Multiple Hats is a STEM career podcast for professionals who want more than the 9–5. Hear real stories of STEM professionals reinventing their careers — from scientists turned founders to biotech consultants and entrepreneurs.
Hosted by Angelique Greco, a biotech and health-tech expert with 15+ years across the drug development lifecycle, this show explores how STEM careers can evolve into entrepreneurship, thought leadership, and portfolio work that truly matters.
Through in-depth conversations with entrepreneurial STEM professionals, you’ll discover:
You will hear:
For who:
Scientists, PhDs, engineers, clinicians, biotech consultants, tech pros including women balancing STEM careers with motherhood while fighting stereotypes.
Why listen:
Representation and role modelling matter. Bold and brave STEM professionals share how they carved their own paths — so you can too.
🎙 New episodes weekly. Follow now to reinvent your STEM career and design work on your own terms.
STEMM = Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Medicine
Visit my website https://angeliquegreco.com.au/ for short bite insights and on how to start crafting your message to set you on track for the career your want (Discover, Articulate, Master).
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Multiple Hats is a STEM career podcast for professionals who want more than the 9–5. Hear real stories of STEM professionals reinventing their careers — from scientists turned founders to biotech consultants and entrepreneurs.
Hosted by Angelique Greco, a biotech and health-tech expert with 15+ years across the drug development lifecycle, this show explores how STEM careers can evolve into entrepreneurship, thought leadership, and portfolio work that truly matters.
Through in-depth conversations with entrepreneurial STEM professionals, you’ll discover:
You will hear:
For who:
Scientists, PhDs, engineers, clinicians, biotech consultants, tech pros including women balancing STEM careers with motherhood while fighting stereotypes.
Why listen:
Representation and role modelling matter. Bold and brave STEM professionals share how they carved their own paths — so you can too.
🎙 New episodes weekly. Follow now to reinvent your STEM career and design work on your own terms.
STEMM = Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Medicine
Visit my website https://angeliquegreco.com.au/ for short bite insights and on how to start crafting your message to set you on track for the career your want (Discover, Articulate, Master).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What if you saw a path to a life saving device?
Would you have the courage to turn it into a company—and convince others to come with you?
🔍 What You’ll Learn:
If you’re wondering whether there are more impactful things you could be doing with your STEM skill set, this episode is your masterclass in spotting sizeable, solvable, yet overlooked problems—the perfect intersection for maximum impact.
• Learn what industrial design really is—and how its problem-solving mindset applies to building MedTech devices that actually get used.
• Understand why you don’t have to personally experience a problem to solve it—and how empathy and observation can be the gateway to innovation.
• Discover how to find your “patchwork” by combining corporate experience, technical design, and purpose—and how that patchwork became foundational to ShanShan’s leadership.
• See how to move from “Could I really build this?” to “Here’s how we’ll do it”—with practical strategies for forming your founding team, pitching your first investor, and making your vision contagious.
Action:
Press play to learn how to break through in a space with little innovation, conquer a complex value chain to build a better future—and what you can build when you back your own vision.
🧠 About the Guest:
ShanShan Wang is the CEO and co-founder of Roam Technologies, a medtech startup developing a tankless, portable oxygen device designed to replace bulky cylinders and improve patient mobility. Originally trained as an industrial designer, she applied her skills to a pressing problem she couldn’t ignore—and turned her thesis into a patented, clinically validated device backed by investor capital.
📌 Episode Highlights:
00:00 – From design school to a life-changing observation
03:00 – Why innovation is so rare in oxygen therapy
06:22 – Engineering a simple solution to a complex, systemic problem
10:10 – What patients need vs. what the system rewards
15:00 – The chemistry, process, and real-time tech behind Roam
18:00 – The role of design in translating complex needs into usable products
21:00 – How corporate life became a testbed for entrepreneurship
25:00 – Turning a side project into a company—with no Plan B
30:00 – Getting people to believe: mentors, investors, and the first yes
38:00 – Pitching without a product: what investors really want to see
45:00 – The secret to rallying a team with no money—just mission
52:00 – What underrated STEM skills matter most in startups
58:00 – From control freak to visionary founder: embracing growth and risk
🔗 Resources Mentioned:
🤔 Reflection Time:
Want to craft a career story that opens doors?
I help STEMM professionals speak with clarity, confidence, and purpose and show up as thought leaders —so the right opportunities find you.
📬 Let’s connect: angeliquegreco.com.au | LinkedIn
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