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A 10-minute Fire Chat on transferable STEM skills, perfectionism, working smarter and making space for creative work.

What if the biggest barrier to your next step is not a lack of time, money or skills, but the belief that you need more of all three before you can begin?


🔍 What You'll Learn:

Many STEM professionals assume their technical skills only matter inside their current field. Then they work longer, wait to feel ready and quietly hope their work will speak for itself. This episode challenges those assumptions.



Play this 10-minute episode to identify what is really holding you back and choose one practical step you can take this week.


🧠 About the Guest:

Dr Anupama Hariharan began her career as a dentist before moving into clinical research. Alongside her STEM career, she has become a published poet and fiction author.

In this Fire Chat, she explains how scientific discipline supports her creative work, why perfection is overrated and how completing an eight-day writing challenge gave her the confidence to publish her first book.


📌 Episode Highlights:

00:00 The beliefs that quietly hold scientists back

01:20 From dentistry and clinical research to becoming an author

01:45 The scientific skills that transfer beyond technical roles

02:20 What working smarter actually looks like

02:50 Why the book cover deserved focused attention

04:15 Is done really better than perfect?

05:00 What nature teaches us about beauty and imperfection

06:40 What is good enough to start?

07:40 Turning existing work into a practical first step

08:10 Completing a 21-day writing challenge in eight days

09:20 Facing rejection without giving away your creative voice

10:05 How science and creativity can strengthen each other


🔗 Resources Mentioned:




🤔 Reflection Time:


  1. Which ability do you dismiss as \"just part of being a scientist\", even though it could help you in a different role, business or creative project?
  2. Where are you working longer because you have not decided which action will make the biggest difference?
  3. What could you finish within the next eight days to prove to yourself that you are ready to begin?
","author_name":"Angelique Greco | Biotech & Health-Tech Expert | STEM Thought Leadership Coach"}