Overwhelm, Wrong Career Path, Women in Engineering, and Geoscience
Navigating Challenges and Achieving Success Life is a journey filled with choices, challenges, and opportunities. For many individuals,...
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JOLENE HERMANSON
Life & Health Coach
for Women in Geoscience & Engineering
Jolene Hermanson
- May 13
- 3 min
"I'm worried I'm not smart enough"
This thought is hard. When you believe it, it makes you question everything. "Did I get into the wrong career?" "Maybe I shouldn't speak...
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Jolene Hermanson
- May 5
- 4 min
The Top Six Reasons Women Contemplate Leaving Their STEM Careers
Research from the US shows that while 41% of highly qualified scientists, engineers and technologists at the lower levels of corporations...
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Jolene Hermanson
- May 5
- 2 min
Courage doesn't mean your voice doesn't shake. Courage means you speak up anyways.
Courage doesn’t mean your voice doesn’t shake. Courage means you speak up anyways. A couple weeks ago I attended a predominantly...
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Jolene Hermanson
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Practicing Constraint
I'm celebrating all the things I said no to this year. I want to say no to more. I'm committing to constraint. Constraint allows me to:...
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Jolene Hermanson
- Apr 12
- 4 min
Diversity and Problem Solving
Originally published in the British Columbia Groundwater Association (BCGWA) Groundwater Matters newsletter (December 2022). It was 1993,...
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Jolene Hermanson
- Apr 11
- 2 min
I was terrified to start this job
I was terrified to start this job. My mission: to head to northeast BC in sub -40, follow the drill crew on a quad for +12 hours/day, and...
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Jolene Hermanson
- Apr 11
- 2 min
Free Resource: Practices and Actions for Developing Confidence
Brene Brown, research professor at the University of Houston, introduced the term “grounded confidence” in her podcast Dare to Lead and...
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Jolene Hermanson
- Sep 13, 2022
- 6 min
Learning to Take a Hit
"You learn to take a hit." That was the response when I asked my male colleague how he was able to play competitive hockey for so long...
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Jolene Hermanson
- Sep 6, 2022
- 7 min
The Fear of Messing Up: Impacts on Women in Leadership & 6 Ways You Can Increase Your Risk Tolerance
When feeling is for thinking and thinking is for doing, regret is for making us better. - Daniel H. Pink, The Power of Regret: How...
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