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“After watching my mother..I thought women can do anything,” pioneer broadcaster Treasa Goodwin-Smith says. “What’s stopping us?,” she told an @IrishBusinessNY women’s networking lunch at @IrelandinNY. Goodwin-Smith, who was born on a farm in #Ireland, is one of 10 siblings.
#WomentoFollow Treasa Goodwin- Smyth hosts @IrelandCalls, a weekly radio & interviews Irish personalities from around the world. On March 17 for the 12th year in a row, she will broadcast from #NYC’s #StPatricksDay on @NBCNewYork. She does it with her husband, @TommySmythESP.
“To be a good reporter or broadcaster, you have to listen,” says @IrelandCalls Treasa Goodwin-Smyth.
”If anyone ever says if you’re venturing into media, you can’t do that job..When I started out, people said to me you can’t do that job...you have such a Cork accent,” she says.
”If anyone ever says if you’re venturing into media, you can’t do that job..When I started out, people said to me you can’t do that job...you have such a Cork accent,” she says.
Cool story for someone who says she’s not a feminist: A twin, Goodwin-Smyth loved to play camogie, an Irish stick-and-ball sport played by women, a variant of hurling (played by men). In college, she made it to the Irish national team.
She was the first young woman from her county to receive an academic scholarship to Gurteen Agriculture College. “During her studies, she faced resistance and discrimination from her male peers and some superiors because so few women were in the field.” https://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/collections/ihoral/smythtg/smythtg.php
What a great story!
From Ireland House Oral History Collection - “I was the rebel in the family.” How Goodwin-Smyth ended up w/a broken ankle
https://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/collections/ihoral/smythtg/smythtg.php
From Ireland House Oral History Collection - “I was the rebel in the family.” How Goodwin-Smyth ended up w/a broken ankle https://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/collections/ihoral/smythtg/smythtg.php
