Welcome to the show. My name is Andrew East and you are listening to Redirected, a show

where we sit down with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs or really anybody that has had

significant unexpected life events. If you're thinking to yourself, well doesn't that include

everybody, you are absolutely right. But I wanted to start the show to sit down with top

performers who have dealt with these redirections as I call them to see how they made it through

it. It could come in the form of a career change that they didn't see coming or an illness that

completely derailed them. But how do we make it through these unexpected events? I think is a

crucial question because as you know, we all experience them. Today we sit down with Alex Hudgens.

She's a fellow Commodore. That's right. We both went to Vanderbilt down there in Nashville,

Tennessee and she was a cheerleader while I was playing football. So it's been fun to see her

crush over the past few years. She's actually an Emmy-nominated journalist. She worked with

Access Hollywood and has worked the biggest red carpet speaking with the biggest names,

including Oprah. And today we sit down with her to talk and hear her story about why she's

moving away from that. Why would you leave this awesome job? She calls it her dream job in order

to step into something unknown. She tells us this big story and has some awesome words of wisdom

and motivation along the way. But first, today's episode is brought to you by Audible. Listening makes

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