Katie Couric: “Say yes to everything.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Katie Couric is one of the most recognized faces in journalism today. You’re probably one of the millions of people who have tuned in to one of Katie’s shows over the years, whether that was “Getting There” with us at theSkimm, the TODAY Show, or the CBS Evening News. Which -- by the way -- made her the first solo female anchor of a major nightly news broadcast. But that’s not where her story starts: Katie started out by interning at local news stations in high school. And after college, she worked as a desk assistant. The rest is history. On the couch, she talks to us about her most memorable interviews, being persistent, and getting told she’d never make it on air.

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0:00.0	And I was all of 23 or 24 years old and the Bureau Chief at the time a man named Stuart
0:06.0	Lorry was very nice and he said let's give you a try why don't you go to the White House and you can tell our
0:11.1	viewers what the president is doing that day.
0:13.4	What's on the president's schedule?
0:15.7	I thought, okay, I'll try.
0:17.5	And I was dreadful.
0:18.7	I was like, today the president is meeting with National Security
0:22.3	Advisor, the big new Brimsky.
0:25.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg and I'm Carly Zeke and we are the co-founder of the Skim.
0:34.0	You're listening to our podcast Skimmed from the Couch where we talk to other female
0:37.2	entrepreneurs about what it's like to get to the top and then what it's like
0:41.0	along the way. We're talking bad advice the really really low
0:44.9	days the management mistakes everything that goes into the real stuff.
0:48.4	No BS. We started the skim from a couch so what better place to talk it all out than where it all began.
0:55.0	We're on a couch.
0:57.0	So, drum roll, please.
1:00.0	We are very, very excited to welcome Katie Currick to the couch.
1:03.8	She's one of the most recognized faces in journalism.
1:06.7	You're probably one of the millions of people who have tuned into one of
1:10.0	Katie's shows over the years, whether that was the Today Show, getting there with us at the
1:15.3	skim, or the CBS Evening News, which by the way, anchoring the CBS Evening News made her the first
1:22.4	solo female anchor. evening news
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