The Friendship I Found During a Hard Chapter of My Career

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Have you ever met someone in the middle of your hardest chapter, and they became one of the best parts of your life? That's Smitha Rao. We met when I was still in TV news in NYC, drowning through a story she was handling as my PR contact. She'd left the news industry herself after being treated unfairly, and that day, she made sure every live shot of mine sparkled. If you're a reporter, you know exactly what that means.

This is a first for Unscripted Turbulence: a full crossover episode with Smitha's podcast, Unglamorous in the City. Our friendship grew over the years, usually over a martini, so that's exactly what we did here. I mix this month's proud sponsor, Kastra Elion Vodka, in real time while we sip and talk like you're pulled up next to us at the bar.

We get into finding our voices, our careers, the ups, the downs, and how our friendship turned into a real support system, still riding this unscripted, unglamorous turbulence in and outside the city we call home.

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