22: RBG: Award-Winning filmmaker Betsy West on Her Worst & Best Day as a Journalist [K-Cup TripleShot]

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Betsy West is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and educator and the co-Director & co-Producer of the film RGB about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  A producer and executive for over two decades at ABC News, West received 21 Emmy Awards and two DuPont-Columbia Awards for her work on “Nightline” and “Prime Time Live” and the documentary program “Turning Point,” where she served as executive producer. As senior vice president at CBS News from 1998-2005, she oversaw “60 Minutes” and “48 Hours.”

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• How to move forward from a really bad negative experience and recover (2:53)
• Why getting bad feedback from your boss or a supervisor is something you shouldn’t wallow in …move on tomorrow is another day! (5:39)
• How within the span of a few hours Betsy went from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs (6:15)
• How even highly accomplished veteran journalists like Betsy have experienced multiple setbacks, and how she still thrived and reached new heights professionally

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