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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Forties AF is a sexy, sassy, and funny fiction drama podcast about three forty-something single friends who laugh, love and cry together; as they pick up the pieces their thirties left behind.
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A podcast about 3 guys talking about whatever they want but mostly will involve something from pop culture. This is the podcast version presented by TCG Boiz you can find them on YouTube.
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d'Arquoia"Quoia" Connor and Artisha "Tish" Mann-Cooper are your two best friend, accountability buddies and wealth partners providing advice, expert interviews and actionable tips to help artist and entrepreneurs. As actresses, producers and entrepreneurs with 10+ years of experience they are redefining how you visualize your skills and experience by encouraging and motivating you to create your own opportunities. Their guest are actors, creatives, writers, directors, producers, financiers a ...
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The only podcast designed to help driven wedding professionals elevate your wedding business, travel to amazing locations, and double your revenue even if you don’t think this is possible…yet. Each week we talk to luxury wedding pros who have broken through & built a high-net-worth clientele. Together we share the strategies, success tips, and roadmap to follow. So you can build a lifestyle filled with powerful experiences, inspiring relationships, and long-lasting connections.
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A podcast from two guys who survived hard times, how they got through it and became successful adults, and how you can, too.Astonished by the cruelty and suffering captured by the documentary film “Bully,” Tyler Copenhaver-Heath immediately knew he had to be a part of the solution. But how? His friend, Clifford Starks, also wanted to join the effort, so they started talking about how to help put a stop to the unwanted, intentional, and repeated attacks bullying victims endure: shoving, rumor ...
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Diwan by Design: Keeping Time - Where Watches, Design and Weddings Converge
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In this episode of The Business of Luxury Weddings Podcast, hosts James and Otto sit down with Sneh Diwan of Diwan by Design. Sneh opens up about her journey from studying design and merchandising at the Fashion Institute of Technology to becoming a "timekeeper" in wedding planning, where her love for watches perfectly complements her passion for c…
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Nostalgic Nickelodeon: Ranking 90s and 2000s Cartoons
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Send us a Text Message. This week the bois discuss some Nickelodeon and rank the best shows to what they properly are.By Kyle
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Send us a Text Message. This week the bois reminisce of the days of old and what they watched at home and had a good experience with.By Kyle
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42 North: Together We Shine - The Beauty of Partnership and a Collaborative Spirit
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On today’s episode, hosts James and Otto are joined by Britt and Francie from 42 North, a weddings and event planning business. While much of their clientele is in New England, they also plan destination weddings for clients in New York, Chicago, and LA. Britt and Francie share what a wedding planner does, comparing wedding planning to putting on a…
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Video Game Hype Train or Delay Pain
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Send us a Text Message. This week the bois are talking about the hypest of games and the worst let downs that came from them.By Kyle
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Send us a Text Message. This week two of the bois get some passion for fashion. They look at all the american/japanese suits from the super sentai or power rangers series.By Kyle
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Alison Bryan Destinations: The Power of Vulnerability and Authenticity
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On today’s episode, hosts James and Otto are joined by Alison and Bryan from Alison Bryan Destinations. The couple has an impressive portfolio, which includes work around the globe, including Morrocco, Spain, and Greece, Italy and Mexico, just to name a few. Many people use “experience” as a buzzword, but with Alison and Bryan, it is a fundamental …
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Most Overated and Underrated Movies of All Time
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Send us a Text Message. The bois mention overrated and under rated movies also I don't think Sean knows what those words mean you will find out.By Kyle
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Erik Clausen: From Creativity to Content: The Power of Self-Reflection and Personal Growth
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As photographers and business owners, continuous growth is the name of the game. What gets in the way of this growth are the blindspots we all have. If we’re not booking the weddings we want or showing up the way we want to, curiosity and radical self-honesty are the only way to initiate the change we need. It’s really hard to assess ourselves, and…
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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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Nostalgia Unleashed Ranking Iconic '90s Films
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Send us a Text Message. This week the guys do a tier list for 90s movies, and you will never guess what is the best but is it better than a Bugs life?By Kyle
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Manda Worthington: How to Craft A Wedding Around Wellbeing and Happiness
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Unique experiences, powerful emotions, beauty, family, love and legacy…these are some of the words planners use to describe the service they provide. It’s very rare to hear a planner talk about wellbeing and happiness being the leading drivers of what they do. At the highest level of wedding planning, the concept of caring for people can get lost i…
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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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Binge Worthy Chronicles Our Top 5 Shows
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Send us a Text Message. Binge Worthy Chronicles Our Top 5 Shows is the latest and greatest in TCGBoiz technology. The boiz spend some time trying to convice you that there is something to watch on the television...or the computer screen...or your phone.By Kyle
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Brooke Keegan: It's a Party! But it's Still a Business
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Luxury weddings involve so many great things like travel, amazing experiences and glamorous events. Because all these facets are so fun and exciting, it’s easy to fall into the trap of treating the job like a hobby. In order to build something that sustains you, you have to treat it like a business. Yes, the job is fun, but it’s also our livelihood…
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Tangible Treasures vs. Invisible Convenience
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Send us a Text Message. This week we discuss which we prefer digital or physical media. Which do you prefer?By Kyle
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Le Rêve Films: How to Turn One Industry Relationship Into a Lifetime of ROI
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Most wedding professionals are taught to grow by way of digital marketing, but there’s something with a much higher ROI - relationship marketing. When you compare what you get out of fostering industry relationships with digital marketing, it’s not even close. The former will always win. One ad can bring in a single wedding. One industry collaborat…
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Send us a Text Message. This week on past present playback the bois are talking about movie going experiences. Some of them good some of them bad all of the entertaining to hear so listen to the end for a surpise!By Kyle
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Lea Stafford: How to Intentionally Fold Familiarity and Coziness Into a Wedding
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When you work in the fast-paced, demanding world of luxury weddings, it’s easy to run on reactivity - to act first and then think later. Running on intentionality, being thoughtful first and then taking action is a completely different approach. Living by intention touches every facet of your life, and of course impacts how you run your business an…
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Send us a Text Message. Our Top 10 Video Games we discus each of our top 10 video games.By Kyle
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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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Augusta Cole: Atmospheric, Tangible and Organic: How to Create An Heirloom Experience
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A special event is made up of 3 types of experiences - the atmospheric, the tangible and the organic pieces of what’s happening in the moment. Wedding planners are tasked with weaving all these things together and adding connection to the recipe. When this takes place in the context of a destination - local or abroad - there also has to be a story …
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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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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the first official episode of Past, Present, Playback. Where Kyle, Sean and Zack talk about their past with video games what they played growing up and a bit about now as well.By Kyle
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Send us a Text Message. Zack and Kyle talk about how they feel about the rarity collection 2. It just launched but when they talked it was not out yet so huh that's weird.By Kyle
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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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Don't Devalue Yourself: How to Triple Your Price w/John Moler
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Offer a discount, drop your rates, or put more into the package - this is what most people will do when they want to get more business. The problem is, in doing this, you’re devaluing yourself in the eyes of the client, which works against you in luxury. The secret to raising your rates is actually refining your brand and elevating your proposal wh…
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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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Jack Ezon: Experience First, Location Later: The Secret to Luxury Travel
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As luxury shifts from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption, we have to change how we think about the services we provide. It’s not that people are spending less money, they are just choosing to spend smarter, and putting more meaning behind every buying choice. In the luxury travel space, crafting a great experience shouldn’t start with…
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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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Bullied to Advocate: Lisa Arnett's Journey Through Foster Care and the Quest for Reform
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Lisa Arnett's story is a testament to human endurance and the transformative power of advocacy—a narrative we had the privilege of exploring in our latest episode. Her journey through the foster care system, her fight against homelessness, and her triumph over abuse is an inspiring call to action for foster care reform. As we unpack the complexitie…
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Sofia Crokos: How to Chase Beauty, Inspiration, and Collaboration
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Every human being has moments where inspiration strikes them, but not everyone will chase it. A great creative concept, collaboration, or business idea can fade because you’re scared to put it out there. Not for Sofia Crokos. She goes down every avenue of creativity from fashion and weddings to food and flowers. Her secret: manifesting, chasing bea…
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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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Lindsey Morgan: Letting a Profitable Business Go For Something Better
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When your successful planning business has a thriving floral arm, why would you shut it down? To make room for more creativity and collaboration! Most people wouldn’t dream of ending something that’s doing so well, but that could be keeping us from what we really want. If a business is just chugging along, it’s easier to keep going as is. Shaking t…
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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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Them, Not You: How to Adapt a Better Branding Mindset
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When it comes to branding and approach, most photographers are focused on themselves. It’s all about their aesthetic and getting clients to fit into it. We make ourselves the thing our clients should aspire to. That was our approach for years…until we realized that it wouldn’t allow us to sustain real success in luxury. So we switched to this: focu…
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Photographer's Edit: Creating Desire in the Mind of Your Buyer w/Nathan Holritz
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Get to know your client and match yourself up to that. That’s the format of traditional marketing we’re taught to use. What if we could accomplish more by going about it in a completely different way? In luxury, cost isn’t the biggest factor in the decision making process - desire is. If we make people want our service, they will buy it. Creating d…
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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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A Symphony of Strength Lenny J's Battle with Bullying
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When the melodies we cherish become the very thing for which we're ridiculed, the journey of a musician can be a battlefield of the soul. Shawn Mendes' story of triumph over those who once mocked him serves as the backdrop to our heart-to-heart with the remarkable Lenny J, who sheds light on his own musical voyage, the strength found in unity withi…
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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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B&H Photo: Shifting From Cost to Want Transformed Our Business
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For many photographers, weddings are a highly intimidating niche. The idea of shooting a once in a lifetime event, at the highest spectrum of emotions can be daunting. And that’s before you add a luxury component to it. Shooting that level of event and having that caliber of client comes with a lot, but the biggest thing is a shift in our own minds…
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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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Alicia Fritz: Staying Grounded in the High Gravitas World of Luxury Weddings
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At the luxury level of weddings, it’s easy to think you have to live in an epicenter city and have a ton of notoriety to succeed. The whole world has to know you if you want your business to grow. But bigger, famous and splashier isn’t the only route to visibility, success can happen without notoriety. You can thrive while being the best kept secre…
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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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Jennifer Zabinski: Make Weddings Authentic To Who You're Celebrating
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Creating a magical wedding is a dance of balancing contradictions. You have to saturate the senses without over-producing, steep the event with individual details that become seamless, pace a fast-moving day, and counter the emotional crescendos with much needed lulls. The planners responsible for this do multiple events a year, but they still have…
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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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How to Strip Success Down to the Exceptional Essentials w/Steph Kadlicko
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In this business, the biggest leaps don’t come from adding bells and whistles to our approach. They come from stripping what we do down to the clearest, most actionable and exceptional basics. Going an inch wide and a mile deep produces more profound results than going a mile wide, an inch deep. When you really think about it, we spend 10% of our t…
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