Hey friends, welcome! So glad you're here and today I'm sharing a conversation with

Journalist Emma Jade and I absolutely love this conversation because Emma is

both a traditional corporate journalist and also an independent journalist and

so she has a very unique perspective on the role of journalism, what goes into

making a good journalist and why journalists are more important than they've

ever been. So let's dive in! I'm Sharon Neckman and welcome to the Sharon

Sesso Podcast. I'm so excited to chat with my friend Emma today. Thank you so

much for coming. I just died for the fact that you said that I'm your friend.

Because I feel like I I mean I I join you when I watch yourself every single day

of my life, especially recently. Oh nice that like the feeling is reciprocated.

It's not to go with that relationship! I think you're lovely I really do and we've

tried it before. You've interviewed me before on your platform and you've

some amazing amazing community, extremely nice people and I walked away from

that feeling like this woman needs her own talk show. For people who are not

familiar with you, tell people about your career, tell people what you have done

and also what you do on Instagram now. When I first went to college we're going

about far back. I remember looking at this whole list of careers and I saw

broadcast journalism and I was like oh I think that's kind of like the path

that Oprah may have gone or yeah my mind is so obsessed with her and I just

remember clicking it on the computer going to my first communications class and

it was that exact feeling of like your last piece of the puzzle that just

like clicks you know. You knew that this is what I want and was meant to do. Feels

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