Paula Faris, Leaving The View and Embracing Hard Conversations
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week we're continuing our special series all about the Art of Difficult Dialogue. And there may be no better person to give us some wisdom on this topic than Paula Faris.
You likely know Paula as an ABC News journalist who has occupied a spot on The View, as well as a position on the Good Morning America Weekend desk. Today, Paula and Jessica have an amazing conversation about how Paula navigates the high-stakes, uncomfortable-conversation-filled world of journalism. They’ll also touch on how we can talk to our kids about responsibly navigating the media landscape.
Show Links
— More on Paula's book, podcast, and speaking can be found here!
— Head to Jessica Honegger's website for info on her book, newsletter, transcripts of Going Scared episodes, and more!
Jessica's Social
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | This is your host, Jessica Honeker, founder of the social impact fashion brand |
| 0:06.9 | Noonday Collection. |
| 0:08.7 | Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm excited to be back with you here for our second week of the Art of Difficult Dialogue series and let me tell you sometimes there's |
| 0:26.4 | nothing scarier than going into a difficult conversation. This week we are going to continue with another powerful episode, this time with Paula Ferris. |
| 0:38.3 | You may know Paula from the high-profile high-stakes world of broadcast journalism, where she was co anchor of Good Morning |
| 0:45.2 | America Weekend and The View. Paula is a seasoned journalist with many difficult |
| 0:51.6 | interviews under her belt and so many times where she could have |
| 0:56.0 | leveraged her power as a journalist to take a righteous or a judgmental stand she chose |
| 1:02.0 | over and over again to listen to people as people, not as policies, |
| 1:06.7 | sides, or ideologies. Her training has taught her how to interview others without bias and so I asked her to give us the journalism |
| 1:15.6 | 101 on today's show. Her tips on engaging, uncomfortable conversations, how to talk to our |
| 1:21.9 | kids about forming their own opinions, and in an era of |
| 1:25.6 | blurry lines between journalism and commentary, how to do our own research and check our biases, our valuable tips. |
| 1:35.8 | Here's my conversation with Paula. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm super excited to talk today. I have to tell you that when Austin we're in |
| 1:48.0 | Austin and when we went into shelter and place back in March I went went to our office, grabbed a stack of books |
| 1:54.7 | sitting in my office and then just came and plop them down in my new home office |
| 1:59.8 | set up and your book is at the top of the stack and so you have been accompanying me |
| 2:05.0 | for the past four months every day I walk into my office and I'm like there's |
| 2:09.6 | Paula there she is. Hi Jessica I'm just greeting you to your home office every day. Welcome. That's right. You've got me through a lot over the past four months. Let me tell you. It's been a little crazy crazy but I'm really excited to talk today I finally |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jessica Honegger, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jessica Honegger and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.