Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.

I'm Ashley Milne Tite. This time...

Even if his father had lived, I think I still would work this hard because I think it's important, first of all,

for me to have my own identity. I feel like I have a calling and a purpose in the work that I do,

but I also think it's good for a boy to see his mother go to work. Coming up, resilience in life

and the workplace. So you know this show is usually built around a particular theme, and I find guests who can speak to that theme.

But sometimes I'll do the reverse. I'll meet someone or hear someone speak at an event.

And she's so compelling, I want to build a show just

around her. That was the case with Dana Kennedy. I heard Dana speak earlier this spring at an

event for women journalists. She gave a great talk where she imparted some of her hard-won

wisdom about careers and how to stick it out in the workplace over time.

She's had more ups and downs in her life than most of us have probably had.

She was the first person in her family to go to college.

She realized her dream of becoming a journalist.

She spent years at a top newspaper, the New York Times.

She also lost her fiancé in Iraq in 2006.

Their baby's son was just six months old. She wrote about her fiancé, First Sergeant Charles

Monroe King, and that searing loss in a book called A Journal for Jordan. That's their son's name. She wrote to process her

grief and to have a memoir for Jordan to read when he was older. That book is now being made into a

movie with Denzel Washington slated to direct. Her son is 12 years old and Dana left her job at the

New York Times last year to become the

administrator of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes. We met in her office soon after this year's

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