This podcast features expert interviews and how-to podcasts designed to help producers, authors, screenwriter, podcasters and other media pros master the unique skills they need to earn a good living from their work. Get live events and videos workshops at NFM24.com. Learn more about us at NancyFultonMeetups.com.
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Games People Play: A Primer for New Hollywood Filmmakers, Writers, and Other Creative Media Makers
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In this episode of Hollywood Insider Help, we dive into the multi-award-winning book "Games People Play" by Eric Berne, a pivotal guide to understanding human interactions. Particularly relevant to the entertainment industry, this workshop explores the fundamental concepts of transactional analysis, shedding light on the "drama" often encountered i…
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How Stinking Thinking Destroys Careers and How to Make it Stop
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Welcome to the Hollywood Insider Help podcast! In this episode, we delve into the detrimental thought patterns that can hinder your success as a media creator in the entertainment industry. We'll explore how these negative habits can affect your creativity, collaboration, and career progression. Discover practical strategies to identify and change …
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Significant Hollywood Movie Disasters and Important Lessons Learned
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When people come to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, they often encounter perplexing behaviors and responses. Many of these can be traced back to Hollywood's turbulent history and the monumental mistakes made by Studios, Directors, and Producers. These blunders have not only ended careers and destroyed studios but have also resulted in finan…
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How to Cultivate a Robust Attitude so You Can Thrive as a Media Media Maker
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In today's workshop, we're going to be talking about cultivating a robust attitude so you can thrive in the media business. And specifically, I'm going to review some practical advice on surviving and thriving in what is an incredibly competitive industry. I think most people that work in the entertainment industry, at one point or another, find th…
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What Kind of Creator Are You? And Why Does That Matter So Much Here in Hollywood?
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As creatives, we invest time, effort, ideas, intellectual property, and our reputation in the projects we do. A project that goes well becomes a stepping stone to other great projects. Failed projects, or projects we fail on, are thus damaging from many perspectives. Our work is more or less collaborative, based on our desire or willingness to coll…
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How to Be a Financially Successful Creative: Practical Advice & Problem Solving
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Writers, actors, filmmakers, artists, designers, and other creatives are taught young that choosing to be a creative professional is risky business. It doesn't have to be. In this workshop you'll learn: Why earning a living as a creative looks like luck or magic from the outside. Why it is not the tight-rope walk you've been told it is since you we…
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How to Create a Hollywood Entertainment Industry Business Network
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Only people have money to buy things. Whether it’s an independent producer with funds to purchase your screenplay, an investor with money to put into your film, a studio exec shopping for a book or podcast to license, or a director looking to hire an actor . . . only humans ever pull the trigger on purchasing things. That means you need a business …
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Interview: Avoiding Litigation with Entertainment Attorney & Litigator Justin Sterling
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This interview is designed to review good business practices that can help you side step a lot of legal hassles. Justin Sterling is founder of The Sterling Firm, a full-service civil litigation and transactional law firm devoted to Business Law, Entertainment Law, and Personal Injury cases. The Sterling Firm is dedicated to helping clients obtain m…
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Making a Film or Web Series with Friends as Partners
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This is the perfect podcast to listen to if you want to produced one or more projects with a friend or family member. It provides very specific advice and step-by-step guidance that will help you avoid specific risks and stumbling blocks in forming businesses that incorporate on these relationships. Over time most of us working in the entertainment…
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Interview: Beyond the Craft with Jim Jermanok, Writer, Director, Producer & Previously ICM Agent
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This is a great interview to listen to if you feel stuck and need help moving your career in the entertainment industry forward. Jim Jermanok (jimjermanok.com) is an award-winning writer, director, stage and film producer based in New York who started his career as a beloved agent at ICM representing leading lights like Alan Arkin, E.L. Doctorow, H…
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Creating Web Series, Podcasts and Audiobooks an Interview with Actor/Producer Bridget Fitzgerald
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Bridget Fitzgerald is an actress, comedienne, and model. She is also a member of National Lampoon's sketch comedy team, making a sketch comedy podcast heard by half a million monthly listeners. Her web series SmileyBridgeTV has had 1/4 million views, and she attributes some of that success to two audiobooks: "How I Exiled My Inner B*tch” which she …
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Interview with Film Advisor and Organized Crime Expert Christian Cipollini
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Writer/Producer Nancy Fulton brings you an audio recording of her interview with Organized Crime Expert Christian Cipollini. Award-Winning author Christian Cipollini is a freelance journalist, book author (https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Cipollini/e/B00CP95F4K), organized crime historian and collector. A frequent guest lecturer at universities and…
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Dealing with Hollywood Hijackals® featuring Rhoberta Shaler PhD.
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Have you worked with a toxic person or business that has made you really rethink your work as a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, or other creative pro? Does all of Hollywood feel like a den of thieves and difficult people? If so, you'll find this interview with Dr. Rhoberta Shaler important to hear. As a relationship consultant, mediator, and speak…
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Bridget Fitzgerald (Actor, Writer, Producer) on Audiobooks, New Media Series & Podcasts
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Bridget Fitzgerald (smileybridge.com) is an actress, comedienne, and model. She is also a member of National Lampoon's sketch comedy team, making a sketch comedy podcast heard by half a million monthly listeners. Her web series SmileyBridgeTV has had 1/4 million views, and she attributes some of that success to two audiobooks: "How I Exiled My Inne…
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Interview: Working with a Professional Film Editor Featuring Larry Jordan (FALLEN, NYPD BLUE, CSI MIAMI)
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Larry Jordan has amassed more than 45 professional credits, working on successful films such as Fallen, Assassins, Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo and television series including CSI: Miami and NYPD Blue. . Larry has worked with many of the top creatives at the world’s largest entertainment companies, including Time Warner, Sony, Fox, MGM, HBO, Netflix …
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Interview Writers Block Causes and Cures with Dr. Rebecca Roy the "Industry Therapist"
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Dr. Rebecca Roy has built a successful practice helping entertainment industry professionals reach their goals, manage their stress, and deal with the natural ebb and flow of creative careers. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY 28773) with both a Ph.D. and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology (MFT 45901) and she has 12 years experienc…
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Interview: Marilyn Anderson discusses How to Live Like a Millionaire When You're a Million Short for Writers & Producers
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In this interview writer/producer Marilyn Anderson addresses tools and techniques writers and producers can use to: Entertain potential business associates, partners, and investors with style and grace Dress themselves and performers well Travel well cheaply to domestic and international locations Writers and Screenwriters frequently find themselve…
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Advice: Dealing with Difficult People in Business Situations
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It is impossible to run a profitable business or build a successful career if you don't know how to deal with difficult people. You'll encounter them as partners, customers, co-workers, and employees. Failure to correctly identify them early, and resolve the issues they present correctly, can derail your career or business completely, or even land …
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If you are struggling to find work in Hollywood, this resource will help. There is a culture you have to understand in order to thrive You will learn: How to find paying work, how to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are great at what you do so you can float to the top of your profession, how to persuasively ask for a job and get it. how …
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The Science of Behavior Change with Dr. Sean Young
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Dr. Sean Young, is a UCLA Medical School professor, and executive director or the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior, and the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology will discuss how to stick with the changes that will help you achieve your personal and professional objectives. His research has received more than $10M in funding …
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Interview: What Agents & Managers Need to See Before They Want to Represent You with Marc Pariser (CAA, WM, etc)
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As an agent at William Morris and CAA, Marc Pariser represented leading writers, directors, producers, production companies, comedians, actors, executives, and two past WGA Presidents while enjoying is his own extremely successful 25+ year career. In this interview he discusses what it takes to get a good agent or manager to represent you. You'll l…
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Interview: Making the $2M-$10M Film with Christina Jo Leigh Line Producer/Producer interviewed by Nancy Fulton
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It's completely possible to spend many years and many thousands of dollars working to produce a film that never gets made. You can also struggle to get a film made only to discover you've just purchased an expensive legal and financial nightmare for your family. There's an order in which things must be done in order for a film to be a successful cr…
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