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Search - LIVE From Mongolia!: From Wall Street Banker to Mongolian News Anchor

LIVE From Mongolia From Wall Street Banker to Mongolian News Anchor
Author: Patricia Sexton

EAT — Hairy cheese and blowtorched sheep. Wash down with fermented horse milk. — PRAY — To escape the proselytizing clutches of the Mongolian Morman hordes. Yes, Mormons. In Mongolia. — LOVE — Fall in it the worst possible way--to someone who has given his heart to another. — NOT! — Perhaps the opposite of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love experie... more »nce, but Patricia Sexton will make you laugh and cry along with her as she takes readers along with on the trip of a lifetime in her memoir Live from Mongolia! From Wall Street Banker to Mongolian Anchor.

It's not every day that the Executive Producer of the CBS Evening News gives out blurbs, but here's what Rick Kaplan had to say about Live From Mongolia! From New York Banker to Mongolian Anchor by Patricia Sexton:

"Leaving a good job on Wall Street for the unknown in Mongolia?! I've never heard of a more ill-conceived plan. But although author Patricia Sexton achieved what she set out to do--change her life--hers is a journey that isby no means finished."

And he was right. Mongolia? The only experience people have with the country of Mongolia is from the game of "Risk." Isn't it somewhere near Irkutsk or Kamchatka? Mongolia is a world unto itself.

When Patricia Sexton couldn't take one more day at her Wall Street currency trading job, she wanted to get as far away from all those money-obsessed jerks as she could. It wasn't an overnight transformation--it had been building for years. First there was the dream, to become a journalist. To travel. Then the inertia she had to overcome, the nerves, the uncertainty of whether or not leaving a high paying job was actually a good idea. When Patricia landed an internship in Ulaanbaatar with Mongolian National TV and told her boss she was quitting, her boss thought it was the craziest thing he'd ever heard--yet told her that he wished he'd had the guts to do something like that earlier in his career, before he'd gotten sucked in so deep he couldn't escape.

It was to be a life changing experience in ways Patricia had never imagined. From her Mormon host family to her young and beautiful roommate who becomes her rival in her quest for her unrequited love, Patricia's social life becomes as entangled as her professional career. She goes from learning the ropes of reporting the news to making news when Patricia became the first American woman to anchor the English language Mongolian evening news. Her reporting took her to the far corners of Mongolia to explore the land, the history, and the people of this strange and far-off place. From crashing the 800th anniversary party of Genghis Khan's founding of Mongolia to meeting and interviewing Mongolia's top hip hop star, Patricia came into her own while she fell in love with the country that has a population barely larger than the Borough of Brooklyn.

ISBN-13: 9780985247881
ISBN-10: 0985247886
Publication Date: 10/8/2012
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Titletown Publishing, LLC
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Genres:

Biographies & Memoirs >> Memoirs
Travel >> Asia >> Mongolia

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