FOX News Moderator Dana Perino about advice from George W. Bush

Dana Perino, co-moderator of the popular Fox news panel show “The Five”, never took her success for granted.

During her entire career, which started with stints as a local television reporter and staff assistant in the congress, she is recognized what guidance she received from people on the way, including the former president George W. Bush, who asked her to be the press spokeswoman for the White House correctly when she was short of the government service behind her.

The move was an important turning point for Perino, as it has long been a quick track for a TV news job in the reference room of the White House. She finally became a Fox News games and rose from a contributor in 2009 to organize “The Five” and the “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer for three hours a day.

Perino has made mentoring part of her personal brand. In 2009 she was a co-founder of Minute Mentoring, an organization that set up rapid fire meetings for young women, who are looking for care. With her new book, she would like to reach a wider audience: “I wish someone told me … The best advice on building a great career”, which is based on her experiences and that of her friends and Fox news colleagues. There are dozens of anecdotes over humiliating first jobs and dealing with rejection.

Perinos earlier books also offered career advice. But she found that the need for a lawyer did not end after doing a big job. “The people I enter into their first jobs still ask me for advice while taking leading management positions and bringing the balance between work and life with several children and aging parents,” she writes in the introduction of the new title of the New Fox News Books.

The 52 -year -old Perino is one of the less strict republican voices for Fox News. (It was particularly important to the facts about the results of the 2020 presidential election when other hosts spoiled the wrong demands of President Trump on voter fraud, which led to an agreement in a costly defamation against the network of the Voting Machine Company Dominion with a second.)

The analysis of those born from Colorado typically rely on their own experience of the White House than on any loyalty towards Maga. She follows the same reflective approach in her book, which she recently discussed about a zoom call.

In this book there are many very traditional career advice with instructions on how to dress and speak (avoid and speak in the workplaceTalking, a drink boundary at the office party). Is it difficult to look after because we are at a time when younger people seem more than anything else? To Do you want to be yourself? Is there a risk today to tell people how to do these things?

At the moment, most bosses for which young people will work are either baby boomer or gen X, and now it’s a kind of aging millennials, and they all think differently and everyone grew up with a different kind of communication, depending on which technology was available. However, there are some fundamental principles that happen independently of what. Let us assume that they do something nice for a young person, maybe they meet with them and they write them a letter of thanks. And all these young people who were not taught in italics and their handwriting looks like a much younger person than what they are, I just have to consider that they don’t write in italics, so of course it looks a little different. So I only try to give people a little more grace depending on where they are in life. And that works in both directions.

Did the move to work made more difficult from home?

I am surprised and quite worry about how many young people are still isolating themselves and partly because it is uncomfortable to go to a networking event or go out there and meet someone. But they really want to meet someone. You have to go out and participate in the world.

Is it more difficult to be a mentor in the media business if there is so much contraction? How realistic do you have to be if there are clearly fewer positions like yours?

I sometimes do myself. When I meet young people who say that they want to do what I do, I am thrilled that they want it. A career like this is not immediately. I had a young woman – she just completed the high school – she said to me that she went to Colby College and wanted to study journalism. I made a face and said I don’t think you have to study journalism. Journalism will always be here, I hope. But I think you could study something else and then maybe a minor in journalism. The late Charles Krauthammer said that studying history or philosophy said, thinking, writing, and then try to find a way if this is still what you want to do. I don’t know if everyone always feels like that, but Bill inhibit and I talk about how we are happy that we are in the career in which we are at the time we are in.

So if you were a mentor of President Trump’s press officer Karoline Leavitt And they heard them say something in a press conference that was not correct. B. when she said a tariff was not a tax – what would you tell her?

I was friends with almost all of the White House Secretary and always keep my advice to you privately. In addition, I will never say proactively to say: “You should have said that” or “Here is how to deal with it better.” I will never do that, but I’m here if you want to call me. I will tell you that an advice that I gave Karoline at the beginning is that she has a great smile and that she should use it and it is okay to lighten from time to time.

Former President George W. Bush Sounds like he’s a pretty good boss. How was he as a mentor?

It gave me really good advice over the years and continues to this day. He loves career coaching. When I had to fight with what I was supposed to do after I left the white house and I did too many things at the same time, he encouraged me to found my own company. I had 100 reasons why I thought it wasn’t a good idea. I remember that he said: “You have to ask yourself:” What is the worst thing that could happen? ” I use this advice and further to many people. Especially younger women can inflate with fear and fear, it is almost paralyzed and when they start asking: “What is the worst thing that could happen?” You realize that it is actually not that bad.

Do you talk a lot about the current president?

NO.

Why did he keep such a low profile?

He was very, very happy to step off the stage. I know that there are some people who want, he might speak more. But it is super comfortable to keep advice or comments privately. If President Trump would call – which I don’t know if he’ll ever do it; I don’t ask that – he would keep it calm. He is not looking for the spotlight.

“The Five”, a daily round table in Fox News, was the most watched cable news program for the second time in a row.

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“The Five” is now one of the most– –Look at programs throughout television. What is the secret sauce that brings it up and running?

Selection of the story. A rounded hour of different types of topics. News of the day. Pop culture. Something funny. We have retained the ability to continue teasing and respecting ourselves and still laughing. Even if we have a rough struggle for tariffs and we still laugh in the advertising voltages. This is consistently the same and I wish I could tell you what the secret sauce was because we would probably do it very well if we could fill and sell it.