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Watch the replay! Terry Tillman: From Miserable Millionaire to Dinner with Gorbachev
Hey Reader! If you missed last night's show, this one is worth your time. Terry Tillman was running six companies at 30 with all the trappings of success and felt bankrupt inside. A day spent in a retirement home, listening to person after person talk about their regrets, changed his course. He closed all six businesses and spent the next 48 years helping people in 101 countries wake up enthused about the day and go to bed fulfilled. We talked about touring as a folk singer with Jimmie...
Watch the replay! Ecuadorian by Birth, Hispanic by Heritage, American by Choice
Hey Reader! Last night's conversation traced all the way back to a soccer field in Quito, Ecuador. My guest was Rosie Paulsen. As a girl she was told she couldn't play soccer because she was a girl, until she met an American girl who told her that in America, girls can do whatever they want. She decided then and there that she would come to the United States. She arrived as a teenager, moved in with a family where no one spoke Spanish, and learned the language fast. As she put it, after three...
Katharine Franco | From Biblical Mothers to a Mob Boss's Daughter
Hey Reader! Last night I sat down with actor Katharine Franco, and what stays with me is that none of this was the plan. She was a shy kid who never performed growing up and came to acting later in life, almost by accident. Then she built a career on range. In one year she played Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, in the K-LOVE film Virgin Birth, and Suzy in a dark thriller called Kill Trip. She has led a western, played a mob boss's daughter in Red Stone, and brought real warmth to an...
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...
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