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In my book “The Best Advice I Ever Got,” which is a collection of essays by some of the world’s most successful people, one of my all-time favorite authors, Anna Quindlen, wrote: "Carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. Courage is the ultimate career move.”
Some may call it courage. Others call it chutzpah. My late father who was such an inspiration to me and one of my personal heroes called it moxie. Whatever you call it, it's the ability to leap before you look, to know you MAY be better sorry than safe....and to go for it, with no guarantees.
As T.S. Eliot wrote, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
If I'd never given it the old college try, I wouldn’t be here speaking at my alma mater's commencement.
My career began back in 1979. That was the year of the Rod Stewart's “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” And Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem, "I will Survive."
I think my personal soundtrack is much more the latter than the former.
I knew I wanted a job in TV news, and after suffering one rejection after another I decided to be proactive. I donned my best “dress for success” outfit, which back then basically meant you looked like a flight attendant.
My mother gave me a ride in our cream-colored Buick station wagon from our house in Arlington, Virginia to the ABC Bureau in Washington, D.C.
When I got there, I asked an imposing and intimidating security guard if I could see Kevin Delaney, the deputy bureau chief in charge of hiring new employees. After he stopped laughing, I asked him if I could make a phone call from the lobby. So I called Davey Newman, who is the executive producer of World News Tonight.
Here’s how it went: “Hello, Davey? You don’t know me but your twin brothers, Steve and Eddie, went to high school with my sister Kiki and I live down the street from your cousin Julie. Can I come up and say hello?”
Cut to me, in the ABC newsroom, being personally delivered to Kevin Delaney’s door. Better yet, cut to me with my first job in television.
