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Sep 2020
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Ep. 259 What it's really like to work on...

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About this episode

Instagram influencers, YouTube creators, podcast personalities, bloggers of all kinds … they all share one vast work space - the ever-expanding universe of the internet! Meg and Rebekah have each been working online for over a decade, and today, they invite you to join them in a conversation about what that is really like. Inspired by the honest revelations of a popular YouTube star, they dig into the professional difficulties and personal challenges of working in the online space, and they reveal what some of the most AWESOME parts of this specific work are, too. PLUS, two great reads getting lots of buzz in Awesome of the Week!

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SHOW NOTES:

Rebekah’s AotW:  One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London

Meg’s AotW: They Wish They Were Us, Jessica Goodman

Safiya Nygaard on YouTube

Where Have We Been by Safiya Nygaard

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