Persephone Magazine

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The first morning I spent in the studio for the hands-on part of training was exhilarating and utterly terrifying. I had the good fortune to be under the tutelage of an older student who’d spent years in commercial radio before going back to school for his degree, and his philosophy was less easing me into radio world and more trial by fire. There was a microphone in my face from day one, and while my voice was surely shaking and I distinctly recall being more nervous than I was at my first pap smear, my voice went out over the 25,000-watt broadcast range and when the mic was switched off I felt it, and I knew it, and I knew that I would do this until I graduated.

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