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The Holly Hughes Podcast is where writers, dancers, filmmakers, artists, & musicians get real—and have a blast—talking about what it takes to create work that matters while living life on their own terms.
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From No TV Experience to Four Emmys: Culture, Dance, and Reinvention | Mickela Mallozzi (opens the original)
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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
From Football to Professional Ballet: Resilience, Representation, and Reinvention | Maurice Mouzon Jr. (opens the original)
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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 Maurice,
Independent Filmmaking, Reinvention, and Coming Clean About the Industry | Vince Duqué (opens the original)
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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 film
The Truth About Belonging & Reinvention After Burn Out with Shari Leid (opens the original)
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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, experienced burnout, or feel invisible in your own life right now, this conversation names exactly why connection feels harder than it used to—and what it takes to rebuild friendship, belonging, and a sense of home. Shari was found as an infant in a car
From Suicide Survivor to Creative Entrepreneur | Andrew Jang (opens the original)
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What happens when everything you've worked for disappears? In this deeply vulnerable episode of The Holly Hughes Podcast , Holly sits down with entrepreneur, designer, speaker, and mental health advocate Andrew Jang for an unforgettable conversation about resilience, identity, creativity, and rebuilding your life after unimaginable loss. Andrew shares the extraordinary journey that took him from being one of Seattle's most connected entrepreneurs and a sought after custom menswear designer worki
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