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, interrogating why we strive - do we truly want it or because we've been told to, being a quality not a control freak, and above all not waiting to know...

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 humanitarian crises, in particular forced displacement in urban areas. Prior to joining IIED, Lucy was an urban advisor at the UK’s Department for...

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 trust other people who keep telling you to trust yourself)  Ika has 15 years experience as a communications expert working across many different...

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 five years and has had solo and group shows internationally in spaces and arts fairs including the Paris Internationale, Zeitz Museum of...

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 and the teaching environment, the importance of family and self care, and the intrinsic rewards that keep you going. As usual, we hit Carlie up...

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 moving to the UK to take up a PhD studentship at Kent Law School.   It’s an episode rich in how we fit into and bust out of systems and find...

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 show, "Sunanda Loves Britney."  Sunanda is a core collaborator of the award-winning Melbourne queer clowning troupe, Po Po Mo Co, and in 2022 their...

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 continent. Zoë also produces long-form investigations, such as 'Gamblers Like Me', which she shot and directed for BBC Africa Eye and which was...

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. Laura applies a holistic approach to mental well-being and has a specific focus on sexual health, self-worth, the mind-body connection, and...

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 have a great line up in store - from women working in comedy, sex therapy, teaching, journalism, hospitality, the arts, and more. Expect career...

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 and yet diverse experiences, but the recurrent themes that came up through the season: Networking: hit up everyone you know, including your...

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, South Sudan, Lebanon, Greece, Nigeria, and Australia. We spoke about making big career transitions – pros and the cons of starting fresh in a new...

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 along, the drama and gossip at every restaurant, which makes sense as hospitality is theatre in essence; negotiating money in a sector and the...

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 pushing beyond your comfort zone and backing yourself to ask for what you’re worth, the importance of considering the lifestyle you want when...

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 providing for staff, how important it is for champions to provide a vision of how to live beyond the nuts and bolts of careers; the balance between art...

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 best performance; not having shame about what you want and need; shifting the Overton window for people coming after us; the pros and cons of quotas;...

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 discussion-based programmes.  We spoke about career reinventions (expectations vs reality); the subtle shift in support for career risks taken at 30...

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 media and communications strategist for Australian brands such as United Breweries; and as a freelancer in the startup world.   We spoke to Fiona...

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 role. Georgie is also the co-founder of a network called Broadminded, which brings together and supports dynamic and ambitious women in the middle...

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 and supporting decolonization of humanitarian digital policy and governance. We spoke to Aarathi about preparing for the future, be it good or...

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 last 3 generations for women and more. Key facts about Kate: Last meal: a packet of mint slice biscuits.Currently reading: Stalin's wine cellar, a...

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 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...