Ep. 1 - Science for Passion or Science for Profits?
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Release Date: 07/05/2022
Ep.19 Using EQ as a Performative Tool, With Special Guest Dr. Sarah Andres
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
On this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with prolific research scientist, Dr. Sarah Andres. Dr. Andres shares her origin story and points out key take aways from her journey. She then highlights how EQ is a key ingredient in that journey, as well as in team management, recruitment, and how it acts as a catalyst for problem solving in science. You don’t want to miss this one!
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Ep.18 Work Interviews: Define Your Culture, Define Your Value
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Interviews can be stressful, there is a lot at stake - your future, your career, your happiness. But with a little reframing, you begin to think of an interview, as more of a recruitement. Are THEY the right fit? Join us as Nick & Damien discuss some tips & tricks for navigating your next venture and empowering yourself to find the right work alignment.
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Ep.17 - A Q&A With Our Hosts and EDC Founders, Nick & Damien.
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Join us as our producer Pablo Signori digs deep with EDC Founders/hosts Nick & Damien on their origin story. In this episode they discuss the paths that led to starting their biotech lab management company, Experimental Designs Consulting, and what skills were key in forging their successful business.
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Ep.16 - Volatile Markets? Don't Be Reactive, Be Proactive
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Forget the noise; find the signal. Biotech entrepreneurs and academic researchers often encounter situations that were never addressed in their technical training. These knowledge gaps can create anxiety in response to challenges such as media predictions of funding scarcity, but it’s never too late to learn new ways of thinking that will help you ride out the ups and downs in the choppy waters at the convergence of science and finances.
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Ep.15 - Journaling: Data Research of Your Mind
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Don’t be a bad influence on yourself. The most important influencer in your life is… you. But you might also be your own worst critic. If you don’t have a strong sense of what your recurring thought patterns are and where they come from, they can sometimes hold you back from making positive changes in your life. Learning how to archive your thoughts can help you plot your path forward.
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Ep.14 - Optimizing Your Planned Future
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
You need to know your destination before you can plan your route. Where do you see yourself in ten years? You’re most likely to have heard this question in a job interview, a situation in which other people will use your response to help them shape their initial opinion of you. As a young leader, learning how to ask yourself the same question will help you shape your strategies, whether they’re for your next networking event or your entire life’s work.
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Ep.13 - Time Off: Setting The Standard
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Downtime is not lost time. When you love your work and are passionate about your long-term goals, time off can seem like a loss of momentum. However, just as athletes can’t improve their performance without giving their bodies time to recuperate, researchers and entrepreneurs can sometimes make faster progress by hitting the pause button.
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Ep. 12 - Energy Management: Do More, Work Less
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Don’t just go through it—grow through it. When we think about concepts such as productivity, bandwidth, and return on investment, we often revert to traditional metrics based on time and money. However, learning to reframe these concepts around energy will help you make better decisions about how you invest your time and effort.
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Ep.11 - Capitalizing On Your Origin Story
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
Don’t put limitations on your dreams. Growing a company or research program can be a stressful and risky endeavor. Anchoring your long-term scientific vision with a positive emotion will keep you motivated as you work towards your goals, and will help you craft a compelling story that will inspire others to support you on your journey.
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Ep.10 - The Great Resignation or A Great Situation?
EQ.IQ Podcast with Nick and Damien
In this episode, Damien and Nick discuss recruiting through what has been deemed "The Great Resignation."
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What can modern scientists learn from the Wright brothers?
Whether you’re an academic researcher or an entrepreneur, you’ll often need to balance the financial and creative sides of science. With the right approach to managing your research, you can learn to harness your scientific passion to drive innovative discovery—and when that research takes off, the money will follow.
00:44 Introductions
Meet your hosts, Nick and Damien from Experimental Designs Consulting.
01:30 Does profit really trump passion in scientific entrepreneurship?
Are we approaching the end of the technical founder era? Nick and Damien discuss a recent article that describes a new model of biotech product development, controlled more by venture capital interests than by the passion of individual founding scientists. How can entrepreneurs balance these two aspects of the biotech business to reduce financial risk without stifling scientific innovation?
Article: The Founder is dead. Long live The Founding Investor, by Isaac Stoner
13:50 Beyond the budget in academic research
In this segment, your hosts explore an example of a major equipment purchase decision in which the immediate financial costs had to be weighed against the value and risk of a long-term investment in the lab’s research productivity. Reframing the dollars and cents of a research budget in ways that relate directly to advancing your overall research vision can help you make the right decisions about how to spend your hard-earned funds.
The story of Samuel Langley: 5 Lessons From the Wright Brothers and the Power of Purpose, by Aly Juma
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