Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Melthight.

This time on the show, life for women at work in their 20s.

Some call it the defining decade. Others wonder how they'll get through it.

Every time that I talk to someone about starting my career or being in my 20s, everyone always says your 20s are pretty terrible.

That's just, like, you want to do everything you can to not make your 20s terrible.

Here, here.

Coming up, the first of two shows devoted to the 20s.

This time, a conversation with two young women on different continents,

one on the cusp of entering the workplace, the other several years into a career.

And a little expert advice on how to navigate the exasperating aspects of dealing with us,

older people. Meet my first guest.

My name is April Leslie. I am an intern at the Broad Experience, and I'm also a student at Ohio University.

Compared to me at 21, April is a miracle of engineering. She's mature,

she has good ideas, she's hardworking, and she knows what she wants to do. She wants to be a

radio journalist and she has done for a while. Even while she's at college, she's working

part-time as a host and reporter at the local public radio station. What are your thoughts and concerns as you think about the start of your career,

apart from, obviously, landing a job in journalism?

Well, there's a lot, actually. I think that the biggest one right now is that

I'm kind of afraid of not doing well, but I've been told by so many people that in order

to do well eventually, you have to be terrible in the beginning. And that's sort of a scary concept

because I want to do the best that I can in everything, but I understand that I just, I don't have

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