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Ep 30 - "I Felt Like I Was Faking It": Rachel Hartigan on Journalism & Female Ambition

Ep 30 - "I Felt Like I Was Faking It": Rachel Hartigan on Journalism & Female Ambition22 Apr36 min

"You don't have to explain your ambition. You can just be ambitious." In episode 30 of Speak Shame, journalist and author Rachel Hartigan shares her journey from feeling like an imposter in journalism to writing a book that unravels one of history's greatest mysteries: Amelia Earhart's disappearance. Rachel spent 12 years at National Geographic covering everything from genetic potatoes to the long road to women's suffrage. But it was two expeditions to a remote Pacific island – searching for ...