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A Dana Perino Podcast: Everything Will Be Okay

Cultivating Unshakeable Resilience With Salena Zito

A Dana Perino Podcast: Everything Will Be Okay

Fox News Radio

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Books, Careers, Arts

4.24.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dana is joined by National Reporter and Columnist for the Washington Examiner, Salena Zito to discuss the unshakeable resilience of women. Salena reminisces on moments of uncertainty in her career and her realization that to thrive she needed to get out of her own way. Later, Dana and Salena share their personal stories of life pivots that introduced them to their passions and the lives they love. Keep up with Dana on Twitter: @DanaPerino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From the Fox News Podcast Network, I'm Dana Perrino and everything will be okay.

0:16.2

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Everything Will Be Okay.

0:19.6

This week I'm joined by an outspoken political calmness who has experienced many seasons in her career

0:25.5

from reporting on presidential campaigns to being on the sidelines of Steelers Games to covering national politics.

0:40.9

Selena Zito is a national political reporter and calmness for the Washington Examiner and the New York Post.

0:47.1

As a captivating writer and storyteller, Selena has been able to mentor and guide young women

0:51.9

in seeking out career opportunities to best optimize not only their lives but their fullest potential.

0:57.8

Selena Zito, I love having you on this podcast and just for everybody to know, we had recorded one

1:04.9

and then a gremlin went into the computer system and whatever and corrupted the sound audio file.

1:09.7

So we are redoing this, but a second time will be even better, right?

1:15.6

Actually the truth is we just wanted to gab together with those beyond us.

1:20.0

And excuse for anything. So one of the things that I really stressed in my first book and the good

1:27.3

news is was that just because I had not gone to an Ivy League school and not grown up on either

1:34.0

one of the coasts but was from born in Wyoming, raised in Colorado and went to high school in a

1:39.3

rural part of the state and went to college on a speech team scholarship at the University of

1:44.0

Southern Colorado. There was a long time that I felt like that I had an inferiority complex really

1:53.7

when I moved to Washington DC and it took me a while to kind of get over it and to be honest,

1:58.8

there are sometimes that I still feel that way. And it's a strange thing and I think that you have

2:05.5

a great perspective about how young people and of course I hear my book, everything will be okay

2:12.5

towards young women. But I do think this applies to both genders across the board around the country.

2:18.3

You traveled the country, you've seen how wonderful it is, how many opportunities they are.

2:23.2

And if you grow up in a small town, you are just as valuable, just as intelligent, just as smart

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