BIOMED - BUSINESS - STARTUP ACCELERATOR - MEDTECH - SCALE UPS - AI STARTUPSKaushalya undertook a biomed degree with the aim of transitioning into medicine but early into the degree realised that wasn't the path for her. Pivoting from that into the world of business to see what the hype was all about she found a passion in supporting businesses star…

MUSICIAN - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLICY - LINGUISTICS - RISK ADVISORY - CYBERSECURITY - STARTUP FOUNDER - AISam joins us today to share her journey from aspiring musician to finding her love for linguistics and transitioning into tech and founding an AI focused startup - Decoded.AIWe discussed how she ended up pivoting from a promising music …

BURNOUT - MENTAL HEALTH - CAREER BREAKS - STARTUPS - DIVERSITY - RETENTION - REDUNDANCY - GOALS - PLANNINGThis episode has it all. This is a Paths Continued episode with guests Gretchen Scott and Gwenny Warnick returning for some wide ranging conversations. The podcast went on a bit of a hiatus after Season 1 as I dealt with burnout and deteriorati…

With season 1 racking up over 5k listens, it was time to come back!We have an excellent lineup ahead for this season so tune it and listen along. Follow and subscribe on your preferred platform to be notified of all new episodes, out every fortnight!Af Akanksha Malik

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - MASTERS - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - IMAGE RECOGNITION - SPEECH ANALYSIS - CONSULTANT - ML ENGINEERXin is easily one of the most impressive person I know - she was very casual about her 3RD PLACE in a national Chinese maths competition! From the start Xin found herself comfortable with STEM. While she had …

MEDICINE - BARTENDER - SPONSORSHIP DIRECTOR - CORPORATE BANKING - TRAVELLING - HEALTH NGO - STARTUPS - FOUNDER - COMMUNITY BUILDER - HEALTH TECHYou definitely don't see a pathway like this every day - dropping out from 4th year Medicine to find a more scalable path to help people and their healthcare. This chat with Emily is a long time in the maki…

RETAIL - MECHATRONICS - ROBOTICS - JAPANESE STUDIES - TUTOR - RESEARCH ENGINEER - SOFTWARE CONSULTANT - COMMUNITY NINJA - GUEST LECTURER - FREELANCER Larene has meandered her career into the perfect fit for her after trying out all sorts of avenues and seeing how they all add up. We chatted about our shared experiences with struggling in STEM at ti…

BACKPACKING - SOUL SEARCHING - FORENSIC SCIENCE - STATISTICS - LOGISTICS - COMIC ILLUSTRATOR - DATA ANALYST - SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DESIGNJulia to me is one of those people that just seems to be able to do all the things at one time - and based on the overview above it lines up.Not wanting to commit to the “wrong” decision out of high school she went…

COMP SCI - PhD - LECTURER - CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT - HEAD OF LEARNING DIGITAL - CHARITY FOUNDER ADSEIHaving completed a PhD in computer science, Linda might not seem to have had as untraditional a path as past guests BUT what she's using it for is definitely untraditional. Dr Linda McIver is easily one of the most inspirational people I have met in…

WRITER - FLUTE TEACHER - TUTOR - EDITOR - DEVELOPER - WEB DEV - FRONT END ENGINEER - UX LEAD - TECH INSTRUCTOR - DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT & DESIGNWe’re back and kickstarting 2022 with Milly Schmidt and her fabulous path into tech. She’s had an amazing journey of knocking on all different possibilities on her way to try and figure out what role fit her b…

MEDICINE - MATHS - ACTUARIAL SCIENCE - INVESTMENT BANKING - CONSULTING - DATA SCIENCE 2021 has been a wild year. It's also been the year this podcast finally started up and I'm amazed by the response its gotten. It was time to wrap it up for this year and share my own pathway. Having gotten to hear from so many amazing people this year, it'll be ha…

MATHS - ACTUARIAL SCIENCE - AIRPORT SECURITY - DATA CONSULTANT - LEAD DATA ANALYSTThis episode was a lovely trip down memory lane as I chatted to Sláine, who I met in college where we both did (suffered?) an undergrad in Financial Maths and Actuarial Science.Sláine was very honest and open in her experience and struggles with parts of the degree an…

DENTAL NURSE - DENTIST - PRACTICE OWNER - BUSINESS BUILDING - ENTREPRENEUR - STARTUP - DENTAL AI FOUNDERHow does a dentist find themselves as an AI startup founder you ask? Look no further!Dr. Padma has had such a fascinating journey that when I first came across her on LinkedIn, I knew I had to get her onto the podcast!From being one of the few wo…

ARCHITECTURE - BUSINESS & ACCOUNTING - BAR MANAGER - OPERATIONS - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - PROFESSIONAL KICKBOXER - HEAD OF DELIVERY Selena has seen her fair share up of ups and downs - picking herself up again and again to continue on and thrive. She’s been able to tell when something isn’t right for her and pivoted her career to where she wanted to b…

FASHION DESIGN - FASHION LINE - MANUFACTURING - STUDENT SERVICES - BURNOUT - BOOTCAMP - SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGTess has lead a life with many different paths - from fashion designer of her own clothing line to a musician to pivoting into tech as a software engineer.The conversation had everything from what it takes to have your own fashion line (!), e…

Nikki graduated with a degree straight into the Global Financial Crisis and like everyone struggling to get a job - went back to college! With Urban Planning under the belt she was working in architecture but found they weren't as open to her new ideas and entrepreneurial side. She went on to become a startup consultant, helping launch startups and…

FILM & THEATRE - WEBSITE DEV - BURNOUT - CRAFT STORE RETAIL - BA - PEOPLE LEADER - TECH LEADER - DEV EVANGELIST - AWSKris has led an illustrious career from building websites - including the McDonalds UK homepage! - diving into the development world and leading it. She shared her experiences and lessons learnt not just from the technical parts of j…

Rachael has lived many different lives clearly. From working on yacht with Russell Crowe to startups lowering food waste in hospitals to testing out how Covid tests react to American lollies. She’s tried and tested different paths to find her right fit - from various degrees to SheCodes coding bootcamp to currently a Consultant at KPMG!…

ENGLISH LITERATURE - QA - UX DESIGN - STARTUPS - ETHICAL AI FOUNDERHaving graduated from Cornell with a degree in Literature, Laura found herself in the middle of a recession. Gap year travels lead her to Australia for a few weeks and is still here!Her career led from one opportunity to another - from quality assurance testing to UX designing (befo…

NEUROSCIENCE - PhD RESEARCHER - NEUROIMAGING - DATA SCIENCESally Grace had always loved Biology from high school and had a successful career in the neuroscience world. She was involved with different studies and even explained some - like how to help alleviate social anxiety!When lockdown hit in 2020, the opportunity presented for her to activate h…

HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT - MCDONALDS UNI - OPTIMISATIONS - CONSULTING - MASTERS - MOTHERHOOD - WEB DEV - BUSINESS DEV - TECH STARTUPThe list is quite literally never ending when it comes to Gretch and the fascinating turns her career has taken. She's always been one to walk through an open door (even if she had to shove her way through!)Such a great cha…

DOUBLE BASS - ENGLISH TEACHER - CURRICULUM CREATER - MARKETING - CLOUD ENGINEERGwenny openly and honestly shares her career path to becoming a Cloud Engineer at Mantel Group. Its filled with up and downs from teaching english in Prague to running university learning centres to then joining a tech bootcamp and leaving a successful career to start ag…

PHARMACIST TO SOFTWARE DEVELOPERHaving grown up in a family involved in healthcare, Susan followed into the path of pharmacy but realised that it wasn't her passion. She decided to dive into a bootcamp for software development at Le Wagon having tried out the free Harvard courses. She fell hard for programming and is now working as a software devel…

Theatre Arts - Environment Canvassing - Tech Training - Program Manager!Cathy Moya is well known in the tech community for her contributions and her personality - which I found out stems quite a lot from her acting days and being able to present to crowds!Her curiosity to try things out has lead to an aspiring career working on such a wide range of…

JUILLIARD TRAINED BALLET DANCER TO AIVictoria is exactly why I started this podcast - a classically trained ballet dancer at Juilliard School (!!!) she decided to change careers into the world of ethical AI during the 2020 pandemic. She is now thriving at Sama and has become a great member of the tech community. Hear about how she lived the life of…

Painter - Musician - Sound Engineer - Graphic Designer - Software DeveloperBill has had a wide and varied career with many lessons learnt throughout. He was kind enough to share some of those with us along with his fascinating career.Af Akanksha Malik

Maths - Finance - Biology - PhD! Jill began her journey in the same place as myself - a degree in Mathematical Sciences. However, along the way she found herself making decisions different from everyone around her and ending up on a path to a PhD! She's now using her maths and machine learning skills to help classify microbiomes to help identify di…

Wealth Management - Sailing Club - Twitter - Start Up! The list goes on with the different paths Kim's career has taken. Kim is currently a Technical Program Manager at Telstra Purple while also running her startup Buddee Fitness! She’s even written a children’s book! The surprises don’t end and Kim’s “just go do it” attitude is inspiring to hear!…

Musician to Data Scientist - with a few more pivots along the way.Join in to hear Jason's career path as he went from musician to the world of research, the beginnings of search analytics, working at EA with FIFA and all the way out to actually going back to school to go and become a data scientist.Af Akanksha Malik

Investment banking to Mixed Reality? Join in to hear from the absolutely amazing Shona Bang who is a Product Marketing Manager in the mixed reality team at Microsoft. Shona also created from scratch the community of Humans of IT and has done a tremendous amount of work in the tech for good space. I got to chat to her about how she actually started …

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