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A lively and honest space for storytellers that sits at the intersection of craft, business, and independence. Join us weekly where Felicia Pride and her co-hosts, Dria Roland and Georgette Pierre, talk shop and smack, share the good, the bad, and the ugly. And provide tangible tips to support your creative practice, your career, and your artist self.
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A podcast on the power of following one's gut. Released every other Monday - passing on the mic.
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Send us a Text Message. There are so many different ways for us to tell our stories. We delve into the one woman / man / person show, which has spawned TV shows like Fleabag, Baby Reindeer, and Chewing Gum. Our guest, Dahéli Hall, is no stranger to the form. Her latest one woman show, SPADURA, injects her personal life experiences as she “unapologe…
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Ep 17 - Ways to Build an Audience For Your Work
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Send us a Text Message. As intentional as we are about creating the work, we must be just as intentional about who we’re creating for. Hint: It’s not everyone. But defining your audience isn’t always easy. Still, there is magic in the specificity. In this episode, we cut up about getting honest about who you want to write and create for, why trying…
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Ep 16 - Additional things I wish I knew before breaking into Hollywood
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Send us a Text Message. In our premiere episode, "Cuttin Up About Breaking into Hollywood", me and my co-hosts, Dria and Georgette, spoke about the things we wish we knew before breaking into Hollywood as a writer / director, creative executive, and producer. In this bonus episode, I had a lot more to say about other things I wish I knew, including…
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Ep 15 - How to Start Creating Again After Abandoning Your Art
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Send us a Text Message. We’ve all needed pick me ups to get back to our work but the one mistake we have made as artists was walking away from our craft. In this episode, we cut up about getting unstuck, our creative comeback and challenges, and how The Creative Comeback Workbook & Journal was one way for us to get back to our creative practice. If…
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Ep 14 - What We’d Do If We Were Trying to Break Into Hollywood Today
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Send us a Text Message. Hollywood is a mess right now. Yet and still, there are so many things we would’ve done differently to break in had we known what we know now. In this episode, we cut up about the privilege of hindsight, the importance of networking, creating no matter what, and not putting all of your eggs into one basket. Get our FREE mini…
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Ep 13 - What It's Like Working on a TV Set
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Send us a Text Message. There isn’t much like seeing a group of people come together to make something, be it a television show, a film, heck a commercial. There’s a magic in it all. We cut up about the roles of a writer and producer on set, why writers should produce their episodes, and the levels of pre-production that goes into making an episode…
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Ep 12 - What Does It Take to Get a TV Show On Air
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Send us a Text Message. Is it just us or does the process of selling a TV show or film in Hollywood seemed cloaked in mystery? Like how is it done? And then once you sell it, how does it make it to air? There are many, many steps. So in this episode, we cut up about what it means to actually sell a show, the roles studios and networks play, why sel…
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Ep 11 - How to Manage Your Finances and Grow Your Income as an Artist
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Send us a Text Message. We don’t play about our money. And in this business, we don’t have the luxury to, especially when we’re part of historically excluded groups. As an artist, it’s important that we cultivate a healthy relationship with money and to ensure that our money is working for us. In this episode, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up ab…
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Ep 10 - How Therapy Can Help You Become a Better Storyteller
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, it got real with Felicia, Dria, and Georgette having a vulnerable discussion around navigating their personal sh*t in therapy and how our mental wellbeing is connected to our art-making. We’re clear that sitting with the uncomfortable emotions helps with the work we create, but that the self-work ain’t easy.…
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Ep 9 - Why Writers Need a Creative Process
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Send us a Text Message. Writing ain’t for the faint at heart and not having a process can make it miserable. In this episode, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up about their own writing processes, learning to trust the process, and the importance of being aligned with projects they want to work on. Because on the other side of that is not putting o…
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Send us a Text Message. There is so much that is out of our control in Hollywood. But the one thing they can’t take away from us is how we choose to show up for ourselves in the work we create. In this episode, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up about different forms of inspiration that helps them hone their skills, how putting in the work landed …
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Ep 7 - How to Find, Secure, and Adapt IP for Film and Television
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Send us a Text Message. Our sister production company, HONEY CHILE, knows a thang or two about adapting IP, as we’re fresh off the announcement that we’ll be adapting Tia Williams’ New York Times’ bestselling book, SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE for Amazon, along with our production partners, Will Packer Media and Kinetic. Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up a…
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Ep 6 - So You Want to Be a Comedy Writer?
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Send us a Text Message. No shortage of laughs, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up with our first ever guest, award-winning writer and stand up comedian, Rochée Jeffrey, as she walked us through her initial resistance to becoming a comedy writer, her fear of being funny on the page, and how she honed her comedic voice. Rochée will also be teaching …
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Ep 5 - How to Deal with Rejection in Your Career
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Send us a Text Message. Rejection is the one thing that remains consistent in life and in the work we create. Cutting up per usual, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette remind themselves to focus on the things they can control, to move with integrity, and to detach their worth from how the business chooses to respond to the work they create…cause folks be …
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Ep 4 - What it’s Like to Work in a TV Writer’s Room
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Send us a Text Message. Felicia Pride is an award winning (and working) TV and film writer, producer, and director. And one of her happy places is being in a writer’s room. Currently working on Bel-Air S3, with past rooms including Grey’s Anatomy and Queen Sugar, she shares what a healthy writer’s room looks like, her journey to getting staffed, an…
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Ep 3 - How to Work with Agents, Managers, and Other Reps
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Send us a Text Message. Having the right team - reps that have your back - can make all the difference in Hollywood. In this episode, we’re cutting up about landing representation, why you want folk chasing you (and not the other way around), and how to boss up and lead your team. Get our FREE minicourse Developing a Writing Process, Practice, and …
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Ep 2 - Why You Should Consider Making a Short Film
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Send us a Text Message. Our Head Storyteller, Felicia Pride, knows a few things about making successful award-winning short films if we do say so ourselves. With LOOK BACK AT IT coming off of a successful festival run, Dria and Georgette learn more about Felicia’s process on films serving as great proofs of concepts, writers needing to direct, and …
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Ep 1 - Cuttin' Up About Breaking into Hollywood
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Send us a Text Message. The Creative Cut Up podcast is a lively and honest space for storytellers that sits at the intersection of craft, business, and creative freedom. Being an artist is hard AF, especially without purpose, community, and support. Join us weekly, where Felicia Pride and her co-hosts, Dria Roland and Georgette Pierre, talk shop an…
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Send us a Text Message. We’re so excited to share that The Creative Cut Up, a weekly podcast by The Create Daily, is premiering Tuesday February 27! Our Head Storyteller, film and TV writer / producer Felicia Pride, and her co-hosts, Driadonna Roland, and Georgette Pierre, will be cutting up about craft, career, and navigating Hollywood and beyond.…
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Today we’re sitting down with Writer, Editor and Producer, Driadonna Roland.Too many times have we associated the act of getting to know oneself to be that of a rather unfavorable position to be in. If I don’t already have a grip on my truest self, then how is who I am and what I do valid? “Figuring it out”, a daunting little phrase when you’re the…
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Today we’re sitting down with Artist and Psychotherapist, Kate Rosenberg.Spoiler alert, Kate’s spirit animal is the deer, and that’s exactly how she comes off as. Undisturbed and gentle in her being, we discuss how her experience with illness might have simultaneously served as the door through which she found an environment in which she was comfor…
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Today we’re sitting down with Illustrator and Youtuber, Fran Meneses.Our sensitivities and doubts are unrelenting in their claim for our thoughts and time, Fran, during which, acknowledges this all openly. Finding a place on Youtube, her content touches on the varying degrees of being an artist and general human being simply finding their way in th…
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"The Soul of The Sole" with Lauren Brinkers
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Today we’re sitting down with Brooklyn based shoe designer, Lauren Brinkers.Conversing with Lauren instilled in me a sense of contentedness towards the unknowing of the future. At one point she references Rebecca Solnit, author of “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, in that it is within the unplanned that we find our intentions.It is with this mindset…
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"I Do Abstract, Not Cartoons" with Choichun Leung
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Today we’re sitting down with this presence of a woman, Welsh and Chinese artist, Choichun Leung.Rooted in the practice of utilizing her art as an ever-evolving medium, she got her start in Silversmithing, but today you can find her in Brooklyn NY, giving voice to The Young Girl Project. A project centralized around sexual abuse and the silence tha…
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Grab some headphones and plug in! Guts N’ Glory is back and will be releasing episodes every other Monday starting July 30th. Here’s a little teaser for now?Until then, you can give some of our previous episodes a listen.Always appreciate your thoughts and some of that subscription love, or get in touch to be featured on the podcast!Music - "Holy W…
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"Go Everywhere, Do Everything" with Fatina Hilal
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Scrubbing through Fatina’s recordings, there’s an audible lust to live as she gives voice to her goals and ambitions.She gets lost in conversation with herself, has this insanely contagious laughter, and is a generator of motivation.In today's episode, we'll be discussing how to keep up with your own dreams.You’ll need a running tally to keep track…
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"Came In Through The Back Door" with Beryl Fine
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Camera in hand, as well as simultaneously helming the tastebud-enticing Haute Chocolate Brooklyn chocolate company, Beryl Fine deals us a gulp of honesty.Wearing her gut on her sleeve, hear her roll with the punches.I left our conversation with a shift of attitude towards my own challenges and a craving for chocolate…specifically Cinnamon Chipotle.…
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"A Moment of Clarity" with Sarah Aphrodite-Stolwijk
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Sarah Aphrodite-Stolwijk is the woman behind the brand "Sarah Aphrodite".An array of handmade, one of a kind garments, focusing on the singular vision of merging high fashion and streetwear in order to produce quality pieces.The brand is making the transition to becoming fully vegan.Currently, all materials are sourced through donations, recycling,…
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