{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep 6: Leadership & Self-Doubt with Doug Fruehling, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Business Journal","description":""It's hard to take a hit for your decisions, but this is the path I've chosen as a leader and a journalist - to make Washington a better place to live " \u2013 Doug Fruehling\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s not every day that you get to interview a leading journalist in Washington DC and especially not to have such a frank, authentic conversation caught on tape! In this revealing, insightful interview Doug Fruehling, the editor of the Washington Business Journal, opens up about what it\u2019s like to be a leader who doesn\u2019t always feel like he has all the answers. Doug admits he periodically struggles with self-doubt, shyness, decision-making and confidence, but yet chooses to make bold, sometimes unpopular decisions anyway and stick with his principles!\r\n\r\nWhat You'll Learn\r\n\r\n\tHow living in Japan as a child informed Doug's perspective on the world and leadership\r\n\tImportance of learning from diverse people we meet through all walks of life\r\n\tHow Doug\u2019s deals with criticism, including for his bold decision to exclude football team\u2019s name \u201cRedskins\u201d from print in the Washington Business Journal\r\n\tImportance of being an authentic, sincere and honest leader with staff and readers (or other constituents if you\u2019re not a journalist)\r\n\tGreatest challenges of leading a news room and being a journalist today\r\n\tHow to bring heart and humanity to interactions with others and balance journalistic truth and empathy\r\n\tHow to keep employees positive and motivated when they have to do so much more with much less\r\n\tWhat Mid-West farmers and DC CEOs have in common\r\n\tWhat it\u2019s been like for Doug to be a gay man in the professional world and constantly decide how to navigate questions about his personal life\r\n\tSuper fun responses to my WBJ-style questions about Doug's guilty pleasures, favorite pet and what he'd do if he weren't the editor of the WBJ!\u00a0\r\n\r\nLinks &\u00a0Resources\r\n\r\n\r\n\tWashington Business Journal -www.bizjournals.com\/washington\/\u00a0\r\n\tLeadership Greater Washington - lgwdc.org\r\n\r\nAbout Doug Fruehling\r\n\r\nDoug has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Business Journal since 2009. He oversees all editorial content and leads a 20-person newsroom at the WBJ, which produces daily online news coverage of the local D.C. business scene and a weekly print publication. Prior to the WBJ, Doug was the managing editor of Roll Call and before that the managing editor of the WBJ (yes, it\u2019s his second time around!) He began his career at Peoria Journal Star that you\u2019ll hear about in the interview. Doug has a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Journalism from Ohio University and went to high school in Japan. Doug is quite involved in the DC community and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Leadership Greater Washington.\r\n\r\n ","author_name":"Leadership Insights Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.inciteinternational.com\/podcast\/","html":"