The Other 50%

Jeanette's credits include Get Out, Insidious, The Purge, Paranormal Activity and approximately eleventy-hundred other things. She is also the founder of Catchlight Films and an entrepreneur. She has several projects that she will tell us about.

Jeanette’s story starts with a fiery redhead who could light up Las Vegas with her power and goes through visual effects, horror films and releasing a software app for worldwide filmmakers, and even collaborating with yours truly on an audio series.

Heidi is the Executive Director of Women’s Voices Now, a non-profit organization that uses the medium of film to advocate for global women’s rights. They carry out their mission with an annual online film festival, a free streaming archive of international women’s rights based films, educational programs, screening events, and multimedia workshops.

She has spent her career as a human rights activist and also is a producer of the award-winning feature documentary Honor Diaries.

Dana is EVP, Feature Production, at Twentieth Century Fox and Debra is SVP, Production, at Paramount TV. They are also the co-founders of the Women’s Production Society – the organization for female top-level production executives.

This episode picks up where we left off in EP 108, where Dana and Debra described how the WPS went from networking to an Organization with a capital O. We also discuss politics, #metoo, Time’s Up, #notallmen, and their advice for the women coming up behind them.

Dana is EVP, Feature Production, at Twentieth Century Fox and Debra is SVP, Production, at Paramount TV. They are also the co-founders of the Women’s Production Society. We talk about their journey up through production and to the top of the studio machines.

There was a moment in the last year where they realized as a body of women they are powerful, and are in a unique position to create some change. So, that is exactly what they are doing.

These women are formidable.

Deborah is a television producer – think The Mole, The Amazing Race, and Fear Factor. And then she wrote a book about it called One Year of Reality and How It Nearly Killed Me: My Life Behind the Scenes. And I believe her. She showed up in a sling. She has stories. She told a couple of them to me on the show and to get the rest, buy the book.

Carrie and Nina are Founders of the production company called Heart Headed Entertainment. They came up through talk shows and unscripted and then took their careers into their own hands to have more meaning in their work and to create a more manageable work and life model.

We talked about working in “talk” – you have no idea how much teeth come into it - and how complimentary medicine and healthy living has influenced both their company and their desire for a sustainable life inside of this business.

Alexis Giostra is a Productivity Alchemist, whose focus is on helping women do less to accomplish more. Who doesn’t want and need that? I found our conversation incredibly juicy, as we delved into things like quantum physics, law of attraction, and the seven hermetic principles of the Universe. Very woo. Very LA.

Alexis Giostra is a thought leader in the field of productivity and she is the subject of Alexia Anastassio’s (EP 80) next documentary.

This is a show where Emily Van Duyne, a Women Studies professor, and Sean Patrick Hughes, a Vet, Conservative, Christian, political blogger, find common ground while discussing the issues of the day from opposite sides of the fence.

Prarthana (PJ) is a Production Designer, Producer, Editor – Artist. She moved to California from India several years ago to attend film school and then work in the film industry. She has been working here ever since, until recently, when her green card was denied, and she has to leave the country this very week. This is a story of immigration, the pursuit of art, and the agency of people to live and work where they desire.

She Is the SVP of Production & Development for Mythical Entertainment and spearheads all creative initiatives for Rhett & Link. An Award-Winning Executive Producer, Stevie was named one of Variety’s “Hollywood’s New Leaders.”

She was an integral part of building the Internet's most-watched daily show, "Good Mythical Morning," serving as Executive Producer, along with overseeing, "Rhett & Link's Buddy System," the podcast, "Ear Biscuits," and various other pieces of content with billions of views