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Graduate Theory Transcripts

Lightly edited transcripts from the Graduate Theory podcast archive.

2022

Transcript: On Why You Shouldn't Follow Your Passion

·18 mins
← Back to episode 32 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Steve Jobs: And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle as with all matters of the heart.

Transcript: Gene Rice | On The Journey from Grad to Grown-up

·48 mins
← Back to episode 31 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Gene: There was a survey done recently from the conference board that said 25 to 35 year olds. 48%. Don’t have job satisfaction, 55 to 65 year olds. This is an America, 52%. Don’t have job satisfaction. That’s sad for me that said, you know, shame on the older people for not figuring it out. I want to tell you young adults. Figure it out. Find that thing you love. Don’t give up your dreams and figure out how to get a career doing it

Transcript: Yaniv Bernstein | On Engineering The Perfect Work Culture

·40 mins
← Back to episode 30 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Yaniv: So you say, I make my whole team 20% more impactful and more productive. So we go from 500 impact points to 600. Well, that’s how I get my 100 impact points as a manager.

Transcript: On Negotiating Your Financial Future with Lacey Filipich

·61 mins
← Back to episode 29 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Lacey: And even if you don’t get to that goal, even if you don’t reach the point where your assets are paying you enough to cover your living costs, you’re still going to be in a much better financial position than if you didn’t, your life will be easier and less stressful.

Transcript: On the Specialist vs Generalist Dilemma

·34 mins
← Back to episode 28 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Episode Intro # hello and welcome to Graduate Theory. Today. I’ve got a little bit of a different episode for you. An interesting thought exercise about careers is how to maximize your career potential. Some problems that we have when we start off Korea things like what, how do I know if what I’m doing is, is what I’m meant to be doing?. Am I doing something that, that is really matched to my skillset. Am I going to kind of maximize my potential by doing this thing long into the future?

Transcript: On Finding and Thriving in Your Dream Graduate Role with Kerry Callenbach

·35 mins
← Back to episode 27 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Kerry: As a graduate or someone early near Korea, that your, your job is, is to learn right. And to learn from others. So I think being open and comfortable with feedback is also a really, really important one as well

Transcript: On Making a Career in Venture Capital with Abhi Maran

·44 mins
← Back to episode 26 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Abhi: I think that’s, that’s super important and that’s like a lifelong journey, to be honest, it’s just always reading, finding people’s perspectives on things, challenging perspectives on things and like challenging your own perspective on things as well.

Transcript: The Quarter Century Review with James Fricker

·45 mins
← Back to episode 25 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. James: Hello, and welcome to Graduate Theory. Today’s episode is a special episode. No guests on the show today. It’s me and you.

Transcript: On Avoiding Career Traps and Burnout with Mel Kettle

·45 mins
← Back to episode 24 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Intro # Mel: I went to the doctor’s one day and, um, he said to me, took my blood pressure and he said, I don’t know how you’re walking around.

Transcript: On Building a Remote Career in Web3 with Josh Reyes

·43 mins
← Back to episode 23 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Josh: You’re really young. Like now I’ve been outside of uni for six to seven years and yeah, taking that risk early on, I think is if you’re going to do it, you should do it. Then

Transcript: On Finding Your Mission with Josh Farr

·55 mins
← Back to episode 22 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Josh: And so my metric for a meaningful career said, can I do something that’s just net positive, but who knows how much you can help people, but can I just do something that’s net positive? And can I show up every day and try to help? And in one night, my entire view of that changed.

Transcript: On Resume Writing and Authenticity with Nimarta Verma

·37 mins
← Back to episode 21 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Nimarta: And it was not a surprise that she did given that, you know, she really did stand out when she wrote it that way

Transcript: On Time Management and Leadership with Adam Geha

·34 mins
← Back to episode 20 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. Adam: It seems to be a, a glitch in the human. That it confuses leadership for public speaking ability and, and overconfidence

Transcript: On Asymmetric risks and The Power Of Asking with Warwick Donaldson

·41 mins
← Back to episode 18 This transcript was generated from YouTube captions and lightly edited for readability. Speaker labels may be unavailable, and transcription errors may remain. Warwick Donaldson # Hello and welcome to Graduate Theory on today’s episode you’ll hear about what it means to take an asymmetric risk and certain things you can do in your career that have unlimited upside we’ll talk about networking hacks from Chinese culture and we’ll also talk about what it means to challenge yourself appropriately if you haven’t already.

Transcript: On The Importance of Taking Action with Aaron Ngan

·64 mins
← Back to episode 17 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. James: Hello, and welcome to Graduate Theory. Today’s episode is all about taking action. How do we go from an idea, a thought into something that’s tangible and interactions that we can actually.

Transcript: On building a long term and sustainable career with Michael Gill

·70 mins
← Back to episode 16 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. James: Hello, and welcome to Graduate Theory. Today’s episode is a little bit different to an ordinary episode, for two main reasons. The first of these is it. It’s not just me hosting the show. I’ve brought on a friend of mine, whose name is Peter.

Transcript: On Startups, Corporate and The Importance of Personal Branding with Dan Brockwell

·56 mins
← Back to episode 15 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. James: Hello, and welcome to Graduate Theory. On today’s episode, we’ll hear about personal branding and the importance of that. As we go into careers in 2022, we’ll talk about corporate versus startups. And what are the pros and cons of working in an established corporate company versus working in a startup.

Transcript: On Our Connection To Nature and Leadership with Ingrid Messner

·38 mins
← Back to episode 14 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. James: Hello, and welcome to Graduate Theory. On today’s episode, you’ll hear from my guest about her two major accidents and what she learned from those and how those have affected their life. Moving. You’ll hear about her book called naturally successful and the main lessons that she’s taken from being a leadership coach for over 25 years, you’ll also hear about her insights into nature and what it means to have a good connection to nature and how we can use, those things in our daily lives.

Transcript: On Moving Interstate, SWE Interviews and Traits of Great Consultants

·41 mins
← Back to episode 13 This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. It may still contain transcription errors. James: Hello, and welcome to Graduate Theory. I met today’s guest a number of years ago at the university. He’s a very, very interesting young man. He was the president of the 180 degrees consulting branch based at other university. And he’s now. Graduated consultant at Deloitte in Adelaide. Please. Welcome to the show today, Alex, on their porch.