May 3, 2024 • 31 mins
Representation matters to Tiffani Teachey and as an African American woman in the male dominated field of engineering, she knows her presence is noticed so she is doing all she can to make sure the next generation of STEM leaders is represented with some girl power! Whether she is speaking at schools and encouraging girls to enter the STEM stage or signing her book, What Can I Be? STEM Careers from A to Z, with a message to a young one, Tiffani is carving a path and leaving her footsteps to be followed.
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Welcome everyone to another episode of WomenExcelling Everywhere. I am Julie Anderson,
your host aka brain Lady Julie,and we are here with Women Excelling Everywhere
to support women, help them toexcel wherever they are at in their life,
their business, their career, theirrelationships. That's our goal, and
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one of those areas is parenting.And so that is why I am so
excited to have our guests today.Tiffany, Tiffany Chiccci. You'll have to
tell did I say that right?Awesome? Tiffany, Welcome to the Women
Excelling Everywhere Show. Thank you somuch. I'm excited for this great conversations.
Julie, thanks for having me.Yeah, this will be so much
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fun, so much fun. Atthose who know we know that I did
that. I homeschooled my kids,and you know, it seems like the
topics that you address are ones thatare always very challenging for a lot of
parents and a lot of teachers.So with that in mind, before we
get into the interview, I'm goingto read a little bit about Tiffany so
everyone knows your professional background, andthen we can talk about kind of what
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led you to where You're at now. So. Tiffany Tecci is a senior
mechanical engineer, Science, Technology,engineering and math advocate, SO STEM Advocate,
ted X, international speaker, andinternational best selling author of the children's
book What Can I Be, StemCareers From A to Z, the Stem
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Crew Kids adventure series They're So Cuteyou have to look at them on our
website, and three trans women transformativebooks on women's empowerment and entrepreneurship. She's
the host of the Read It Writeradio show on wd RB Media and also
the host of Engineering Management in InstituteWomen at Engineering podcast. She's the founder
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of the Stem Crew magazine. Tiffanyis the owner of Thrive Edge Publishing,
the co and the owner of publishingconsulting consultant of Stem Crew Magazine. Tiffany
is the owner of Thrive Edge Publishingand owner and consultant Did I Just Double
That? Of Inspired Authors Publishing.She helps us what happens when I don't
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have my glasses on. She helpsunderrepresentative industry and business leaders publish children's books
about their field to inspire children tochoose the same path. Tiffany holds a
Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering,as well as a Master's of Science degree
in Engineering management, both from theUniversity of North Carolina. As Charlotte,
she is a Leadership Studies PhD studentat North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University.
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As an engineer with over nineteen yearsexperience, Tiffany is very interested in
getting young people interested in STEM careers. She was born and raised in Winston
Salem, North Carolina, and enjoystraveling and being a youth mentor. Tiffany,
welcome again to the Women Excelling Everywhereshow. Thank you so much,
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Julie, Absolutely my pleasure. Thisis so much fun because not only do
you, I mean your educational backgroundsnot only impressive, but you've taken that
and you've used it to inspire womenas well as children are the upcoming generation.
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So tell us there's there was athere's a lot there. Tell us
kind of how you moved from justfrom being an engineer into deciding, Oh
wait a minute, I want toI want to tell my story and I
want to publish books, and Iwanted, like, how did you make
that that transition between the two.Well, being an engineer, you know,
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I'm always problem solving and thinking andeverything too. A lot of times
I would be asked to go.Teachers always want us to and talk to
the kids in school visits. Andso it was that moment when I would
talk to the kids and I wouldsay, how many's met an engineer?
How many hands goes up? Andso when I started doing the hands on
activities, doing the Engineering's fun presentations, I said, Okay, I mean
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it's met an engineer, and soall hands should go up because now they've
met an engineer. And so thatwas the moment that people of the moment
where I said, Okay, weneed to get this in writing, representation
matters. They need to see morerepresentation. And so I actually saw a
challenge on Facebook Crystal Swing book Coach, and she showed how you can publish
your book a best selling book infive days. And so I learned the
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process of how to publish books andI stayed in my lane of knowing where
I wanted my audience to be.I knew I love the kids and love
to talk to the kids, sowhy not put it as an ABC A
to Z book. I kept itssimple for my first book, which was
what can I Be Still Carrism Maketo Z And so I learned the publishing
process. I got a book team, you know, to help me with
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the process of putting it together.But it was that pivotal moment where I
realized, the kids have never metengineers or different stam careers science, technology,
engineering, math careers. So Iwanted to put it in writing.
Hence I've been able to generate variousother books just off of that first book
of what can I be STEM careersfor made tozy. I love that.
So now as an engineer, asa woman in that field, was that
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a tough road doing that and becomingan engineer? Yes, I still live
it. I'm actually still full timeengineer living it today, and so yes,
it is a male dominated field goinginto engineering. I actually was that
just to get going with how itstarted to get into engineering. I was
a curious young girl in math class, asking the questions, and of course
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it's always those challenges boys no morein those type of fields and those things
in math class. But no,I was just as smart, and so
I learned that. Okay, mymom was an educator, my dad was
an entrepreneur. They it's still mybrother's an engineer as well. He's a
civil engineer. I'm mechanical engineer.So they instilled us the value of education,
and so we would go to amath and science Saturday academy and from
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there we learned the Initially I wantedto be a lawyer because I thought I
could debate. But when I learnedthat engineering is about problem solving the math
and science, and I wasn't thebest at math, and I will admit
in science. But I was ableto use those skills and build upon it
to be able to know that engineeringplay the role with it. And my
dad, who was an entrepreneur,his client was a civil engineer. He
said, Hey, you might needto get your kids into engineering, and
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that's social capital. So between theeducational side of my mom, you know,
to send too those programs, someof those diperent Saturday programs. I
was able to know that engineering wasthe way I wanted to go. It
is a male dominated field. I'vedealt with various within schools, you know,
not as many femails in the classroom. So then in the real world
of working, dealing with it beinga male dominated field. And so I've
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had those episodes. I've had thosemoments where I had to let him out
I'm just I'm not an admin,and off it's the admins, but I'm
like, I'm an engineer. I'mjust a competent. So those type of
situations came about definitely. But Iknow my place as far as my worth
and my value and so those arethe things I definitely needed to know and
I continue to do while I'm beingan engineer. Was there a particular challenge
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that you faced at some point,Like, obviously there's a general the general
things, but you talked about apivotal moment when you were in the classroom.
Was there also like a pivotal ora point, a specific challenge along
the way that was like really likeinspired you? Like, no, no,
I am absolutely going through with this. Yeah. I mean going to
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school college was it was not easy. My mom I was talking, I
talked to her all the time.She's my biggest cheerleading my dad as well,
who passed away. But they wereinspirational for me to get through college
because it was not easy. Thoseclasses I mean I've had to take with
mechanical engineering. I decided I wantedto go that route because it was the
broadest I needed to see it.I actually went in undecided engineering. I
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didn't even know what's type, butthey had that as an option. But
it was those moments in those classrooms. Yes, it was tough, and
then being able to get through thoseI had Calculus one, two, and
three different equations, I mean,woo, and so I knew what my
purpose was despite everything that was goingon, and I knew I needed to
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graduate. I was an r aresident advisor, I was in a lot
of organizations. So it's those pivotalmoments where I said, Okay, I
gotta get through this. I cangraduate. You know. I had my
mama talking in my ear. She'slike, you're gonna get through this,
sifty, even if we gotta letsome stuff go. But I made it
through. I made it through,and it wasn't easy. But at the
end of the day, I've gotthe degree and know one to take it
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away from me. And that's whatmade me know, Okay, why I'm
in the workforce now and why I'mconfident and just as capable even in an
environment i'm in with the mail dominatedfield. Yeah, that's so encouraging.
That's and that's a really good lesson, especially to little girls, not just
for that might be interested in theengineering, but would be interested in any
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role or any career that's tough.Yes, right, and anything that's tough
you can get through it. Andthen you stand on the other side and
it's it's a it's so fulfilling tobe able to do that. Now you
in your interacting with because it's maledominated and you're dealing. You go into
the schools and you have your bookswritten for the kids. Do you how
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do you inspire the little girls totake that leap? You know, it's
probably a little bit easier to inspirethe little boys, but how do you
inspire the little girls? It mustbe so impressive to them to see a
female role model, right, Butyeah, it's amazing. It's those moments.
The reason I do what I dois because I look at when they
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do come back and I've seen themgrow up and stuff, and they're like,
remember when you, you know,showed me how we can be this,
and then they become that, theybecome an engineer. They go in
these leadership positions. I give anexample of when I'm signing it bending event
to the book, and there wasthree sisters. One was a older one.
She was kind of older for thebook, so she was telling them,
hey, y'all, she is anauthor. She wrote this book,
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and she kept saying, y'all needto know this. She's signing it for
you. And so she was hypealready for them. And at the end
of the day when I signed thebooks and then they was walking away,
one of the young girls she cameback, she says, thanks so much
for being in the book. It'sjust like moments like that, it's like,
oh my god, I planned tosee. And I think that's the
biggest piece of trying to encourage thesegirls and that they can be it too.
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And I think that's the biggest partand encouraging them, showing that representation
matters and don't let anybody tell youdifferently. And I write in the books.
I'm always like, if you believeit, then you can achieve it.
So I always write those and signthose in the books. But those
moments are that's how I know I'mon the right track and making the end
impact. When I know I'm puttinga seed in there and they not only
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can they learn that they can bein these careers, but on the back
of these as well, they cansee a picture of me. And so
now they're like oh, man,you did write this to see an author,
so they can also write a book, so they could also become an
author. And yeah, those aresome things that also feels that they can
also take with as well. Yeah, and there's so many things. It's
it's very interesting. And I justrecently did a presentation for a big group
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of homeschool home educators and it wastalking to some of the teenagers afterwards after
we talked about understanding their brain andtheir brain strengths and their brain gifts and
how they could achieve anything they wantto. It's it's so nice to see
their eyes kind of light up andgo, oh really, that's yeah,
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this is something I can do,you know. It's it's I don't think
in standard schools, it's just teachthem to just get them the education.
It's just get them the education.It's not necessarily always open their eyes to
the future. So that's cool.Now, what are some of the barriers
that exist for women and how canwe deal with them or how can young
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women going Like, let's say you'recoaching or you're helping to encourage a young
woman who's getting ready to take thosecollege courses. What are some of the
barriers that she's going to run upagainst and how can you help her to
address those? Okay, Yeah,as far as barriers, I mean mentor
a lot of the girls as well. Mentor has been good. So barriers
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are not feeling their confetent or havingpeople tell them they're not competent, like
I said with math classes, havingthat encouragement, having some representation, seeing
some that can empower them, Ithink it's what's ideal. So the barriers
are not knowing they're just as competent, having the confidence, knowing that they're
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not confident enough, the whole impostersyndrome, that whole saying of whether they're
worthy to be in the room.And it's like you are just as worthy,
You are just as competent, smart, beautiful, and you just you
can do it. And I thinkthat's the biggest piece of if they can
have some representations, utilizing these organizationsa lot of them to volunteer for these
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girls, like Society and Women EngineersSweet, like there's different organizations that started
back engineers, Like, there's somuch out there that can encourage these carols,
And so that's what I would say, the barriers off for it.
Yeah, So helping to address thosewould be helping to encourage them and give
them the confidence to take those steps. What advice would you give them a
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year or two into the degree ora year or two into the study when
they're taking right, they're taking calculusor whatever and they're like, oh,
this is so hard, Like whatwould you tell them? Then? If
they're starting to feel that imposter syndrome, go back to your why why did
you decide you wanted to be inthis? And know that it's worth it
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at the end, I do thatfor you. Can they can do that
across the board. I still asan adult say why what is my purpose?
And build upon it? And sodespite some of the barriers of sitting
in the room form groups, there'sdifferent organizations and groups on campus that you
can take part in. Study groups. Make sure it's productive study groups like
those type of things this, yeah, and so you learn things you I
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enjoy college, don't get right.I enjoyed it, but then I had
a reality check, like I gota graduate. So those yes, enjoy
college, enjoy that. Know someof the people your roommates and all of
them might not be in the sametype of fields where you're gonna have to
make sure you study, and youknow, you might have to be at
the library late, you might haveto do different things, but just know
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it's worth it at the end toget that degree and then take advantage of
enter ships opportunities. And then evenfor the young people, I would say
job shadow, sit under somebody who'smaybe in those careers. Sit under people.
And I tell the parents that too. I say, get them if
they want to be a veterinarian,go have no sit for a day if
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they want to be that type ofcareer. And then those in school,
go do some internships, go seewhat you know. Mentors that's another thing.
Mentors are important. To get amentor, get somebody who can help
advise you. And then there's mentorsand sponsors. There's a different sponsor,
someone in the room that maybe canvouch for you when you're not in the
room. And so having a mentor, having a sponsor, those are some
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things I would think for help withyour confidence, encouragement as well as some
great advice to help you guide youthrough the process as well. That's cool,
that's those great pieces great ideas.Now with you, what are some
of the high points of being anengineer? Like, what are some of
the things that you love about yourcareer that makes it worth the effort that
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it took you to get there.The highlights of it is knowing that a
lot of times, it's like trustfor beveryfire. That's one of the sayings
they tell us. I don't knowif it's ingrained in us, but the
work that we do, we makesure it's safe. We have to make
sure that we're we know that we'remaking an impact. All that we're doing,
somebody's lives is involved with it.And that's the biggest piece of my
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purpose. Knowing that I chose thiscareer, I knew it was going to
be a challenge, but to seethe end result that is really my highlight.
I see the outcome of it andthe results it's a win. I
mean a win is a win,small wins throughout seeing all that happen,
it's been the biggest piece that's reallymade me. I've been able to travel
with assignments. I've been out inCalifornia for a year and a half.
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I was doing and it's a beautifulplant that's out there, Diaglo Canon Southron
and I was out there. Yeah, and so I did different you know,
aspects of travel with the job,being able to see different things,
the perspective learning things. It's beengreat. I think that's been really great
highlights to be able to do differentwork assignments and then working as a team.
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And I talk about that with mystimproo kids. We all have to
be put with so with so wehave to work as a team, the
diversity part of it. And sothose are some highlights that I know,
you know, we all bring somethingto the table. And I think engineering
has been essential. And like Isaid, I've enjoyed to do the different
work assignments, doing the different designsI've done with colpulations, I've dealt with
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all different specks and all of that. And so just seeing the end results
of everything I think that's ultimately beenand knowing that it's made an impact.
I think that's really what's made myday of why I decided to go into
the bridge. So, yeah,that's such a that's such a great I
don't know, claim to fame ifyou want to call it, just that's
such a great thing to be ableto I can see why you say,
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you know, look at it,look at it when it's done, you
know, die of the Canyon powerPlant that's not too far from me.
I'm familiar with it. I knowwhere it's at. So now that you
say that, it's like, ohwow, that's pretty cool. I know
somebody that works and that I meanas the daily lives, we have to
put the industry on me in safetyfirst, we always talk about safety because
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anything can happen, and so we'reliable and responsible with the career that we
have, and so knowing that,we think about that every day. And
so I love the fact that I'mmaking the impact and I think ultimately that's
what and then I'm paving the wayfor others. Another thing is I know,
me being a female afric American femalein this industry paying the way for
others to be able to be inthis and I'm being an example and a
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role model as well as being anengineer in itself. It's been an amazing
experience too. That's that's so cool. Now do you go out and I
know that you said that you visitclasses and schools, but do you you
go out. I notice that youhave a TEDx talk on your website,
and I encourage everyone by the waythat her website will be listed in the
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in the show notes, but itis Tiffany Teachy and the spelling of that
will have in the in the shownotes, but it's Tiffany Teach dot com.
And I noticed that you have differenttechex talk and like do you go
out and speak for colleges as wellas in the elementary schools? Yeah,
I'm all about. So what happenedis I became an author, which made
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my mindset become a business owner,and so it changes the mindset when you
become an author. I used thebook to leverage to be on other platforms,
just like from being here, I'mutilizing my message to get it out
there. So yes, I wasable to do tex in South Africa,
University of South Africa and travel gettingmy book out there. Yes, I
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do very speaking engagements all over toget the message out there, so yes,
from colleges to young people to allover to try to get the message
out there about the importance of STEMand so yeah, I was had the
opportunity to do Tech's. I alsogot to do a Forbes Forest me featured
in Forbes and do a speaking engagementfor that as well. And so the
sky's a limit on getting the messageout there. Ye, so speaking is
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a part of the journey of leveragingthe book itself and to be on various
platforms such as podcasts. Yeah,that's awesome now if you you go in
and inspire the kids directly, Butwhat can parents do? What can teachers
do because they may not have accessto, you know, inspirational individuals like
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you to come in. What canthe teacher in a small you know,
small town like Grass Valley where Ilive, or parents who are out there
trying to tell their kids, look, you can do more than just what
you're seeing in your local high school. How can they help to inspire their
kids, especially if they don't getit right, if they're like, wow,
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my brain doesn't get it being anengineer, like that's too hard.
I wouldn't want my kid to haveto like how do they shift that and
be inspirational to their own children.I'm glad you say that because it really
comes back to where they can takeit home. Hands on activities are great.
It gives a good visual for kids. So I would advise robotics is
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one example. Get a robot evenif you don't know how to do it,
they got instructions. So putting ittogether and you don't have to do
it all at once, but workingwith your kids and doing the hands on
activities, then it is programming.So it's some colding involved with it,
but it's opening up the minds ofthe kids, the curiosity. I do
talk about how job shot them.Go have them sit under someone who's in
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those careers. Like I said withthe veterinarian. They love pets and want
to be a veterinarian, Go havethem sit under your dog. If you
have a pet under a veterinary.Hands on activities, looking up different programs.
There are so many online programs wherethey can do simulations, they can
see different activities that definitely be ableto and then start getting some STEM books,
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get some books that tie in withactivities they can do. Right,
Yeah, absolutely absolutely getting I thinkstimulate the mind. You might not know,
but there's a lot of resources outthere that's available to get them in
and organizations. So I do.I want to put it out there.
I do have a free gift.If they want to know more resources with
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it, then STEM scholarships and organizations, ebook and so I've looked up different
organizations from society with many engineers andthere's me different different types of organizations that
is going to help them with thedifferent things as well as scholarships. So
I have that as well for theparents as well. So it's www.
Dot stem is theway dot com andI've looked up ebook to generate all the
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organizations because there are various organizations thatvolunteers and can different different resources from there
that they can take advantage of.But I would say, do some hands
on activities and you can use thematerials that's around the house. Yeah,
and that's the thing I think thatyou don't have to go buy it stuff.
For example, I do the competitionswith the kids with the with the
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they can do spaghetti sticks and marshmallows. And what they do is you put
them in there who can build thetallest tower with just those resources? So
with that, who can build that? I mean you can do everyday home
resources here and materials. You cantdo stuff with paper, build a tower
with the paper, and so there'svarious things that they can do. Parents
can think about, but it's it'sresources out here and you can just try
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to be creative, challenge the mind. Let me tell you my brother,
he was a civil gener I don'tremember do you remember Teddy Repskin. Yes,
yeah, the book well the LittleBear, it was a bear talking
about But didn't it come with alittle book too? Yes it did,
sure, yeah, yeah, Andso my brother would he were basically took
a Teddy bear and he put ahe cut opened the stomach and put a
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walking talking in it. And sohe created his own Teddy. But now
they got build a bear. Butanyway, back then, so don't question
the kids if they got curiosity.It's what I would say. Let them
think and be think. Their mindsare problem solve and due the critical thinking.
And so those are some things Iwould say definitely for parents to look
at to do, especially at homethat they can do. Yeah, and
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I love the hands on activities.One of the things that I teach,
would teach parent educators is anything thatyou can have them physically get involved in
is going to make ten times asmuch of an impact as the you know,
reading it out of a book.So you know, if you're studying
gravity, you know, building oneof those you know obstacle courses where a
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ball rolls down at right or orlike you say, even just legos.
There's so many different things you cando with legos. I mean, yeah,
so definitely the more hands on youcan get, I'm agree with you
one hundred percent there. And there'sone more thing they can go through museums,
hysit museums, there's nature physits,so there's different things they also can
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do if they want to do fieldtrips and stuff. And then on the
backyard there's different nature things. Sothe science part of it. So the
creativity is there as far as thingsthey can do even at home is an
option. Yeah, we have tothink outside of the school room, you
know, what we think needs tobe done or the way we might have
been raised. Right, the morebecause I could see imagination going, especially
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especially with your little girls. Right, that's a that's amazing, Yeah,
that's amazing. Okay, so youhave a few resources you said you mentioned
the the books that the hen STEMSScholarships and organizations ebook. That is that
STEM is the way dot com Andwhat about your books themselves? What if
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what if somebody wants your book,it's still a way for them to go
go to STEM is the way dotcom get that e book and then it
goes to the books as well.So I'm gonna say STEM is the way
do come. I still want youto get those resources and then then it
goes to the books right after youclick on that button as well. And
so I'm gonna go with stem isthe Way dot Com and say okay,
grab that free e book and thenyou also get access to the books that
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way as well. Now does thatlead? Does that link them as well
to your magazine because you have adigital magazine for parents magazine? Yeah,
the magazine that was see I know, I said my creativity of now I
have Trailblazers and just was launched andeverything stem. It was during STEM Day,
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the National STEM Day. I douchedthe first one and so the next
one is coming up. And soStem Crew Magazine dot com get free digital
access to the magazine. But it'sa great avenue of getting Now I've got
the activities. I got five STEMactivities in there, and then I also
have different articles and then STEM Trailblazersand telling their stories in it as well.
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And so yeah, I have there'sno excuses. I've got some resources
for everybody. So Stem Crew Magazinethe free digital download of the magazine.
So I love it. I loveit, and it sounds like if you're
interviewing trailblazers. You've got lots ofdifferent stories there for different ones. That's
wonderful, and this is a onewonderful thing. We'll be sure to hashtag
all of the parents, you know, to be able to get the parents
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to watch this and hopefully open uptheir their minds as to what they can
help to inspire their kids. BecauseI would assume I'm guessing that some I
shouldn't say I'm guessing. I knowfrom experience. There were times with my
oldest who has a very engineer brainand is has been involved in all kinds
of fabrication and all on the mechanicalside, mechanical engineering, and there were
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times when I was like, thischild's over my head. It was like
to this day, I'll have conversationswith them and just go uh huh huh.
Right. So it's nice there.Yeah, So it's really nice to
know that there are, you know, individuals out there as a parent,
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if this is something that you feelis over your head, you know,
having sources resources like this other trailblazers. Are you sharing your story? This
is a powerful, powerful way tohelp inspire their kids to you know,
think outside of the box and ifit seems a little hard, that's okay,
you can do it. I know. Yeah, that's wonderful. That's
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wonderful. So any final piece ofadvice that you'd like to share that you
really want, final message that youreally want the hearers to hear. Yeah,
just know that don't be afraid ofstim science, technology. Man.
Our kids are smart. We gotsome smart kids, and don't sleep on
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them because of the fact that there'ssome curious kids out here. Let them
go ahead and be curious because theworld is out here and there's people who's
not for them to encourage them.But just know I'm a great example that
they can do it as well.It wasn't easy, but I made it,
and so I want to know thatencourage these girls to know that they
can do it too. And justin general, this guy's a limit.
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There are so many unfulfilled jobs andstill jobs. Let's get these Let's get
us kids in here, Let's getthese girls in it as well. So
that's that's my takeaway. If youbelieve it, you can achieve it.
So once again, Www. Dotstim is theway dot com give you some
free resources. I'm excited and thankyou so much for this opportunity. Thank
you so much for being here.It was a pleasure interviewing you. And
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we will put all of those linksin the show page on the YouTube channel,
and you can also stay in contactwith her on the different I think
we have a couple of social mediaon Facebook and Instagram and Twitter to stay
stay connected and just hear all thegreat, wonderful things that you're doing.
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And it's a good thing to connectyour kids to, you know, let's
get them onto watching something positive onsocial media. Yes, I love it
all right. Thank you so much, Tiffany and forever all of our listeners,
thank you. We are honored thatyou spent the time with us.
And as I want to encourage everyone, please go out to the Women Excelling
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next time, I want everybody tojust kind of roll their shoulders back,
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until next time.
Welcome everyone to another episode of WomenExcelling Everywhere. I am Julie Anderson,
your host aka brain Lady Julie,and we are here with Women Excelling Everywhere
to support women, help them toexcel wherever they are at in their life,
their business, their career, theirrelationships. That's our goal, and
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one of those areas is parenting.And so that is why I am so
excited to have our guests today.Tiffany, Tiffany Chiccci. You'll have to
tell did I say that right?Awesome? Tiffany, Welcome to the Women
Excelling Everywhere Show. Thank you somuch. I'm excited for this great conversations.
Julie, thanks for having me.Yeah, this will be so much
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fun, so much fun. Atthose who know we know that I did
that. I homeschooled my kids,and you know, it seems like the
topics that you address are ones thatare always very challenging for a lot of
parents and a lot of teachers.So with that in mind, before we
get into the interview, I'm goingto read a little bit about Tiffany so
everyone knows your professional background, andthen we can talk about kind of what
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led you to where You're at now. So. Tiffany Tecci is a senior
mechanical engineer, Science, Technology,engineering and math advocate, SO STEM Advocate,
ted X, international speaker, andinternational best selling author of the children's
book What Can I Be, StemCareers From A to Z, the Stem
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Crew Kids adventure series They're So Cuteyou have to look at them on our
website, and three trans women transformativebooks on women's empowerment and entrepreneurship. She's
the host of the Read It Writeradio show on wd RB Media and also
the host of Engineering Management in InstituteWomen at Engineering podcast. She's the founder
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of the Stem Crew magazine. Tiffanyis the owner of Thrive Edge Publishing,
the co and the owner of publishingconsulting consultant of Stem Crew Magazine. Tiffany
is the owner of Thrive Edge Publishingand owner and consultant Did I Just Double
That? Of Inspired Authors Publishing.She helps us what happens when I don't
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have my glasses on. She helpsunderrepresentative industry and business leaders publish children's books
about their field to inspire children tochoose the same path. Tiffany holds a
Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering,as well as a Master's of Science degree
in Engineering management, both from theUniversity of North Carolina. As Charlotte,
she is a Leadership Studies PhD studentat North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University.
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As an engineer with over nineteen yearsexperience, Tiffany is very interested in
getting young people interested in STEM careers. She was born and raised in Winston
Salem, North Carolina, and enjoystraveling and being a youth mentor. Tiffany,
welcome again to the Women Excelling Everywhereshow. Thank you so much,
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Julie, Absolutely my pleasure. Thisis so much fun because not only do
you, I mean your educational backgroundsnot only impressive, but you've taken that
and you've used it to inspire womenas well as children are the upcoming generation.
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So tell us there's there was athere's a lot there. Tell us
kind of how you moved from justfrom being an engineer into deciding, Oh
wait a minute, I want toI want to tell my story and I
want to publish books, and Iwanted, like, how did you make
that that transition between the two.Well, being an engineer, you know,
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I'm always problem solving and thinking andeverything too. A lot of times
I would be asked to go.Teachers always want us to and talk to
the kids in school visits. Andso it was that moment when I would
talk to the kids and I wouldsay, how many's met an engineer?
How many hands goes up? Andso when I started doing the hands on
activities, doing the Engineering's fun presentations, I said, Okay, I mean
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it's met an engineer, and soall hands should go up because now they've
met an engineer. And so thatwas the moment that people of the moment
where I said, Okay, weneed to get this in writing, representation
matters. They need to see morerepresentation. And so I actually saw a
challenge on Facebook Crystal Swing book Coach, and she showed how you can publish
your book a best selling book infive days. And so I learned the
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process of how to publish books andI stayed in my lane of knowing where
I wanted my audience to be.I knew I love the kids and love
to talk to the kids, sowhy not put it as an ABC A
to Z book. I kept itssimple for my first book, which was
what can I Be Still Carrism Maketo Z And so I learned the publishing
process. I got a book team, you know, to help me with
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the process of putting it together.But it was that pivotal moment where I
realized, the kids have never metengineers or different stam careers science, technology,
engineering, math careers. So Iwanted to put it in writing.
Hence I've been able to generate variousother books just off of that first book
of what can I be STEM careersfor made tozy. I love that.
So now as an engineer, asa woman in that field, was that
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a tough road doing that and becomingan engineer? Yes, I still live
it. I'm actually still full timeengineer living it today, and so yes,
it is a male dominated field goinginto engineering. I actually was that
just to get going with how itstarted to get into engineering. I was
a curious young girl in math class, asking the questions, and of course
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it's always those challenges boys no morein those type of fields and those things
in math class. But no,I was just as smart, and so
I learned that. Okay, mymom was an educator, my dad was
an entrepreneur. They it's still mybrother's an engineer as well. He's a
civil engineer. I'm mechanical engineer.So they instilled us the value of education,
and so we would go to amath and science Saturday academy and from
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there we learned the Initially I wantedto be a lawyer because I thought I
could debate. But when I learnedthat engineering is about problem solving the math
and science, and I wasn't thebest at math, and I will admit
in science. But I was ableto use those skills and build upon it
to be able to know that engineeringplay the role with it. And my
dad, who was an entrepreneur,his client was a civil engineer. He
said, Hey, you might needto get your kids into engineering, and
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that's social capital. So between theeducational side of my mom, you know,
to send too those programs, someof those diperent Saturday programs. I
was able to know that engineering wasthe way I wanted to go. It
is a male dominated field. I'vedealt with various within schools, you know,
not as many femails in the classroom. So then in the real world
of working, dealing with it beinga male dominated field. And so I've
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had those episodes. I've had thosemoments where I had to let him out
I'm just I'm not an admin,and off it's the admins, but I'm
like, I'm an engineer. I'mjust a competent. So those type of
situations came about definitely. But Iknow my place as far as my worth
and my value and so those arethe things I definitely needed to know and
I continue to do while I'm beingan engineer. Was there a particular challenge
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that you faced at some point,Like, obviously there's a general the general
things, but you talked about apivotal moment when you were in the classroom.
Was there also like a pivotal ora point, a specific challenge along
the way that was like really likeinspired you? Like, no, no,
I am absolutely going through with this. Yeah. I mean going to
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school college was it was not easy. My mom I was talking, I
talked to her all the time.She's my biggest cheerleading my dad as well,
who passed away. But they wereinspirational for me to get through college
because it was not easy. Thoseclasses I mean I've had to take with
mechanical engineering. I decided I wantedto go that route because it was the
broadest I needed to see it.I actually went in undecided engineering. I
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didn't even know what's type, butthey had that as an option. But
it was those moments in those classrooms. Yes, it was tough, and
then being able to get through thoseI had Calculus one, two, and
three different equations, I mean,woo, and so I knew what my
purpose was despite everything that was goingon, and I knew I needed to
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graduate. I was an r aresident advisor, I was in a lot
of organizations. So it's those pivotalmoments where I said, Okay, I
gotta get through this. I cangraduate. You know. I had my
mama talking in my ear. She'slike, you're gonna get through this,
sifty, even if we gotta letsome stuff go. But I made it
through. I made it through,and it wasn't easy. But at the
end of the day, I've gotthe degree and know one to take it
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away from me. And that's whatmade me know, Okay, why I'm
in the workforce now and why I'mconfident and just as capable even in an
environment i'm in with the mail dominatedfield. Yeah, that's so encouraging.
That's and that's a really good lesson, especially to little girls, not just
for that might be interested in theengineering, but would be interested in any
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role or any career that's tough.Yes, right, and anything that's tough
you can get through it. Andthen you stand on the other side and
it's it's a it's so fulfilling tobe able to do that. Now you
in your interacting with because it's maledominated and you're dealing. You go into
the schools and you have your bookswritten for the kids. Do you how
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do you inspire the little girls totake that leap? You know, it's
probably a little bit easier to inspirethe little boys, but how do you
inspire the little girls? It mustbe so impressive to them to see a
female role model, right, Butyeah, it's amazing. It's those moments.
The reason I do what I dois because I look at when they
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do come back and I've seen themgrow up and stuff, and they're like,
remember when you, you know,showed me how we can be this,
and then they become that, theybecome an engineer. They go in
these leadership positions. I give anexample of when I'm signing it bending event
to the book, and there wasthree sisters. One was a older one.
She was kind of older for thebook, so she was telling them,
hey, y'all, she is anauthor. She wrote this book,
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and she kept saying, y'all needto know this. She's signing it for
you. And so she was hypealready for them. And at the end
of the day when I signed thebooks and then they was walking away,
one of the young girls she cameback, she says, thanks so much
for being in the book. It'sjust like moments like that, it's like,
oh my god, I planned tosee. And I think that's the
biggest piece of trying to encourage thesegirls and that they can be it too.
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And I think that's the biggest partand encouraging them, showing that representation
matters and don't let anybody tell youdifferently. And I write in the books.
I'm always like, if you believeit, then you can achieve it.
So I always write those and signthose in the books. But those
moments are that's how I know I'mon the right track and making the end
impact. When I know I'm puttinga seed in there and they not only
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can they learn that they can bein these careers, but on the back
of these as well, they cansee a picture of me. And so
now they're like oh, man,you did write this to see an author,
so they can also write a book, so they could also become an
author. And yeah, those aresome things that also feels that they can
also take with as well. Yeah, and there's so many things. It's
it's very interesting. And I justrecently did a presentation for a big group
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of homeschool home educators and it wastalking to some of the teenagers afterwards after
we talked about understanding their brain andtheir brain strengths and their brain gifts and
how they could achieve anything they wantto. It's it's so nice to see
their eyes kind of light up andgo, oh really, that's yeah,
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this is something I can do,you know. It's it's I don't think
in standard schools, it's just teachthem to just get them the education.
It's just get them the education.It's not necessarily always open their eyes to
the future. So that's cool.Now, what are some of the barriers
that exist for women and how canwe deal with them or how can young
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women going Like, let's say you'recoaching or you're helping to encourage a young
woman who's getting ready to take thosecollege courses. What are some of the
barriers that she's going to run upagainst and how can you help her to
address those? Okay, Yeah,as far as barriers, I mean mentor
a lot of the girls as well. Mentor has been good. So barriers
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are not feeling their confetent or havingpeople tell them they're not competent, like
I said with math classes, havingthat encouragement, having some representation, seeing
some that can empower them, Ithink it's what's ideal. So the barriers
are not knowing they're just as competent, having the confidence, knowing that they're
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not confident enough, the whole impostersyndrome, that whole saying of whether they're
worthy to be in the room.And it's like you are just as worthy,
You are just as competent, smart, beautiful, and you just you
can do it. And I thinkthat's the biggest piece of if they can
have some representations, utilizing these organizationsa lot of them to volunteer for these
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girls, like Society and Women EngineersSweet, like there's different organizations that started
back engineers, Like, there's somuch out there that can encourage these carols,
And so that's what I would say, the barriers off for it.
Yeah, So helping to address thosewould be helping to encourage them and give
them the confidence to take those steps. What advice would you give them a
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year or two into the degree ora year or two into the study when
they're taking right, they're taking calculusor whatever and they're like, oh,
this is so hard, Like whatwould you tell them? Then? If
they're starting to feel that imposter syndrome, go back to your why why did
you decide you wanted to be inthis? And know that it's worth it
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at the end, I do thatfor you. Can they can do that
across the board. I still asan adult say why what is my purpose?
And build upon it? And sodespite some of the barriers of sitting
in the room form groups, there'sdifferent organizations and groups on campus that you
can take part in. Study groups. Make sure it's productive study groups like
those type of things this, yeah, and so you learn things you I
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enjoy college, don't get right.I enjoyed it, but then I had
a reality check, like I gota graduate. So those yes, enjoy
college, enjoy that. Know someof the people your roommates and all of
them might not be in the sametype of fields where you're gonna have to
make sure you study, and youknow, you might have to be at
the library late, you might haveto do different things, but just know
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it's worth it at the end toget that degree and then take advantage of
enter ships opportunities. And then evenfor the young people, I would say
job shadow, sit under somebody who'smaybe in those careers. Sit under people.
And I tell the parents that too. I say, get them if
they want to be a veterinarian,go have no sit for a day if
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they want to be that type ofcareer. And then those in school,
go do some internships, go seewhat you know. Mentors that's another thing.
Mentors are important. To get amentor, get somebody who can help
advise you. And then there's mentorsand sponsors. There's a different sponsor,
someone in the room that maybe canvouch for you when you're not in the
room. And so having a mentor, having a sponsor, those are some
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things I would think for help withyour confidence, encouragement as well as some
great advice to help you guide youthrough the process as well. That's cool,
that's those great pieces great ideas.Now with you, what are some
of the high points of being anengineer? Like, what are some of
the things that you love about yourcareer that makes it worth the effort that
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it took you to get there.The highlights of it is knowing that a
lot of times, it's like trustfor beveryfire. That's one of the sayings
they tell us. I don't knowif it's ingrained in us, but the
work that we do, we makesure it's safe. We have to make
sure that we're we know that we'remaking an impact. All that we're doing,
somebody's lives is involved with it.And that's the biggest piece of my
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purpose. Knowing that I chose thiscareer, I knew it was going to
be a challenge, but to seethe end result that is really my highlight.
I see the outcome of it andthe results it's a win. I
mean a win is a win,small wins throughout seeing all that happen,
it's been the biggest piece that's reallymade me. I've been able to travel
with assignments. I've been out inCalifornia for a year and a half.
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I was doing and it's a beautifulplant that's out there, Diaglo Canon Southron
and I was out there. Yeah, and so I did different you know,
aspects of travel with the job,being able to see different things,
the perspective learning things. It's beengreat. I think that's been really great
highlights to be able to do differentwork assignments and then working as a team.
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And I talk about that with mystimproo kids. We all have to
be put with so with so wehave to work as a team, the
diversity part of it. And sothose are some highlights that I know,
you know, we all bring somethingto the table. And I think engineering
has been essential. And like Isaid, I've enjoyed to do the different
work assignments, doing the different designsI've done with colpulations, I've dealt with
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all different specks and all of that. And so just seeing the end results
of everything I think that's ultimately beenand knowing that it's made an impact.
I think that's really what's made myday of why I decided to go into
the bridge. So, yeah,that's such a that's such a great I
don't know, claim to fame ifyou want to call it, just that's
such a great thing to be ableto I can see why you say,
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you know, look at it,look at it when it's done, you
know, die of the Canyon powerPlant that's not too far from me.
I'm familiar with it. I knowwhere it's at. So now that you
say that, it's like, ohwow, that's pretty cool. I know
somebody that works and that I meanas the daily lives, we have to
put the industry on me in safetyfirst, we always talk about safety because
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anything can happen, and so we'reliable and responsible with the career that we
have, and so knowing that,we think about that every day. And
so I love the fact that I'mmaking the impact and I think ultimately that's
what and then I'm paving the wayfor others. Another thing is I know,
me being a female afric American femalein this industry paying the way for
others to be able to be inthis and I'm being an example and a
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role model as well as being anengineer in itself. It's been an amazing
experience too. That's that's so cool. Now do you go out and I
know that you said that you visitclasses and schools, but do you you
go out. I notice that youhave a TEDx talk on your website,
and I encourage everyone by the waythat her website will be listed in the
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in the show notes, but itis Tiffany Teachy and the spelling of that
will have in the in the shownotes, but it's Tiffany Teach dot com.
And I noticed that you have differenttechex talk and like do you go
out and speak for colleges as wellas in the elementary schools? Yeah,
I'm all about. So what happenedis I became an author, which made
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my mindset become a business owner,and so it changes the mindset when you
become an author. I used thebook to leverage to be on other platforms,
just like from being here, I'mutilizing my message to get it out
there. So yes, I wasable to do tex in South Africa,
University of South Africa and travel gettingmy book out there. Yes, I
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do very speaking engagements all over toget the message out there, so yes,
from colleges to young people to allover to try to get the message
out there about the importance of STEMand so yeah, I was had the
opportunity to do Tech's. I alsogot to do a Forbes Forest me featured
in Forbes and do a speaking engagementfor that as well. And so the
sky's a limit on getting the messageout there. Ye, so speaking is
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a part of the journey of leveragingthe book itself and to be on various
platforms such as podcasts. Yeah,that's awesome now if you you go in
and inspire the kids directly, Butwhat can parents do? What can teachers
do because they may not have accessto, you know, inspirational individuals like
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you to come in. What canthe teacher in a small you know,
small town like Grass Valley where Ilive, or parents who are out there
trying to tell their kids, look, you can do more than just what
you're seeing in your local high school. How can they help to inspire their
kids, especially if they don't getit right, if they're like, wow,
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my brain doesn't get it being anengineer, like that's too hard.
I wouldn't want my kid to haveto like how do they shift that and
be inspirational to their own children.I'm glad you say that because it really
comes back to where they can takeit home. Hands on activities are great.
It gives a good visual for kids. So I would advise robotics is
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one example. Get a robot evenif you don't know how to do it,
they got instructions. So putting ittogether and you don't have to do
it all at once, but workingwith your kids and doing the hands on
activities, then it is programming.So it's some colding involved with it,
but it's opening up the minds ofthe kids, the curiosity. I do
talk about how job shot them.Go have them sit under someone who's in
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those careers. Like I said withthe veterinarian. They love pets and want
to be a veterinarian, Go havethem sit under your dog. If you
have a pet under a veterinary.Hands on activities, looking up different programs.
There are so many online programs wherethey can do simulations, they can
see different activities that definitely be ableto and then start getting some STEM books,
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get some books that tie in withactivities they can do. Right,
Yeah, absolutely absolutely getting I thinkstimulate the mind. You might not know,
but there's a lot of resources outthere that's available to get them in
and organizations. So I do.I want to put it out there.
I do have a free gift.If they want to know more resources with
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it, then STEM scholarships and organizations, ebook and so I've looked up different
organizations from society with many engineers andthere's me different different types of organizations that
is going to help them with thedifferent things as well as scholarships. So
I have that as well for theparents as well. So it's www.
Dot stem is theway dot com andI've looked up ebook to generate all the
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organizations because there are various organizations thatvolunteers and can different different resources from there
that they can take advantage of.But I would say, do some hands
on activities and you can use thematerials that's around the house. Yeah,
and that's the thing I think thatyou don't have to go buy it stuff.
For example, I do the competitionswith the kids with the with the
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they can do spaghetti sticks and marshmallows. And what they do is you put
them in there who can build thetallest tower with just those resources? So
with that, who can build that? I mean you can do everyday home
resources here and materials. You cantdo stuff with paper, build a tower
with the paper, and so there'svarious things that they can do. Parents
can think about, but it's it'sresources out here and you can just try
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to be creative, challenge the mind. Let me tell you my brother,
he was a civil gener I don'tremember do you remember Teddy Repskin. Yes,
yeah, the book well the LittleBear, it was a bear talking
about But didn't it come with alittle book too? Yes it did,
sure, yeah, yeah, Andso my brother would he were basically took
a Teddy bear and he put ahe cut opened the stomach and put a
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walking talking in it. And sohe created his own Teddy. But now
they got build a bear. Butanyway, back then, so don't question
the kids if they got curiosity.It's what I would say. Let them
think and be think. Their mindsare problem solve and due the critical thinking.
And so those are some things Iwould say definitely for parents to look
at to do, especially at homethat they can do. Yeah, and
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I love the hands on activities.One of the things that I teach,
would teach parent educators is anything thatyou can have them physically get involved in
is going to make ten times asmuch of an impact as the you know,
reading it out of a book.So you know, if you're studying
gravity, you know, building oneof those you know obstacle courses where a
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ball rolls down at right or orlike you say, even just legos.
There's so many different things you cando with legos. I mean, yeah,
so definitely the more hands on youcan get, I'm agree with you
one hundred percent there. And there'sone more thing they can go through museums,
hysit museums, there's nature physits,so there's different things they also can
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do if they want to do fieldtrips and stuff. And then on the
backyard there's different nature things. Sothe science part of it. So the
creativity is there as far as thingsthey can do even at home is an
option. Yeah, we have tothink outside of the school room, you
know, what we think needs tobe done or the way we might have
been raised. Right, the morebecause I could see imagination going, especially
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especially with your little girls. Right, that's a that's amazing, Yeah,
that's amazing. Okay, so youhave a few resources you said you mentioned
the the books that the hen STEMSScholarships and organizations ebook. That is that
STEM is the way dot com Andwhat about your books themselves? What if
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what if somebody wants your book,it's still a way for them to go
go to STEM is the way dotcom get that e book and then it
goes to the books as well.So I'm gonna say STEM is the way
do come. I still want youto get those resources and then then it
goes to the books right after youclick on that button as well. And
so I'm gonna go with stem isthe Way dot Com and say okay,
grab that free e book and thenyou also get access to the books that
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way as well. Now does thatlead? Does that link them as well
to your magazine because you have adigital magazine for parents magazine? Yeah,
the magazine that was see I know, I said my creativity of now I
have Trailblazers and just was launched andeverything stem. It was during STEM Day,
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the National STEM Day. I douchedthe first one and so the next
one is coming up. And soStem Crew Magazine dot com get free digital
access to the magazine. But it'sa great avenue of getting Now I've got
the activities. I got five STEMactivities in there, and then I also
have different articles and then STEM Trailblazersand telling their stories in it as well.
(26:41):
And so yeah, I have there'sno excuses. I've got some resources
for everybody. So Stem Crew Magazinethe free digital download of the magazine.
So I love it. I loveit, and it sounds like if you're
interviewing trailblazers. You've got lots ofdifferent stories there for different ones. That's
wonderful, and this is a onewonderful thing. We'll be sure to hashtag
all of the parents, you know, to be able to get the parents
(27:04):
to watch this and hopefully open uptheir their minds as to what they can
help to inspire their kids. BecauseI would assume I'm guessing that some I
shouldn't say I'm guessing. I knowfrom experience. There were times with my
oldest who has a very engineer brainand is has been involved in all kinds
of fabrication and all on the mechanicalside, mechanical engineering, and there were
(27:30):
times when I was like, thischild's over my head. It was like
to this day, I'll have conversationswith them and just go uh huh huh.
Right. So it's nice there.Yeah, So it's really nice to
know that there are, you know, individuals out there as a parent,
(27:52):
if this is something that you feelis over your head, you know,
having sources resources like this other trailblazers. Are you sharing your story? This
is a powerful, powerful way tohelp inspire their kids to you know,
think outside of the box and ifit seems a little hard, that's okay,
you can do it. I know. Yeah, that's wonderful. That's
(28:14):
wonderful. So any final piece ofadvice that you'd like to share that you
really want, final message that youreally want the hearers to hear. Yeah,
just know that don't be afraid ofstim science, technology. Man.
Our kids are smart. We gotsome smart kids, and don't sleep on
(28:37):
them because of the fact that there'ssome curious kids out here. Let them
go ahead and be curious because theworld is out here and there's people who's
not for them to encourage them.But just know I'm a great example that
they can do it as well.It wasn't easy, but I made it,
and so I want to know thatencourage these girls to know that they
can do it too. And justin general, this guy's a limit.
(28:57):
There are so many unfulfilled jobs andstill jobs. Let's get these Let's get
us kids in here, Let's getthese girls in it as well. So
that's that's my takeaway. If youbelieve it, you can achieve it.
So once again, Www. Dotstim is theway dot com give you some
free resources. I'm excited and thankyou so much for this opportunity. Thank
you so much for being here.It was a pleasure interviewing you. And
(29:19):
we will put all of those linksin the show page on the YouTube channel,
and you can also stay in contactwith her on the different I think
we have a couple of social mediaon Facebook and Instagram and Twitter to stay
stay connected and just hear all thegreat, wonderful things that you're doing.
(29:40):
And it's a good thing to connectyour kids to, you know, let's
get them onto watching something positive onsocial media. Yes, I love it
all right. Thank you so much, Tiffany and forever all of our listeners,
thank you. We are honored thatyou spent the time with us.
And as I want to encourage everyone, please go out to the Women Excelling
everywhe and check out the Women ExcellingEverywhere Success Collective where that is really what
(30:04):
we are there for. We justwant to help you to succeed wherever you
are at, at whatever stage oflife you're at. If you're a parent
and you have beautiful, beautiful littleminds that you're raising, we want to
help you there. If you arein a career or you're striving to build
a career like becoming an engineer,We just want to be there to help
(30:26):
you, to interact on the collaborativeand just help to inspire and uplift at
those moments when you're thinking, wellI can't do it, well, we're
there to tell you you can.So that's what we're all about. Thank
you for being with us. Checkout our Women Excelling Everywhere co authored book
we would love to have. It'seighteen stories of eighteen amazing women that are
there to inspire you with eighteen valuablelessons. So check that out and until
(30:49):
next time, I want everybody tojust kind of roll their shoulders back,
take a nice deep breath in,go out there and simply enjoy every moment
until next time.
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