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EPISODE · Nov 29, 2023 · 24 MIN

Uneducated by Christopher Zara

from Just Minding My Business · host Just Minding My Business Media

Christopher Zara is an author and journalist who writes about culture,media, business, and tech. He is a senior editor at Fast Company, where he runs the news desk and leads a team that covers everything from startups and BigTech to workplace culture and finance. Before coming to FastCo in 2016, Zara was a deputy editor at International Business Times, a theater critic for Newsweek, and managing editor of the late Show Business Weekly, one of the last theater trade papers in Manhattan.Christopher Zara is the author of UNEDUCATED (Little, Brown 2023), a memoir about navigating the professional white-collar world without a college degree. The book documents his struggles as a student with behavioral difficulties in the New Jersey public school system and later his efforts to assimilate as a high school dropout in the pedigree-obsessed world of New York media.Visit the Website: https://christopherzara.com/Connect with Christopher on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/zarachristopher/https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherzara/"What a warm collaboration with Christopher. Christopher reminds us that when you tap into what you were born to do, you are enough." IdaVisit Just Minding My Business Media™ LLC, at https://jmmbmediallc.com/ to learn how you can “Go Beyond The Interview,” and amplify your voice.

Christopher Zara is an author and journalist who writes about culture,media, business, and tech. He is a senior editor at Fast Company, where he runs the news desk and leads a team that covers everything from startups and BigTech to workplace culture and finance. Before coming to FastCo in 2016, Zara was a deputy editor at International Business Times, a theater critic for Newsweek, and managing editor of the late Show Business Weekly, one of the last theater trade papers in Manhattan.Christopher Zara is the author of UNEDUCATED (Little, Brown 2023), a memoir about navigating the professional white-collar world without a college degree. The book documents his struggles as a student with behavioral difficulties in the New Jersey public school system and later his efforts to assimilate as a high school dropout in the pedigree-obsessed world of New York media.Visit the Website: https://christopherzara.com/Connect with Christopher on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/zarachristopher/https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherzara/"What a warm collaboration with Christopher. Christopher reminds us that when you tap into what you were born to do, you are enough." IdaVisit Just Minding My Business Media™ LLC, at https://jmmbmediallc.com/ to learn how you can “Go Beyond The Interview,” and amplify your voice.

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