Women cinematographers are the directors of photography who decide how every frame of a film or TV show looks, and Nancy Schreiber ASC has been one of the most respected of them for decades. If you've ever been told you're too old, too early, or the wrong fit for the work you love, this conversation is for you. Nancy answered an ad in the Village Voice, landed on a crew as a production assistant, and worked her way up to gaffer in New York. When nobody would hire a woman to shoot, she borrowe

Hybrid publishing is a model where the author and the publisher share the risk of bringing a book into the world, and Brooke Warner built She Writes Press to prove it can deliver the quality of traditional publishing. If you have been waiting on an agent, watching the Big Five measure their confidence in a book by the size of the advance, or wondering why your inbox is suddenly full of gushing offers for your manuscript, this conversation gives you straight answers. You will hear what memoir wri

Building a career with no industry experience is exactly what Mickela Mallozzi did, and the proof is four Emmy Awards, eight seasons on PBS, and a show still going strong fifteen years later. If you have ever felt like you need permission, connections, or a film degree before you can start telling stories, this conversation is the reset you need. Mickela started dancing at age three, and one middle of the night vision in 2010 turned into Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, the Emmy winning PBS trav

Can you become a professional ballet dancer if you do not begin training until your teenage years? Maurice Mouzon Jr. started dancing at 14 after leaving football behind, walked into his first ballet audition wearing basketball shorts, and got almost every combination wrong. What the instructors saw, however, was something technique alone could not create: enthusiasm, determination, and an undeniable ability to perform. In this episode of The Holly Hughes Podcast, Holly sits down with Maur

How do you make your first feature film after spending decades helping other people bring their creative visions to life? For filmmaker Vince Duqué, the answer was to stop waiting for permission, buy a camera, and begin shooting before he had a finished screenplay. In this episode of The Holly Hughes Podcast, Holly sits down with Vince, a Filipino-American writer, director, producer, and former Hollywood assistant director now living in Paris. After more than 20 years working across studio

How to make friends as an adult is the question at the center of this episode of The Holly Hughes Podcast, and Shari Leid has spent the last several years answering it one stranger at a time. If you've moved to a new city, gone through a divorce, or feel invisible in your own life right now, this conversation names exactly why connection feels harder than it used to and what actually rebuilds it. Shari was found as an infant in a cardboard box in Seoul, South Korea, with no name, no birth