Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a new podcast from Tondayas Traveler that digs deep into the realities of traveling as a woman today, and celebrates why we'll never stay home.

I'm Lale Arakoku. With me today is my co-host, Meredith Carey.

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And for our third episode, we're joined by Ivy Mix, the owner of Leander, a Latin cocktail bar and

restaurant in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and co-founder of Speed Rack, an international all-female

bartending competition and breast cancer charity.

We also have Deborah First with us, a food writer, editor and cooking teacher based in Brooklyn,

and Anna McGorman, the executive pastry chef of blue-sued in Manhattan.

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Hi, everyone.

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I think I just got hungry and really thirsty.

He was just like listening to everyone's interests.

Well, it's been a wild week for the food and beverage industry, but we'll get to that later.

You know, I think you all three of you work in such like male-dominated industries,

and I think our listeners would be really interested to hear about how you broke into it in the first place and kind of what that

journey's been like for the three of you. Anna, maybe you want to start? Sure. Basically,

I have a weird career path because I decided when I was 14 that I was going to go to culinary school

and I watched a CNN brief

as your one to do at 14 and it was a woman.

We would have gotten along when we were 14.

And basically she was at the Culinary Institute of America and it started like, I'm at the CIA,

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