Episodes

  • Shattering Stereotypes: Pioneering Equality in STEM with Pfizer’s Lidia Fonseca

    Shattering Stereotypes: Pioneering Equality in STEM with Pfizer’s Lidia Fonseca
    Mar 21 2024

    In this week's special episode of Mika Straight Up, Mika sits down with Lidia Fonseca, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Pfizer. She credits her success to her remarkable mother and poorly produced American TV shows from the 1970s! With women representing just 34% of the workforce in science, technology, engineering, and math, closing this gender gap in STEM is a statistic Lidia is passionately working to change.

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    34 mins
  • Paying It Forward with Deborah Streeter and Jeanette Kaplun

    Paying It Forward with Deborah Streeter and Jeanette Kaplun
    May 12 2022
    Mika welcomes Deborah Streeter and Jeanette Kaplun of The Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship at Cornell University to discuss the importance of mentorship and chat about effective ways for young female entrepreneurs to seek capital for their professional ventures.
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    33 mins
  • Georgetown Women's Forum with AirBNB's Marisa Moret

    Georgetown Women's Forum with AirBNB's Marisa Moret
    May 5 2022
    Mika participates in Georgetown University’s Women's Forum, where she shares the screen with AirBNB's Global Director Marisa Moret to discuss their professional journeys and also fields questions from the Georgetown students that tuned-in to this special addition of Mika Straight Up.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Body language in the workplace with Janine Driver

    Body language in the workplace with Janine Driver
    Apr 28 2022
    Mika welcomes body language expert and New York Times best-selling author Janine Driver to the podcast. With people returning to the office following the pandemic and many entering an office work environment for the first time, Mika and Janine discuss how to best utilize our body language to communicate effectively in our professional lives.
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    33 mins
  • The Happiness 401k with Arthur Brooks

    The Happiness 401k with Arthur Brooks
    Apr 14 2022
    Mika is joined by social scientist and best-selling author Arthur Brooks to discuss his new book “From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life.” Brooks discusses how he identified the habits of the happiest people, how to adopt them yourself, and how to break the success addiction often responsible for mid-life crises.
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    22 mins
  • Bobbi Brown on The Important Things

    Bobbi Brown on The Important Things
    Apr 7 2022
    Bobbi Brown stops by the pod to discuss body positivity and the unique way she picks her models. Bobbi also gives makeup tips and tells Mika why she decided to launch her own podcast.
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    29 mins
  • Joe Scarborough. Willie Geist. Morning Joe behind-the-scenes

    Joe Scarborough. Willie Geist. Morning Joe behind-the-scenes
    Mar 31 2022
    Joe and Willie crash the pod to chat about the twists and turns of Morning Joe’s 15 year run, their first impressions of each other, how they’ve grown together, and what the future holds as the show expands to four hours. Mika and Willie also recount a particular Trump tweet on this special episode of Straight Up.
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    19 mins
  • Asking for more with Alexandra Carter

    Asking for more with Alexandra Carter
    Mar 24 2022

    For more from Alex Carter, visit her website: https://alexcarterasks.com/
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    45 mins