MULTIPLE HATS: Career Reinvention for STEMM Professionals

The Femtech revolution with Ida Tin, founder of Clue

Did Apple "forgot" to add a period tracker to the Apple Heath tracker at a time when Femtech was not a thing?

Imagine you’re pioneering a product in a completely new sector, carving out an entirely new market category.

That’s the journey of Ida Tin, the co-founder of Clue, one of the largest Femtech health apps serving 10+ million active users across 190+ countries....

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The end of the year is always a good time to look back and take one action.

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Imagine puzzling with the pain of a chronic illness and your only help is a giant xls spreadsheet where you try to figure out what makes you sick and what help you staying afloat.

That's what Annabel Zhou and Vivian Shen had to do, just like the millions of people trying to live a healthier life despite their chronic illness.

These two women however decided to turn the situation around and leverage their technical skills as software ...

Embark on this series with UNSW founders special accelerator programs and hear from UNSW program managers and founders.

wether you have already started or just have an entreprenarial itch, this is sure to show you what's possible when you dare to give it go.

it is packed with founders stories, near explosions, realisation that there must be a better way as well as the incredible involvement of the program manager who can make this en...

Breaking Barriers: Championing Women Entrepreneurs with UNSW's New Wave Program

22% of startups are founded by women only and they receive only 0.7% of the private capital.

Do the numbers line up to you? Not to me!

We need more female entrepreneurs and more funding for them.

UNSW Founders' New Wave program is breaking barriers right at the beginning for female entrepreneurs.

Victoria Rose Tucker, New Waves program manager co...

It all started with a 15 year old visiting in a biotech lab. Bam, the next generation of innovator was shaped and not so long down the track, Alinta Furnell, would become the CEO and co-founder of Synbiote, a company focusing on creating high-grade industrial bioplastics.

Alinta's journey, from an unexpected email halting can production for their non-alcoholic beer to transforming waste into innovative bioplastics.

Alinta s...

Imagine what it would be like to struggle with poor vision every day and not be able to afford a pair of glasses. That's the reality for many people in remote communities across the globe.

Dr. Sarah Crowe recalls an ambulance driver in Papua New Guinea who found himself in dangerous situations due to his poor vision.

Stuck by the astonishing reality that so may people do not function properly, when all they would need is a pair ...

A Deep Dive into the UNSW Founders Program - one of the most acclaimed accelerator in Australia.

Community is everything! If you are a founder trying to reinvent the wheel, you are going to have a hard time but if you can find the right community for where you are in your journey, it is a fast track for your start-up.

A fast track in motivation, in network, in knowledge and know how and in funding access.

In this episode o...

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 billionaire, without having gone through a life traumatising event or having a genius idea.

Tom Jacobs is an engineer from Australia and he did just that with Bokan Tseo, his corporate buddy, and local to Lesotho - better the lives of thousands of people by applying is engineering skil...

Ideation and invention is the start of the journey but there is so much more going into bringing a business and a medtech to life. Where you start matters but Maryam stories is a tell tale about how to be at the right place at the right time and engage with the right stakeholders.

Tune in for dr. Maryam Parviz is the co-founder and CEO of SDIP innovations, a medtech company which technology is a bioresorbable implant which prom...

Like any kids, Cassie Leonard wanted to go into space and so she studied aerospace engineering ( at UCLA, mind you)

What if you turned up on your first day and was the only woman in a room of 35 engineers? Maybe quite daunting.

But it did not stop Cassie from spending 16 years at Boeing!

And You know what's great in accumulating 16 years of corporate experience in the biggest aerospace company in the world? You get to explore a l...

This time, we are talking neurodivergence with Dr. Lorien Parker, aka Dr. Loz.

Lorien is the founder of SciencePlay Kids, a company she founded 9 years ago for ALL BRAINS and ALL learners type to engage with Science and learn. And she did so with zero prior experience in business or education but she jumped right in the deep end and followed her passion for science to help neurodivergent learners and she knows all about it beca...

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 entrepreneur, call it success and sometimes, call it quit!

Thank you for lending me your ears and coming along with me on this journey of entrepreneurship!

Let's make Multiple Hats a conversation and tell me what you think or what you want for next year. 

This episode is a word of...

Alison Gartner, the co-founder of Evidently, an Australian Start-up whose technology can analyse complex health care data to guide clinicians in their practice.

This is a holy grail in healthcare data because we are now generating more data than ever, and we don’t tap into the full potential of these so called "data lakes" due to the difficulty of standardising, cleaning and linking different data sets to produce actual action...

Have you ever thought of a brilliant idea as a rough gemstone?

That's a what Natalie Chapman, the founder of Gemaker, thinks researchers and inventors have, a rough gem that needs a great deal of polishing before becoming an actual Gem.

With a bachelor in chemistry, an MBA and a decade of marketing, communication and tech transfer experience, she decided that there was a better way to accelerate this process and founded Gemaker ! A ...

How Does a 22-Year-Old STEMM Graduate Found a Biotech Company?

Deep Tech aspiring founders, this one is for you!

Why start a PhD and what can you do with it?

Some people fall into their PhD, following the next logical step after their Honours or Masters.

Some people fall into it because they are not sure what job to go after yet.

Not Dharmica Mistry, she wanted to go into nutrition but didn't get in the course so instead of rumi...

If you had many jobs in your field but somehow can't land on a single definition of yourself, you're not alone.

You probably belong to the people who could thrive with a "portfolio career", that is a career which is not limited to one job or one stream of income but rather made of multiple pieces of yourself and all the hats that you can wear.

That's definitely what Sue Pillans realised when after 10 years of employment, something di...

Welcome to multiple hats. A show about STEMM professionals who have gone off script and carved their own path beyond the tracks that were set for them. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine. How they found their why and what it takes to make it happen.

Did you ever consider that mothers represent 30% of the global population? And yet there isn't many specific services to support them. That's what Oriane Junke...

Social entreprise, Business with purpose! What do you do when your sector does not have any powerful supporting community? well, you start you own! #Be the change you want to be!

Melina Georgousakis founded the Franklin Women, a social enterprise aiming to break the silos in the health and medical sector as well address the terrible brain drain, that sees women in STEMM leaving the sector within 5 years. Following the stan...