Alisyn Camerota On: Surviving the News, Surviving the Teenage Years, and the Concept of Home
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It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing? Recently, right here on the show, in fact, I heard my wife who was co-interviewing some guests with me, talk about how over the course of our marriage she has finally gotten comfortable with the fact that she represents home for me, her husband, which I thought was astute not only because it's true, but also because it's something I had never articulated to myself.
Anyway, I bring this up because the concept of home is a key part of today's conversation. My guest is Alison Camarado, who you might know from CNN, where she worked for many years. She recently wrote a a very personal memoir called Combat Love, which is about her turbulent teenage years, her rocky relationship with her parents, her love of punk rock, and specifically one punk rock band, and how all of that actually helped prepare her not only for a life in TV news, but also for a life as a parent. In this conversation, we talk about our mutual distaste for covering breaking news, how her turbulent teenage years
helped her prepare for many aspects of the chaos of adulthood, what the concept of home actually means, how her childhood informed her own parenting style, the delicate balance between giving your children too little or too much freedom, what it means for a journalist to make themselves the center of a story, how to survive the news these days. how to cope with anxiety as it relates to media consumption and much more. Just to say before we dive in, we actually recorded this about a year ago. So there are some mentions of a future impending election. We all know the outcome.
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