About

Nicole Behnam, co-founder of Beyond the Interview, is a journalist with more than 10 years of experience.

Nicole challenges her subjects and uses her personality to bond with them. Reporting is different in the digital age. This isn’t 60 minutes. Now, people can be real. Nicole’s not just interested in what you have to say, but how you feel, where you started, and what you’ve learned along the way.

It’s common for reporters to sit back and rely on the old rules of journalism, but Nicole sees it differently. She helps people be brutally honest about subjects they normally would feel uncomfortable talking about.

With curiosity, sarcasm, and wit, she brings common insecurities to the surface, including her own. 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 Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California as a Public Relations Major.