To kick off, I’m joined by Melissa Silverstein she is the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival — A Celebration of Women and Leadership at Barnard College in NYC. The seventh annual festival will take place February 22-25, 2018. Melissa was selected to be a film envoy for the American Film Showcase. And she published “In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing,” which is a compilation of over 40 interviews from ...
Feb 05, 2018•13 min
For today’s episode, Prisca is back, and we’re to answer your questions which include: How can I use social media to promote my podcast? How do I get big brands to sponsor me? What do I do if the job doesn’t advertise the salary? How do I stand out on Instagram? Make sure you follow Prisca if you’d like to find out more about Prisca you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @PriscaMoyesa. You can also visit Moyesa.co. Send in your questions via tweet to @wannabepodcast or via the website Ask A...
Jan 31, 2018•30 min
his week Prisca is back and we’re here to discuss ‘How to getting the skills you need’ as voted by you. In today’s episode we cover education versus experience, if there’s a specific characteristic or trait that makes you better able to acquire skills. What tools and resources are out there and how to make sure that online course is worth it. All this and more so let’s get into it. Make sure you are following Prisca on Twitter and Instagram @PriscaMoyesa she drops bars and nuggets of wisdom. Tru...
Jan 29, 2018•29 min
Tiffany Ford is a Storyboard artist at the Cartoon Network and has worked on Clarence, Craig of the Creek, The Powerpuff Girl Dance Pantsed special, and she’s the former colour stylist on Steven Universe. She has also been a director at Disney TV. Tiffany also worked with Steven Universe Creator Rebecca Sugar on the children’s book called ‘The Answer. Today Tiffany and i discuss what it means to be a Storyboard Artist at the Cartoon Network, we talk about some of the demands that are placed on y...
Jan 24, 2018•30 min
In the final instalment of the Meet the Cartoonists Special I’m so glad the finale episodes are with Tiffany Ford! Tiffany is a Storyboard artist at the Cartoon Network and has worked on Clarence, Craig of the Creek, The Powerpuff Girl Dance Pantsed special, and she’s the former colour stylist on Steven Universe. She has also been a director at Disney TV. Tiffany also worked with Steven Universe Creator Rebecca Sugar on the children’s book called ‘The Answer. We talk about why it’s so hard to sa...
Jan 22, 2018•26 min
This week I’m joined by Lisa Hanawalt the Producer and Production Designer of Bojack Horseman. Lisa has published two books with Drawn and Quarterly the first My Dirty Dumb Eyes in 2013 and The Hot Dog Taste Test (2016). Lisa is also the co-host of the Baby Geniuses podcast with Emily Heller. She has won 8 awards including the Critics Choice Award for Bojack Horseman twice. Fair warning we cover some more mature themes in today’s episode. Lisa and I discuss how she comes up with the idea’s for h...
Jan 17, 2018•29 min
We’re back at it again with the Design Special: Meet The Cartoonists. I’m joined by illustrator and Cartoonist Eleanor Davis. Eleanor is the author of the New York Times Bestseller How To Be Happy; she has also written You and a Bike and a Road, and The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook. Her work has been included in five issues of Fantagraphics' anthology MOME as well as Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics in 2008. Comics Critic Richard Bruton said that Eleanor is "without quest...
Jan 08, 2018•21 min
Happy New Year and welcome to the Design special: Meet the Cartoonists. To kickstart the design special I’m joined by Leslie Hung, Leslie is the co-creator of Snotgirl with Bryan Lee O’Malley who is also the creator of the infamous Scott Pilgrim. Snotgirl is published by Image Comics and is a beautifully designed comic series that has a fashion ‘lookbook feel’. Snotgirl documents the dark side of fictional social media influencer Lottie Person. Leslie is described as ‘the perfect artist to balan...
Jan 01, 2018•14 min
Key takeaways from the episode are how to get published in 4 weeks. Creating viral content and why it’s essential for you to create content that feels natural and fluent to you. Being consistent and knowing how to evolve. Tolulope Ogunmefun is known all over the world by his online social media name “Don’t Jealous Me”. He launched his YouTube channel in 2008, and it has been viewed over 41 million times. He has been entertaining fans, both young and old, with hilarious comedy sketches and vlogs....
Dec 20, 2017•31 min
This week I’m joined Tolulope Ogunmefun (Oh Goon May Fun) who is more famously known as comedian Don’t Jealous Me. Tolu’s Youtube channel has amassed over 41 million views on Youtube and was the star of his show the T-boy show. He has been cast in Sick Note on SKY 1 starring Rupert Grint, and recently Man Like Mobeen on the BBC. Tolu has just released his first children’s book titled ‘The Frog and his Dancing shoes.’ In today’s episode, we talk about the point he felt like giving up and what hap...
Dec 18, 2017•26 min
In today’s episode, we talk about how Emilie prepared for her viral Ted talk, how she secured a book deal, and how she came to the realisation and acceptance that she didn’t have one true calling. The key takeaways for you: - How you can secure and prepare for a TED talk. - The basics you need for a book proposal and to hook a book agent. - How to get comfortable with changing your career or profession. - Understanding and accepting what it means to be a Multipotentialite. You can find out more ...
Dec 13, 2017•31 min
This week I’m joined by the incredible writer, speaker and community builder Emilie Wapnick! Some of you may be familiar with Emilie because of her TedxBend talk called ‘Why Some of us don’t have one true calling’ where she coined the phrase ‘multipotentialite’. The talk that landed on the front page of Ted.com and has over 4.6 million views to date. Emilie is the founder of puttylike.com which she describes as ‘The home for multipotentialites’. She is also the author of the incredible book ‘How...
Dec 11, 2017•15 min
For this episode, I’m joined by Ruby Raut the Founder of Wuka Wear. Wuka wear is environmentally-friendly sustainable period underwear. In today’s episode, Ruby and I discuss Chhaupadi a practice in Nepal that exiled women to period huts when they were on their periods. We cover how the poor conditions around periods ultimately led to Ruby- who studied Environmental science to design and manufacture Wuka wear with no prior experience in fashion or manufacturing. In this episode, you will learn t...
Dec 06, 2017•30 min
This week I'm finally joined by Branding and Marketing expert Prisca Moyesa of Moyesa & Co. The topic is Financial Freedom, we cover what it is, whether you need it to be successful and how to achieve financial freedom. We cover fear of money and whether a money mindset is a real thing. This week’s Support This! Goes to Streetlink an visit app that allows you to report rough sleepers so that local support services can reach them. Visit here. Follow Wanna Be @WannaBepodcast on Twitter Visit w...
Nov 27, 2017•30 min
India is incredibly high-achieving, professing that she did not take a break from full-time education until she decided to enter the Miss India America pageant. We talk about the stigma around pageants and the brains vs. beauty argument that comes up time and time again. What stuck out about my conversation India is how important her faith is to her. She is a practising Hindu and has credited the religion (and Sathya Sai Baba Bal Vikas Education) with instilling her core values. As you'll hear, ...
Nov 22, 2017•28 min
This week I’m joined by Miss India America- India LaRoda. India is African American and Indian and is the first bi-racial Miss India America. India is currently studying to be a paediatrician and was recently the recipient of the Women of Purpose Award. In today’s episode, we talk about the unique challenges she faced while trying to become the first bi-racial Miss India America. We also cover India’s passion project, SmileTrain which is a non-profit organisation that is committed to giving free...
Nov 20, 2017•22 min
It's Self-Care Awareness Week (13th-19th Nov) and this week I'm joined by the Founder of The World of Self-Care, Georgia Dodsworth. In this week's episodes Georgia shares her journey with Borderline Personality Disorder and becoming a successful freelancer while still at university studying Performance and Creative Enterprise. In this episode we talk about how Georgia set up her daily routine and became so disciplined. Georgia is extremely well organised when it comes to planning her days and sh...
Nov 15, 2017•31 min
Adrian is co-founder and CEO of Six to Start. He is best known as the co-creator of the international smash hit mobile app, “Zombies, Run!” Previously, Six to Start has worked with Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, and Penguin, and Six to Start has won multiple awards including Best of Show at SXSW. Adrian has also been a speaker at the main TED Conference. He is the author of A History of the Future in 100 Objects and writes a tech column for the Telegraph. He used to works at Cambridge, UCSD, and Ox...
Nov 08, 2017•30 min
Meet Adrian Hon the CEO and Founder of Six to Start an incredible game development and entertainment agency. Adrian and author Naomi Alderman are the geniuses behind the highly successful running app Zombies Run! which has generated nearly 4 million downloads, over a quarter of a million monthly active users and tens of thousands of subscribers. Support This! four-part documentary series, Young, Gifted and Grinding which focuses on innovative black entrepreneurs in Britain who are carving out op...
Nov 06, 2017•16 min
