1052. Using Her Talents as Author, Journalist and Philanthropic Executive

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Penelope McPhee is an author, journalist and philanthropic executive. She is President Emeritus of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, where she served as president from 2004 until her retirement in 2021. Penny also has had a distinguished career as an author and television producer. One of her books about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was recognized in 1980 as one of the "Best Books of the Decade" by the American Library Association. Her PBS documentaries and performance programs have also won many awards.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.5	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.5	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.7	Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:26.9	On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:39.2	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Penelope McPhee. Welcome, Penelope.
0:46.0	Thank you, Don. It's a pleasure to be with you. Thank you so much. Penelope, are you using your
0:51.2	talents doing work that you love? I'm trying very hard to focus this phase of my life on passion projects.
1:01.2	Good. Well, we're going to dig into all of that and want to go into great detail.
1:04.2	So let me give our listeners an overview on the life and times of Penelope McPhee. Penelope McPhee is an author, journalist, and philanthropic
1:16.1	executive. She's President Emeritus of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia,
1:22.5	where she served as president from 2004 until her retirement in February 2021.
1:29.8	Penny has had a distinguished career as an author and television producer.
1:33.9	Her PBS documentaries and performance programs won five Emmys,
1:38.1	as well as prestigious awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1:41.5	and the National Association of Television Program Executives.
1:45.4	She co-authored Martin Luther King, Jr., a documentary, Montgomery to Memphis, which was
1:51.6	recognized in 1980 as one of the best books of the decade by the American Library Association.
1:57.5	Her 1986 book, King remembered, received the New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal of Freedom.
2:04.2	She has a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and graduate with honors from Wellesley College.
2:10.6	You're living an amazing story. So tell our listeners around the world what you're engaged in right now.
2:16.0	Before we get into your whole backstory that has you excited and motivated. What projects do you have going on? We need to tell the
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