{"id":684,"date":"2021-09-24T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/?p=684"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:55:38","slug":"kickin-imposter-syndrome-to-the-curb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/2021\/09\/kickin-imposter-syndrome-to-the-curb\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickin’ imposter syndrome to the curb"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Next Generation Radio program is no joke.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I got the email saying what we were supposed to accomplish in four days \u2013 an audio piece, a web story, photos and audiograms \u2013 I was overwhelmed, nervous, and if I\u2019m being honest, scared out of my mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I kept thinking, \u201cThere\u2019s no way I can do this in such a short time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I did do it, and it does truly take a village.<\/span><\/p>\n

In just a short week, I have learned so much from all the amazing people on the team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned you should ALWAYS bring extra batteries, even if you charged them the night before. My equipment died 10 minutes into my interview with my source. I was lucky my mentor was there with backup equipment, but the experience gave me trust issues!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned some awesome shortcuts from audio engineer Selena that have changed my life for the better! I\u2019ve had some experience with Audition before, but it was never enjoyable until I met Selena. Her shortcuts helped me understand why audio editing is fun and how powerful audio is. (Seriously, I\u2019m super grateful for Selena!)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, I learned how to kick imposter syndrome to the curb. I\u2019ve struggled with imposter syndrome my whole college career. There are days I convince myself I don\u2019t belong in the journalism world, that I don\u2019t have the skills, or that I just simply cannot do journalism. But after telling Sofi Gonzalzez\u2019s karate story, I understood that storytelling is truly an art and not a science \u2013 and it\u2019s an art I can do! If I can survive Next Gen, I can survive anything!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m so grateful for my mentor Dani Matias. She made me laugh when I was stressed; she bought Starbucks to fuel us on one of our heavier work days; but more importantly, she always always believed in me (and is a great camerawoman!) Thank you also to Stephanie Federico for helping me take my ideas and thoughts and turn them into sentences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next Generation Radio taught me a lot of important technical skills. But, above all, it taught me that I can do anything with the right village and … an idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you all for working with me and giving me the opportunity to tell Sofi\u2019s story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Next Generation Radio program is no joke.\u00a0 When I got the email saying what we were supposed to accomplish in four days \u2013 an audio piece, a web story, photos and audiograms \u2013 I was overwhelmed, nervous, and if I\u2019m being honest, scared out of my mind.\u00a0 I kept thinking, \u201cThere\u2019s no way I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"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":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}