{"id":554,"date":"2019-06-28T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/?p=554"},"modified":"2019-06-28T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:21:12","slug":"be-confident-in-your-story-and-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/2019\/06\/28\/be-confident-in-your-story-and-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Confident In Your Story And Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My first pitch wasn\u2019t as strong and structured as it should have been. My mentor seemed unsure about the angle, and I didn\u2019t have the facts to make her see the story I was envisioning. I pushed aside my doubt, looked for new options and pushed myself to clearly show both my mentor and managing editor the beauty and inspiration in Alexia\u2019s story that I saw. This confidence I brought to my pitch is what I brought to the week of the program.<\/p>\n

The day of the interview was chaotic, but I assured myself that I came prepared with questions that would result in a great interview. I\u2019ve always been shy in front of the camera so the standup took me a few tries to get down, but again I reminded myself that I was selected for the program and I was capable of more than I thought. In only five days, I\u2019ve grown more out of my comfort zone, strengthened my prior skills, and picked up new skills in recording audio and using Adobe Audition.<\/p>\n

Through my experience with Next Generation Radio, I\u2019ve learned that it really does take a small village. If it weren\u2019t for the support of everyone on the team, I wouldn\u2019t have created this project that I\u2019m very proud of. Before being a part of the program, I had been searching for a group of people that would give me that push I needed to work even harder and take another step in the journey of being the journalist I want to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before being a part of the program, I had been searching for a group of people that would give me that push I needed to work even harder and take another step in the journey of being the journalist I want to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}