, how we define success and what we can all do individually to be part of the change that needs to happen.  

“When things happening in the world seem so terrible and dark, it’s so easy to get stuck in all the negative. But I try to do whatever I can to help people out of that. I want my music to be the light.” 

Some of the questions we ask Aloe:

1. How did you get into music?
2. Did you always want to be a musician?
3. You’ve had a very successful career so far - did you always want it to be about positivity?
4. What were the influences on you that helped you create your music?
5. Why is it harder for positive songs to break through?
6. Why are positive songs so important?
7. Why do you think it’s important to have more female voices heard?
8. Why is it important for men to support female artists and producers?
9. What do you see women bring to the music industry as producers and musicians that is different from men? 
10. What do you see as the change needed to get more women into the music industry? 
11. Advice for women to break into the music industry from a male point of view.
12. How do we stay positive with all the bad news that’s thrown at us?
13. Who are some of the women in your life that inspired you?

Learn more about Aloe Blacc

Website https://www.aloeblacc.com

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

Twitter  https://twitter.com/aloeblacc

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/aloeblacc

Spotify   https://open.spotify.com/artist/0id62QV2SZZfvBn9xpmuCl

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