{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6311fe9bae5d13001250521f/6a06ae8dd98ee73f63fb4873?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"4 Career Myths Keeping STEM Professionals Stuck, and What to Do Instead | Rachel Service","description":"<p>What if the biggest thing holding your career back isn’t a lack of skills, experience, or opportunity, but a belief you’ve been carrying for years?</p><p><br></p><p>🔍 <strong>What You’ll Learn:</strong></p><p>Many STEM professionals underestimate the value of their skills, overestimate the need for perfection, and assume hard work alone will create opportunities.</p><p>In this quick-fire episode, Rachel Service tackles four common beliefs that keep scientists playing small and offers practical ways to think differently.</p><p>You’ll discover:</p><ul><li>Why your scientific training gives you highly transferable skills that employers desperately need</li><li>Why working hard stops being enough as your career progresses, and what replaces it</li><li>How perfectionism disguises itself as professionalism and keeps talented people stuck</li></ul><p><strong>If you’ve ever thought “I’m just a scientist”, “I’m not ready”, or “I just need to work harder”, this episode will challenge those assumptions in under 10 minutes.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>🧠 <strong>About the Guest:</strong></p><p>Rachel Service is the founder and CEO of Happiness Concierge, a workplace training company that has worked with more than 200 organisations. Following her own experience with burnout and depression, Rachel built a business helping people improve communication, leadership, workplace culture, and career satisfaction.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>📌 <strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p><p><strong>00:00</strong> The beliefs that quietly hold STEM professionals back</p><p><strong>02:30</strong> Rachel’s accidental entrepreneurship story and the burnout that started it all</p><p><strong>03:15</strong> “I’m just a scientist” and why that’s completely wrong</p><p><strong>04:00</strong> The scientific skills that transfer into almost any career</p><p><strong>04:30</strong> Does your work really speak for itself?</p><p><strong>05:00</strong> Why career growth eventually becomes a PR campaign</p><p><strong>05:30</strong> Done versus perfect, and the real fear underneath perfectionism</p><p><strong>06:45</strong> The question to ask when you think you don’t have enough time, money, or resources</p><p><br></p><p>🔗 <strong>Resources Mentioned:</strong></p><ul><li>There Has To Be More by Rachel Service</li><li>Previous long-form episode with Rachel Service on motivation and the “whinge phase”</li><li><br></li></ul><p>🤔 <strong>Reflection Time:</strong></p><ol><li>Which belief have you been carrying: “I’m just a scientist”, “I need to work harder”, “My work speaks for itself”, or “I’m not ready yet”?</li><li>What skill do you use every day that you underestimate because it comes naturally to you?</li><li>What’s one small action you could take this week if you stopped waiting to feel completely ready?</li></ol><p>One of my favourite insights from Rachel was this:</p><p><em>“It’s not about being perfect. It’s about learning to live with the idea that someone might see your incompetence.”</em>&nbsp;</p><p>That’s uncomfortable. But it’s also where growth starts.</p>","author_name":"Angelique Greco | Biotech & Health-Tech Expert | STEM Thought Leadership Coach"}