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Starting the Next Generation Radio bootcamp, I was nervous to say the least. I had extremely minimal audio experience and not-so-great multimedia skills. I was nervous to even apply, let alone accept the spot and start the program.<\/span><\/p>\n But I applied, got selected for the bootcamp, pitched my story and showed up Monday morning ready to conquer the week. I heard the week was going to be intense, but I didn\u2019t know what was coming for me. I was nervous, but it was a good nervous.<\/span><\/p>\n The week started at a slower pace than I hoped, as I couldn\u2019t interview until Tuesday. This didn\u2019t sound terrible until I watched everyone get their interviews on Monday. Panic was starting to set in a little, as I\u2019m just a nervous person by nature, but this was fine. Everything was fine. <\/span><\/p>\n Tuesday morning, one of the web editors had us share what we were nervous about for the week ahead. How do you tell a group of people \u201cI\u2019m nervous that I may be too nervous to be a part of this program\u201d into words? \u00a0I don\u2019t know, so I didn\u2019t. I shared a secondary fear that I was afraid I may cough during my interview and ruin part of the audio. For context, I\u2019ve had a nasty cough for weeks that demands to be heard at really unfortunate times. Granted, it was a real fear, but it wasn\u2019t the biggest issue on my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n Coming from a print background, audio was a learning curve that I wasn\u2019t ready for. The concept of not being able to <\/span>see<\/span><\/i> the content was difficult for me to get used to. <\/span><\/p>\n This week easily could have torn me apart. From getting frustrated because a piece wouldn\u2019t flow right or because I had terrible mic noise in a really good clip, this introduction to audio journalism was difficult, to say the least.<\/span><\/p>\n This week made me stronger than I could have ever imagined. I learned so much about myself, my journalistic abilities and more about my love for reporting and storytelling. I learned how to use my nervous nature to make me work harder. I learned how to advocate for myself and prove that I deserved to be here. I\u2019m sure I could have eventually learned these things somewhere else, but I\u2019m glad I learned them at Next Generation Radio. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting the Next Generation Radio bootcamp, I was nervous to say the least. I had extremely minimal audio experience and not-so-great multimedia skills. I was nervous to even apply, let alone accept the spot and start the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}