Jun 30, 2025
Anna Ong spent 15 years in banking hoping her work would speak for itself. It didn't. What she learned instead: great ideas don't win. Great storytellers do.
After leaving banking, Anna couldn't find a stage for the kind of stories she wanted to tell - raw, vulnerable, real - so she built one. What's Your Story Slam is...
Jun 24, 2025
In 2018, Dr. Gertrude Nonterah lost her postdoc position. For the next 18 months, she applied for jobs with a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology — and heard nothing. During that stretch, she googled "famous people who were fired" just to find something to hold onto.
Today, Dr. G is the founder of The Bold PhD,...
Jun 9, 2025
Most podcasting advice is about tactics: the mic, the posting schedule, the SEO. This episode is about something harder to find and more valuable to build.
In this solo episode, I share the five internal qualities I see in the most successful podcasters I know - the ones whose shows hold up years after they started. Not...
Jun 2, 2025
Jennifer Van Alstyne posted about academics being paid for their speaking. It went viral - but not in the way she hoped. The comments were hateful. Some were racist. Fellow academics pushed back.
She kept showing up anyway.
Jennifer is the founder of The Academic Designer, where she helps professors build their online...