Season 2, Episode 1 is here!
Newsrooms collapsing. Journalism jobs vanishing. Traditional media in crisis.
Our guest, three-time Emmy winner and TV reporter Aundrea Cline-Thomas saw the warning signs flashing like a breaking news ticker - and tells us about the moment she knew that one day she could be next:
“And that's when I think I really took the rose coloured glasses off and said, I’ve loved this, but at what cost? Everything I had done was in service to this career… okay, well what else do they pay people to do? How else could I use my skills?”
Aundrea was determined to control her own story so launched the production company, Mountain Court Media, as well as a community initiative The Rewrite to help other journalists navigate their own pivots.
With the poise of a prime-time pro and the candour of a hot mic, Aundrea shares the behind-the-scenes on walking away from her life in front of the camera to build a new career — and how others can identify their hidden strengths and skills to do the same.
I have the ultimate confidence in myself that it will be terrible the first try, but I have always gotten better. My proposition is that I might not know how to do it now, but I'm smart enough to figure it out.
And if I do it enough, I'm gonna get better. I'm gonna be great at it, actually.
If you want more of Aundrea, like we do, she has her own excellent podcast The NEXT Best Thing.
The Sound Sorority
I met Golda Arthur at the International Women’s Podcast Festival last year, where I put my years of high-speed lawyer note-taking skills to good use making sure I didn’t miss A. Single. Word. of her talk. That she’d been asked to on speak on “Interviewing with Narrative Flair” tells you every thing you need to know about why you should listen to her award-winning women’s health podcast Overlooked.
You can start anywhere, but I’d start at Season 1 Episode 1.
Come for the storytelling—stay for the beautiful production value.
We’re building a community around women’s health so that no-one is overlooked.
Golda Arthur
Have you navigated your own midlife career wobble?
We want to hear EVERYTHING. The disasters, the triumphs, the moments you thought "I've made a terrible mistake" before realising it was actually GENIUS. Email us at stories@thewobblymiddle.com. Seriously. Tell us EVERYTHING. We want to hear your story—whether it’s messy, magnificent, or still mid-wobble.
Email us at stories@thewobblymiddle.com and join the conversation.
About the Hosts
Susannah de Jager has just relocated to Abu Dhabi, where she’s podcasting, consulting with start-ups, and occasionally advising on scale-up capital. After leaving her role as CEO of a boutique asset manager, she asked the all-important question: what next? Five years later, she’s following her curiosity —The Wobbly Middle is for her and every woman doing the same.
Patsy Day is a lawyer on a break—and a podcast producer. She’s worked everywhere from London to Ho Chi Minh City, but these days she lives in Oxford. Patsy is knee-deep into podcast production for SafeHouse Amsterdam (launching 2025) and co-hosting The Wobbly Middle.
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