96: Getting Noticed Doing Something Extraordinary with Nick Valencia
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
Release Date: 05/21/2015
97: Being a Specialist and Milestone Marketing with Jason Swenk
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
Being a specialist doesn’t mean you have to limit your skills to a niched industry or job function. Just ask Jason Swenk. Jason helps digital agency owners get to the next level in their business, abd his ability to generate leads for his clients has lead to work across a number of industries. Instead of delivering a set-in-stone sales funnel, he works with marketing milestones involving stop and go points throughout a conversation with a prospective customer. Jason started out as a programmer, but he quickly lost interest and found himself building websites. As the digital space...
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96: Getting Noticed Doing Something Extraordinary with Nick Valencia
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
Most journalists start on a much smaller stage before landing an opportunity at one of the biggest names in broadcast news. Nick Valencia is one of the exceptions. After he graduated from University of Southern California, Nick caught the attention of CNN after he self-funded a journalistic adventure to Uganda. He was first hired as a teleprompter operator but quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the few home-grown broadcasters in the CNN organization. Nick has served as the National and International Desk editor and the head of the CNN Spanish Desk. He is now a national...
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95: The Future of Content Marketing with Joe Pulizzi
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
With the rise of social media and the internet, marketing departments have seen their mission shift drastically. Up through the end of the 20th century, most of what marketing did was focused on sales. As consumer’s demand for and access to content has grown, businesses have begun to shift their focus to creating branded content in order to draw an audience to their services. Joe Pulizzi has been working in content marketing since the very beginning. He began in publishing, and watched the demand for content creators skyrocket in the last decade. Joe is the founder of Content Marketing...
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94: Passion, Purpose, and The Power of Storytelling with Matthew Turner
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
Beyond paid advertising, sponsorships, and other traditional marketing, more and more companies have placed storytelling and content marketing with much greater emphasis in their marketing departments. However, the stories that grip their respective audiences may not always be easy to find. That’s where marketer and story teller Matthew Turner comes in. Matthew eventually found his calling while developing a set of journals into a novel. He then combined his newfound passion with his degree in marketing, and has been doing brand storytelling ever since. In this episode, Matthew discusses...
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93: Learning a Language As a Gateway to A Career with Jill Dougherty
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
Learning a second or third language is always an advantage as a professional. For some, however, being multi-lingual is the pathway to a career. Jill Dougherty studied Russian in high school and college, and when the offer came to be a broadcaster for Voice of America in Russia she grabbed it, even though she had no formal broadcast training. Her career has been all about seizing opportunities as they come. She eventually moved to TV and CNN, where she spent thirty years including time as the Moscow Bureau Chief. Jill is now one of the foremost experts on Russia in America, and a professor at...
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92: Managing Sports Broadcasting Media with Mike Trager
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
Who thought a college engineering major would end up creating a monumental career in sports broadcasting media that included some of the biggest names in the business? In this era of modern technology and on-demand content, we can watch our favorite sports teams on dedicated TV channels, on the Internet--even on our mobile phones. Back when Mike started in the sports broadcasting industry, this wasn’t the case. There were only three networks, and a limited number of sporting events were even aired. As the accessibility of TV entertainment across sports developed, Mike had a courtside...
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91: Multiplying Time and Maximizing Productivity with Rory Vaden
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
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90: Making It in Music Management with Ed Baker and Jason Browning
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
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89: Coding and Cashing In on Your Hobby with Nicole Dominguez
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
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88: The Reality of Creating Passive Income with Pat Flynn
Fearless Careers: Stories and Skills for Success in Tech, Business, and Creative Industries
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info_outlineMost journalists start on a much smaller stage before landing an opportunity at one of the biggest names in broadcast news. Nick Valencia is one of the exceptions. After he graduated from University of Southern California, Nick caught the attention of CNN after he self-funded a journalistic adventure to Uganda. He was first hired as a teleprompter operator but quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the few home-grown broadcasters in the CNN organization. Nick has served as the National and International Desk editor and the head of the CNN Spanish Desk. He is now a national correspondent and is among the first on the ground for the biggest and latest breaking news stories across the United States. In this episode, Nick discusses how he decided to pursue journalism over sports broadcasting, the different X factors of broadcast journalists, climbing through the ranks from entry level assistant to national correspondent, continuing your extraordinary work to demonstrate longevity and consistency, and his vision for the future of journalism for hyper-local stories. For the show notes, check out skilledup.com/nickvalencia.