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Power Networking: Moving Beyond Survival Mode in STEM 📚⚡️ - 008
This episode delivers a powerful dismantling of outdated career advice that keeps high-achieving women, particularly Black and African women in STEM, trapped in exhausting "survival mode." Host Adaeze Iloeje-Udeogalanya challenges the pervasive myth that hard work, humility, and expertise alone guarantee success [02:00].
She reveals this as a broken paradigm, arguing that in today’s professional landscape, true advancement is fueled by three critical elements: access, visibility, and strategic relationships.
Drawing from her own 20-year journey of feeling invisible as the "only one" in the…
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