The Monorail Ride of Intention Setting
From top left: Joanie’s KOMO days, on the desk at KIRO, & trading laughs with Monty Python’s John Cleese
When I was a young teenager growing up in Seattle, I had a dream. A dream to be an anchorwoman in a major metropolitan area. Posters hung on my bedroom wall of major television market cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York. I was determined to be like some of the first women news anchors I watched on television. Women like Jessica Savitch, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, to name a few.
It was a BIG dream for a young girl who watched these women broadcast from the Big City into her living room in an apartment in North Seattle. But I didn’t think it was farfetched. I just started dreaming. Visioning my goal.
As a teenager, I would spend a lot of time at the Seattle Center. My friends and I would ride the Monorail from Downtown Seattle – a nearly one-mile trip from one point to the other. What caught my attention on that short ride every time was the KOMO Radio + Television station. I would stand on the west side of the monorail and look down at KOMO and say to myself, “I’m going to work there someday.” I knew it with all of my heart. “I’m going to work there someday” was my mantra each and every time I rode that iconic stretch of 5th Avenue.
I also had the unique opportunity of going to a high school that had a radio and television program at Nathan Hale, with its now internationally known radio station C-89.5 (then known as KNHC). Of course, I enrolled in both the radio and television program in 10th grade. I immersed myself in the programs, kept to my vision of working in television and worked hard.
By the time, I was 16 I had an internship at KING-AM radio. But my real dream, my vision, came true at 17 when I started working at KOMO-TV in the community relations department as a tour guide for the station, and doing anything and everything to learn the broadcast news ropes. I had set my intention. I had repeated my mantra, and for four years, it was my dream come true.
While my dream of being a television anchor didn’t last too much longer after that job (I spent the next two years in the newsrooms of KGO-TV in San Francisco and then KIRO-TV), the point of this story is that once you have a strong vision that anything is possible. Setting intentions works.
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