Manifest your future - be the hero of your PostdocTransformation

Welcome back PostdocTransformer,

do you need encouragement for #LeavingAcademia, then listen to this episode of the PostdocTransformation show is for you!

By listening or reading this episode, you learn creating a personal and professional manifest according to your vision of life, outlook, values, skills, challenges, and deriving your action plan.

Have you ever applied a #marketing concept on yourself?

Imagine the marketing strategy StoryBrand framework by Donald Miller tailored to yourself, so you can become the hero of your PostdocTransformation.

You don't have to leap out of science alone, take advantage of your mentors, networking, business preparation, and use various free and paid career transition resources as needed.

This episode is designed to empower PhD and postdoc scientists by offering strategies to overcome uncertainties and change the narrative for a successful and sustainable PostdocTransformation.

If this resonates with you, listen to this episode now!

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Apart from this emotionally important topic, I am excited to have co-ideated this episode together with my bachelor students in real life. They are currently practicing to consult companies based on what my fellow faculty and I have taught them - and long story short - I scraped my planned episode list and created a dovetailed mini-series towards our PostdocTransformation show season 5 finale!

Ep. 56: Reorganize for your PostdocTransformation

Ep. 57: Embrace your future - appreciate your past

Ep. 58: Create a time capsule to let go of being a scientist

Ep. 59: Manifest your future - be the hero of your PostdocTransformation

Ep. 60: Dovetailed season finale (and this idea we really discussed live in our lecture - and it was magic, so stay tuned).

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Please listen to our previous interviews with PhDs from various scientific disciplines, thriving in business today, which I link in the show notes as well.

While I love interviewing inspiring people (and have many interviews unpublished for various reasons) - my retention stats demand more solo episodes and I am building my own bridge into my next chapter of my PostdocTransformation - according to my vision of life.

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We just reached 8 k (yes, cross 7 k) with our previous 57 episodes, half of them are interviews with leaders in science and mostly business, and we want to thank you for listening. I am building my own legacy as a professor by bringing diverse role models to your table, so you can be inspired as you deserve.

Please feel invited to suggest your role models with or without a doctor title who can inspire the underrepresented, underprivileged and underserved scientists leaping into business and my bachelor and master students in real life.

Subscribe to our seasonal show on your favorite podcast platforms: Why? Postdoc scientists & PhD students / candidates will learn the basics for their career transition from research into business & industries AND will get to know a company that hires early career scientists!

Excerpts of this episode:

[00:07:15] So one question is why is it important, especially for postdoc or PhD scientists leaping into the business world?

[00:07:23] Well, in academia you've likely had a structured path where your where your research and results guide you the way, but in business, that structure is less defined. You're not just applying for jobs. You are rebranding yourself. And that's why it's also so important to have this identity as a scientist away somewhere so that as you open up to embrace your new identity in the business world, So this rebranding is important. You need to learn a new language, figure out your new position in new landscape for you. And Dr. Emily Rosenthal also talked about it in her interview episode number 27, transitioning from research into business, which we which we will link in the show notes. writing a manifest is your opportunity to take control of this transition, to take agency.

[00:08:24] So to speak, so that it's not happening to you, but for you. Okay. You're not just a passenger on this journey, but own your PostdocTransformation by being in the driver's seat. Just as I have mentioned in episode 57. brace your future. Appreciate your past, which I will also link in the show notes. And here's what I have learned both by my own PostdocTransformation and from coaching others. Without a clear sense of where you want to go. It's easy to feel lost, overwhelmed, and unsure about what steps to take next. A little bit storytelling, as you can see from my LinkedIn profile. After my PhD in neuroscience, worked at Aldi south, the grocery discounter as an IT analyst. And I know that sounds farfetched being a psychologist, being a neuroscientist, but this is my path. And we offered weekly specials in the ALDI stores. So just imagine someone walking into the store, if a customer has no plan of what is really needed in the household, then every weekly special seems attractive. And maybe you can already relate to that. How many ever bought something that is a special, but you need it, but because it's so nicely displayed, you just buy it. So. It's an open secret that sales and also profits are bigger for the specials then for the usual groceries, which is not so good for the customer. It's better for Aldi south.

[00:10:01] Okay. And the same applies to your own situation. if you don't know why you want your career transition, you will be blinded, by the various industries and job roles. Or even won't be able to see future-proof opportunities. And I want you dear PostdocTransformer to easily say no to things that are not according to your vision of life. Otherwise, you will say yes to every new shiny object, like, you know, You read about UX user experience, and then you want to do that because you have heard a lot of people doing that, but it's not the best fit for you. to know why it should be the best fit for your own

[00:10:45] PostdocTransformation okay. Uh, likewise, maybe you get a job offer that is superficially, the straw you need. And I know being jobless for many months will make you vulnerable and needy and, you know, might break you, and that's why you need to build your bridge for your future in our next episode. So stay tuned. Read or listen to the full transcript, you will really thank me later, LOL!

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