How'd You Become So Awesome

How'd You Become So Awesome

Welcome to “How’d You Become So Awesome”, where we talk to awesome people about how they achieved their success. Awesome people often seem, well, more awesome than us mere mortals. We try and put out finger on what makes awesome people, awesome. Hosted by Jayde Lovell and Bec Susan Gill, of Did Someone Say Science? www.DidSomeoneSayScience.com

Episodes

EP. 010 - Claire Linton-Evans, Author of Climbing the Ladder in Heels – How to Succeed in the Career Game of Snakes and Ladders

March 14, 2015 • 52 mins
Claire Linton-Evans – women's executive coach and author of the book Climbing the Ladder in Heels – How to Succeed in the Career Game of Snakes and Ladders – is the latest person to take the mic at our 'How'd You Become So Awesome?' podcast. As a lifelong agitator for change – Claire has laser-focussed her career on helping women get into corporate leadership roles and staying there. To read the accompanying blog pos...
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Bryan Reeves - Relationship Insight Ninja

February 12, 2015 • 15 mins
Bryan Reeves has given tips to Oprah on mind-body science, and is a relationship insight ninja - but he didn't always lead such a charmed life. Bryan dropped out of a promising military career, leaving his role as a US Air Force Captain, and feeling completely miserable. Searching for meaning and happiness, he traveled the world, he rediscovered the thrill of being alive, and the beautiful life he came to live. ...
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008. Naftali Beane Rutter - Independent Filmmaker

December 22, 2014 • 28 mins
New York based independent filmmaker Naftali Beane Rutter came to our attention with a successful KickStarter campaign he ran to fund his upcoming film, WILD ANIMALS. It's about two boys hiding out in the moments immediately following a school shooting. Naftali has several film projects on the go, all in various stages of production – and on top of this he’s the director of Waterbound Pictures, a production company that...
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007. Dr. Lois Frankel - Author of Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office

November 28, 2014 • 34 mins
Dr. Lois Frankel is perhaps best known as the New York Times bestselling author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. But she’s also written a stack of other popular titles in the field of female corporate success and leadership, such as Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich and See Jane Lead. Lois is an internationally recognized expert in the field, and through her both her own executive coaching company, Corporate Coaching...
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006. Alyson Schacherer - Actor, Director, Founder - I Love You Project

November 15, 2014 • 18 mins
Alyson Schacherer is an accomplished actor, director, teacher, and the Business Manager for The Barrow Group acting & theatre school in New York. Alyson is also a member of FAB Women, a collective of over 100 female artists who create and produce work For, About and By Women, where she performed her solo show 'The Goldilocks Effect, a love story'.   As well as working in theatre, film and television, she is also ...
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005. Michael Wilson, Aka Coma Niddy

November 7, 2014 • 23 mins
This week on How'd You Become So Awesome we're interviewing Michael Wilson. Michael is a YouTuber who has the popular channel Coma Niddy, his nerdy alter ego who raps about science. Michael is signed with PBS digital studios, and his new space-themed cover of the song ‘All About That bass’ has been blowing up on sites like Buzzfeed. Meanwhile, Bustle magazine has described Michael as a “Steve Urkel lookalike”, because ...
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004. Dr Siouxsie Wiles, The Pink-Haired Science Communicator

October 30, 2014 • 20 mins
Dr Siouxsie Wiles is a passionate science communicator, microbiologist and bioluminescence enthusiast; or as her TedX profile describes her: “that pink-haired science lady”. Siouxsie leads the Bioluminescent Superbugs Group at the University of Auckland, where she studies infectious diseases by making bacteria glow in the dark. In addition to this incredibly cool research, Siouxsie communicates science as a blogger on S...
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003. Chloe Philippou, Filmmaker and Kickstarter Success Story

October 28, 2014 • 20 mins
Chloe is the writer and director of the horror film ‘Crazy Golf‘, a Kickstarter success story, soon to premier in London, UK. Chloe is a an independent filmmaking powerhouse; her first short film ‘Itch‘ was selected and screened at Lindfield Arts Festival, and since then she has independently written, directed, produced the films ‘Ebb and Flow’, ‘Afternoon Breakfast’, & ‘Working Lunch’. Chloe on Twitter: @ChloePhil...
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002: Major Edward H. Carpenter, US Marine and Author

October 16, 2014 • 25 mins
Ed is an author, businessman, athlete and decorated marine officer. Ed’s served around the world from Afghanistan to Indonesia, has published more than 10 works of fiction and non-fiction, has a slew of qualifications (including his Masters Degree in Security Studies) and is an outspoken advocate of women’s rights, and has written several essays on women in combat. Ed's Homework List  Ed's "launch page" link: http://ehca...
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001. Emelye Lovell, Australia's youngest Director of a Branding Agency.

October 9, 2014 • 15 mins
Australia’s youngest person to ever be appointed Director of a branding agency, 24-year-old Emelye Lovell talks on breaking into an agency, the branding industry, working with an all-male team, and her struggle with Trigeminal Neuralgia (also called 'the suicide disease'). Emelye is based in Australia but has also worked in remore locations like Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was previously Marketing Manager of the Melb...
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