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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 “unapologetically takes on the unique fertility obstacles faced by Black women in America.”

In this episode, we cut up about what it takes to pull off a one-woman show, the stamina that comes with performing, taking your career into your own hands, and what she sees next for her career.

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A breakdown of our chat:
(00:03:16) Dahéli’s journey to creating her one woman show, SPADURA
(00:04:12) Her parents being great examples for her entrepreneurial and creative efforts
(00:06:49) Black women and artistic sacrifice
(00:08:09) The challenges of being a multi-hyphenate
(00:10:53) The lack of support she experienced as a young filmmaker
(00:17:02) The importance of authenticity
(00:19:00) The challenges of the pandemic
(00:20:03) Artistic grief
(00:22:58) Putting pressure on our art to save us
(00:26:26) The challenges of creating about a life experience that you’re currently going through
(00:28:21) How the story and performance of SPADURA has evolved
(00:31:35) The iterative process of developing a one person show
(00:34:00) How she managed real time feedback for SPADURA
(00:36:25) Touring as part of the iterative process
(00:38:47) Knowing when your work is completed
(00:41:18) Benefits and challenges of solo shows as a platform
(00:44:33) Crowdfunding for SPADURA
(00:47:27) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: House of Dragons on Max
Dria: Therapy and drawing what makes her special as a person
Georgette: Slow Horses S3 on Apple TV+
Dahéli: Asking for $100,000, believing in herself, and remembering her worth and value

Dahéli’s one woman show, SPADURA, is currently on tour. She’s also filming her special September 25, 2024 at Dynasty Typewriter in LA. Support her crowdfunding campaign here and learn more about her journey.

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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 to appeal to everyone shouldn’t be a thing, and the importance of establishing a direct connection with your audience.

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A breakdown of our chat:
(00:05:41) How more projects came Felicia’s way when she got super specific about the audience she serves
(00:07:30) Marketing 101
(00:10:50) Knowing who we write for helps us be specific in the work
(00:13:00) Whether it’s best to stick with a niche target audience
(00:14:24) Knowing who and what your audience wants is attractive to Hollywood
(00:15:03) Carving out your personal brand
(00:17:09) Two ways Felicia branded herself as a writer and the target audience she wanted to reach
(00:18:47) Ways to get clear about your brand and your audience
(00:20:38) Being honest about the stories you want to tell
(00:24:14) People are attracted to the specific
(00:25:50) Things Felicia has done to cultivate an audience
(00:29:56) A project is new if someone hasn’t heard of it
(00:31:59) Can’t take people’s attention or views for granted
(00:33:41) Putting in the same creativity in making the work to promoting the work and connecting it to the audience
(00:34:35) Encouraging writers to stop playing the background, finding your tribe, and moving your audience along your career journey
(00:35:00) How We Create segment

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Eric on Netflix

Georgette: The Idea of You on Amazon Prime and The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

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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:

• Romanticizing folks
• Different levels of commitment to the work
• Choose your own adventure

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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.

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A breakdown of our chat:
(00:04:06) How I stopped writing for seven years and the challenge of reconnecting to my art
(00:05:08) Why I stopped writing
(00:06:23) Dealing with imposter syndrome
(00:07:45) Never stop writing
(00:09:29) How The Creative Comeback came to be
(00:13:30) Protecting your creative process and having time with the work that’s sustainable
(00:14:08) The psychological shift on not seeing writing as a way to support me
(00:15:26) What my healthy relationship with the writing looks like now
(00:15:54) Advice on getting back to your art after abandoning it
(00:18:10) What the expansion of The Creative Comeback looks like
(00:18:50) Georgette’s experience with The Creative Comeback Challenge
(00:23:16) How The Creative Comeback Workbook & Journal and The 21 Day Creative Comeback Challenge, launching in June, can help you get unstuck
(00:24:09) Concrete steps I took to get back to my creative practice being laid out in The Creative Comeback Workbook & Journal
(00:24:51) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Romance novels including Kennedy Ryan’s “Before I Let Go”

Georgette: Her the movie

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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.

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A breakdown of our chat:
(00:03:53) Having a strong sense of self
(00:04:50) How emotionally jarring the business is
(00:05:50) Not talking ourselves out of an opportunity
(00:06:14) Expanding our network with industry peers and folk outside of Hollywood
(00:08:44) Not discrediting the work you create and being in service to others
(00:11:11) Wishing we created more
(00:12:33) Solidifying yourself with one focus
(00:15:50) Changing paths sooner than later and not letting fear lead
(00:16:54) Finding her own opportunities vs. working OWAs (open writing assignments)
(00:18:47) Having a healthy confidence in the work and asking for what we want
(00:20:45) Making sure you have a North Star and know your why
(00:22:34) Believing in what you want to do and trusting it will happen
(00:22:55) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations

Felicia: 10x is Easier than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More By Doing Less by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

Georgette: The Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show on HBO

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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 of TV come to life. It’s a lot.

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A breakdown of our chat:

(00:1:58) Felicia’s first time on a TV set through QUEEN SUGAR
(00:3:03) What happens during prep for a TV episode
(00:6:05) Georgette’s entry point into working on set
(00:8:14) What it means to produce a tV episode as a writer
(00:9:10) The writer/director collaboration on set
(00:12:12) The production team being the go-to problem solvers for everything
(00:14:57) What non-writing executive producers (EPs) do on set
(00:15:38) What makes a strong non-writing EP
(00:17:03) Being in service to the creative and the budget
(00:17:38) The importance of seeing the work get made
(00:19:09) Learning to let things go as a writer
(00:21:47) Crew members being great collaborators
(00:22:49) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Her friend Rochée Jeffrey

Georgette: The group Thee Sacred Souls + BJ the Chicago Kid “Long Time”

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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 selling a show doesn’t guarantee it being greenlit, and why films are often easier to pitch than TV shows.

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A breakdown of our chat:

(00:04:56) Felicia’s experience of selling her first TV show

(00:06:25) What happens during open writing assignments (OWAs)

(00:10:53) The role of the studio and network when pitching a TV show

(00:12:22) Setting up a show doesn’t mean you sold it

(00:12:50) Understanding if-come deals

(00:13:53) Next step after setting up an if-come deal

(00:16:44) The challenges of getting a show on the air

(00:18:38) The process when taking out a project yourself vs. an OWA

(00:21:23) How the wrong attachments can hurt a project

(00:23:55) Writers needing to wear their producer hats when pitching a show

(00:26:24) Development hell

(00:27:08) The difference between pitching a TV show vs. a film idea

(00:30:37) Films taking a long time to make

(00:30:59) How HONEY CHILE and other entities can position themselves to be more involved creatively

(00:32:00) Selling a project doesn’t mean it’s greenlit

(00:33:07) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations

Felicia: Old Black ‘90s sitcoms

Georgette: The film Zola and Amazon Prime’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith

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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 about having multiple streams of income as freelancers (cause this business will try to play in your face), not having any job be our master, and what financial freedom looks like for us. Hint: Looks a lot like creating forever, but not having to for money. Oh and retiring on some beautiful island.

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A breakdown of our chat:
(00:03:22) Hollywood not being encouraging of entrepreneurship
(00:04:41) Difference between freelancing and entrepreneurship
(00:06:30) The pursuit of financial, creative, and professional freedom
(00:8:03) Dria still making the shift on building her enterprise up to be sustainable outside of these traditional systems
(00:10:25) Folks wanting to put you in a box and Hollywood not wanting you to create your own destiny
(00:11:45) How living the life you’re supposed to live can also be part of your purpose
(00:12:42) Our experiences getting a taste of living the way we wanted to live
(00:13:31) Felicia knowing the type of life she wants to live and the fear that comes along with building it
(00:16:07) The capacity to have
(00:19:38) Working through our lies of not being able to manage money well
(00:22:26) Multiple streams of income we’ve dabbled in
(00:26:44) What does scaling look like
(00:27:08) Entrepreneurship and balancing multiple things not being for everyone
(00:29:03) The work works especially when you’re consistent with it
(00:30:04) Believing energetically that money is easy to make
(00:32:23) Drip comes at a cost
(00:35:58) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Our Rich Journey couple on Instagram who FIRED at 39 (Financial Independence, Retired Early)
Dria: Movie marathon with her friend
Georgette: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

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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. We cut about our entry points into therapeutic practices and how therapy helped give us a deeper perspective.

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A breakdown of our chat:

(00:04:53) Felicia’s entry point into therapy
(00:09:31) How life and therapy opened Georgette up as an artist
(00:13:44) The ability to sit in our emotions and feelings to transfer it to the page
(00:14:10) Dria’s experience seeing the importance and connection between therapy and art
(00:14:23) Writing from your scars and not your wounds
(00:15:53) How Felicia channeled the relationship with her father in her work
(00:18:44) How therapy helps to give us different perspectives and context
(00:21:13) How self-work made us sensitive and appreciative of other artists’ work
(00:22:36) Self work making us hypersensitive to other people’s sh**
(00:23:53) Needing to refine tools that were formed during a time of trauma
(00:25:58) The amount of vulnerability in the writer’s room
(00:26:43) Being able to work through shame and traumatic experiences
(00:28:10) Artists being put on a pedestal and disrespected at the same time
(00:29:15) New tools we’re using to increase groundedness and be more embodied
(00:33:14) Knowing when there’s a break in the healing work
(00:34:19) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Percival Everett + his visual artistry (also author of Erasure, the novel in which the film American Fiction was based)

Dria: DJ sets

Georgette: Synthesis drag performance show in Brooklyn

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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 out your best work. And we can’t afford to do that.

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A breakdown of our chat:

(00:06:08) Felicia breaks down her writing process into three phases: outlining, drafting, rewriting
(00:10:16) What it means to have a script as studio ready as possible
(00:12:00) Why it’s important for writers to have a process and protect that process
(00:13:09) How having a writing process can help you develop confines and write faster
(00:16:24) Georgette’s experience taking writing classes and developing a writing process
(00:19:40) How the writing process can reveal if your story’s working or not
(00:21:16) Georgette using writing classes to become a better producer
(00:23:05) Folks not understanding the messiness of the creative process and being careful about who you bring into your process
(00:25:42) The development aspects of working with writers
(00:26:53) Having empathy for the writer while still being in service to the story
(00:29:17) Why early feedback is helpful
(00:30:52) Getting a lot of notes doesn’t make you a bad writer
(00:32:30) How getting notes is part of the process in Hollywood and having the skill to pull off the draft
(00:33:50) Notes calls
(00:35:06) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Quinta Brunson and her journey to keep going

Dria: Personal heart break and what she can learn from it

Georgette: ABC’s Not Dead Yet

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