Fox News Animator Dana Perino on the advice of George W. Bush

Dana Perino, co-host of the Popular Fox News program, “The Five”, has never taken its success for granted.

Throughout her career, which started with relays as a journalist on local television and staff assistant at the congress, she recognized the advice she received from people along the way, including former president George W. Bush, who asked her to become a press secretary of the White House just when she was about to leave government service.

The move was a major turning point for Perino, while standing behind the desk in the white house news room has long been a Fast track to a new television job. She finally became an element of Fox information, going from a contributor in 2009 to co-organization three hours a day between “The Five” and the newspaper “America's Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer.

Perino has mentoring part of his personal brand. In 2009, she co -founded Minute Mentoring, an organization that organizes rapid meetings for young women looking for career aid. She seeks to reach a wider audience with her new book, “I hope someone told me … The best advice to build a great career”, which is based on her experiences and those of her friends and colleagues from Fox News. There are dozens of anecdotes on the humility of the first jobs and rejection.

The previous books of Perino also offered professional advice. But she found that the need for a lawyer does not end after winning a lot of work. “The people I have supervised to enter their first jobs always ask me for advice because they occupy management positions and juggle work / life balance with several children and aging parents,” she wrote in the introduction of the new Fox News Books title.

Perino, 52, is among the least strident republican voices on Fox News. (She notably held the facts on the results of the presidential elections of 2020 when other hosts President Trump's false allegations of President Trump's electoral fraudleading to a regulation in an expensive defamation action against the network of the Société de machines à voting Dominion with a second pending.)

The analysis of the native of Colorado is generally based on his own experience of the White House rather than on any loyalty in Maga. She adopts the same reflective approach in her book, which she recently discussed for a zoom call.

There are a lot of very traditional career advice in this book, with instructions on how to dress and speak in the workplace (avoid too tight clothes, without vocal frying or towardsSpeak, a drink limit at the office party). Is it difficult to mentor now because we are at a time when young people seem more than anything else has want to be themselves? Is there a risk today by trying to tell people how to do these things?

Currently, most of the bosses for which young people will work are either baby boomers or generation X and now it is sort of aging millennials and they all think differently and they all grew up with a different way of communicating according to the available technology. But there are fundamental principles that remain true whatever happens. Let's say that you do something nice for a young person, maybe you meet them and that they write you a note of thanks. And all these young people who have not learned to write in cursive and their writing looks like a much younger person than they are, I just have to keep in mind that they have not learned to write in cursive, so of course, it seems a little different. So, just trying to give people a little more grace depending on where they are in life. And it goes in both directions.

Has the passage to work from the house more difficult?

I am surprised and quite disturbed by the number of young people who are always and partially isolate themselves because it is uncomfortable to go to a networking event or go there and try to meet someone. But they really want to meet someone. You have to go out and participate in the world.

Is it more difficult to be a mentor in the media sector when there is so much contraction in progress? To what extent do you need to be realistic when there are clearly fewer positions like yours?

I am sometimes guessed. When I meet young people who say they want to do what I do, I am delighted that they want it. A career like this is not instantaneous now. I had a young woman – she just finished her secondary studies – she told me that she was going to Colby College and that she wants to study journalism. I made a grimace and I said that I didn't think you had to study journalism. Journalism will always be there, I hope. But I think you could study something else and maybe a minor in journalism. The delay Charles Krauthammer Said the history of study or philosophy, learn to think, learn to write, then try to find a way if that's always what you want to do. I do not know if everyone still feels it, but Bill Hemmer and I are talking about the way we are happy that we are in the career in which we are now at the time we are.

So if you were a mentor of President Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt And you heard her say something at a press conference that was not correct – as when she said that a price is not a tax – what do you tell her?

I have been friends with almost all the secretaries of the White House and I always keep them private advice. In addition, I will never try my hand proactively to say, “You should have said this or that” or “here is how to better manage this”. I will never do that, but I'm here if they want to call me. I'm going to tell you a piece of advice I gave Karoline at the start, it is that she has a big smile and that she should use it and it is normal to lie from time to time.

Former President George W. Bush It looks like he was a very good boss. How was he as a mentor?

He gave me very good advice over the years and continues to date. He likes career coaching. When I was struggling with what I had to do after leaving the White House and I was doing too much at the same time, he encouraged me to start my own business. I had 100 reasons why I thought it was not a good idea. I remember that he said, “You must ask yourself,” What is the worst thing that can happen? ” I use this advice and transmit it to many people too. Especially younger women can bubble with anxiety and fear, it's almost paralyzing, and when you start to ask: “What is the worst thing that can happen?” They realize that it is not so bad.

Do you talk to him a lot about the current president?

No.

Why did he keep such a low profile?

He was very, very happy to leave the stage. I know there are people who want him to speak may more. But it is super comfortable to keep advice or private comments. If President Trump should call – which I don't know if he never does; I do not ask for it – he would keep silent. He does not seek the spotlight.

“The Five”, a daily round table on Fox News, was the most watched cable information program for the second consecutive year.

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“The Five” is now one of the most–I watched programs throughout television. What is the secret sauce that operates it?

History choice. A well -balanced hour of different types of subjects. News of the day. Pop culture. Something funny. We have maintained the ability to continue to tease you and respect each other and to laugh. Even if we fight noisy on the prices, and we do it, We always laugh in commercial breaks. It's always the same thing and I would like to be able to tell you what the secret sauce was because if we could bottle and sell it, we would probably do very well financially.