Thursday, November 21

How Hala Taha transformed obstacles into opportunities

Hala Taha is the host of Young and Profiting Podcast, frequently ranked as the #1 Education podcast across all apps. Hala is also the CEO of YAP Media, a full-service social media and podcast marketing agency for top podcasters, celebrities, and CEOs. She is well-known for her engaged following and influence on Linkedin, and she landed the January 2021 cover of Podcast Magazine. Hala is an expert on networking, personal branding, Linkedin marketing, side hustles, entrepreneurship, and podcasting.Who is Hala Taha? What is your back story?So they call me the podcast princess. In terms of my background story, I started my career in radio. I used to work at the radio station Hot 97. I started my journey in broadcasting 10 years ago working as an intern at the radio station. I worked there for free for three years as Angie Martinez’s assistant on the number one show in America called the Angie Martinez Show. I was therefore the assistant producer of that show. While I was working at Hot 97, I also had online radio shows. I used to host Hip Hop radio shows and music radio shows, and at the time, it was the precursor to podcasting. They were called online radio shows that go to a studio and we’d live stream them, and then the videos would be on YouTube for people to watch and that’s what we called them back in the day: Online radio shows. I didn’t get the job at Hot 97 that I was working so hard for: I got rejected. Then I almost had a job on Sirius Radio; worked on a show, and left shortly after. I thought I was never going to make it. I decided to get into the corporate world. After I got my MBA, I thought I…

 

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