Dr. Anokhi Kapasi: Building Your Whole Life Scoreboard as Moms in STEM - 054
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Dr. Anokhi Kapasi discusses the importance of a whole life scoreboard for moms in STEM to combat the forced choice trap and improve career-life integration.
Women in STEM, working moms, career-life integration, forced choice trap, STEM retention, biomedical careers, whole life scoreboard, Anokhi Kapasi, Adaeze Iloeje-Udeogalanya, CLIP. In this episode of Launch with Leaders , host Adaeze Iloeje-Udeogalanya sits down with Dr. Anokhi Kapasi Sullivan , a biomedical consultant and founder of Solve for Mom . Together, they dismantle the "forced choice trap" causing high retention losses among women in STEM. Anokhi shares her Career Life Integration Protocol (CLIP), explaining how moms can stop using outdated, career-only metrics to measure success. She advocates for a "whole life scoreboard" and using constraints as data to build boundaries, emphasizing that boundaries are a professional skill that increases reliability. Key Moments Anokhi introduces the "forced choice trap" , the script telling women they must either be serious scientists or present moms, leading to burnout (03:52). She explains why generic advice fails STEM professionals, who require deep focus (09:16). A pivotal moment occurs when Anokhi introduces the "whole life scoreboard," urging women to stop judging their integrated…
People in this episode
Host: Adaeze Iloeje-Udeogalanya
Guest: Dr. Anokhi Kapasi Sullivan
Topics covered
- women in STEM
- career-life integration
- forced choice trap
- STEM retention
- whole life scoreboard
- boundaries in professional life
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Solve for Mom
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