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Psych Mic

Psych Mic

Maya Metser

Psych Mic is a podcast for psychology students to explore the endless ways they can use their psychology background to make an impact! In each episode, host Maya interviews an industry leader about their career path and advice for students. Because psychology is so widely applicable, it can be a challenge to figure out what to do next. These episodes will give you language to talk about your passions, uncensored tips about graduate school and career development, and lots of confidence in your psych background!
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Val DiFebo is the CEO of Deutsch New York. For over 25 years, Val DiFebo has been one of the key architects of Deutsch’s continual success and leadership in the advertising industry. As CEO of Deutsch’s NY office, Val brings a wealth of expertise to the business of advertising and marketing. As a leader that positions herself at the intersection of business strategies and digital techniques, since 1992 Val has continually redefined the Agency’s integrated multidisciplinary offering, allowing for the creation of rapid business solutions that impact a client’s business. Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, IKEA, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Green Giant, PNC Bank, Sherwin-Williams, and The Michael J. Fox Foundation are a few of the blue-chip clients she’s touched thus far. Along with the Agency’s success, The Today Show, CNN, and other media outlets have all sought out her point of view, and she has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune.

A trusted industry thought leader, Val is anything but shy when it comes to advocating for equality in the workplace. Her philanthropic involvement includes supporting early career playwrights and creative storytellers through her position on the Board of The Playwrights Realm, as well as Chairman of the Hearts of Gold Foundation, which assists at-risk mothers. Additionally, she is a board member of The ANA Educational Foundation (AEF), as well as her alma mater, Williams College, where she studied — you guessed it — psychology!
In this episode, we covered:

  1. What is advertising, and how is it different from marketing?
  2. What does Deutsch help their clients with?
  3. How did your interest in psychology develop into an interest in advertising?
  4. What advice do you have for psych majors who are multi-passionate but are unsure how to take there next steps?
  5. Was it difficult to market your psych background in industry?
  6. Is it easier now for psych majors to enter the marketing/advertising industry?
  7. What do you look for in a candidate?
  8. How did you become CEO of Deutsch NY?
  9. What makes for good leaders and mentors?
  10. Are mentors people you actively seek out or do they just come about?
  11. What does your day look like?
  12. What do you love most about your job?
  13. What do you love about advertising specifically?
  14. How do you see advertising changing over the next couple decades?
  15. What skills are important to be successful in advertising?
  16. For psych majors who are interested in advertising, where can they look for positions they’d be qualified for?
  17. The power of yes
  18. Graduate school - necessary?
  19. Hope for psych students

Visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where you'll get career tips, grad school resources, and job opportunities straight to your inbox! Follow @psych_mic on Instagram to submit questions for speakers and stay in the loop.
Music by: Adam Fine

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Nicole Vienna, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist specializing in forensic and neuropsychological evaluations. She completed her PsyD in Clinical Forensic Psychology at Alliant International University - California School of Forensic Studies and her bachelor's at the University of Arizona.
She is currently the CEO and clinical director of her private practice, Vienna Psychological Group, which collaborates with clients across multiple facets of forensic evaluation services. they provide detailed assessments used in legal proceedings and case development for both criminal and civil issues affecting adults and juveniles. They also conduct screenings for employment in public safety to determine if a candidate is a suitable fit for the psychological demands of the position. In addition, they work closely with families and educators to evaluate learning disorders, behavior problems, intelligence and achievement, and other issues impacting academic performance.
Read more about Nicole's practice and training here.
Book referenced: Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology by John Norcross and Michael Sayette
In this episode, we cover:

  1. What is forensic psychology?
  2. Do forensic psychologists always serve the court?
  3. What do you need to do to be called a “forensic psychologist”?
  4. How did Nicole land her internship if her PsyD was not APA accredited?
  5. Roadblocks in Nicole’s training
  6. Why would you get a master’s in forensic psychology if it doesn’t lead to licensure?
  7. Why did you choose a PsyD over a PhD?
  8. Why did you major in sociology and criminal justice in undergrad instead of psychology?
  9. What was the biggest challenge you faced in graduate school?
  10. Tips on balance and time management in grad school
  11. Doctoral students are typically high-achievers. How do you advise them to embrace failure?
  12. Was it annoying to go through clinical experiences in grad school knowing you didn’t want to work in clinical settings?
  13. Why do forensic psychologists need to be clinical psychologists?
  14. What was it like to work at an inpatient psychiatric hospital during grad school?
  15. What was it like to work at a jail?
  16. What are important things to consider before working at a jail? A lot of people are drawn to it, but are scared.
  17. What does your day to day look like? What do evaluations look like?
  18. Do you work equally with the prosecution and the defense?
  19. What kinds of cases stick with you the most?
  20. What do you wish you knew before entering this field?
  21. Are there any practices in the criminal justice system you wish we would get rid of?
  22. What is one skill, quality, or general factor that has served you no matter where you went?

Visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where you'll get career tips, grad school resources, and job opportunities straight to your inbox! Follow @psych_mic on Instagram to submit questions for speakers and stay in the loop.
Music by: Adam Fine

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Maxine Nwigwe, Psy.D. is a behavioral scientist, designer and futurist. She has held multiple roles across educational, corporate and nonprofit settings and has 10+ years experience in designing and developing solutions in learning, mental wellness/psychological wellbeing and workforce development. Dr. Nwigwe is also the founder of the instructional studio, Work. Love. Play, LLC. In this space, she advises startups/founding teams and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises on the integration of culturally informed and environmentally sound behavioral insights to promote organizational development and transformation. She holds a Doctorate in Psychology (specializing in Assessment and Adult Development) from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology & Society (specializing in human behavioral ecology) from Cornell University.
In this episode, we cover:

  1. What is behavioral science?
  2. How do you use design and behavioral science in your work?
  3. What makes you a good behavioral scientist?
  4. Why did you major in biology and society?
  5. Why did you decide not to continue as a pre-med student?
  6. Why did psychology open the door for you to be a healer?
  7. Can you recall an experience that solidified for you that you wanted to go into this field?
  8. How do you pay attention to your interests?
  9. Why did you choose a PsyD over a PhD?
  10. What do you look for in great mentors?
  11. How do you assess if your mentor aligns with your values?
  12. What did you learn about yourself in graduate school?
  13. How and why did you pivot into the community engagement and design space?
  14. What is one skill, quality, or general factor that has helped you no matter where you went?
  15. What does the future hold for the field of psychology?

To submit questions for future speakers and to get even more career tips, follow @psych_mic on Instagram and visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where you'll get career tips, grad school resources, and job opportunities straight to your inbox.

Music by: Adam Fine

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Psych Mic - Teaching in psychology | with Garth Neufeld
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04/08/21 • 60 min

Garth Neufeld, LMFT, teaches an array of psychology courses at Cascadia College where he has been a professor since 2016. Garth is the founder of Teaching Introductory Psychology Northwest and the co-founder of the PsychSessions: Conversations About Teaching N’ Stuff podcast. Garth is the Director of Regional Conference Programming for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the co-chair of APA’s Introductory Psychology Initiative. He has served the national teaching of psychology community through the AP psychology exam reading, APA’s Summit on the National Assessment of Psychology, and APA’s Summit on High School Psychology Education. In 2018 Garth was awarded a presidential citation from the American Psychological Association (APA) as a Citizen Psychologist for his co-founding and ongoing participation as president of Shared Space For All, a non-profit organization that educates and mentors at-risk Thai children toward the prevention of prostitution. Garth is also the recipient of the 2019 STP Wayne Weiten Teaching Excellence Award.
In this episode, we talk about Garth's own lack of direction after his BA in psychology from Saskatchewan University in Canada, why he got a Master's in Marriage & Family Therapy but chose to become a professor instead, his experience as a professor at a community college, finding friends and mentors who have an "inner gold," advice for psych students to harness their skills and knowledge, how to get your feet wet in teaching, advice for preventing burnout among teachers, and so much more!
Listen to Garth's PsychSession's podcast!
Check out Garth's nonprofit, Shared Space For All!
To submit questions for future speakers, follow @psych_mic on Instagram and visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where I will be sending out job opportunities and tips for job searching related to the fields of our weekly speakers!

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Heidi K. Gardner, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession. Previously she was a professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Dr. Gardner’s book “Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos” was published in 2017 by Harvard Business Press, and became a Washington Post bestseller. Named by Thinkers 50 as a Next Generation Business Guru, Dr. Gardner co-founded the research and advisory firm Gardner & Co, which helps clients across professional services, industry, government, and non-profits to drive change through smarter collaboration.

Dr. Gardner has lived and worked on four continents, including as a Fulbright Fellow, and for McKinsey & Co. and Procter & Gamble. She earned her BA in Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in Industrial Relations, and a PhD from London Business School in Organizational Behavior.
Topics we cover:

  • Growing up in Amish Country - Lancaster, PA
  • Why Japanese language, culture, and history fascinated Heidi
  • How Heidi went from being a Japanese major to a manager at Procter & Gamble
  • What it means to be a leader & getting your team to shine
  • Heidi’s Fulbright scholarship in post-communist Germany
  • “As long as you are dealing with human beings, the value of psychology will always shine through”
  • Why Heidi loves going to grocery stores in new countries
  • What is Industrial Relations? - Heidi’s Master’s program
  • Organizational behavior - the human component of business
  • Working at McKinsey - culture, people, & work
  • Wanting a job you think about in the shower
  • What does a PhD in Organizational Behavior give you?
  • What is smart collaboration?
  • How does Heidi apply smart collaboration today?

To submit questions for future speakers and to get even more career tips, follow @psych_mic on Instagram and visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where you'll get career tips, grad school resources, and job opportunities straight to your inbox!
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Chris Branson, Ph.D is a licensed psychologist and nationally-recognized expert in trauma-informed practice for the juvenile justice system. Since 2012, he has provided consultation on trauma-informed practice to state and county juvenile justice systems in nine states. Dr. Branson has personally trained over 1,000 professionals in probation, detention/corrections, court, and diversion program settings. He also consults for several national organizations, including the US Department of Justice.
Dr. Branson has 14 years of juvenile justice experience as a therapist, researcher, and consultant. He began his career at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Harlem, where he provided mental health evaluations and evidence-based treatment to youth and families involved with the juvenile justice system. Alarmed by the high rates of trauma reported by his clients, Dr. Branson shifted his focus to increasing access to effective treatment for youth with traumatic stress. He served as Co-Principal Investigator for a 4-year federally-funded project to implement trauma-informed care in the NYC Department of Probation, Rikers Island, two diversion programs, and a drug treatment court.
In 2014, he joined the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine, where he led the first-ever NIMH-funded study of trauma-informed care in the juvenile justice system. He served as Co-Investigator on a subsequent SAMHSA-funded project to spread trauma-informed care through all of NYC's juvenile detention facilities.
In 2019, Dr. Branson left academia and launched C. Branson Consulting in order to focus on working directly with county and state juvenile justice agencies on implementing trauma-informed practices. His other areas of expertise include work-related traumatic stress in juvenile justice professionals, implementation science, program evaluation, and adolescent substance abuse.
In this episode, we cover why he decided to work with adolescents, why he talks about psychological concepts without using "damn jargon," why he aims to learn as much as he teaches, and so much more. Throughout, he gives "advice they don't tell you" about grad school, mastering public speaking, and finding mentors.
To submit questions for future speakers, visit @psych_mic on Instagram and visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where I will be sending out job opportunities and tips for job searching related to the fields of our weekly speakers.

Music by: Adam Fine

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For more than thirty years, psychotherapist Gerald Drose, PhD, has been helping his clients re-write their personal narratives, recognizing that the stories we tell ourselves limit our ability to love and thrive.

Gerald works with individuals and couples, helping them with relationship problems; has published research on sex therapy; wrote a bi-weekly column on sex, love, and marriage; and has extensive couples’ therapy experience. He also enjoys supervising younger therapists, filling in the gaps left after graduate school training, and firmly believes in the artistry needed to deeply understand the people who come for help. His graduate school experience inspired his first novel, Bird Gotta Land (Amazon).
Bird Gotta Land (book website) is a fictional memoir about a young grad student in clinical psychology. He learns that "in order to heal others, he must first face his deepest wounds." This book is a rare look behind the curtain of graduate school and is a must-read for aspiring therapists (or simply those who are intrigued by the experiences of therapists as they learn to explore the human condition).

Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Gerald received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Carolina. He lives with his wife Dina in Atlanta, Georgia, where the couple leads a psychotherapy practice with four locations. He has three grown sons and a granddaughter.
In this episode, we cover:

  1. How and when did you know you wanted to be a psychologist?
  2. Is being a therapist a calling, or is it something you can weigh out?
  3. What compelled you to get trained in sex therapy?
  4. What do you work on with couples?
  5. How much self-confidence does one need to have before beginning clinical training?
  6. Were you always a natural at therapy? What is the role of intuition in therapy?
  7. What happens if you don’t like your client, or if your client triggers your own wounds?
  8. How had your learning to be a therapist impact your personal relationships?
  9. What did you learn about people - our tendencies, our mental health, our relationships - that surprised you in grad school?
  10. Why are you drawn to narrative therapy?
  11. How do you know when a client is ready to go to uncomfortable places?
  12. Can you get licensed in different states?
  13. What is the most fulfilling part about being a therapist?
  14. What have you learned about young therapists by supervising so many of them?
  15. What advice do you have for the next generation of psychologists?
  16. What is one skill, quality, or general factor that has served you no matter where you went in life?

... and so much more!
Visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where you'll get career tips, grad school resources, and job opportunities straight to your inbox! Follow @psych_mic on Instagram to submit questions for speakers and stay in the loop.
Music by: Adam Fine

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Amy Elliott, PhD, Chief Clinical Research Officer at Avera Research Institute, leads a research team focused on improving child health and development through community-based research. Dr. Elliott is the principal investigator on several National Institutes of Health (NIH) research projects including the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Study, an initiative to reduce infant mortality in American Indian communities. Dr. Elliott also holds professor and research positions at The University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
Education:

  • PhD from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Clinical Psychology
  • MA from North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, Clinical Psychology
  • BA from Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota, Psychology

Topics we cover:

  1. If there was one thing you wish everybody knew about child development, what would it be?
  2. Why did you go into clinical psychology instead of medicine?
  3. Why did you get a master’s before your PhD?
  4. If you loved research, why did you want to get licensed as a clinician?
  5. How did you choose your PhD program?
  6. What was your grad school research on?
  7. Having a baby in grad school - unique benefits & challenges
  8. Why did you want to work with children?
  9. What did your training look like in graduate school?
  10. What was the most valuable part of your PhD?
  11. Advice for students interested in Amy’s line of work
  12. What does a pre-doctoral internship in behavioral pediatrics and genetics look like?
  13. Working on interdisciplinary teams
  14. When and why did you transition away from clinical work and into full-time research?
  15. “What got you here won’t get you there”
  16. Amy’s role at Avera Research Institute: Research & findings, leading a team, day in the life
  17. What is one skill, quality, or general factor that has served you no matter where you went in life?

Visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where you'll get career tips, grad school resources, and job opportunities straight to your inbox! Follow @psych_mic on Instagram to submit questions for speakers and stay in the loop.
Music by: Adam Fine

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Alexandra Canetti, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent and adult psychiatrist with an interest in community psychiatry and family issues. She is affiliated with New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center and currently serves as the Program Medical Director of the Special Needs Clinic, where she treats the mental health needs of individuals and families affected by medical illness, and of the School-Based Mental Health Program.
Dr. Canetti was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Dr. Canetti graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science in pre-medicine from the University of Puerto Rico. She completed her medical degree at Universidad Central del Caribe in Puerto Rico, and her residency in adult psychiatry at Cabrini Medical Center. She graduated from her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at St. Vincents Medical Center, where she was the chief fellow.

She joined the training faculty at the Columbia HIV Training Project and AIDS Education Training Center of NY/NJ and has interest in culturally competent family-based care to children and youth with medical illnesses.
Topics we cover:

  • Why psychiatry?
  • How to find mentors in psychiatry
  • What do you wish you knew before med school?
  • The process of figuring out her psychiatric specialty
  • What does your job at NYP look like? - A typical "patient journey" - start to finish
  • Why would a patient get referred to psychiatry over psychology or social work?
  • Patient populations and treatment modalities - DBT with bilingual families & cultural sensitivity
  • Loans & financial aspects of medical training
  • What does training in psychiatry actually look like?
  • What would you change about psychiatry if you could?
  • Skills that make you an effective psychiatrist
  • Why did you not like private practice?
  • Why did you decide to focus more on psychopharmacology and med management than on therapy?
  • When do you burnout the most? How do you deal with it?
  • Being the medical director of two clinics at Columbia NYP
  • If people want to learn more about child psychiatry, how should they go about it?
  • The difference between working with children and adults
  • What is one skill, quality, or general factor that has served you no matter where you went in life?

Visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where you'll get career tips, grad school resources, and job opportunities straight to your inbox! Follow @psych_mic on Instagram to submit questions for speakers and stay in the loop.
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Psych Mic - Psych Mic origin story
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06/18/21 • 25 min

The why, how, what, and who of Psych Mic.

To submit questions for future speakers and to get even more career tips, follow @psych_mic on Instagram and visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter.

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Psych Mic currently has 63 episodes available.

What topics does Psych Mic cover?

The podcast is about Psychology, Career Development, Podcasts, Social Sciences and Science.

What is the most popular episode on Psych Mic?

The episode title 'Struggle precedes mastery | Positive psychotherapy with Dr. Dan Tomasulo' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Psych Mic?

The average episode length on Psych Mic is 67 minutes.

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Episodes of Psych Mic are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of Psych Mic was released on Jan 16, 2021.

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