GRACE. It’s super easy to get swept away by the emotion of a situation, to allow yourself to embrace the first reaction. But I’m working on thinking before reacting out loud in front of other people – because, really, it’s just this moment that’s terrible/sad/stressful/frustrating. The next moment, and the one after, can be better […]
PROFESSIONALISM. No matter what your job is, or where you work, you will encounter people who challenge your sanity with their unprofessional behavior. That’s going to happen, and sometimes…sometimes all you can do is smile through your frustration and learn from their mistakes. Whether it’s a coworker who fails to do her job to the extent […]
AM I TOO PRETTY TO DO MY JOB? I was having an online discussion last week, about how I’ve been told to dress more conservatively for certain meetings because I need to be taken more seriously. I’m fairly certain the length of my skirt has nothing to do with the functionality of my brain, and […]
HUSTLE. Not the hustle to make ends meet, we all know about that. I’m talking about the hustle to make your movie. The days when you’d rather pray for death than think about the eighty million things that need to go right in order for you to get that one important shot, the moments when […]
LIMITS. Know your own. Know others’. And don’t ever let someone try to make you go beyond yours if it’ll hurt you. Oh, and learn from my mistakes, y’all. I didn’t set limits for something, and I pay for it every day. Yeesh.
RESPECT. Here’s the thing: I am totally not cool with not being taken seriously by others simply because I happen to be a woman. This has been bothering me a lot lately, and I think we needed a reminder that this issue hasn’t gone away just because now we have Jessica Jones. Truthfully, I’m a […]
STAY IN YOUR LANE. Or, at least, learn how to do the thing you’re trying to get hired to do instead of the thing you actually do. Listen, we all have dreams. I dream of making a film that gets critical acclaim, is screened numerous times per day in multiplexes around the world, makes tons […]
BOUNDARIES. I know, I’m the girl who’s always working, always too busy to hang out with my friends. But I’m also the girl who takes weekends off from the entire world to do only the things I want, and that’s why I’m happier and better at work than I have been in years. From someone […]
GO TEAM! The ladies in this picture made the dinner on the table in front of us, and we did it as a team. If the four of us – who are spread across three countries and two continents – can come together after years apart and make tasty magic, then surely people who are […]
This is my very first podcast, and I simply have been running not enough sleep to go through and edit out room tone or add royalty-free music, so it’s super bare bones. But maybe that’s necessary, because I’m talking about sexism and sexual harassment, and those aren’t issues that should be hidden behind pretty songs and soothing […]
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