The Anxious Achiever / Season 3, Episode 2

Notes to My Future Manager Self

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Journalist Priska Neely discusses how anxiety makes her a better manager and how she injects empathy into hard conversations at work.

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October 12, 2020

Priska Neely, a long-time public radio producer and reporter, was recently hired as Managing Editor of the Gulf States newsroom, a regional news collaboration among NPR member stations in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. She’s always wanted to manage people, and she’s long thought about the best way to communicate and lead. As a Black woman, she’s also been writing about organizations and race throughout the past year.

Neely joins host Morra Aarons-Mele to talk about how anxiety makes her a better manager and how she injects empathy into hard conversations at work.

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