Honored to have Jessica Erin Martin on the podcast as the first guest of Season 4! We discuss so many aspects of being a creative and mental health advocacy from finding your voice, coping with feelings of suicide and depression, creating your own work to help touch the lives of others, and what to do when the biggest achievement of your career coincides with the WGA/ SAG-AFTRA strike which means she can't promote her own work!

Jessica is an actor, writer, director, and producer hailing from Seattle. Jess started her career in regional theater and has performed on stages across the country. In Los Angeles, she has worked in commercials, films, and television (NCIS: LA, Ratched, General Hospital, S.W.A.T., Z Nation, Criminal Minds, The Last Ship, Grimm). She was most recently in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Jess is also the voice of Samus Aran in Nintendo’s Metroid: Other M.

To learn more about Jess, please look her up on IMDb or follow her on Instagram! Also, mentioned in the episode is the short film that Jess and I made a few years ago. Watch Imogen's Imaginary Friends here!

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