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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

487: Communicating Powerfully, Succinctly, and Clearly with Erica Mandy (Host of the Newsworthy podcast)

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Erica Mandy shares essential–but often overlooked–keys to becoming a more successful communicator in the modern environment. 


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) How what you’re doing on Facebook can damage your credibility at work. 

2) Words to purge from your communication. 

3) The fundamental test to improve your communication. 


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— ABOUT ERICA — 

Erica Mandy is an award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter who is building a new kind of media network, starting with her daily news podcast, The NewsWorthy. It provides all the day’s news in less than 10 minutes in a convenient, unbiased, and less depressing way – in what she calls “fast, fair and fun.” 

Erica is one of the first podcasters to partner with Podfund, a company that invests in extraordinary emerging podcasters, and she’s been named one of “50 Women Changing the World in Media & Entertainment.” 

• Erica’s Website: theNewsWorthy.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Study: “Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue, more among Republicans” by Jeffrey Gottfried 

• Study: Psychology Today references the study regarding visualization 

• Study: Stanford & NPR talk about the study regarding students’ online content literacy  

• Study: Science & NBC News talk about the study that found false info spreads faster 

• Book: “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling 

• Book: “Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You’re Worth” by Mika Brzezinski 

• App: Boomerang 

• Conference: Podcast Movement 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks for joining us or welcome,

0:21.7

welcome, as our guest would say we are chatting with

0:24.4

Erica Mandy from the newsworthy podcast getting into some of her master keys

0:29.2

for communicating powerfully and succinctly and clearly pulling classical journalism tips and tricks and principles and perspectives

0:38.0

so that you can sound less like a robot and more persuasively awesome and clear and succinct in your communications at work and basically everywhere.

0:47.0

So you'll learn one, how what you're doing on Facebook can damage your credibility at work.

0:51.0

Two, words to purge from your communication and three, the fundamental

0:54.9

test that approves your communication. So if you want to check out the show notes or

0:59.1

the transcript or the links to items we've referenced, it's over at all

1:01.8

to make your job.com slash F four eight seven if you don't want to tap all those things in your

1:05.7

phone you can simply expand your episodes notes or description inside your

1:11.1

podcast app player of choice so you can check out these

1:14.0

reference materials all the faster that away now here's Erica's story

1:18.2

Erica Mandy is an award when he broadcast journalist journalist and former TV news

1:21.9

reporter who's building a new kind of

1:23.8

media network starting with her daily news podcast the newsworthy. It provides all the

1:28.0

days news in less than 10 minutes in a convenient unbiased and less depressing way

1:31.6

that she calls Fast, Fair, and Fun.

1:35.6

Eric is one of the first podcasters to partner with podfund, a company that invests

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