You may remember Mayim Bialik as TV’s Blossom, the fashion icon of the ‘80s. Or maybe you remember her playing a young Bette Midler in the tear-jerker, Beaches. Currently she’s best known for playing Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit show The Big Bang Theory. Regardless of how you know her, Mayim Bialik is a one busy woman. She’s a neuroscientist, author, four-time Emmy nominated actress, and a mother of two boys, and just this past August Mayim launched Grok Nation her own lifestyle website targeted towards women, parenting, religion, and pop culture. Today on ‘Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg,’ Randi got to turn the tables and grok Mayim’s life:

“Neuroscientists don’t like tossing around diagnoses so loosely.”

“The reason no one wants a middle seat on the plane is because no one wants two people touching them instead of one person.”

“I happen to be a vegan so I’d like to think a bowl of broccoli would be as satisfying as a bowl of mac and cheese.”

“We like things that are carb heavy because they release chemicals and become a comfort food.”

“In a culture where we’re so used to information coming in, we think we have to take care of things immediately.”

“I launched Grok Nation to tackle social issues in a broader way.”

“I wrote a post about why Ariana Grande was in her underwear on a billboard. How do we fit this into our larger understanding?”

“Grok Nation is about harnessing social media not just to make money but to translate information and write about the charities people don’t know about.”

“We want to funnel funds to the smaller organizations that don’t have big money or celebrity faces behind it.”

“It’s hard to get an attractive celebrity smiling next to an animal abuse or sex trafficking organization.”

“I felt very uncomfortable writing the Bill Cosby post. What I did was looked at in a way that was not gossipy. I tried to point out what we are still hearing and what can we tell our children.”

“I have 1.2 million on Instagram but a lot of people on Facebook won’t go there.”

“We all have a responsibility to be good human beings. To do small and big things to make the world better and smaller.”

“Why not use my celebrity and my voice to point out things that matter to me?”

“If you ask me about the science of breastfeeding I get a little more dogmatic.”

“I was raised to speak my mind.”

“One of my closest friends encouraged me to launch Grok Nation. He’s my Jiminy Cricket.”

“There’s no rules about how to be. Especially for women.”

“When it comes to Israel I fall in the moderate range. I believe in peace over all. I try to grok the politics of that region.”

“When you’re dealing with people who believe Israel shouldn’t exist, I don’t even know how to have that conversation, so I block them.”

“I’m happy to have people disagree with me but some conversations I shouldn’t even be having.”

“If you’re a woman and get things done, people want to know how much you outsource your work to do it.”

“I was home with my kids the first two years of their life—just me. No nanny.”

“My main important job in life is to be a parent. I made the conscious choice to have two children.”

“It is up to me and their father to raise two feminist boys.”

“In terms of roles, I’ve never do theater because the schedule is not compatible. Sitcom work is fantastic, we work very easy hours.”

“I weigh it out: How much do I want to be away, how much do I need to be away.”

“I don’t work weekends and we work school hours throughout the week.”

“I’m nervous to use the identifier of ‘modern orthodox’ because of the schedule. I don’t always have that flexibility. I call myself observant-ish.”

“I don’t want to present this shiny version of myself. I write about balancing a secular life and balancing a life as a personality.”

“I get to set boundaries of who gets to see what of my body. I get to decide what I want to wear.”

“To me it’s empowering to embrace the notion of modesty.”

“My kids have only have seen me in a Superbowl commercial.”

“I was on Blossom from ages 14-19 and after it ended I took myself to UCLA to earn my neuroscience degree.”

“There is no support group for people in Hollywood with PhDs.”

“You don’t need to be a scientist to play one on TV.”

“We’re in a very fuzzy and gray area to deal with genetic information. What if you really want a tall baby or a boy. A lot of us who like science fiction know where this could lead genetically. It impacts the economy because it effects the insurance industry.”

“Chuck Lorre’s idea was to take the fandom and interest in the STEM field because of the show and had us all contribute to a scholarship for financial aid who are going to be funded. We have 20 Big Bang Theory scholars.”

“Putting a female face on STEM is really helpful. The earlier we can get girls interested the better.”

“When I was a kid I thought being in STEM was being in a lab by yourself. “

“I have enough psychological help being surrounded by people who believe in more than I believe in myself.”

“My manager and publicist are both very strong women.”

“I was raised with this notion that you have to be mean to get things done. But you can be successful by doing meaningful things and being honest instead.”

“I read this saying, ‘Be careful of turning your hobby into a business.’”

“I’m personally not motivated by money, I leave that to business people.”

“I get asked to speak for a lot more things than I do but if you speak about everything you really speak for nothing.”

“It’s On Us is a White House Campaign. If you see something, it’s on us to alert people to the problem.”

“I see what speaks to me and choose the organizations I work with.”

“I do sing, I can sing. But in the traditional practice of Jewish mourning we do not sing or listen to music for one year.”

“I could work on Grok Nation all day. It’s my main project.”

Join ‘Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg’ every Wednesday at 12pm ET / 9am PT on SiriusXM Business Channel 111 to hear the latest in tech, STEM, entrepreneurship, and empowering women from around the world!” 

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