Focus On What You Love (with Katie Couric)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
This week, Erin and Sara sit down with Katie Couric. They discuss rejection, the importance of appreciating uniqueness, the changing media landscape, competition in work environments, and why we should stop comparing ourselves to others.
Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick
Associate Producer: Montana McBirney
Audio Engineer: Josh Windisch
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. Welcome to Ellen Sarah's puttcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I think this guest really needs no introduction, even though we do intros on the podcast, Katie |
| 0:17.8 | Kirk's intro. |
| 0:20.9 | We have sort of been talking to her since even before we started this podcast, knowing |
| 0:26.4 | we wanted her as a guest. |
| 0:29.2 | And she finally, finally worked. She's a very busy woman. She wrote a memoir. It's called |
| 0:34.5 | Going There. She has a newsletter called Wake Up Call. We talked to her about everything. |
| 0:39.9 | We talked to her about beauty. We talked to her about how do you do, Katie Kirk? She's |
| 0:43.5 | just a legend. I know. Well, we could have just said, yeah, okay, the legend general |
| 0:48.5 | in Katie Kirk. Katie Kirk. But I don't know. I thought I would talk about her book |
| 0:51.6 | and her newsletter, which is just saying, like, how do you even, I also love her lives. |
| 0:55.7 | She does lives with people on IGTV. They're so raw and unfiltered. And she really asks, |
| 1:00.9 | like, such hard questions. And she never apologizes for all dogs, those questions. |
| 1:05.2 | She really gets to the root of what we all kind of want to know. We talked to her about |
| 1:09.9 | career transition, sexism growing up. You know, she came up in a very male dominated industry. |
| 1:16.1 | She lost her husband. She's a widow. She raised children as a single mother. She met |
| 1:20.6 | the love of her life later in life. We really, there's really something for everybody in |
| 1:25.0 | this episode. Love her. She looks amazing. Can you believe amazing? She's in her 60s. |
| 1:30.6 | Okay. Well, don't like blow up her spot. Well, she says it. She's loud and proud about |
| 1:34.1 | who she how well she is. She's not one of us. She's just telling you. Okay. Let's get to |
| 1:38.1 | the episode. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're in. We're doing it. It's on. Okay, guys. We're |
| 1:46.9 | sitting with Katie Kirk. I'm not, I'll just be super honest. She's in my house. |
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