Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews Katherine Warnock, known as the vice president of the original content series The Chosen! She was also previously the head of Faith and Family content ay MGM studios and helps to steer growth through the innovative content creation. She has worked with elite brands such as Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony, and Ford to name a few!

Katherine was a high school teacher and went on a mission trip to Mozambique. It was there that God placed on her heart that she'll be working in Hollywood, despite having absolutely no experience in Hollywood at all. In her words, she was simply a high school teacher who just said yes!

Katherine talks about the good, the bad and the ugly of Hollywood, and realising that she really did not expect what she saw. But God taught her to love people better and not judge, and she strives to love people wherever she goes. She also shares the importance of understanding your 'why?' when it comes to being in the entertainment industry.

She explains that she's not in Hollywood to conform, she's there to be the light and so, unlike most people who see the darkness of Hollywood, she sees the hope that God sees! She highlights the need to trust God, even if it means not moving up as fast as you want, but knowing that like God did with her, He takes you higher, even if it takes a little longer, than you would go if you conformed and joined in what Hollywood expects of you!

Listen here as Katherine explains that it is important for actors or professionals in the entertainment industry to hear God's voice, to be in a community who is NOT in the industry who will be able to see from an outside perspective what is right or wrong so not to make you compromise, let God shape your character, and invest deeply and richly and lavishly in his presence. If you want impact and you want authority and people to trust you and testimonies and His favour to come forth, this will be an overflow of His presence in you! 

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Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews Director, Producer and Screenwriter Brannon Hollingsworth, who created Brainy Pixel and has created a range of animations including in Cubekins, Righteous Warriors and Molly's Memory Verse. He is also passionate about teaching, speaking and supporting the industry!

Brannon never planned to be in entertainment but started off as a 'closet creative'; wanting to create stories and animation and was always doing as such. He then started a Youtube Channel with his business partner Michael, where they taught children how to draw and paint, which later then formed Brainy Pixel.

About 5 years ago, they were ready to pack up as they found the business to be unfulfilling and while it was going well, they found it to be lacking purpose. But then after an Abraham-Isaac moment, they made the decision to put the business on the alter, gave it to God,, sought, prayed and continiously give it to God as an offering, and had a new found love for it which has catapulted Brainy Pixel to what it is today as they continue to be humbled and obedient to Christ.

Brannon didn't begin following Christ until 33 years of age, but here he shares his testimony and also shares the casting process of finding the right artists for their content, and shares advice on how to deal with not booking work in an industry that is super competitive!

As also promised in this episode, here is the link to the Brainy Pixel mailing list! Subscribe and be the first to find out what they're up to, and what's to come!

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Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews actor, director and writer Sarah LeJeune whose credits include Amazing Grace, Lifemark and Deadly Sins to name a few.

Sarah grew up in a Christian household, and she knew from a very young age about the significance of a relationship with Christ. It was in her early 20's that after a wrestle with God about her career that she layed down her talents and gifts and projects to Him, and let Him take over. Today she is an actor, director and writer who is passionate about glorifying God in all that she does!

Sarah shares the importance of having faith and surrounding yourself with people of faith, a tribe, who pray for you, who you can pray for, and who you can stand together with particularly during times where God appears to be silent and is working in the background!

Sarah also talks about the importance of knowing your talents and gifts, emphasising that we are all different! So we can bring them together to do God's work and glorify all that God can do together! From this, Sarah has created resources to help others in her non-profit Project Brickworks with her mom who help to connect people with those different gifts and talents to the Lord and to one another, understanding that connection is everything!

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Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews Award Winning actor Venus Monique whose credits include The Raven Series, Tiny Ocean Tails and Vindication! Venus also created Personal Powerhouse, a Christian company building the backbone and confidence of women in the film industry!

Venus grew up in church, and really pursued God in late high school having met people who were fun AND Christian, realising that being a Christian can in fact be fun! And has been walking with Christ ever since.

Venus never liked acting throughout high school, but in College as she was going about her day and walking through the grounds, God put acting on her heart and knowing that that was not her own desire, and how randomly the thought came, she knew it was God calling her and she simply said okay! This has led to her today being the successful actor that she is!

Venus shares the significance of her faith as she has pursued her calling. She shares the importance of being obedient and faithful throughout your career where God has taken you down, and shares some fantastic advice for other Christians in the entertainment industry, particularly when it comes to rejection and boundaries which is faced by actors everyday! She also shares about Personal Powerhouse and how it came to be!

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Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews Award Winning Actor Todd Terry, known for Vindication, Jesus Revolution, Running the Bases and Pursuit of Freedom to name a few!

This conversation goes into the importance of keeping God close when acting and the importance for christians to not only focus on acting in Faith-Based content but also being the example of Christ on secular projects too, understanding that God wants us to reach the unsaved.

Todd shares his experience of being in the secular hit show Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and his need for discernment. He shares the importance of discipleship generally, and some great advice for anyone who is a Christian and either is, or wanting to pursue a career in acting.

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Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews Actors and Coaches Justin Sterner and Amber Sterner who are known for Running the Bases, Lifemark and many more!

Justin describes his journey from having movie making as an idol, to the point of where he realised that Hollywood will not give him purpose, but the Lord will, and together, Justin and Amber made a commitment to make only content that is faith based and family based; something that glorifies the Lord and that they would be happy with their children seeing. 

They talk about the importance of understanding your identity in Christ when you are working in the film industry, to be mentored, and to be willing to learn and delve deeper into what it means to have Christ in the centre when working in film.

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