This extra special episode features the deeply personal words of Women On Screen Out Loud’s co-host, Jennifer Pogue. In her essay “My Life Is A Movie”, actor and producer Jen speaks of her experience with a side-swiping stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis in February of 2021 and how it affected her outlook on life and her relationship to her career.

Multidisciplinary Artist and Activist, Sedina Fiati, expertly outlines practices that can be understood and applied to every production, in an effort to achieve universal empathy.

Teaser trailer for Women on Screen Out Loud: The Podcast Essays Season 3, launching October 5 2021!

In her essay “She Was More Beautiful Before”; Actor Caroline Dhavernas’ sheds light on the inevitable aging process from a woman’s perspective, particularly as a woman in an incredibly demanding vocation, and a very public spotlight.

In this episode, multidisciplinary artist and Women on Screen co-founder Farah Merani shares her whimsical essay “50 Years to Myself”. In this, she contemplates what propels her current path, why identity and representation matter, and what will continue to inspire her amongst insecurity and self- doubt. Her words are layered with insightful thoughts about her past and present, informed by her visionary future.

Transformation can be many things: scary, exciting, intimidating and most of all inevitable and often necessary; In her essay “The Only Constant is Change”, trailblazer Lindsay Somers speaks deeply to how this mindset has served her in her career journey to becoming Canada’s first-ever intimacy coordinator. 

Jill Purdy, a prolific Supervising Sound and Dialogue Editor, is a self-proclaimed introvert who spent the beginning of her career purposefully invisible. However, as highlighted in her essay “Girl With A Voice”, Jill poetically deconstructs the importance of her work and speaks to the need to shed her invisible cloak in an effort to champion emerging female talent in what is an extremely under-represented but fascinating vocation.

Stunt Co-Ordintor and Performer Alicia Turner gives us insight into the life and mental state of a Stunt Performer through her insightful essay “Dealing with Fear”. Here she highlights the state of the industry for a women in a male dominated profession, what it takes to confront and overcome the natural state of fear, and her passion for pushing her own boundaries in order to embrace this spectacular profession.

Director and Writer Annie Bradley speaks to the long-term commitment required for career goals within the film & TV industry with the following checklist of advice, both practical and poetic, in her essay aptly titled “The Long Game”. Through analogy and reflection, Annie shares a few pages of her moral guidebook on what it ultimately takes to hold fast to your dreams.

Director Sherren Lee’s career is young, yet flourishing and impressive. From the outside, this passionate woman may seem to have it all. As many of us know, results such as hers come from a long journey of courage, compassion, and perseverance. In her essay, “to the summit”, Sherren investigates the paths she has explored in her quest to climb her mountain. A mountain filled with checkpoints and detours, both challenging and rewarding, while holding her centre, her passion and truth.