Sarah Tapp: Legend of Rock Radio
Oh are you in for a treat - Sarah T’s unique take on life design and crafting her life, really made me think. She has always had a pretty fine-tuned compass for what she does and doesn’t want but then her therapist made a revelation to her, about her early life, that really made her think about what was driving her.
Sarah has moved around the world a number of times, from rural Hawaii to Urban Hawaii, from continental USA to Japan and now Europe with kids, a partner, a corporate career and a music radio show, that I am rather envious of (I’m always curious about envy - what’s it’s message???).
What I love about Sarah is her refreshing honesty, sincerity and just how genuine she is. There’s a real grounded simplicity to the way she tells her story and the way she made, then reflected on her Legend.
Her choices have been focused on different needs at different times from choosing to go to boarding school as a child, to joining the corporate world in order to build a solid foundation, reaching her career goals in her 30s, then planning for roles based on quality of life and a retirement based on rock‘n roll dreams!
Sarah and I met back in 2012 when she was the speaker at a professional networking event. We mention that at the beginning and she reveals a secret shame she held for the past 12 years!
In this Podcast you will learn:
- Sarah’s take on how to build a solid foundation for your future in your 20s and 30s
- How a feral kid in rural Hawaii started making decisions, with the trust and investment of her parents
- Who in her family has won a Grammy, her direct connection to PRINCE and her admiration for Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth
- How she decided to start a radio show in her early 40s
- Her therapist annoyed her with an observation - she revealed what it was and how it was useful
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Links
Sarah’s Radio Show ‘The Hangover’
Her incredible interview with Prince’s Record Producer, Professor Susan Rogers
Shout out to Japan-based Journalist Justin McCurry of the Guardian
Link to Kim Gordon’s Instagram
Sarah’s favourite song by Sharon Van Etten
About Sarah Tapp
Sarah was born and raised in Hawaii. She earned a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College in Ohio and promptly moved to Japan, where she spent almost 15 years building a career in corporate communications. Sarah has done PR for a wide range of companies and products – from baby formula to fighter jets – and worked in almost every area of communications, from copy writing to risk & crisis comms.
Sarah and her husband relocated to Luxembourg in 2016, when their daughter was 8 months old (she’s now 8 years old and has a younger sister, aged 7). After a stint at a digital marketing agency, she joined Amazon, where she currently manages PR and policy communications out of the company's European HQ. On weekends she hosts a show on Today Radio, the English-language arm of RTL, one of Europe's largest media groups. She recently co-presented the live English commentary for the Luxembourg Song Contest, ahead of the country's return to Eurovision for the first time in 31 years.
Sarah lives with her family in the countryside. In her very limited free time, she enjoys going to gigs and sitting in cafes with a book.
Connect with Sarah Tapp
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tapp-6806095/
Radio work: https://play.rtl.lu/shows/en/the-hangover/episodes
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