Career Conversations

I have been excited about this episode for a very long time now. In today's episode I am talking to Jacques Dubochet - Chemistry Nobel Prize winner 2017. We talk about career goals and if it is good to aim to be a great in your field. Then we take a little turn and talk about values in life and how important it is to have values in the first place. Hopefully you will enjoy the episode. I loved it! You can find it here, or, as always, on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcast player of choice. Also, great news, we are available on Spotify and Youtube now as well. Many thanks to [email protected] for providing us with the free audio effect "Royal sparkle whoosh centre.wav" on https://freesound.org/people/[email protected]/sounds/170523/ at the intro and outro of this podcast The sound was shortened 2sec.

In this episode I will be summarising what I have learned in the recent interviews and also in my internet research on how to find your career passion. In all interviews I have observed a reoccurring theme on how to find out what it is you want to do with your life and I have summarised it in a short and sweet episode. So, enjoy ;)

have been looking forward to today's interview for a really long time. In this episode I talk to Dr. Nicolas Durand, Founder and CEO of Abionic, about how he built his start-up. He is one of the most reflective people that I have interviewed so far and it gets really clear during the interview, that his success did not happen by accident but instead due to the fact that he has reflected on almost all the details that are important in building a start-up. We will be talking about how to sense early when things go wrong, so it is possible to change directions, the value of mentors, how to finance a start-up and how to sustain a healthy work-life balance. I have learned a lot in this interview and hopefully so will you. Many thanks to [email protected] for providing us with the free audio effect "Royal sparkle whoosh centre.wav" on https://freesound.org/people/[email protected]/sounds/170523/ at the intro and outro of this podcast The sound was shortened 2sec.

I am very excited to present our third episode to you. When I started the interview I actually wanted to talk about relationship building and networking because Shawnmarie spent a major part of her career doing exactly that. She had a very vivid career as scientist, patent lawyer, consultant and CEO in several big companies until she finally decided to become a career coach. I believe that her advise is really valuable because she actually has experience in what she is talking about, not like most coaches that give advice in things that they have never experienced themselves. During the interview we realised that we both are really into mediation and that Shawnmarie and that Shawnmarie, being a scientist, has a huge amount of neuroscience knowledge about what is going on in the meditating brain. With all the pseudo-science meditation stuff out there, this was a great opportunity to actually learn more about meditation. Especially we talk about how to use meditation to learn what it is that you want to do with your life, how to gain mental strength to achieve your goals and how to identify and overcome false believes that keep you from achieving your goals. Hopefully, you will enjoy the episode as much as I did. Once again, you can find it here, or on iTunes, Stitcher, Castbox, Pocketcast or TuneIn. Enjoy ;) Many thanks to [email protected] for providing us with the free audio effect "Royal sparkle whoosh centre.wav" on https://freesound.org/people/[email protected]/sounds/170523/ at the intro and outro of this podcast The sound was shortened 2sec.

In our second episode, we will be talking to Dr. Jens Heidrich. Jens is one of the last private owners of diagnostic laboratories. I was amazed in our conversations, how many business insights Jens has. His most important advice was not never risk everything, an advice that I full agree with but I hear lots of different advice on risk in the podcasting world. I hear a lot of “If you wanna conquer the island you must burn you boats” , meaning that if you wanna achieve your goals, trash all the possibilities to go back. I think this is very dangerous advice because we only hear from people who have succeeded but we never hear people who have risked everything and lost everything. So, I really appreciated it, when Jens said to never risk everything. Other than that we will talk about subjects like getting up again after you have failed, the problem with venture capital and lots of other interesting subjects. I hope you’ll love the episode as much as I do. Many thanks to [email protected] for providing us with the free audio effect “Royal sparkle whoosh centre.wav” on https://freesound.org/people/[email protected]/sounds/170523/ at the intro and outro of this podcast The sound was shortened 2sec.

Today we will be talking to Dr. Marie Dorothee Vossen. Dr. Vossen is a brilliant career councelor and has councled me as well as many of my friends and suggested great careers paths to us. In this episode we will be talking about the question, if everyone has a talent, how to find your talents and how to shape your career. You can find her website at http://www.drvossen-beratung.de/ (website is in German) Please also visit us at www.career-conversations.org In case you work at Unil, you can also visit the Graduate Campus for more help with your career https://www.unil.ch/graduatecampus/en/home.html Please give us a rating, subscribe and recommend us to your friends. Your recommendations means a lot to us and will help us grow the podcast. See you in our next episode. Best, Stefanie Many thanks to [email protected] for providing us with the free audio effect "Royal sparkle whoosh centre.wav" on https://freesound.org/people/[email protected]/sounds/170523/ at the intro and outro of this podcast The sound was shortened 2sec.