In Episode 047 of the Lunch with Leaders podcast, Adaeze Iloeje-Udeogalanya addresses a phenomenon that rarely gets named directly but affects thousands of high-achieving women in STEM: promotion burnout. This is the exhaustion and disillusionment that sets in when repeated hard work toward advancement is met not with recognition and reward, but with systemic barriers […]
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Nobody warns you about the loneliness. You prepare for the long hours, the hard decisions, the funding rejections, and the market uncertainty. What catches most founders and senior leaders off guard, however, is the profound isolation that settles in once they reach the top. There is nobody left to talk to honestly, nobody who fully
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What does a career in STEM actually look like when you refuse to be confined by it? For Dr. Mia Edgerton-Fulton, the answer is a biomedical science career that has expanded into entrepreneurship, education, mentorship, and brand building, all at once. In Episode 036 of the Lunch with Leaders podcast, Dr. Mia joins host Adaeze
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You are exceptional at your job. You are the person your team calls when something needs to get done. Your work is consistently high quality, your output is reliable, and your manager depends on you. By every measure, you are performing well. So why are you not moving forward? In Episode 037 of the Lunch
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Everyone in the room is technically excellent. That is the uncomfortable truth nobody tells you early in your career. By the time you reach the senior levels, the people around you have already cleared the technical bar. They are smart, qualified, and experienced. So if everyone is technically excellent, what actually determines who moves up?
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Nineteen years in corporate communications teaches you things that no classroom will. It teaches you that the most technically brilliant leaders often fail not because of what they know but because of how they communicate it. It teaches you that trust is not built in a single impressive presentation but in the slow, consistent accumulation
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