Nicole Behnam, Founder, CEO, and Editor-In-Chief of Beyond the Interview, is a journalist with over 10 years of experience.Nicole challenges her subjects and uses her personality to bond with them. Reporting is different in the digital age. People can be real. This isn’t 60 minutes. She’s not just interested in what they have to say, but how they feel, how they’ve evolved over time, and what they’ve learned through their experiences and through their research.It’s common for reporters to sit back and adhere to journalistic rules of conduct, but that’s not Nicole’s style. She likes people to feel comfortable and brutally honest about subjects they normally would cringe talking about. Along with her curiosity, sarcasm, and wit, she brings her insecurities to the surface. As an interviewer, she has found that her interviewees are more candid when they aren’t sitting across someone in a pantsuit who challenges them with laser-beam focus and an air of superiority.Nicole’s writing has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Business Journal, WestsideToday, Jewish Journal, and The Huffington Post, among other outlets. Nicole graduated from the prestigious Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California as a Public Relations Major.