Ann Curry: "I'm a big believer in using setbacks and difficulties as fuel."

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ann Curry is an award-winning journalist, anchor and producer. She got her start in TV back in the 1970s and has been on our screens ever since. For NBC, she reported from war zones, natural disasters, human rights’ tragedies for 25 years. Her 2012 departure from “Today” was filled with tears and rumors about what happened behind the scenes. In 2015, she left NBC and now executive producers her own shows, including her latest, Chasing the Cure, which launches August 8th on TNT and TBS. On the Couch, we talked with Ann about why her grit helped her prove her worth to sexist colleagues back in the day (4:30), the promise about work she and her husband made to each other (8:20), how her new live TV project wants to crowdsource cures (10:30) and why she finds it tough to talk about leaving NBC (21:00). This episode of Skimm'd From the Couch is sponsored by AC Hotels by Marriott.

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0:00.0	Today Skimmed from the Couch is presented by AC Hotels by Marriott.
0:05.0	It's a global hotel brand that we are excited about.
0:09.0	More on that later.
0:10.0	First, let's get into the episode.
0:12.0	So we just wrapped our interview with Ann Curry.
0:15.0	It's really, you know, two former journalists who grew up just idolizing her
0:21.0	and listening to her every morning.
0:22.0	It was very surreal to sit across the table from her. utilizing her and listening to her every morning.
0:22.6	It was very surreal to sit across the table from her.
0:25.2	And the empathy that she clearly has for any story that she works on
0:31.2	and anyone she's interviewed and her followers and viewers was just so taken
0:36.2	aback by that. I just felt like I learned so much not about I mean yes
0:41.1	about her but also just how you someone really interesting looks at the world.
0:46.0	I think she seemed the best and worse of humanity and the stories that she's covered and I'm
0:49.7	excited for you guys to listen to this enjoy.
0:51.6	I'm a big believer in using setbacks and
0:55.7	difficulties as fuel. When you are denied something that you know you could do.
1:06.0	You can listen to something like that and say,
1:09.7	uh-huh, I understand what you're saying.
1:11.5	I think I disagree with you respectfully. I think you should give me a chance.
1:15.2	While in your head you can be thinking, oh yeah, watch me.
1:24.0	I'm Carly Zakin. I'm Danielle Weisberg.
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