{"id":721,"date":"2018-07-02T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/?p=721"},"modified":"2018-07-02T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:45:08","slug":"resilience-personified-no-more-interview-jitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/2018\/07\/02\/resilience-personified-no-more-interview-jitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Resilience personified: no more interview jitters"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was \u2018Resilience\u2019 week at Next Gen Radio, and it really lived up to its name. I started the week really excited, but nervous like everybody else. I have intense imposter syndrome and thought that getting the email was a fluke. I thought I tricked everybody into thinking I knew what I was doing.<\/p>\n

Like I said, the first day I was nervous but excited. I already had experience in audio editing, interviewing, writing and photography, so my biggest obstacle was not the work, but getting over my insecurity.<\/p>\n

I definitely had some struggles during the week. On one day I got sick. I didn\u2019t eat all day, drank five shots of espresso, and went off to do my interview. I get very nervous before doing interviews. So because of a mix of anxiety and low blood sugar, I suddenly got very hot while my subject was reading a poem and I puked into the trash can immediately as he finished.<\/p>\n

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After that I got a burrito bowl with my new mom, my mentor Anne who, like a rock-star angel, took care of me when I got sick. I was really beating myself up and thought I messed up, but Anne encouraged me a lot. I went back two hours later and got a great interview. My anxiety about interviews disappeared because the worst case scenario already happened and I lived. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever be nervous for an interview again.<\/p>\n

The week boosted my confidence and made me go from doubting myself to being confident in my abilities. I always compare myself to others and assumed everybody was just better than me. I was intimidated by people that I perceived as \u201cbetter\u201d than me. Being in a group of badass women that I perceived as way above me encouraging me, giving me advice, and understanding my concerns was what I needed\u2026.being around people that WANT to help you succeed and believe that you can succeed.<\/p>\n

In the end I met awesome people and made friends, and I now have a great piece of work that I\u2019m really proud of. I learned a lot and I\u2019m really grateful that I was picked for this experience.<\/p>\n

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Being in a group of badass women that I perceived as way above me encouraging me, giving me advice, and understanding my concerns was what I needed\u2026.being around people that WANT to help you succeed and believe that you can succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":752,"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":[10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}