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Watch the replay with Claire Brown: How 5 friends became a movement of 34,000 women
Hey Reader! Last night I sat down with Claire Brown, and it became one of the most honest conversations we have had on the show. After a divorce in 2015, Claire called five women she barely knew and started a small Facebook group. Today that group is more than 34,000 women strong and has grown into PowerWomen: a podcast, a book, a brokerage, and a nonprofit. What stayed with me was why she keeps going. Claire has turned everything she has lived through into a platform for other women,...
AMA Replay (must-watch!)
Hey Reader! Last night I did an AMA, no guest, just an open hour with whoever showed up. I started with a question I've been sitting with all week: how happy are you, on a scale of five stars, right now in this moment? I ended up pulling things off my shelves for an hour. Two books Pearl Bailey inscribed to me back at Georgetown. My mother's ring from the Seychelles Islands (the one that gave me the title of Black Pearl). Book after book from past guests. And somewhere in the middle, I said...
Watch the replay: she found The Toxic Avenger on Netflix as a kid, now she edits Lloyd Kaufman's first noir
Hey Reader! Last night's episode is one I am still grinning about. My guest was Sabrina Mendoza, filmmaker, editor, and the self-described "Editing Gremlin" of Troma Entertainment. She is the editor and assistant director on Lloyd Kaufman's first film noir, The Power of Positive Murder, and she runs the Tromadance Film Festival. Lloyd has called her the next big thing. After last night, you understand why. A Queens kid who taught herself film through her dad's DVDs and the discovery of The...
53 years of Troma, The Toxic Avenger, and a full-circle 40-year reunion
Hey Reader! Last night was an amazing full-circle moment for me ❤️ My guest was Lloyd Kaufman, the president of Troma Entertainment and the man behind The Toxic Avenger. The last time Lloyd and I were on a set together was 1984 in Hell's Kitchen, where I was being chased down a hospital corridor by Toxie (with real rats they had spray-painted black for the scene, by the way). Four decades later, we finally hugged in person again at Creature Feature in Gettysburg this year, and getting him on...
53 years of Troma, The Toxic Avenger, and your favorite director's favorite director (Lloyd Kaufman)
Hi Reader, Join me LIVE tomorrow night at 7 pm ET with the one and only Lloyd Kaufman! Lloyd is the President of Troma Entertainment, the creator of The Toxic Avenger, and the man James Gunn, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone all credit as one of their earliest champions. He has been showing up to work at the same independent film studio every day for 53 years! RSVP below 👇 RSVP on Facebook RSVP on YouTube Please forward this email to family and friends who are as passionate about powerful...
Watch the replay: 35 years in media and a box of letters in a file drawer
Hey Reader! Last night's episode is one of those conversations where every story she told had another story inside it. My guest was Phylis Eagle-Oldson. She walked into the cable industry in 1971 at age 22, answered a Sunday ad in the Washington Post, and met Marty Malarkey, the first president of the National Cable Television Association. She did not know what cable was. He hired her on the spot. That kicked off 35 years in media. Nineteen at NCTA. Then sixteen as President and CEO of the...
Rear Admiral Paul Becker (Ret.): Leadership Is a Process, Not a Title (And What That Really Means)
Hey Reader! Last night Rear Admiral (Ret.) Paul Becker joined us and gave us 60 minutes of real, hard-won leadership wisdom. You need to watch this one! Please like, subscribe, and share it out! Your support makes all the difference 🩵 Connect with Paul below: Website: https://TheBeckerT3Group.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul83becker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paul83becker X: https://x.com/BeckerT3Group Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebeckert3group/ Remember: You...
Watch the replay with Brian Shoop: he found acting in a bank statement and ended up on a Scorsese set
Hi Reader, Last night's episode was AMAZING! My guest was Brian Shoop, a SAG/AFTRA actor with over 50 credits who is 75 years old, just finished four auditions across four different cities, and has absolutely no plans to stop. His story begins with a bank statement. A notice tucked inside his monthly statement mentioned auditions for a community play. He went. He got the lead. Something that had been dormant his whole life suddenly woke up. He was already in his 30s, with two boys to raise,...
Watch the replay with Mandi Dana! This one stayed with me
Hi Reader, I have been thinking about last night's conversation ever since we said goodbye. My guest, Mandi Dana, came on with her whole self. No polish, no performance. Just her story and what she has learned from spending nine years inside the Tony Robbins organization, doing over 16,000 sessions before going out on her own. She started the show by telling us about hiking to Everest Base Camp with a group of 10 people and taking a 36-hour detour through muddy mountain roads on the side of...
The 2 words holding you back
Hi Reader, Have you ever wondered why you aren't progressing, even when you feel like you are putting in the work? Bestselling author Thomas Blackwell recently joined me on the show, and he shared a concept that completely shifted my perspective: Most of us are walking around in a mental prison built entirely by our own words. In his book, Liberty of Language Revealed, Thomas explains the literal, physical science behind how our everyday vocabulary dictates our reality. During our interview,...
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