🎙️ When to Chase the Dream and When to Walk Away: Liberté Chan’s Life After News

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Meteorologist Liberté Chan joins Jason for a raw, vulnerable, and very real conversation about knowing when to chase the dream and when to walk away from it.

From her early days as an intern at KTLA to anchoring in Palm Springs, to “manifesting” her way back on-air in Los Angeles, Liberté shares how sheer persistence (and a few strategically timed visits to the news director’s office) helped her land her dream job as a meteorologist on the KTLA Weekend Morning News.

She opens up about the work behind the “weather girl” stereotype earning a meteorology degree while working full time, using education as a way to build confidence, and what it really takes to reinvent yourself on and off camera.

Liberté also talks candidly about the devastating loss of her friend and co-anchor Chris Burrous, the cascade of grief that followed in her personal life, and how unprocessed grief finally forced her to stop, feel, and re-evaluate everything including her career in news.

Today, she’s a new mom, a functional medicine health coach, a devoted yogi, and a creator in the “new media” world, blending wellness, motherhood, and honest storytelling while still keeping one toe in the news business as an occasional KTLA fill-in.

This is a conversation about ambition, heartbreak, reinvention, and the courage to choose yourself.

In this episode, we talk about:

• 🎯 Manifesting the dream job
• 🎓 Education as confidence
• 📺 The magic of the KTLA weekend morning show
• 💔 Grief, loss, and what news people don’t process
• 🧭 Knowing when to walk away from news
• 🧘‍♀️ Wellness, functional medicine, and new media
• 👶 Motherhood, travel, and raising a healthy child
• 💪 Movement as practice, not perfection
• 🌱 What’s next for Liberté

NEXT WEEK ON LIFE AFTER NEWS

Veteran KCBS/KCAL investigative reporter David Goldstein returns—two years into retirement—to talk about what he’s doing now and why Harvey Levin says Los Angeles is less safe without him.

We dig into:

• how investigative journalism actually changes the world,
• the grind behind the glamour,
• why the job is harder than people think, and
• how he got his unlikely start in the poultry capital of the world.

Don’t miss it.

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Let Life After News inspire your next chapter. Because leaving the news doesn’t mean the story’s over—it means a new one’s just beginning.