Beck Dorey-Stein | Behind the Scenes with Barack Obama
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
My guest in this episode is Beck Dorey-Stein, author of the coming of age memoir From the Corner of the Oval, which documents her five years working as one of President Obama's three stenographers. From flying on Air Force One to being trash-talked by the Commander-in-Chief it all started with an ad on Craig's List, would you believe. Love stories, broken hearts, female friendships and growing up in the shadow of The White House, I was gripped by Beck's writing and loved chatting to her about how it all came together.
From the Corner of the Oval at Waterstones.
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| 1:17.1 | Well, hi there and a super warm welcome to another episode of the Emmer Gunn show. I am so glad that you are joining me for this episode because I am joined by Beck Dory Stein who is a brilliant author has written this book called From the Corner of the Oval and it documents her time working as a stenographer in the White House |
| 1:26.7 | during the Obama administration and this podcast is slightly different in the sense that actually sometimes when I no not sometimes the majority of the time when I record episodes I |
| 1:39.9 | Meet the guest we have a little bit of a chat. We record the episode. We might have another little bit of a chat, but then that's kind of it. I mean, not with some of the guests that you know I'm friends with. But with some people who've flown over from the US they're on a tight schedule you |
| 1:53.7 | get a you get a lot at a amount of time. Beck was different because I spent the day |
| 1:59.0 | with her and I'm not joking it was one of those days it was just slightly magical. |
| 2:06.0 | She has got good Ju. She's got such great energy. |
| 2:09.0 | She's incredibly talented and there was just a day where me, Beck, her publicist and some other people from the publisher |
| 2:19.7 | just all spent the day together and it was just fantastic and I honestly came away |
| 2:23.4 | feeling really buzzed and high and it was amazing just that chemistry that |
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