Women In STEM Career & Confidence

Inspiring Stories 036 - Nir Eyal

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Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.

Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Bloomberg Businessweek wrote, “Nir Eyal is the habits guy. Want to understand how to get app users to come back again and again? Then Eyal is your man.”

He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, “the best business book of 2019.”

In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.

Nir invests in habit-forming products that improve users’ lives. Some of his past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Kahoot! (KAHOOT-ME.OL), Canva, Homelight, Product Hunt, Marco Polo, Byte Foods, FocusMate, Dynamicare, Wise App, and Sunnyside.

Nir attended The Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University.

In this episode we talk about:

• How being distracted is a decision point and how to make time for traction instead based on your value system.
• Nir gives a much-needed formula for releasing the guilt of taking time to yourself.
• He gives an outstanding response to my final question on advice, alongside a very valuable answer to one of my community members on how to avoid doom scrolling when your place of work requires you to use two-factor authen...

094 Traction vs The Grind

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This episode is a Career Launchpad Special - listening in to my Day 1 Ask Me Anything video answering the groups questions following on from Task 1 - Reflecting on your current career status

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Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/

Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/

Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR

Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts

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Download Your FREE Guide: https://drhannahroberts.lpages.co/high-achievers-anxiety

This episode is a Career Launchpad Special - listening in to my Day 2 Ask Me Anything video answering the groups questions following on from Task 2 - Discovering what holds us back.

Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned.

Join hundreds of Scientists and Professional Women in Breakthrough Unleashed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakthroughunleashed/

Visit my Website: https://hannahnikeroberts.com/

Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrobertscoaching/

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahNikeR

Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhannahroberts

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Inspiring Stories 049 - Dr Helen Bridle - Client Story

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Helen is an Associate Professor in bioengineering at Heriot-Watt University and Director of Let’s Do Engineering, an EPSRC funded engagement project designed to tackle stereotypes around engineering with interventions for children aged 3-7 years.

In this episode we talk about:

• Overcoming the critical mindset surrounding perfectionism and people pleasing.
• Ensuring we don’t use avoidance and procrastination tactics when it comes to feedback so it can be tackled constructively using the 4A’s framework.
• Tools to overcome overwhelm and burnout and being back the intentionality in your career.

Connect with Helen

LinkedIn: Helen Bridle

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