How do you juggle motherhood and the high pace of consulting? How do you find mentors and support in consulting?

Sook Chua is a Partner at EY Americas Technology Consulting, Cloud Practice. Her career spans across consulting at IBM, PwC and Arthur Andersen.

Connect with Sook on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sook-chua/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:08 Guest Introduction Sook Chua

01:36 What is the best advice you have ever gotten?

05:03 What sparked your interest in technology?

06:42 How did you get into developer mode

07:55 Influence from Childhood

09:42 Consulting is not for the faint of heart

10:50 What is the best part of consulting?

12:25 What is the toughest part of consulting?

14:20 CG Infinity

15:07 Considering children

17:05 It takes a village

21:00 How do you find mentors

22:07 What's your take on AI?

24:10 Conversation Cards

27:26 What kind of legacy you want to leave behind?

30:03 Tech CXO Excellence Program

32:03 Outro

Did you know Dallas-Fort Worth has a hub of biotech innovations happening? There's medical advances that we don't even know are going on.

This episode, we talk to Gabby Everett, Director of Business Operations & Strategy and Site Head at BioLabs Pegasus Park - North Texas. BioLabs are the premier co-working spaces for life science startups — unique places where you can test, develop and grow your game-changing ideas. As entrepreneurs and investors ourselves, they have firsthand experience with the pain points biotech startups face. Their goal is to change how scientific entrepreneurs do business by building an ecosystem that empowers bio-innovators to grow quickly, while maximizing capital efficiency.

As a biotech hub developer, BioLabs Pegasus Park is partnering with accelerators, VC's, trade organizations, university technology commercialization offices, vendors, and corporate leaders to build a strong biotech ecosystem in North Texas.

Gabby is an experienced scientist, leader, innovator, and mentor with a demonstrated record of success in the biotechnology industry. Actively focused on making the world a better place, one scientific breakthrough at at time. As a scientific communicator and industry leader, her goal is to educate, excite, and empower stakeholders by sharing her passion for all things science!

Connect with Gabby on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabbykutyeverett/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:23 Guest Introduction Gabby Everett

01:49 What is the best advice you have ever gotten?

02:29 What is Biolabs?

04:02 What Fort Worth Dallas?

04:55 How did you start with biotech?

08:46 Let's break this down

10:30 From corporate to start up

12:55 Advise for people...