Skip to main content

Graduate Theory Transcripts

Lightly edited transcripts from the Graduate Theory podcast archive.

2022

Transcript: The End

·43 mins
← Back to episode 52 This transcript was generated from YouTube captions and lightly edited for readability. Speaker labels may be unavailable, and transcription errors may remain. Intro # Hello and welcome to Graduate Theory today’s episode is episode 52 of Graduate Theory which means it’s been about a year of Graduate Theory episodes we’ve had an episode come out every Tuesday for pretty much a year now it’s been a wild Journey there’s been so many guests on the show so much knowledge.

Transcript: Nan Meka | On Choosing a Startup That's Right for You

·26 mins
← Back to episode 51 This transcript was generated from YouTube captions and lightly edited for readability. Speaker labels may be unavailable, and transcription errors may remain. Nan Meka # I think as somebody who’s entering into a startup you might get enamored with fundraising size but having been in a startup it’s actually not an indication of a successful product Market fit or commercial model or a great customer experience so that’s one metric I definitely ignore great to have you on the show I want to.

Transcript: Graduate Theory Compilation - Part Two

·49 mins
← Back to episode 50 This transcript was generated from YouTube captions and lightly edited for readability. Speaker labels may be unavailable, and transcription errors may remain. Intro # Hello and welcome to episode 50 of Graduate Theory what a fantastic Milestone 50 episodes It’s been a fantastic Journey so far thanks so much for tuning in so today’s episode is part two of this mini series where we are recapping all the episodes that we’ve done so just like last episode in this.

Transcript: Graduate Theory Compilation - Part One

·55 mins
← Back to episode 49 This transcript was generated from YouTube captions and lightly edited for readability. Speaker labels may be unavailable, and transcription errors may remain. Intro # Hello and welcome to Graduate Theory today is a very special episode of Graduate Theory if you’ve been a listener for a while you’ll remember that at the end of every episode I asked the guests what’s some advice that they’d give people starting their career today today’s episode is a compilation of these things we’ve gone back into the.

Transcript: On Achieving Work-Life Balance

·30 mins
← Back to episode 48 This transcript was generated from YouTube captions and lightly edited for readability. Speaker labels may be unavailable, and transcription errors may remain. Work-Life Balance # Hello and welcome to Graduate Theory in today’s episode it’s just you and me we’re doing a deep dive into Work-Life Balance now Work-Life Balance in 2021 April 2021 Google tweeted that Work-Life Balance um hit its peak in terms of search in terms of the trend so Google Trends Work-Life Balance hit a peak 2021 at in.

Transcript: Dave Lourdes | On Becoming The Best You Can Be

·40 mins
← Back to episode 47 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Intro # Dave: I think about a little one, like if you think about Martin Luther king, he gets a million people to March in Washington, cuz he says, I have a dream.

Transcript: Mykel Dixon | On Rediscovering Your Creativity

·55 mins
← Back to episode 46 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Mykel: If we’re not careful, this is the world that we’re in. It can be taken from us. Can be stolen from us. It can be, you know, but if we were to switch and go, well, what happens if we do engage with it?

Transcript: Brendan Humphreys | On Developing Your Engineering Career

·46 mins
← Back to episode 45 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Brendan: Engineering is, and probably always will be a highly collaborative exercise. And so being able to see, uh, a problem from different viewpoints and to really, uh, to deeply build that skill of being able to do that is highly valuable in unlocking collaboration in teams.

Transcript: Lisa Leong | On Moments of Truth and Pattern Discovery

·37 mins
← Back to episode 44 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Lisa: So all those boxes of success, the promotion, the work life balance with the Olympic distance triathlon, it was like a, like a big mistake because I was in bed. I was bedridden

Transcript: On Creating a Lifestyle Career Plan

·17 mins
← Back to episode 42 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Intro # James: Here’s a question for you. If I gave you a bunch of jigsaw jigsaw pieces and asked you to complete the puzzle, what’s the first thing that you would do? The chances are, what you’ll do is you’ll grab the box and look at the image that you’re trying to create the image that you’re gonna connect the Jukes hole pieces, and you wanna connect them in such a way that it looks like what is on the box.

Transcript: Gabriel Guedes | On Tales Of Spontaneity And The Perils Of Optionality

·41 mins
← Back to episode 41 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Gabriel: I think failure is very important, right? If you cannot deal with failure,, you’re not never gonna risk high enough. Meaning if you’re never fail means that you’re probably not stretch yourself enough. So failure is very important

Transcript: Elaha Gurgani | On Exploring Curiosity and Building Your Tribe

·46 mins
← Back to episode 40 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Elaha: The things that you always wanted, the people, the tribe, the passion the things that you always create for it will come to you through those unknown paths. That’s where the magic lies.

Transcript: Elizabeth Knight | On Defining Yourself and Your Mission

·42 mins
← Back to episode 39 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Elizabeth: I was jealous of people that had a passion. I didn’t have a passion. And, um, yeah, that, that’s the other thing. Now there’s like this pressure to not just do a career, but you have to be passionate about that career. And it’s like, oh my God, whole other layer added into that. So those, those expectations and ideas of success, um, whenever we’re tempting one over another it’s bad.

Transcript: Juliana Owen | On Building Your Career in the Australian Job Market

·38 mins
← Back to episode 38 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Juliana: And people go, oh, but they are, you’re not well prepared. And then you create an illusion and, and, uh, you know, if you do not look for development in those areas, you’re just gonna become a victim of the system, right.

Transcript: On The Best Of Graduate Theory

·52 mins
← Back to episode 37 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Intro # James: Hello, and welcome to Graduate Theory. Today’s episode is a compilation of many different episodes that we’ve had in the past on Graduate Theory.

Transcript: Max Marchione | On Independent Thought And The Value Of Courage

·44 mins
← Back to episode 36 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Max: I think some people’s default is that society, the way it is as good. My default is that society, the way it is bad and the underlying the underlying action or that the action that underpins that is break the rules.

Transcript: Robby Wade | On The Importance of Perspective

·48 mins
← Back to episode 34 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Robby Wade: I run a startup now where you’re like, oh man, how do you take on all these stress? And. Running a shift on Friday night and like running, trying to keep the drive-through clear it’s like the most intense shit you could ever go through in your entire life.

Transcript: Jack Boxer | On Waking Up and Chasing Your Dreams

·43 mins
← Back to episode 33 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Jack: And you’re like, like that, that sucks. That’s not a way to leave. Cause then you’re wasting five out of seven days. Which is like 71% of your life. It’s like, what, how did, how have we all let that be the normal thing that we do?