Dana Perino answers the questions in her new book, “I wish someone had told me … the best tips for building a great career and a meaningful life.”
Why did you write the book?
When my mother finished reading “Everything will be okay, – Life lessons for young women from a former young woman”, she called me and said, “Wow, I wish someone had told me all this.” She began working in the mid -1960s, when women were really coming to the workforce in Droves. They paved the way for so many of us, and now we have many different ways we can take in our career. (Thank you, lady! We appreciate everything you did for us.)
I have discovered that when I left the White House and started advising young people that questions do not change so much – but hunger for more tips and guidance continues to grow. So I decided to refresh my advice in a post-Kovid and pre-Ii world, and to collect the best advice from the most wonderful group of counselors and mentors that I could unite in a book.
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How does this book differ from your previous mentoring books?
“I wish someone had told me” is an updated version of the tips I have collected based on the experience, and includes interviews with over forty friends, my boyfriends and my colleagues – including my husband, Peter McMahon, my college friend, Andrea Aragon, and the music star Country Dierks Bentley, as well as many of my colleagues. They were very generous with their time, and their suggestions are scary. There is so much wisdom in their answers to my questions-it opened my eyes to the success gained with the difficulty of people around me every day. Chapters include questions on how to decide what you want to do in your career, proven and true ways to get the promotions you want, managing elusive balance of work and life, and focusing on what really matters in your life before you retire, or if you retire, as my friend Varney speaks in that chapter.
To whom this book is – When you think of your reader, who imagines?
While my latest book was targeted by young women, this book has a much larger audience and is not targeted specifically for women. I have included tips from a variety of people so that I can get as many perspectives as possible in the book. I think I’m going to be a better mentor now that I’ve put in a store with a stop so many new rich tips.
Here’s who I think would benefit from reading “I wish someone had told me”:
– I ambitious young people who try to understand what they want to do and what industry they want to come in
– young career enthusiasts who go for their first promotion and trying to climb the next staircase run
– Solidating your position in the workforce and achieving this other level of success in management, as an entrepreneur, or on the executive path
– young parents who are trying to understand how to handle job and family responsibilities
– Anyone who feels burned and asked about career change
– Managers looking for new ways to give guidance to their employees – to help in training, encouraging and recruiting talent.
– those who seek a greater meaning in their lives beyond their careers
Fox News host Dana Perino The author of a new book that gives advice on building a career. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images, File)
Were there tips you have collected in your interviews that helped you think about things in another way?
I learned a lot. Such as how to better treat disappointment and rejection; How to stay curious and be a person who continues to grow, and how to laugh at the circumstances instead of being deceived by them.
In particular, for example, I loved how Martha MacCallum said that when she was working on television and raising her three young children she did not leave herself to think more than three months ago. This is the excellent, practical advice that works for anyone – even those without children (but with a percy!).
I think I will be a better mentor now that I have entered a store with a stop so many new new tips I can use to inform my opinion.
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What is the best tips you’ve ever received?
This choice to love is not a limiting career decision. Back in 1997, when I met Peter on a plane (it happens, I swear!), I was very concerned about what would happen on my career path if I was transferred to England to marry him – an eighteen -year -old boy my elder who would have been divorced twice earlier, and someone would only know some moths. I was very preoccupied with what others would think of me, how would they judge me if I were to choose for it. A family friend drew me aside that Christmas and asked me what was happening to Peter and me. I explained my hesitation. And she said, “Don’t give up on this chance to love. It may be your only goal.” And the boy was right. And making this decision turned out to be the best of my life. Twenty -eight years later we are still together, and we drank ourselves every day we approached so much that we wouldn’t meet that day. I almost lost that flight, and Peter almost got an earlier. That we were assigned places near each other was a gift from God that we can never pay. The best we can do is move on to this advice for everyone – the choice to want to help make my career possible. Without it, I wouldn’t have done what I have so far – and nothing I would have done would not matter at all if I didn’t have it to share it with me.
Fox News host Dana Perino has written a new book, “I wish someone had told me … the best tips for building a great career and a significant life.” (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images, File)
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What do you want someone to tell you?
I wish someone had told me that I didn’t have to worry about my twenties away – this, as an educated American woman, I had already won the excellent lottery of life. Concern was a waste of time and my biggest hope is that readers will remove some practical tips they can apply in their lives to ensure that they are benefiting from their time on Earth. It goes so fast – and I would buy anyone’s minutes if I could. Since this is impossible, I’m just determined to use as much the time I have here with all of you.
