Stop Talking: The Podcast

Empathy fatigue, chronic exhaustion, feelings of loneliness, carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders; how many more ways do you need to hear the feelings associated with burnout. If not careful, some media workplaces can use everything that you have until you have nothing left to give. Today, the girls talk about how companies can improve their workplace culture to include self-care in meaningful and helpful ways. ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

How do you make guests comfortable, check your facts, and stay on your toes all at the same time during an interview? Sarah and Sophie explain how they do it all in an interview to make sure they can get the most real and raw answers from their subjects. They also navigate the minefield that comes with interviewing political figures, who often require special strategies and treatment to get informative and specific answers out of. These 13 tips and tricks for interviewing subjects will make sure you are professional, prepared, and approachable. ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly show hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in journalism, media professions and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. Mental health, interview tips, empowering guest stories...nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

Today we are going to chat about something that seems to be popping up in books and conversations over the last year. As we dive more into ourselves and reflect, you can't help but run into the ego. The ego shows up in more ways than we think. It can make us feel small, larger than life, victimized, powerful, scared, any number of things. It can prevent us from having self-awareness, the wisdom to step away from anger and not take things too personally. As women in media, sometimes we can trip ourselves over our own ego. How do we stop doing that to ourselves? Source: "Think Like a Monk" by Jay Shetty ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. Mental health, tips for success, discussing feminist ideologies; these girls ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

We have all heard about writer's block; the ugly feeling when you just CAN'T seem to put all your talent and hard work to paper. Now we are talking about its uglier parent, "creation block." In any media field, we experience so many of the same phenomena and it is always incredibly frustrating. Today, Sarah and Sophie will share their strategies for staying creative and keeping up the good work even during those dark times. What is creation block and can it be prevented? What should I do to make sure that my brain works for me and not against me? ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

It has been said that bias is a natural human instinct to categorize observations in your daily life and attract you to things that you are familiar with. When you are a journalist, you have to put all that aside and run full force into your biases to confront them In this episode, Kyndell Harkness joins Sophie and Sarah to discuss the role that bias plays in our work unintentionally, ways to confront your own biases, and reveals the grueling work that was required to report on the killings of George Floyd, Philando Castille, and Jamar Clark in Minneapolis. Not every story is as simple as it seems. Let's challenge ourselves to think a little deeper. Kyndell Harkness is the current Diversity and Community Editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and has also been a photo editor and photographer there for ~20 years. Instagram: @kynhark Twitter: @kyndellharkness ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

Join Sarah and Sophie as they invite licensed therapist Shireen Ghanatabadi onto the show. Here, she will discuss how to identify existing trauma and what the process of healing said trauma can look like. But what do you do if the source of your trauma is your job? Many women in media are traumatized by the things that they have seen and experienced on the job. How can they cope with these ongoing conflicts without giving up their careers? Shireen discusses methods such as using each of your bodily senses to reorient yourself in your surroundings and calm your body, reiki, aromatherapy, yoga, meditation, and other treatments both western and eastern. www.healingwithshireen.com/ Instagram: @healingwithshireenjune ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

Imposter Syndrome: that sneaking and sometimes overwhelming thought that you might be "found out" at any moment. You aren't as good as other people think you are, you aren't as talented as they think you are. It's time to shut those feelings down! Sarah and Sophie identify some of the many forms that imposter syndrome can take, and introduce some practices in how to break those habits of self-destruction. ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

High-intensity careers like media sometimes come with extra baggage: a title, an audience, a stereotype, prestige. It is easy to link your personality inextricably to that career because it can make you feel like "someone". It feels good, and frankly, feeds your ego.  But what happens when you leave that job? Who are you as a person anymore?  CBS's Debra Alfarone joins the Stop Talking crew to discuss her journey through her identity and how she healed herself from the inside out and became the singular, unique person that she is today. She wants you to know that you are so much more than your job title. Watch Debra's full Tedx Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSpzaNZ7Beg&ab_channel=TEDxTalks ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table.  ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think?  DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

The word "sorry" can be used to express a lot of emotions, but it can also stop you dead in your tracks before you even start. In this episode, Sarah and Sophie discuss the implications of apologizing for things that you shouldn't, tricking yourself into becoming a defeatist, and how to stick up for yourself in your career. Book source: "Girl, Stop Apologizing" by Rachel Hollis ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah and Sophie, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table.  ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think?  DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

Sarah and Sophie jump right into the first-ever episode of Stop Talking with some introductions including Sarah's recent career journey and mental health diagnosis. Women in media are often encouraged to shove their emotions and failings way down deep in the pits of their stomachs. Those emotions and that stress doesn't go anywhere...but what happens when it bubbles to the surface? ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah and Sophie, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message