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ML173: Dean Nelson on Interviewing Like a Pro, Confronting Career Crisis and Talking to Your Heroes

May 19, 2021
47:20

Dean Nelson is the director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego and author of the book Talk To Me.

He has over 40 years of experience in journalism and has written stories from all over the world, which have been published the likes of the New York Times & Boston Globe.

In this episode, we discuss:

- How to navigate career crisis and the two questions that resolved Dean’s own struggles- How jazz is a useful analogy for understanding how to having better conversations- The path to becoming an effective interviewer and talking to your heroes

This was a really insightful conversation that will teach you how to ask better questions and get better answers whether you interview for a living or not.

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