Rebecca Hartley: The Unstoppable Force of STEM & Soul 🌍⚡

"I almost died chasing the wrong dreams."

Let's re-wind to 2022. Me - corporate drone by day and exhausted party zombie by night. Living my "glamorous" life of a cocktail of adderall, 3am emails, and performative Instagram smiles. And then...my body freaked out. I collapsed in a Berlin hostel bathroom (so fitting, since I was finding myself). I woke up with IV drips and a German Dr. telling me, "Your cortisol levels look like a war zone."

That moment? My rebirth. ✨

I traded my spreadsheets for science kits, panic attacks for paragliding and now I am the madwoman connecting STEM education to radical sel-care. Genius does not happen in broken systems (or broken bodies) .

So why follow me?
- 🔥I liberate labs. Whether it is coding with Kenyan teens under acacia trees or building solar panels in the Balinese rice fields - teaching/education is not confined to four walls.
- 🧠Your brain is hot. I am no longer about "work-life" balance-- we are hacking neurochemistry through moonlit hikes and dopamine-fueled learning.
- 👻I do uncomfortable real. My "glow-up" included dealing with fungal rashes from sweating due to stress and crying at 2am to figure out Pythagoras was not the reason my life was upside down. We need growth and we need good growth, but it isn't easy-one, it is mandatory.

What's next now: Building AI powered wilderness classrooms, where kids will learn calculus while tracking wolves. Because why wouldn't we make neural networks belong to Mother Nature? 🐺🖥✨

P.S. Yes, I will be dragging you out at 12am to go stargazing and talk about quantum physics, dress appropriately. 👩‍🔬