EPISODE · Aug 1, 2022 · 47 MIN
Episode #94 - How A STEM Career is Made Better with STEAM with Joseph Jefferson
from The Create and Grow Your Brain Capital Podcast
Episode 94: How A STEM Career is Made Better with STEAM with Joseph Jefferson How do the arts help leaders navigate through a VUCA world? NASA's award-winning flight engineer, Joseph Jefferson discusses how his arts background trained him to be adaptable, observant, and emotionally aware throughout his STEM journey. He and other JPL-NASA and CalTech employees and students just finished an 'off-off Broadway' play debut, 'From the Earth to the Moon'. The process and final production provide further evidence that people exposed to the arts will have a greater edge in innovative thinking in non-arts fields (business, science, marketing, and entrepreneurship). Keep the 'A' in STEM to make STEAM and blast off into the future! Listen as Joseph shares his playful experience, vulnerable insight, and out-of-this-world wisdom for people to prepare for this future of work! CAFFEstrategies.com VUCA - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous #InterculturalCreativity #ArtsEducation Topics Covered on this episode of The Create and Grow Podcast: 00:54 - Introduction to How A STEM Career is Made Better with STEAM03:29 - A Flight System Engineer and his Two Spacecraft07:01 - The Partnership Between Caltech and JPL NASA11:54 - Spacecraft Development is an Art Form14:51 - Time is Malleable per Einstein16:59 - Emotional Intelligence: A Big Word in the Worlds of Business, Science and Education19:17 - Emotional Granularity21:08 - Workforce in the Professional Development Curriculum24:28 - A Little Imposter Syndrome Goes a Long Way27:21 - Creating Momentum and Allow to See All the Different Possibilities32:30 - Joseph’s Message at This Moment37:44 - Hustle and Float39:03 - Why advocate for that A inside of STEM?41:13 - Robert Root Bernstein and Michelle Bernstein’s Sparks of a Genius Subscribe: Spotify | YouTube Connect with Joseph Jefferson: Website https://www.joeyjefferson.com/ Connect with Genein Letford: Visit CAFFE Strategies Visit GeneinLetford.com Follow Genein on Facebook #PerspectiveShifting #SeeingYourLifeFromAnOutsidePerspective #CAFFEStrategies #Intercultural #Diversity #InterculturalCreativity #Creativity #InterculturalCreativity #innovation #HowASTEMCareerisMadeBetterwithSTEAM To learn more about Brain Capital and Intercultural Creativity, visit https://geneinletford.com Explore CAFFE Strategies: https://caffestrategies.com Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Genein-Letford/
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Episode 94: How A STEM Career is Made Better with STEAM with Joseph Jefferson How do the arts help leaders navigate through a VUCA world? NASA's award-winning flight engineer, Joseph Jefferson discusses how his arts background trained him to be adaptable, observant, and emotionally aware throughout his STEM journey. He and other JPL-NASA and CalTech employees and students just finished an 'off-off Broadway' play debut, 'From the Earth to the Moon'. The process and final production provide further evidence that people exposed to the arts will have a greater edge in innovative thinking in non-arts fields (business, science, marketing, and entrepreneurship). Keep the 'A' in STEM to make STEAM and blast off into the future! Listen as Joseph shares his playful experience, vulnerable insight, and out-of-this-world wisdom for people to prepare for this future of work! CAFFEstrategies.com VUCA - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous #InterculturalCreativity #ArtsEducation Topics Covered on this episode of The Create and Grow Podcast: 00:54 - Introduction to How A STEM Career is Made Better with STEAM 03:29 - A Flight System Engineer and his Two Spacecraft 07:01 - The Partnership Between Caltech and JPL NASA 11:54 - Spacecraft Development is an Art Form 14:51 - Time is Malleable per Einstein 16:59 - Emotional Intelligence: A Big Word in the Worlds of Business, Science and Education 19:17 - Emotional Granularity 21:08 - Workforce in the Professional Development Curriculum 24:28 - A Little Imposter Syndrome Goes a Long Way 27:21 - Creating Momentum and Allow to See All the Different Possibilities 32:30 - Joseph’s Message at This Moment 37:44 - Hustle and Float 39:03 - Why advocate for that A inside of STEM? 41:13 - Robert Root Bernstein and Michelle Bernstein’s Sparks of a Genius Subscribe: Spotify | YouTube Connect with Joseph Jefferson: - Website https://www.joeyjefferson.com/ Connect with Genein Letford: - Visit CAFFE Strategies Visit GeneinLetford.com Follow Genein on Facebook #PerspectiveShifting #SeeingYourLifeFromAnOutsidePerspective #CAFFEStrategies #Intercultural #Diversity #InterculturalCreativity #Creativity #InterculturalCreativity #innovation #HowASTEMCareerisMadeBetterwithSTEAM To learn more about Brain Capital and Intercultural Creativity, visit https://geneinletford.com Explore CAFFE Strategies: https://caffestrategies.com Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Genein-Letford/
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