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Maria Varmazis: Combining cyber and space. [Space] [Career Notes]

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Maria Varmazis, N2K's Space Correspondent and host of N2K's newest podcast T-Minus, sits down to share her journey on combining her two passions of space and cyber. Maria grew up wanting to be an astronomer, in school she focused on joining anything with technology and enjoyed the classes that made her think. After transferring to a new college, she went into journalism, absolutely falling in love with the new career path she had made for herself. She got herself a job at Sophos and that's where she learned about cybersecurity. Now she discusses cyber and space in her new podcast, combining her two passions into one for all to understand. Maria discusses some of the setbacks she overcame in this industry and shares the wise advice of "I would never pretend that failure isn't painful, but it is an incredible teaching tool. So if you feel like you've had a huge career fail or a really big misstep, you can still pivot from that and you can make that into something." We thank Maria for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Visit z-scaler.com slash Zero zero trust AI. Hello, my name is Maria Varmazas and I am the host of T-minus, the only

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daily space podcast for the space industry. I grew up in the age of Hubble so for me I wanted to be an astronomer. I was really

2:32.3

interested in tinkering with things my father was an astronomer. I was really interested in tinkering with things. My father was an engineer. My mother is extremely practical. She's an artist and a writer. So I loved building things and making stuff. One of the first skills I learned as a little kid was how to

2:43.2

solder and we always had computer parts and things around the house and I would

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