The Her Platform Podcast

In this episode, Tonje talks to television writer, producer, and playwright Sarah Treem about how the war on aging is incredibly anti-female, the male hero's journey versus the female hero's journey. About falling apart and rebuilding. The freedom in not trying to justify yourself, creative control, and how the most valuable space is the space of the mind and more.

Sarah Treem is a television writer, producer, and playwright. Treem is the co-creator and showrunner of the Golden Globe-winning Showtime drama THE AFFAIR. The series received four Golden Globe nominations during its run, including wins for Best Television Drama, Best Actress in a Television Drama, and Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. She recently developed a limited series based on the life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr for Apple. She is currently adapting Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld's best-selling novel, into a series with Hulu. Additionally, she is working with Pagan Kennedy and Claire Danes on a project centered around Kennedy's celebrated NYT article about Marty Goddard and the invention of the rape kit.

She holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A from the Yale School of Drama. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her fiancé and two children.

In this episode Tonje talks to author and editor Ondine Cohane about Co-writing 'Always Italy' with Frances Mayes, growing up quickly, being and becoming a writer, the process of creating and designing a Tuscan boutique hotel, overcoming anxiety, and traveling the world finding your golden place under the Tuscan sun.

The author of Always Italy with co-writer Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun), Ondine Cohane is a Contributing Editor at Conde Nast Traveler, a frequent writer for the New York Times travel section, as well as the London Telegraph newspaper and other international publications. In 2006 she moved to Pienza in Southern Tuscany and with her ex-husband designed and opened two boutique hotels, La Bandita Countryhouse and La Bandita Townhouse, which includes a destination restaurant. She has been on camera with the PBS Conde Nast Traveler's Insider Guide and shows like Good Morning America and The Today Show, and is now working on a memoir as well as other book projects. She lives with her son Jacopo in the UNESCO protected Val d' Orcia Valley and travels all over the world for articles when Covid isn't around. Always Italy won the Robert Lowell award for the best guidebook of 2020.

In todays episode Tonje talks to Nora Zehetner about the freedom of not worrying about social obligations, tackling uncertainty, re evaluating your values, the challenges of being a female actress, going with your gut and the lack of dependability in finding happiness only in work.

Raised in Texas, Nora Zehetner discovered a passion for acting and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18 to pursue her career. She shot to fame in Rian Johnson's debut film "Brick" Her television career , includes NBC "Heroes" "Mad Men" and "Grey's Anatomy." She will next be seen on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and is currently shooting the role of "Annie Glenn" in the National Geographic series "The Right Stuff." The series focuses on NASA's Mercury space mission based on the bestselling novel by Tom Wolfe.

In this episode Tonje talks to the founder of AHLEM eyewear Ahlem Manai-Platt about, being unapologetic about who you are, building teams with compassion, the curse of being passionate about all things, American curiosity, judgment, and fear.

In this episode Tonje talks to creative director and filmmaker Michael Goldberg about creative risk-taking, questioning the status quo, the origins of ideas, the importance of being truthful about who you are so that others may take consolation from your work and how one of the worst aspects of capitalism is being defined by what you do and not who you are.

In this episode Tonje talks to author and digital entrepreneur Erin Falconer about finding the time for inner contemplation, proactivity in relationships, letting go of what doesn't serve us, and how female empowerment is not exclusively for women.

Erin Falconer is an author and digital entrepreneur who has been heralded as one of the most influential female voices online. In 2018, she released the critically acclaimed self-improvement/female empowerment book, 'How To Get Shit Done: Why Women Need To Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything'. Since 2008, she has been the editor-in-chief and co-owner of PickTheBrain, a self-improvement blog and podcast. Erin is also the co-founder of LEAFtv, a video lifestyle brand for the Millennial woman. She is a Canadian living in Los Angeles, with her new baby, George.

In this episode, Tonje talks to Designer Sean Knibb about synthesizing your surroundings into your creative work, the blockage of fear, and the freedom of letting go.

From his native Montego Bay, Jamaica, Sean's informal training began at the age of five while cultivating anthuriums in the garden behind his grandparent's flower shop. The interplay between the nature of the tropics and the colonial formality of his childhood home has cultivated a refined understanding of the juxtaposition of the wild, organic beauty of nature, and the restrained geometry of the man-made. As the leader behind Knibb Design Corp., one of Los Angeles' most prominent and progressive design studios, Sean Knibb's projects range from restaurants to bars, corporate and commercial interiors, residential estates, resort grounds, furniture, gardens, and art. throughout his career Sean has remained true to his roots.