Tamsen Fadal: Keeping It Together When Love Falls Apart

塔姆森·法达尔:当爱情破裂时保持团结

Good Life Project

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2015-06-09

55 分钟
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Tamsen Fadal is an award-winning broadcast journalist and television anchor on the evening news in New York City. She's worked incredibly hard to get where she is, traveling the world, entering war-zones and extreme settings, giving a voice to the voiceless and a serving as a trusted guide through times of extreme tragedy, disaster and misfortune. While she'd become comfortable being the face and voice of the news, though, she never thought she'd actually be the news. But, that's exactly what happened, and not in a good way, when her relationship with her husband and business partner in a match-making side-business fell apart. The news hit the papers and she was faced with not only navigating the extraordinary pain of a crumbling love, but the surreal task of doing it all under the microscope of the media, while also being the media. The tabloids and the internet were not kind. She was, after all, a very public person and someone positioned as an expert in finding love. And, now she was struggling. She would've loved to just pull back, to work things through in private and recover. But, it was her job to show up and put on the face of calm confidence on television. She found herself living two lives. Cool, upbeat, friendly newscaster by day and the falling apart human by night. In this week's conversation, we dive into Tamsen's life in journalism, the moments that have forever changed her and how the media is evolving. And we talk about her relationship, surviving what should be private in the most public way and then rediscovering her sense of identity and healing. She shared much of this journey, as well, in her new book, The New Single. This conversation is not just about transitioning from a marriage, it's about how to move through shattering challenges in life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • People would expect to see post divorce, like, you gotta get back out there and date.

  • And I thought, date.

  • I need to figure out who I am, and I need to like myself first and then maybe love myself.

  • It's one thing to have your personal life fall apart in private, where you can deal with it in the way that you need to deal with it.

  • It's an entirely different thing to have that exact same thing happen when you're a well known broadcast journalist and the anchor of television news station in New York City.

  • This week's guest, Tanzan Vidal, went through that exact thing when her marriage largely exploded in a very public way.

  • How she handled that, how she handled something that was one of the most hurtful and challenging things that anybody could go through in a personal life.

  • But how she handled that when she was in the public eye is something that we go into in this week's episode.

  • But we don't just explore that.

  • We also really take a step back and explore her journey, how she moved into journalism, what lights her up about it.

  • We talked about the field of journalism and broadcast media now, and how it's evolving at a breakneck pace, and how there's this really kind of fascinating dance or struggle between entertainment and education and information, and how you handle trying to be neutral and letting your opinion and your personality play a role, but also try and be the voice of neutrality.

  • It's a really challenging thing.

  • Really excited to share this conversation with somebody who has an incredible amount to share about a lot of parts of life.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is good life project.

  • So there's so much I want to explore with you, and I kind of want to jump back, and that's fine.

  • Take you from the time that you were two years old all the way up through the years.

  • Okay, I can do it.

  • But there's actually something I want to jump in with you first before we go there.

  • And it's come up a number of times with me and with what we're doing here.