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Welcome to 9 to 5 with Avi and Anita a podcast where we talk with excellent women in the middle of their career journey about how they got where they are and where they're going. We're perptually curious about how people ended up in their jobs - maybe because neither of us have ever had a plan. There's a lot out there for women at the start of their careers and lots out there too following women at the top of their careers. But what about those of us in the middle? That's who we want to hear ...
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On our final episode of season two we talk to Danielle Moylan, who has had a wide ranging career spanning the music industry, foreign service with Australia’s Foreign, humanitarian response in Afghanistan and Syria, and now as a cafe owner and cook in London at Grove Lane Deli, Camberwell. It’s a biggie, covering letting go of ambition, interrogati…
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“Take it or leave it” and other hiring manager idioms
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Today on the podcast we talk to Lucy Earle, who is Director (interim), Human Settlements at the International Institute for Environment and Development. We talk taking risks, how treating new hires badly backfires and the unmitigated pleasure of travelling alone for work. Lucy’s work focuses on the intersections of urbanisation, urban poverty and h…
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Today on the podcast we talk to Ika Nurain Mudzar who is a communications specialist and fiction writer by night. She’s also a sculptor and we find out where in the day she manages that while also talking about the pros and cons of workplaces as ‘families’, taking leaps of faith and the surprising outcomes you can have when you trust your worth (or…
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If it was a choice, I probably would have given up
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Today on the podcast we talk to Helen Teede, a Zimbabwean artist. It’s a big episode on creative practice and its cyclical nature, the mysteries of paint, the imperative driving the vocation to be an artist and all the reasons why we shouldn’t and challenging the patriarchy. Helen has been dividing her time between Venice and Harare for the past fi…
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Today on the podcast we talk to Carlie Jones, a secondary teacher in Australia and a disability and inclusion leader at the school where she teaches. She has been teaching for around 20 years, so has a lot of experience under her belt. We talk advocacy and supporting students with ADHD, autism and trauma, the impact of COVID-19 on kids’ education a…
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Today on the podcast we talk to Sarah Keenan and navigate her process of elimination to arrive at being a Reader in Law at Birkbeck University, London. Raised on Giabal and Jarowair land in Toowoomba, Australia, Sarah worked in Brisbane as a Judge’s Associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland and as a solicitor at Prisoners’ Legal Service before m…
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Today on the podcast we talk to Sunanda who is a Punjabi-Thai writer, comedian, radio host, and producer raised in Bangkok, matured in New York City and Los Angeles, and has since moved to Melbourne for love. This year, they were nominated for the highly coveted Best Newcomer award from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for their solo sho…
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Today we talk to Zoë Flood who is an independent journalist and filmmaker. Based out of Kenya for much of the past decade, Zoë has reported for a wide range of international media, including the BBC, the Guardian, Al Jazeera and the Washington Post. She runs a production company based in Nairobi that provides production support across the African c…
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In episode one of season two, we talk to Laura Federico who is a psychotherapist, sex therapist, and consultant specializing in delivering creative, innovative virtual therapy - at laurafedericotherapy.com. Laura has lived and worked in the United States, Turkey, and Switzerland, and has a background in crisis work and psychological first aid. Laur…
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We're back! Get set for a jam packed season two!
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Welcome to season two of 9 to 5 with Avi and Anita - a podcast where we talk with excellent women in the middle of their career journey about how they got where they are and where they're going. We had such great time last season speaking to women from around the world, and such a huge response from our listeners that we decided to do season 2. We …
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This isn't one of our regular episodes – because we've finished season one ! But we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all the wonderful conversations we've had and to thank you, our audience, for tuning in. It's been really fun. It’s hard to pick a single item that has stood out for each of us. We’ve had so many women and they had such similar …
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Lára Jónasdóttir joins us for our last episode of the season from Reykjavík. She’s a Senior Project Manager at Reykjavik University, managing the largest EU grant that the university has ever been granted into sleep research. Before this role, Lára worked in the humanitarian sector Médecins Sans Frontière (MSF) in Liberia, Burundi, Afghanistan, Sou…
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Sophie Uddin joins us from London where she is the Operations Director at Spiritland, a venue fusing an immaculate music listening experience with great food and booze. Sophie has managed some of the finest restaurants in London (imho) including Providores and Tapas Room, Grangers, 10 Greek Street and Vinoteca. We talk about making it up as you go …
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Victoria Cavanagh joins us from Berlin, Germany where she is the director of international sales and marketing at a large farming and food company. Before that, Victoria worked in international development and communications at the UN and other public and private organizations in southern Africa, Europe and Australia. In this episode, we get into p…
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Rachaporn Choochuey joins us from Bangkok, Thailand, where she is balancing a career as a practising architect / designer with academic teaching. Finding herself bored with day to day work of architecture, Rachaporn headed off to study in New York and Tokyo, ending up coming full circle to practice architecture on her own terms. We get into providi…
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Vineta Salale joins us from London, UK where she works in business development and client relationship management at GMO, an investment managment fund. Before joining GMO, she worked at the Janus Capital Group as an institutional director and Towers Watson, as the head of Global Bond research in London. We discussed pulling IQ and EQ levers for bes…
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Toleen Touq joins us from Toronto, Canada where she is the Artistic Director at the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, SAVAC. Toleen has worked in the arts for many years as an independent cultural operator, originally based in Amman, Jordan. She collaborates with initiatives locally and internationally to run visual arts, music, storytelling and disc…
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Fiona Meldrum, joins us from Cardiff, Wales, where she is a community organiser with Citizens UK. Before making the big shift to community organising, where she supports communities to run social justice campaigns, Fiona worked in qualitative market research; in London as a brand consultant for organisations including the BBC and Microsoft; as a me…
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Georgie Parker lives in Geneva, and is the head of sustainability at Query Capital, an independent funds management firm based in Switzerland. She began her career as an investment analyst in London and New York, before switching to the startup sector with a focus on reducing plastic waste and coming full circle back to investments in her current r…
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Curry, a cream egg and a good gin cocktail
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Based in New York, Aarathi Krishnan specializes in Strategic Foresight for the humanitarian and development sector, working with UNDP as their strategy and foresight advisor. She is also a technology and human rights Fellow at the Harvard Carr Center for Technology and human rights, and also a Berkman Kline Fellow at Harvard University, researching…
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Coming to us from Sydney Australia, Kate Elks is head of Client Services at a PR media agency. Before that, Kate was a journalist, executive assistant, a broadcast monitor, and importantly, an adventurer. We spoke to Kate about the realities of parenting and careers, choosing to switch off from stress, money and negotiations, the shifts over the la…
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Welcome to nine to five with Avi and Anita a pocast where we talk with excellent women in the middle of their career journey about how they got where they are and where they're going. We're perptually curious about how people ended up in their jobs - maybe because neither of us have ever had a plan. There's a lot out there for women at the start of…
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