New year, new you, and there’s going to be a new podcast for you to check out, hosted by Caitlin Sinclair.
“It is going to be a podcast in partnership with Newsweek,” media commentator Sinclair boasted proudly.
“I really want to be able to have authentic conversations,” Sinclair said of her debut show. A regular on Fox News, Sinclair is known for making headlines like “Glamorous conservative tears into ‘woke left mob’” and being named one of Fox’s “Top influencers in the Make America Healthy Again movement.”
While nine times out of ten, Sinclair is the most glamorous person at a MAGA gala, her fierce passion for fixing America’s healthcare system came from a not-so-glamorous starting point. “I was diagnosed with over a dozen autoimmune conditions at age 18,” she disclosed.
“For the first time in my young adult life, I was having to do my own medical research,” she said of the diagnosis. “I had to grow up way quicker and faster than most of my peers, who were drinking and partying every weekend. I actually spent most of my young college years in and out of hospitals, reading medical studies, and becoming my own best advocate.”
Through her own research, Sinclair began to believe America’s healthcare system is broken. “I was traveling from one world-renowned medical institution to the next,” Sinclair, a former One America News reporter, reminisced. “I was basically being treated like a guinea pig. To sum it up, it put me on a path of realizing I had a voice, but my voice was better off being used to tell the stories of people like myself who were going through something and really needed their story to be heard.”
Fixated on the “three-letter agencies that were controlling the medical institutions,” Sinclair found her drive. “I wanted to expose some of the corruption from a medical standpoint and a healthcare standpoint.”
A native New Yorker, Sinclair interned at the finest outlets the number-one market has to offer. “I interned at my local station, News 12 Long Island. From there, I got an internship at Fox 5, New York 1, and CNN.” She even worked on one of Lee Zeldin’s campaigns. “I threw myself into the world of politics and journalism,” she said of her younger years.
During all this time, Sinclair said she was in journalism to be a journalist, not to choose political sides. “I didn’t have strong political beliefs for most of my life,” she recalled. However, her internship at CNN changed that mentality.
“I was interning at CNN for the morning show, which was Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota at the time.” It was Sinclair’s senior year, and she recalls being asked, “Well, which side of the aisle do you sit on? Because you have to pick. If you’re about to graduate and go into this industry, it’s no longer the industry it was when we started, so you have to pick a side.”
She did not take this sentiment lightly. “I ended up doing my own research. Where do I stand on taxes? What do I believe? What are my actual beliefs as someone who’s just graduating from college? And what do I want out of my life? Where are my beliefs and morals more aligned?” Her answer came naturally. “I just fit more at the time with the Republican Party.”
While Sinclair did not inherit New York’s deep blue political stance, she did inherit a big New York personality, which is something she is looking forward to bringing to her podcast. “I’m excited to bring that to my viewers. Just a very authentic, candid nature and candid conversation, where, of course, we’re talking about midterms and we’re talking about politics and the space. But we’re also talking about family and relationships and where this country is headed,” she said.
For those looking to follow in Sinclair’s footsteps, she gives the same advice her parents gave her. “Run your own race. Beat your own drum. Do not be easily convinced to back down. If you truly believe something, express it.”
She added, “In a world where it’s so easy to be inauthentic, to have such a highly curated persona, and to be like everybody else, people will actually respect you more if you bring something different to the table. Nobody likes someone who just goes along with anything. Nobody likes a yes man.”
From the start of her career, Sinclair has experienced people telling her, “This industry might not be for you.” Even worse, she’s experienced “Molotov cocktails thrown at me.” All the while, she’s kept her parents’ words in mind. “Run your own race.”
What started as research and self-advocation has developed into a fierce determination to help conservative voices be heard. Through her travels with Turning Point USA over the past year, Sinclair has found an audience some conservatives have forgotten about: metropolitan women.
“They didn’t feel during the past election like they were actually being welcomed into the conservative movement. They felt like there weren’t enough people in the space who really represented or spoke to them.” For those conservatives and many more, Sinclair sees you, she hears you, and she’s here advocating for you.
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Krystina Alarcon Carroll contributes features and columns for Barrett Media. She has experience in almost every facet of the industry including: digital and print news; live, streamed, and syndicated TV; documentary and film productions. Her prior employers have included NY1 and Fox News Digital and the Law & Crime Network. You can find Krystina on X (formerly twitter) @KrystinaAlaCarr.
