How to Build a Personal Brand in 2025 with Priya Mann #106 🎙️

Do you see yourself becoming a journalist in the future? Or are you simply looking for a little push to try something new and start planning for your career? This episode may just be for you. 

 

Award-winning journalist Priya Mann visits the What Dewey Do? Podcast today and tackles what it takes to be a journalist. Get to know how she successfully made herself a legend in journalism. As a bonus, Priya also shares with us precious information about her personal life, experiences, and branding. 

 

[00:00:01 - 00:04:59] High-Low, Priya!

1. Get to know premier journalist Priya Mann
2. Using your platform as a storyteller for the greater good
3. The unending cycle of competition between journalists and reporters

 

[00:05:00 - 00:09:59]: Priya’s Introduction to Western Journalism 

1. How Priya was called to a career in journalism
2. Learning the art of verbal and non-verbal communication
3. Seeing the different sides of journalism in the early 90s

 

[00:10:00 - 00:14:59]: Women in Their Element

1. Pursuing communication and becoming a reporter 
2. Priya’s mother convinced her to become a reporter
3. How volunteering at a cable station impacted Priya’s career

 

[00:15:00 - 00:19:59] Moving Places, Gaining Experiences

1. The importance of moving around for work, life experience
2. Priya takes us to a trip along memory lane on her ladder to success
3. Juggling classes, volunteering, and work

 

[00:20:00 - 00:24:59] The Currency of Communication

1. Reading people and when to pounce
2. Fostering her passion for storytelling
3. Dewey and Priya’s first interaction

 

[00:25:00 - 00:29:59] Nothing Beats the News in America

1. Losing and learning accents comes with curiosity and observation
2. How Priya moved to America and began her career in Local 4 Detroit
3. Fated interviews and transitioning from being a multimedia journalist

 

[00:30:00 - 00:34:59] Getting On Air and Leaving the Biggest Market

1. Priya leaves for Detroit by being in herself
2. Becoming a part of the community of Detroit
3. The importance of understanding culture and gaining people’s trust for a story

 

[00:35:00 - 00:39:59] Increasing Odds to Survive

1. Exchanging a full-time job for a maternity leave position
2. Figuring out your own style as a journalist takes time
3. How being a multimedia journalist has created stellar reporters

 

[00:40:00 - 00:44:59] Everyone is an MMJ

1. The magical struggles of a multimedia journalist
2. The great benefits of ordinary people becoming MMJs
3. A very interesting time in journalism

 

[00:45:00 - 00:49:59] Staying is Adapting

1. Authenticity: A Secret to Success
2. Constructive criticism versus constructive comments
3. How to build your personal brand

 

[00:50:00 - 00:54:59]: Some Things Don’t Age Like Fine Wine 

1. Following The 24-Hour Rule
2. Once it’s out there, you can’t take it back 
3. Age Perspectives: 60 is old, 60 is young!

 

[00:55:00 - 01:02:17] A Message for the 18-Year Olds

1. Leave a space for sadness and loneliness 
2. You don’t want a life that you need to escape from
3. Learn how to navigate bigger emotions

 

Quotes

• “You learn far more from failure than you ever do with success.” - Priya Mann
• “Nobody really knows what you’re made of except you.” - Priya Mann

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