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INTERVIEW WITH:
VANESSA CUDDEFORD (VC) PGMAG: Vanessa, so good to have you on
PGMAG: You have had an incredible journey
today’s interview with Lady Anita
as a journalist and a TV personality with BBC. Please tell us a little bit about your transition to
VC: It’s great to be here with you Lady Anita -
becoming a coach.
thank you for the opportunity. VC: I’ve been lucky to work as a TV news anchor PGMAG: Please briefly introduce yourself to our
and reporter for some of the world’s most
readers
respected broadcasters, from BBC News in the UK to NBC news in the USA. When I was at
VC: I’m a journalist-turned-speaker-coach who
the height of my presenting career - anchoring
helps professionals become the most confident
my own news show five nights a week - I was
speakers they can be, whether that’s in the
suddenly hit by stage fright. It felt like it came on
corporate boardroom or on big stages such as
very suddenly, but in retrospect I see my nerves
TED. I’m also mum to a wonderful 8-year-old boy
had been building for years. My fear became
and wife to another reformed journalist. We live
so acute that I would panic every day before
in sunny Brighton on the south coast of the UK.
going on air. I considered giving up my career to
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