Surprise: Bonus Episode! by Let Me Get Back To You

In our final episode of this first season, we chat with the hysterical Emma Vernon. By day, Emma is an Integrated Marketing Manager at Viacom for Comedy Central and Spike. But by night, Emma takes the NYC comedy scene by storm with her hilarious improv skills. In Episode 5, Emma shares with us how she was first inspired to do comedy and perform at a young age by her grandmother. She takes us through her journey - first as an intern at Seventeen Magazine, then to her passion-defining experience training in comedy at an Upright Citzen’s Brigade class where she fell in love with improv comedy, to her first adult job at AMC Networks where she learned the magic of powerpoint, to her job now where she marries her love of comedy in her day job at Comedy Central & Spike, with her evenings filled with performing improv comedy in NYC.

This week we catch up with the always hustling TV Executive Maritza Chong-Qui. Maritza is an amazing woman whose talents span across the worlds of music, journalism, and comedy. She’s also a major lover of carving out Zumba-time and has a ton of pride for her college alma mater, Syracuse. In Episode 4,Maritza takes us on her journey – from her close relationship with her family, to her time in college radio, to her love of Miley Cyrus (which led to a surprise she will never forget), to bouncing around in the world of production before landing a life-changing job opportunity at MTV, and how she became the TruTV Network Executive she is today.

Warm, intelligent, fun-loving and kind, Maritza was such a joy to interview!

In Episode 3 we have a conversation with the passionate, outspoken, and driven Talent Manager, Monica Villarreal to share with you! Monica is an energetic woman on a mission whose desire to make an impact on the entertainment industry started early when she enjoyed watching the TGIF line up, but noticed her Mexican American family wasn't reflected on her TV screen. She took that to heart and knew she wanted to help create change. She started by exploring the world of acting and then made the decision to shift her career to learn the business side, and now her work as a talent manager allows her to marry her love of entertainment with her socially conscious and active voice. In Episode 3, Monica is open and honest with us about her journey thus far. From her days attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for acting, to her uncertainty about what would be next, to her big break entering into the world of an agency at WME, to her current Talent Manager position at Authentic Talent & Literary Management, Monica shares how she trusts her instincts, surrounds herself with people she can learn from, and sets goals for herself. Caring, strong, heartfelt and fierce, we learned so much from our conversation with Monica! So much so that someday when we have a budget, there will be t-shirts!

Madeline and Liz here, back for another installment of our brand new podcast Let Me Get Back To You!

Episode 2, features Development Executive & Producer: Chelsea Rickling. She takes us on her journey so far. From sharing shoes with Leighton Meester on the set of Gossip Girl, to her big break at MTV where she began working in development, to her shared elevator ride with Leo DiCaprio, to her current creative producer position at an Unscripted focused production company. *Quick note: this episode was recorded last year so you will hear a discussion about Pivot network, which has since shuttered, but we felt it was important to keep it in as it further supports the point that this industry is changing at a rapid pace*

Warm, intelligent, fun-loving and kind, we so enjoyed our conversation with Chelsea! We hope you do too!

Chelsea's Bio:

Chelsea Rickling is a television junkie and unofficial book club member living in New York City. She's worked in production & development on various movies and television shows for the Weinstein Company, Focus Features, MTV, A&E, The CW, TLC & more. Currently, she is a development executive at Big Fish Entertainment. You can find her on Twitter & Instagram as @chelsearickling.

In this episode of Let Me Get Back to You, Liz and Mad interview Brianna Jacobson. Brianna Jacobson is a writer, comedian and 90's alt-rock enthusiast living in New York City. Her work has appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live, MTV and Fuse, but you probably know her better from her child modeling days in the windows of Limited Too. She currently writes social copy for AMC, in addition to managing her lifestyle website www.LilConqueror.com. You can find Brianna on Twitter and Instagram as @Lil_Conqueror.