Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on How to ‘Say More’

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki says she learned some of her most effective communication strategies “the hard way.” These techniques were absorbed, refined and stress-tested on her rise to one of the most powerful communication roles in the nation. And as she writes in her new book, they’re “applicable to a wide range of life experiences, whether you’re a parent talking to a teacher about your preschooler, a friend trying to encourage a coworker to take a risk, or a young female staffer trying to convince the most powerful man in the world what he might want to include in his State of the Union address.” We talk to Psaki about how to achieve common understanding and about the importance of knowing your audience, especially in our politically divided nation. Her new book is called “Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World.” Guests: Jen Psaki, host, "Inside With Psaki" on MSNBC; former White House press secretary under President Biden; White House communications director under President Obama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.0	MSNBC host Jen Saki knows tricky and consequential
1:13.2	communication moments well as Biden's former press secretary, White House Communications Director
1:18.8	under Obama, and State Department spokesperson under Kerry. We'll talk with Saki about what
1:24.1	she's learned from communicating with a divided electorate, a president, and a preschooler.
1:29.0	Her new book is Say More Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World.
1:37.5	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:40.7	When Jen Saki became White House Press Secretary for President Biden, she inherited a role that had become a punchline for exaggerating crowd sizes and sparring with reporters over basic facts.
1:53.9	In her debut book, Say More, Saki shares how she set a new tone in the briefing room and used her back and forth with Fox reporters
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