Every mom I know, whether they're working in the home or working outside the home, they're super women to me.
— Shannon Bream
Life will take you in all kinds of unexpected directions and it certainly did with me.
As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.
The first boss to give me a shot on-air left the station not long after I started reporting. The next boss fired me, and told me I was the worst person he'd ever seen on TV and that I would never make it. That felt like being punched in the gut repeatedly! But I pulled myself together and kept fighting for my dream.
Routine is important to me and keeps me mentally and physically healthy.
I'm not a big breakfast person, but I try to eat a little something on the mornings I'm going to work out.
That year I went to Miss America, that was the first year I had competed in an adult pageant, if you could call it that. So it was zero to 60.
Working in local news makes you very self-sufficient, which is a good thing because you know how all the different jobs work. I've worked many of those jobs in the newsroom, from my first job answering the phones and working the prompter, to producing, to being a reporter who does all of those things.
When you make the transition from local news to something like Fox, you feel incredibly blessed because now you have fantastic producers at every level who are helping you do the things you used to do by yourself.
You have to know how to use your hair spray.
I have gone to White House dinners in a dress that I have bought at Loehmann's.
Double vision makes reading the prompter very tricky.
I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.
Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.
It was love at first sight being in the newsroom.
I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.
I'm diligent about using eye drops and ointment before bed, which seems to minimize the frequency and severity of corneal abrasions. When I wake up now with an abrasion, I know I need to stay calm and effectively treat the pain. I can usually get back to sleep within a couple of hours.
I, at almost 30 years old, became an intern at a local TV station in Tampa where I was practicing law. I'd do that during the day and then any nights or weekends or overnights I could work, I would go intern at the station.
I want to sing the praises of the U.S. Supreme Court police because they're always fantastic. They always do a good job.
It's true that if you love what you do, it rarely feels like work.
No matter what your dream job is, you'll likely hear 'no' many times before you achieve your goals. Just accept that as a fact. But by refusing to accept that 'no,' you'll separate yourself from the pack.
When I'm working out and eating healthily, it's easier to manage the stresses and schedule demands that are a reality in media.
The days of waiting for your morning paper to show up in your driveway and tell you what the main stories are? Those days are over.
I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.
The news now continues all night, whether it's politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o'clock at night.
I feel very privileged to do what I do.
I get calls, emails and get asked in the grocery store when I'm not looking that great... 'I love your hair. Where do you get it done?'
I don't believe anything's a coincidence.
There's part of you that, when you show up for work, you kick into professional mode and try to do your absolute best.
Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.
Sometimes people think there is only one track to get to whatever your particular dream job is.
Facts are facts.
I finished 1,100 books in six weeks.
I have control of my recurrent corneal erosion, as opposed to it having control of me.
I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.
You don't even have to be a lawyer to be on the Supreme Court, which I think is hilarious.
My first shift in broadcasting was 2-11 A.M., doing lots of grunt work and running the TelePrompTer for the morning anchors. Luckily, I fell in love the minute I walked into the newsroom, and I've never gotten over that.
Some nights you just can't predict what's going to happen live for an hour.
I'm pretty religious about drinking between 60-to-70 ounces of water a day. I carry a big, refillable water bottle that I try to get through at least twice a day.
When you find yourself on a pageant stage, there are a lot of unpredictable moments, and I think a lot of that translates to doing the live, breaking-news reporting that I do now.
Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.
My background is interesting in that I was a sexual harassment attorney before I ever got into news. I think I had a really broad understanding of exactly how the legal framework works, how HR works, all those kinds of things.
I think, gosh, I'm just some kid from Tallahassee, Florida.
In Washington, there is a way to have disagreements and debates, which is so healthy, but a way to be friends at the end of the day, which I believe is the essence of America.
I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout - I've been pretty much addicted ever since.
Breaking news on live TV is a roller coaster.
I've always been a news junkie.
Live television is just like competing on live TV. You're never going to be perfect. You just try to prepare the best that you can and execute the best that you can and try to be in the moment.
I was a bookish nerd.
I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.
