BBY Show S9 Ep2: Making science accessible with Jen Martin

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Science is everywhere. There is nothing around you that is not science.

Making science more inclusive and relevant helps people feel that it is part of their world, rather than something only for the intelligent or elite.

"Doing things that feel very difficult has created in me a whole new sense of resilience, self-acceptance, and the belief that I can accomplish challenging tasks. It doesn't matter whether I'm good at them or not; the fact that I can do them has been truly life-changing" - Jen Martin

Jen’s three life=changing reads:

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Why Am I Like This by Jen Martin Amazon UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Am-Like-This-Weirdest/dp/1761450425

Let's Talk Scicomm Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/lets-talk-scicomm/id1590937440

TEDTalk: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator by Tim Urban

https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU?si=l4n2sQtd_ocL6KFH 

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Dr Jen Martin founded and leads the University of Melbourne’s acclaimed Science Communication Teaching Program. She spent many years working as a field ecologist, until she decided the most useful thing she could contribute as a scientist was to teach other scientists how to be effective and engaging communicators. Jen also practises what she preaches: she’s been talking about science weekly on radio for nearly 20 years, hosts podcasts (including @letstalkscicomm), MCs events, writes for a variety of publications and was named the 2019 Hero of Australian Science Communication. Jen’s first popular science book, ‘Why am I like this? The science behind your weirdest thoughts and habits’ was published this year.

CONNECT WITH JEN MARTIN:

Email - j.martin1@unimelb.edu.au

Website - https://scidocmartin.com/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jen-martin-scicomm/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/scidocmartin/

Twitter / X - https://twitter.com/scidocmartin

Podcast - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letstalkscicomm

ABOUT KYM HAMER:

Kym Hamer is an international leadership, visibility and impact coach, a personal branding expert and serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained business value.

In other words, accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU!

In 2020, just one year after launching her first business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 25 Personal Branding and Top 12 Marketing Influencers in the world. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, was recognised as one of their Top Voices for 2023 globally.

Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East, and co-founder of CXSA G