Some TV news reporters and anchors should get an award for their acting skills. Like everyone else, real life happens to us. Sometimes while we are live on TV.

Diane Pathieu shares the painful memory she has, learning her husband has brain cancer, while anchoring a newscast.

It was the most intense commercial break of her life.

Diane is a reporter and fill-in anchor in Chicago at WLS/ABC7. She is one of very few Middle Eastern women in news working for the third largest television market in America. Press play to hear how she clawed her way there and found match, both in news and in her personal life.

Connect with her on social media @dianepathieu

Episode recorded 10.10.22