Kirsten Powers -- Deepening an Inner Life for Bigger Impact
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Kirsten Powers is a USA Today columnist and CNN senior political analyst where she regularly appears on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon and The Lead with Jake Tapper. The Washington Post called her "bright-eyed, sharp-tongued, [and] gamely combative" and "a ferocious advocate for her points of view."
Prior to USA Today, Kirsten was a columnist for the Daily Beast, American Prospect Online and the New York Post. The Columbia Journalism Review praised her as "an outspoken liberal journalist" in a sea of opposition at Fox News, where she previously served as a political analyst.
Before her career in journalism, Kirsten was a political appointee in the Clinton Administration and worked in New York Democratic politics. She was also Vice President for International Communications at America Online, Inc. where she oversaw the public launches of AOL businesses in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Hong Kong and Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody this is Scott Schimmel and we are here for another episode of the Dream Big |
| 0:12.1 | Podcast with Bob Gough and friends. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm always here with Bob Gough. |
| 0:15.6 | And I'm always here with you, Scott. |
| 0:17.4 | How cool is this? |
| 0:19.4 | How cool is this? |
| 0:20.4 | Hey you guys, hope you're having a great week and looking forward to having another |
| 0:23.4 | conversation. |
| 0:24.6 | We have a great conversation. |
| 0:26.2 | I was stoked to listen in with you and Kirsten Powers. |
| 0:30.3 | If you don't know Kirsten, she's on CNN. |
| 0:32.2 | You do know her. |
| 0:33.0 | She's on TV all the time. |
| 0:35.0 | Actually you kind of, you recognize her, but you don't know her. |
| 0:38.0 | There you go. So she's a very recognizable face sitting opposite Anderson Cooper and the others but to get to know her |
| 0:47.1 | dial into this and listen she has like all of us there are a couple different gears that we have there's the way |
| 0:54.6 | that everybody knows of us and then there's the person that we are and Kirsten a fierce |
| 1:02.1 | debater capable, intelligent, go for it, so wise and so tender-hearted. |
| 1:10.4 | And I hope you'll just get to delight in getting to know who she is because she has been |
| 1:16.8 | such an influential person in my life and so many other lives, not because of what she knows, and that has tremendous depth, but because of who she is, |
| 1:27.4 | the character of her person. |
| 1:28.8 | That really struck me, and I want you to listen in, as you listen this conversation she has such a healthy inner life and as she is in this |
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