Episodes
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Themes: Anonymity, innate magic, connecting through love, adaptation, adaptability, resilience, lessons from nature, coming back to self, healing
Description: This week I explore presence and the impact of anonymity on our-lives through lessons from bees. I hope you enjoy.
References:
Science Report Linked Here
Journal of Experimental Biology. "Bees recognize human faces using feature configuration." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 February 2010. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100129092010.htm>.
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Themes: Adaptation, adaptability, resilience, lessons from nature, audacity, hope, becoming the change, authenticity
Description: This week I explore audacity, the willingness to take bold risk in the face of failure. Isn’t the will to live the most audacious act we have? I explore lessons from sea life and how they are redefining their environment. I also explore ways in which audacity is the catalyst to change, and the 4 steps I took to living an audacious life. Enjoy!
References:
Science Report Linked Here
Haram, L.E., Carlton, J.T., Centurioni, L. et al. Extent and reproduction of coastal species on plastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 687–697 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-01997-y
Our Deepest Fear Poem: Here
The Artists Way by Julie Cameron: Here
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Themes: City parks, activism, emotional literacy, climate stories, climate psychology, climate guides.
[3:29] Nate tells his city parks story
[5:14] How to live the question as a way of life
[5:39] From writer Marilynne Robinson, “A question is so much better suited to wonder than an answer”
[7:39] Patty talks about the act of moving changes my body chemistry
[10:18] Nate’s four P’s of climate awareness
[ 13:56] We find our voice by using it,
[ 15:44] Sometimes we are more like meerkats than rational people
[16:00 ] Risk and possibility are socially determined
[17:14 ] Patty talks how climate action begins with self-love
[19:15] Understanding that I am part of this story
[19:35] We are in a climate feminist renaissance
[21:11] How to overcome fear and get unstuck
[21:56] People need a safe container to grapple with the emotions of climate change
[23:19] The dynamic tension between don't just stand there, do something and don't just do something stand there
[23:55] Outer activism and inner activism and becoming a guide in the climate space
[26:45] Relationship coaching is climate coaching
[30:00] Nate answers some rapid-fire questions
Resources:
Movement & Meaning Newsletter by Nate Rauh-Bieri (LINK)
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (LINK)
Renee Lertzman and Project Inside Out (LINK)
Us by Terrence Real (LINK)
Gen Dread Newsletter (Link)
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Themes: The Armenian Experience, Leadership, Emotional Literacy, Authenticity, Silence, Courage
[00:42] Patty explains current events and the needed advocacy for the blockade happening in Artsakh
[03:01] Patty and Shushan talk friendship
[04:47] Shushan tells her story
[06:27] Shushan explains growing up Armenian
[07:06] Shushan talks Armenian Genocide
[08:12] Shushan describes the paradox of being a scientist and Armenian
[10:20] Shushan explains the current Armenian conflict with Azerbaijan
[12:02] Shushan describes her experience of the Armenian war while working in a lab in the US
[13:16] Shushan & Patty explore the disparate response between the Armenian war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
[15:54] Shushan & Patty talk about the role of science in political activism
[16:33] Patty & Shushan discuss the leadership crisis of our current moment
[18:41] Shushan discusses her emotional regulation while in science and during the war
[19:28] Patty talks about the damage caused from silence
[20:49] Shushan describes a vulnerable moment of talking about being Armenian at work
[22:02] Shushan talks about the changing emotional landscape in science
[25:31] Patty explains why we should talk war in lab
[26:05] Shushan reflections on her evolution towards emotionality
[27:28] Patty discusses the good girl archetype in academia
[31:14} Shushan answers some rapid-fire questions
LINKS: Help support Artsakh here anca.org/blockade
Follow Shushan here on IG
Get in touch with Patty here
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Theme: Courage, Mental Rehearsal, Censorship, Dreaming, Activism, Climate Action
Description: Many times, courage is not innate. It requires mental rehearsal and planning. This week I explore the decrease of disruptive discoveries in science while we are also seeing the censorship of scientists in the US around climate change. This episode encourages self-forgiveness, activism, courage and dreaming. Enjoy!
Papers and Patents are Becoming Less Disruptive Over Time. By Michael Park, et al. (Nature, Jan 4th, 2023) (Link)I’m a scientist who spoke up about climate change. My employer Fired Me. By Rose Abramoff(New York Times, Jan 10th, 2023) (Link)Threads of Fate: Jupiter’s Tongue Oracle Deck (Link)Yale Climate Opinion Map (Link)
References:I would love to hear back from you. Reach out to me on my Ig (link) and tell me your thoughts!
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Themes: play, climate change, women in science, witch, activism
This week’s episode explores the role of play in our lives. I lead with the question, what type of world would we live in if we made decisions based on play and pleasure? How would our relationships be different? Our careers? Our authenticity? I explore the ways in which play shows up in my life, particularly through activism and creativity and the parallels play has to scientific mindsets. And of course we talk about how play is a radical act of disobedience.
This is a juicy episode. I hope you like it!
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Themes: climate hero, women in science
This week’s episode is about some unsung heroes of science. I dive into the story of Eunice Foote, who’s work pioneered the field of climate science. Until recognition of her work in 2019, 200 years after her birth, Eunice has been hidden in the shadows of science. May all people know her legacy.
Here are some resources to know more about her:
Eunice Foote, NOAA
Eunice Foote, AWIS
Eunice Foote, The Royal Society
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Themes: climate action, climate story, land acknowledgment,
Today, I tell you my climate story and I teach you how to tell yours. If you feel overwhelmed with climate action or if you are confused on where to start in your climate journey, this episode if for you!Owning and telling your climate story is one of the most impactful things you can do to start combating climate change. Once you own your story, the dark and the light parts of it, then you will then no longer be defined by it. You may begin making different choices. You may change your relationship with the planet. You may inspire others to do the same.
Owning your climate story is not about judgment or shame, it is about honesty. I recommend you approach this exercise with a lot of self love, compassion, non-judgment, responsibility, and truth.
Here are the 5 questions to ask to start understanding your climate story
1. Whose land do I occupy?
2. What were global GHG emission levels when I was born, and how has that changed to now?
3. How have I seen the world change around me since I were a kid?
4. In what ways do I feel shame around climate change?
5. How am I already a climate hero?
Resources:
Historical greenhouse gas emissions data: Link
Native Land Acknowledgment Map: Link
Kenny Ramos on Land Recognition: Link
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Themes: climate communication, owning our stories, leadership, behavioral change, radical honesty
Most times, when I hear someone talk about climate change, I come away feeling disengaged and disempowered. For me, these conversations leave me feeling guilty, fearful, gaslit, and manipulated. The irony is, I talk with others in the exact same way. The way we talk about climate change is toxic.
Join me this week as I explore my thoughts on how we can become better leaders through radical honesty and owning our climate stories.
Discover:
Why climate conversations can be toxicWhy using science as a motivator for change is a fundamentally flawed approach The reasons we do need science in our life
Links:
Here is a link to the Pew research study discussed in this episode.I would love to hear back from you. Reach out to me on my Ig (link) and tell me your thoughts!
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Hallie Jose is a wise, courageous soul. At 25 she has figured out how to live the life of an entrepreneur. In this week’s episode, she shares with us her story of awakening and drops some amazing truth on how she found the mindset to start her own business.
This woman is amazing, inspiring, and unstoppable. I hope you enjoy!
These are the key takeaways:
1. Get your head right.
2. Choose your daily struggle.
3. Find a mentor.
4. Time is on your side. Growing your business takes time.
5. Embrace learning & growth every day.
6. Nobody will help you unless you ask.
7. Prioritize yourself. You need to pour into your own cup.
8. Do not tie your worth to your income.
9. Reassure yourself with affirmations.
10. Learn how to be your own best friend.
11. Lean into your community.
12. Have a gratitude practice and journal like crazy.
13. Embrace the dark times to practice all you have been taught. This is when it matters most.
Links:
Instagram
TikTok
Facebook
Train with Hallie
Recommended Books: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
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Summary: Imagine this. You are a journalist. You have worked your entire adult life to get that prestigious job at a world-renowned news agency. And you get it! You’re rubbing shoulders with celebrities and living what you always thought was the life. And you realize that it makes you miserable.
In this week’s episode, I interview Sandy Cohen, a journalist, life and wellness coach, budding health professional, and brave soul. She talks about how she walked away from the successful life she had built to find true alignment. We explore how to embrace and embrace the messy unknown.
Here are the 8 takeaways:
1. Just because you are successful doesn’t mean you are happy.
2. Turn to creativity when you feel adrift.
3. Instead of trying to turn down the volume in a specific area of life try and turn up the volume in other areas.
4. We can taste happiness all the time if we are paying attention.
5. Opening yourself to the pleasures of life is the antidote to being achievement driven.
6. Honoring what your personal constitution is essential to finding alignment.
7. Enjoying your life is an active thing. It is not passive.
8. Listen to yourself more than you listen to society.
Links:
Instagram
Facebook
Podcast: Inner Peace To Go
Recommended Book: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It is All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
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Do you know that feeling when you talk to someone and they just light you up? They motivate you. They inspire you. They make you realize, even just for a moment, that you can do anything in the world. Today’s interview is that for me. Jessica Sacher is a microbiologist and founder of Phage Directory. She is a checkmark collector, horse lover, swing dancer, recovering people pleaser, secret rebel, and last but definitely not least, grad school entrepreneur. She was a woman in grad school, just hanging out with a friend, read a tweet about the science she studies, and decided to create a startup. Her story absolutely wows me.
Here are the main takeaways:
1. You never know where your passions can lead you.
2. To get through the fear, researching other options for a career is a great way to inspire yourself
3. You don’t need permission from anyone but you to start a business.
4. You become an entrepreneur on the first day you see a problem and realize you can connect it with a solution.
5. You do not need credentials to start a company. In fact, it may be better if you don’t have the credentials.
6. Don’t spend all your Time with people who credential you. Listen to the startup people too.
7. Entrepreneurism only works if you have that outsider perspective
8. Hangout with the startup communities in your area. Let them know about your science.
9. It’s not about the idea. There will be tons of ideas. It's about the energy and connections you make.
10. Ideas don’t come from one place, they come from 2 places. There has to be crossover
Links:
Twitter: @Jessicasacher
Twitter: @phagedirectory
Blog (Link)
Recommended book: 4-hour work week by
Cheeky scientist: (Link)
Climate Hope Workshop: (Link)
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This week’s guest is Jenn Colby. Jenn left academic science to be a farmer, entrepreneur, and she beautifully models how to live her life on her own terms.
In this conversation we discuss farming, ways to reimagine science outside of the lab, people who are beginning to crowd fund their science, and the journey away from academia.
This episode’s key takeaways are:
1. Every day on the farm is a big science experiment.
2. The skill of observing our natural environment is becoming a lost art.
3. In the places we cannot control, we learn so many unexpected things by just observing and constantly testing.
4. If we are not paying attention, we are not learning.
5. Trans-disciplinary science helps us think outside of the box.
6. Generalists thrive in a specialized world.
7. In waiting to be the expert, we censor ourselves into silence.
8. So much joy can be found in doing science on your own terms.
9. There are amazing examples of people crowd funding their science.
10. Work does not have to be hard.
Episode Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hwfarmvt/
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/choosetofarm
Website: https://www.howlingwolffarm.com/
White Oak Pastures Research study: https://whiteoakpastures.com/pages/environmental-sustainability
Recommended Books:
Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world by David Epstein
Success Principles by Jack Canfield
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I am super excited to introduce you this week’s guest, Haley Peel. Haley is a mindset, health, and life coach, an inspirational adventurer, a fellow podcaster, and pharmacist. Like so many of us, she straddles being both a woman in science and living a wholistic life.
We cover a lot of topics in this interview. We talk about the spark of adventure and how it eventually led her to entrepreneurship. We discuss relationships and the healing that can occur in them, and we talk about how people can step more deeply into alignment.
Some key takeaways from the episode are:
Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.Adventure is pushing your edge. You could do it through hiking, an ironman, public speaking, or starting a business. It’s anything that scares you a little and gets you out of your comfort zone.Celebrate the wins, learn from the losses, and just keep going.Do something that both scares and empowers you every day.Connecting to breathe and slow conscious breathing helps you to get over fear.In facing adventure, know there will be ups and downs, and it is important to have something that will pull you through the lows.To show up authentically as yourself, it is important to let go of the need to be liked.When the triggers come up, get curious with them.Getting into alignment is just following small steps that help shift you from being completely out of alignment.Follow that pull, that calling, that whisper. It is worth your time.Here are the ways you can connect with Haley Peel:
https://www.instagram.com/haleyscomments310/
https://www.facebook.com/hmpeel
https://linktr.ee/Hmpeel
Podcast: The Empowered Adventurer
Recommended Book: Mindset, The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
Quote: “Fear is excitement on pause” Carey Peters
Patty’s Contact Info:
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/thepattykmartin/
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/patty.martin.5817
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pattykmartin/
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This week’s guest is Srikant Iyer, PhD. He is the Associate Director of the Science Alliance at the New York Academy of Sciences. We discuss covering, authenticity, revolution, healthy conflict, and ways to fully stand for yourself in your career and in your life.
Episode Takeaways:
1. Having an open mind and questioning directionality is what it means to be a scientist.
2. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, or STEM is an ecosystem. It is a place where the convergence of many disciplines plays a critical role in science progression.
3. Do not let anxiety and a desire to prove yourself be the driver of your work.
4. Don’t forget that while we are growing, we also have the scope to bring about change in the world.
5. Covering is the act of hiding certain identities of self to fit in. Our desire to belong leads us to cover. Our fear of failure leads us to cover.
6. Lean into healthy conflict. Conflicts can lead to innovation. They lead to relearning.
7. A lot of the times we miss out on authenticity because we are dabbling with imposter syndrome.
8. Fake it till you make it feeds imposter syndrome.
9. While the individual is always blamed for not being enough, the system needs to take responsibility for providing appropriate resources for people to flourish.
10. There are 2 types of people needed for a revolution. The visionary, and the people constantly pushing the boundaries.
11. Your personal and professional life do not need to be separate.
12. We don’t have to strive to be perfect, we can just be ourselves.
Here are the ways you can connect with Srikant Iyer, PhD:
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikant-iyer-phd/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sk_iyer284
6 Steps to Purpose- https://www.subscribepage.com/6-steps-to-purpose
Patty’s Contact Info:
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/thepattykmartin/
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/patty.martin.5817
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pattykmartin/
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When we call ourselves out of out of our routines, out of our box, into a rhythm with our deepest self, we become an explorer. We can explore from exactly where we are.
We can explore our mind, or gremlins, our body, our dreams. All we do is shake up the typical and the ordinary. Maybe just take a different way to work, even if it is in your own home. You can start doing this work by asking yourself, what else is possible? How can I view this differently? These questions can lead to a new aspect of you. A facet, a dream, an idea, a knowing slowly emerges. With that your world changes.
Here are 7 takeaways from today’s episode:
1. Pivoting from job to job to fix things on the outside will not fix things on the inside.
2. You need to go to the root problem in yourself and begin to shift it before you can help anyone else.
3. Your story is exactly as it should be. It is part of your life plan. There are no mistakes.
4. You know what you know until you know something different.
5. Good and fine are not feelings. Being able to acknowledge your feelings is a key lesson in moving forward.
6. When you finally can see a Gremlin in your life, like perfectionism or fear, apply Crystals AAA: Awareness, abilities, and action.
7. We reach for the highest branch we can see. Coaches and expanders show you how to reach higher.
Follow Crystal Simmons on all socials:
IG: @crystalclearpurposes https://www.instagram.com/crystalclearpurposes/
Website: https://crystalclearpurposes.com/
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/CrystalClearPurposes
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Welcome to The Disobedient Scientist Podcast. In this episode I discuss my journey and how to find a life of purpose. I talk about healing wounds, re-thinking the world and our lives, authenticity, and self-love. Through story, I show how all of these elements lead to being a disobedient science.
Link to 6 Steps to Purpose: https://www.subscribepage.com/6-steps-to-purpose
Ig: @thepattykmartin
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