ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Real stories. Diverse journeys. Women leading what’s next.
Critical Careers is a podcast from Kao Data, celebrating the women building, leading, and designing digital infrastructure. Through honest conversations with women at every stage of their careers, we uncover what it takes to thrive in one of the world’s most vital and fast-changing industries.
Whether you’re already in the industry, looking to make a change or considering your first career move, these stories are for you.
Critical Careers is a podcast from Kao Data, celebrating the women building, leading, and designing digital infrastructure. Through honest conversations with women at every stage of their careers, we uncover what it takes to thrive in one of the world’s most vital and fast-changing industries.
Whether you’re already in the industry, looking to make a change or considering your first career move, these stories are for you.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
33 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
26 episodes
since Oct. 2, 2025
episodic
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In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Lizzy McDowell is joined by Andy Davis from DataX Connect and Sarah Davenport from Capstone Recruitment for a conversation about the value gap, and why salary is only one part of how people understand their worth at work.
Drawing on insights from t…
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In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Lizzy McDowell, Marketing Director at Kao Data and co-founder of Critical Careers, is joined by Hadas Lorber from Nebius, and Social Impact Consultant and Professional Speaker, Michillay Brown, for a conversation about resilience, reinvention, and bu…
In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Joyce Wady is joined by Adam Nethersole from Kao Data, Justin Hewitt-Coleman from CBRE and Lawrence Olney from Mace for a conversation about allyship, leadership and why men have an important role to play in supporting greater diversity across the da…
In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Joyce Wady is joined by Natascha Geraedts from Eversheds Sutherland, Louise Sharp from Mace Construct, and Mariah Naeem from Paroc Panels.com for a conversation about what it means to stop trying to fit into someone else’s definition of success and s…
In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, recorded live in London as part of a collaboration with the Women’s Tech Forum (WTF), Joyce Wady is joined by Jess Simmonds from Google, Ilona Koprowska from Meta, and Simisola Bryan from Megaport for a conversation about creating communities, buildi…
In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Joyce Wady is joined by Claire Jones from Equinix, Kalay Moodley from Kao Data, and Theodora Savage from Virtus Data Centres for a conversation on the data centre talent pipeline, and what the industry must do to attract, develop and retain the peopl…
Recorded at Datacloud Global Congress 2026 in Cannes, Lizzy McDowell and Joyce Wady speak with representatives from Critical Careers' strategic partners about the biggest opportunities and challenges facing the data centre industry.
Lizzy speaks with Charlotte Wood from Spa Communications and Andre…
In this bonus episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Joyce Wady and Lizzy McDowell reflect on the incredible growth of Critical Careers over the past 12 months - from a single book idea into a podcast, a second book, an established community and an initiative supported by six strategic partners. …
In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Joyce Wady welcomes Sarah King, from AVK, and Anna Solar-Bassett to discuss why communities are pushing back on data centres — and what the industry needs to do differently as it moves further into the public spotlight.
First, Joyce speaks with Sar…
In this episode of the Critical Careers podcast, Lizzy McDowell, Director of Marketing at Kao Data, is in the presenter chair, welcoming Kir Devaser, Product Marketing Lead at CUDO Compute, to talk about confidence: how it is built, how it can be knocked, and why it is not always something people f…
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