Norah O’Donnell, anchor of the 'CBS Evening News': "Preparation builds confidence and confidence builds success."

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Norah O’Donnell is the most-watched woman in news in the country. She is the anchor and managing editor of the 'CBS Evening News', making her the third woman ever to solo anchor a network evening broadcast. As she approaches her 1 year anniversary in the anchor chair, Norah sat down with us to talk us through the secret to her success. Think: a lot of preparation. And six newspapers a day. In this episode, Norah shares how she made a name for herself in large companies (4:30), her strategies for building a support network (9:42), and her approach to leading CBS into a new era of news (17:33). Stay tuned at the end for a spotlight on Tea Drops, a company founded by Sashee Chandran. They make innovative, bag-less, dissolvable teas- with 20% less waste than a tea bag. Want to be featured? Submit yourself or a friend here.

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0:00.0	I do believe that preparation builds confidence and confidence build success and so for me you know certainly early on in my career as a young correspondent with so many famous people at NBC who had legendary careers my confidence wasn't at a tie and so I thought how can I be the smartest
0:24.4	person in the room and no more than anybody else and you know I just really did my
0:28.9	homework I really worked really hard to make sure I knew everything.
0:31.6	I'm Carly Zekeen. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim
0:36.4	from the couch. This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:40.9	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team, to the rough stuff,
0:45.1	like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:49.3	We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch.
0:57.0	Hey everyone this show might sound a bit different today because we're skimming
1:04.6	from three different couches. The skim is continuing to work from home for the
1:09.1	time being because of COVID-19. Today Nora O'Donnell joins us on skim from the couch.
1:15.1	She is the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News,
1:19.8	making her the third woman ever to solo anchor a network evening broadcast.
1:25.2	Before taking the helm of the evening news, she was the co-host of CBS this morning for seven
1:30.4	years.
1:31.4	Norad, thank you for joining us. Welcome to Skim from the couch.
1:34.8	Thank you for having me. So we're going to start off with skim your resume for us.
1:40.3	Well, I went to Georgetown University. I was a philosophy major. I was interested in a lot of different things in college, so I had internships. I've always worked and you know I worked at a law firm. I at the World Bank and and then I interned at ABC News and I think you know
1:57.4	journalism really was what was the right fit for me. Just a deep curiosity about the news, a deep curiosity about world events and people. After
2:06.7	graduating from college, I got a job at National Journal and a publication that they called the Hot, which was the original kind of aggregator of news before the Huffington Post and others got into the business of aggregating news, even like you guys in some ways.
2:22.4	I remember it well. and that also was like a
2:24.7	crash course in politics too because we would sum up every Senate and House race
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