<![CDATA["Yes, you can tech!" The Women in Tech Podcast by David Kaselow]]>634d9f8b-6e0e-55b5-8823-d01eada5b9d4Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:17 +0000Captivate.fmDavid Kaselowhttps://artwork.captivate.fm/6989b63a-dc0b-4c55-a1be-5d0e523929ed/EN-quadrat-you-can-tech.png"Yes, you can tech!" The Women in Tech Podcast by David KaselowDavid KaselowDavid KaselowWelcome to the new “Yes, you can tech!” podcast by David Kaselow. You can look forward to real talk and inspiration from amazing women in IT and tech! They’ll share their career journeys, role models, and everything they want to pass on to girls and young women. So that even more girls and women choose STEM careers. Tune in and subscribe to the channel!https://yes-you-can-tech-wit.captivate.fmfalseepisodicnopodcast#02: role models, ai and breathing are so important for all girls and women who want to go into it!#02: role models, ai and breathing are so important for all girls and women who want to go into it!In this inspiring episode of yes, you can tech!, Joana shares her journey into business informatics, her work leading AI requirement engineering initiatives at Pro Alpha, and her passion for integrating mindfulness and yoga into a fast-paced tech career. From watching her older brother code to living in Thailand and observing global diversity in STEM, Joana offers actionable advice for women considering a career in technology.

👤 Guest Profile

Name: Joana Dau-Schmidt

Role: Senior AI and IT Consultant

⏱️ Key Takeaways

  • Introduction to the Podcast: Host David Kaselow introduces the mission of empowering women in STEM and celebrating tech leaders.
  • Guest Introduction & ERP Systems: Joana shares her role as an IT Consultant at Pro Alpha, customizing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and writing custom code.
  • Leading AI Initiatives: How Joana leads an AI initiative that automatically reviews complex requirement specifications before software implementation begins.
  • Early Sparks & Role Models: Starting web development at 13 and being inspired by her older brother sitting at his desk coding.
  • Math, Logic, and Creative Expression: How a love for structured math evolved into creating content, sharing intuition, and embracing creativity.
  • Mindfulness, Yoga, and Breathwork in Tech: Managing stress in IT through breathwork, yoga, and short active breaks to achieve mental clarity and solve complex bugs faster.
  • Career Advice for Women in STEM: Taking personal initiative, utilizing self-learning resources (like YouTube and AI assistants), and gaining hands-on internship experience.
  • Gender Dynamics & Team Culture: Experiencing a female-majority consulting team with a female leader, and supporting each other as women in IT.
  • Mentoring & Global Perspectives: The power of mentorship, having a female mentor, and insights on women working in IT in Thailand.

💬 Memorable Quotes

"Seeing code firsthand brings you so close to the actual experience. You no longer have that distant image of someone sitting all alone in a basement writing lines of code." — Joana
"Mindfulness and breathwork help down-regulate your nervous system so you can think with much greater clarity. We shouldn't pigeonhole the meditating person—this practice is fully integrable into our daily working lives." — Joana
"Don't think you start out and have to know everything already. Everyone is taken by the hand at first... Intellectual capability has no gender." — Joana

🔗 Mentioned Resources & Links


__________________________________________________

Welcome to the new “Yes, you can tech!” podcast by David Kaselow.

You can look forward to real talk and inspiration from amazing women in IT and tech!

They’ll share their career journeys, role models, and everything they want to pass on to girls and young women.

So that even more girls and women choose STEM careers. Tune in and subscribe to the channel!

Your host: David Kaselow is "The German IT explainer", an IT consultant and project manager, who "translates" between business and IT people for his corporate clients.

On social media and in his book "IT for beginners", he explains computer science topics in a very clear and accessible way for EVERYONE!

_________________________________________

For any collab inquiries just write me at:

collabs@davidkaselow.com

]]>In this inspiring episode of yes, you can tech!, Joana shares her journey into business informatics, her work leading AI requirement engineering initiatives at Pro Alpha, and her passion for integrating mindfulness and yoga into a fast-paced tech career. From watching her older brother code to living in Thailand and observing global diversity in STEM, Joana offers actionable advice for women considering a career in technology.

👤 Guest Profile

Name: Joana Dau-Schmidt

Role: Senior AI and IT Consultant

⏱️ Key Takeaways

  • Introduction to the Podcast: Host David Kaselow introduces the mission of empowering women in STEM and celebrating tech leaders.
  • Guest Introduction & ERP Systems: Joana shares her role as an IT Consultant at Pro Alpha, customizing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and writing custom code.
  • Leading AI Initiatives: How Joana leads an AI initiative that automatically reviews complex requirement specifications before software implementation begins.
  • Early Sparks & Role Models: Starting web development at 13 and being inspired by her older brother sitting at his desk coding.
  • Math, Logic, and Creative Expression: How a love for structured math evolved into creating content, sharing intuition, and embracing creativity.
  • Mindfulness, Yoga, and Breathwork in Tech: Managing stress in IT through breathwork, yoga, and short active breaks to achieve mental clarity and solve complex bugs faster.
  • Career Advice for Women in STEM: Taking personal initiative, utilizing self-learning resources (like YouTube and AI assistants), and gaining hands-on internship experience.
  • Gender Dynamics & Team Culture: Experiencing a female-majority consulting team with a female leader, and supporting each other as women in IT.
  • Mentoring & Global Perspectives: The power of mentorship, having a female mentor, and insights on women working in IT in Thailand.

💬 Memorable Quotes

"Seeing code firsthand brings you so close to the actual experience. You no longer have that distant image of someone sitting all alone in a basement writing lines of code." — Joana
"Mindfulness and breathwork help down-regulate your nervous system so you can think with much greater clarity. We shouldn't pigeonhole the meditating person—this practice is fully integrable into our daily working lives." — Joana
"Don't think you start out and have to know everything already. Everyone is taken by the hand at first... Intellectual capability has no gender." — Joana

🔗 Mentioned Resources & Links


__________________________________________________

Welcome to the new “Yes, you can tech!” podcast by David Kaselow.

You can look forward to real talk and inspiration from amazing women in IT and tech!

They’ll share their career journeys, role models, and everything they want to pass on to girls and young women.

So that even more girls and women choose STEM careers. Tune in and subscribe to the channel!

Your host: David Kaselow is "The German IT explainer", an IT consultant and project manager, who "translates" between business and IT people for his corporate clients.

On social media and in his book "IT for beginners", he explains computer science topics in a very clear and accessible way for EVERYONE!

_________________________________________

For any collab inquiries just write me at:

collabs@davidkaselow.com

]]>3eaa31da-643e-4b83-ba65-6c5d48ccd636Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +020037:42falsefull1221#01: Once: a girl fascinated by numbers. Now: a leading SAP expert!#01: Once: a girl fascinated by numbers. Now: a leading SAP expert!In this episode, we sit down with Patricia, a seasoned SAP expert, enterprise solution architect, and founder of FemPowerXChange. She takes us through her personal journey—from her childhood STEM inspirations and PhD research to navigating corporate SAP consulting and over ten years of successful freelancing. We also delve into the ethical challenges of AI bias and how innovative peer-mentoring frameworks can empower women to thrive in technology long-term.

Patricia has more than 20 years of experience in global SAP transformation projects. In addition to her expertise in IT and project management, she is deeply engaged in the field of Artificial Intelligence, particularly in Responsible AI, AI literacy, and algorithmic bias in the context of diversity and decision-making.

Patricia actively champions women’s advancement as the founder of „FemPowerXChange“, a PMI volunteer at „Women in PM“, and a mentor inspiring young girls to pursue STEM.

👤 Guest Profile

  • Name: Dr. Patricia Domínguez Marín (PhD in Mathematics, PMP)
  • Role: Freelance SAP Consultant, Solution Architect & Founder of FemPowerXChange

⏱️ Key Takeaways

  • Early STEM Inspiration: How a neighbor inspired Patricia's passion for math at age 7.
  • Family Legacy & Public Education: Mathematical optimization in dressmaking and public education as a tool for equal opportunity.
  • Joining SAP: Transitioning from a PhD in Optimization/Supply Chain Management to ABAP development and consulting.
  • SAP Transformations as a "Translator": Using mathematical abstraction to bridge the gap between business processes and IT systems.
  • AI & Algorithmic Bias: Why AI reproduces historical stereotypes and how mathematics can be used to mitigate bias.
  • Retention & Corporate Culture: Addressing why women leave STEM careers and how workplace cultures must adapt.
  • FemPowerXChange: The power of peer-mentoring triads ("pairs") driven by a custom matching algorithm.
  • Mentoring the Next Generation: Key learnings from volunteering with CyberMentor (Germany) and STEM Talent Girl (Spain).

💬 Memorable Quotes

"I act as the translator between the technology and the customer's business vocabulary." – Dr. Patricia

"We are using the newest technology to impose the oldest stereotypes. That is very dangerous."

"Things can be changed if we want them to. It is our responsibility to actively shape the future."

🔗 Mentioned Resources & Links



__________________________________________________

Welcome to the new “Yes, you can tech!” podcast by David Kaselow.

You can look forward to real talk and inspiration from amazing women in IT and tech!

They’ll share their career journeys, role models, and everything they want to pass on to girls and young women.

So that even more girls and women choose STEM careers. Tune in and subscribe to the channel!

Your host: David Kaselow is "The German IT explainer", an IT consultant and project manager, who "translates" between business and IT people for his corporate clients.

On social media and in his book "IT for beginners", he explains computer science topics in a very clear and accessible way for EVERYONE!

_________________________________________

For any collab inquiries just write me at:

collabs@davidkaselow.com

]]>In this episode, we sit down with Patricia, a seasoned SAP expert, enterprise solution architect, and founder of FemPowerXChange. She takes us through her personal journey—from her childhood STEM inspirations and PhD research to navigating corporate SAP consulting and over ten years of successful freelancing. We also delve into the ethical challenges of AI bias and how innovative peer-mentoring frameworks can empower women to thrive in technology long-term.

Patricia has more than 20 years of experience in global SAP transformation projects. In addition to her expertise in IT and project management, she is deeply engaged in the field of Artificial Intelligence, particularly in Responsible AI, AI literacy, and algorithmic bias in the context of diversity and decision-making.

Patricia actively champions women’s advancement as the founder of „FemPowerXChange“, a PMI volunteer at „Women in PM“, and a mentor inspiring young girls to pursue STEM.

👤 Guest Profile

  • Name: Dr. Patricia Domínguez Marín (PhD in Mathematics, PMP)
  • Role: Freelance SAP Consultant, Solution Architect & Founder of FemPowerXChange

⏱️ Key Takeaways

  • Early STEM Inspiration: How a neighbor inspired Patricia's passion for math at age 7.
  • Family Legacy & Public Education: Mathematical optimization in dressmaking and public education as a tool for equal opportunity.
  • Joining SAP: Transitioning from a PhD in Optimization/Supply Chain Management to ABAP development and consulting.
  • SAP Transformations as a "Translator": Using mathematical abstraction to bridge the gap between business processes and IT systems.
  • AI & Algorithmic Bias: Why AI reproduces historical stereotypes and how mathematics can be used to mitigate bias.
  • Retention & Corporate Culture: Addressing why women leave STEM careers and how workplace cultures must adapt.
  • FemPowerXChange: The power of peer-mentoring triads ("pairs") driven by a custom matching algorithm.
  • Mentoring the Next Generation: Key learnings from volunteering with CyberMentor (Germany) and STEM Talent Girl (Spain).

💬 Memorable Quotes

"I act as the translator between the technology and the customer's business vocabulary." – Dr. Patricia

"We are using the newest technology to impose the oldest stereotypes. That is very dangerous."

"Things can be changed if we want them to. It is our responsibility to actively shape the future."

🔗 Mentioned Resources & Links



__________________________________________________

Welcome to the new “Yes, you can tech!” podcast by David Kaselow.

You can look forward to real talk and inspiration from amazing women in IT and tech!

They’ll share their career journeys, role models, and everything they want to pass on to girls and young women.

So that even more girls and women choose STEM careers. Tune in and subscribe to the channel!

Your host: David Kaselow is "The German IT explainer", an IT consultant and project manager, who "translates" between business and IT people for his corporate clients.

On social media and in his book "IT for beginners", he explains computer science topics in a very clear and accessible way for EVERYONE!

_________________________________________

For any collab inquiries just write me at:

collabs@davidkaselow.com

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