Podcast appearances and mentions of christin mell

Links mentioned in today's episode: Rolla Selbak Pix Listen to the episode by clicking the play button below!   Would you prefer to read the transcript than listen to the episode? No problem! Read the transcript below. AUDIO TITLE:  Episode #65 – Rolla Selbak Interview Jenn T Grace: Alright so if you are ready, I can certainly kind of just hop into the questions and we can just kind of go from there. Rolla Selbak: Yeah, absolutely. Jenn T Grace: Alright, cool. So the first question that I want to ask you is if you could just share a little bit about your background. So if you want to talk about your personal background, your professional background, you know if it's something you want to talk about your filmmaking currently, something else you might be working on. Just really I guess give the audience and the listeners a glimpse into kind of how you ended up doing what you're doing now if you will. Rolla Selbak: So let's see. So I grew up in Abu Dhabi and I completely fell in love with films and filmmaking and TV, and my parents bought us this huge gargantuan like VHS like tape- camcorder type of a thing. And originally they had bought it and they were one of the first ones in the neighborhood to actually have one, and originally they bought it so that they could actually- you know for birthday parties, and for special occasions and such. But I immediately hijacked it, and I dressed up my siblings in hilarious costumes, and I made videos and commercials, and you know and short films. And they were of course horrible and nothing I would ever show any of your audience members, or else it would be highly embarrassing. Jenn T Grace: And entertaining. Rolla Selbak: But that's where I started. And then so when I came to the US after the first Gulf War, I ended up going the engineering path because you know, one has to kind of make money to support their film crack habit as I like to call it. And so I ended up doing both; both engineering and then I also was like writing scripts, and then finally I decided if no one's going to be producing my scripts I'm just going to go ahead and teach myself how to direct, and shoot, and all that type of stuff. So I was just completely self-taught. My first short film was called 'London Bridge.' It was, you know, seven minutes and it was about- something about like loneliness in America. You know like that teenage angst that you get. And I invited all my family and friends, I rented out this theatre, and it was- it was really funny because everyone came. They didn't really know what to expect, and they watched seven minutes of really depressing footage and then they left. And then they would pat me on the head and be like, "Are you okay?" I'm like, "Yes I'm just expressing myself through film." And so yeah, so that was my foray into actually directing, and filmmaking, and I just did another short film, another short film, another short film, and then went up to doing feature films, and series, and you know all that other good stuff. So yeah, so I had very, very humble beginnings, completely self-taught. Jenn T Grace: That's awesome. Rolla Selbak: But you know, that's the fun of it, right? Jenn T Grace: Yeah. I feel like learning is so much part of that process, that's just for me personally, I think it's the most fun part. Rolla Selbak: Yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. For sure. And- yeah. Jenn T Grace: So will you tell us I guess a little bit about your films? And I know that you have a web series that's on Tello, and Christin Mell was actually one of the guests on here- actually it seems like quite a while ago at this point. But if you want to I guess just kind of give the audience a little bit of an idea. I'm sure your films kind of vary in background, but just a little bit because I do see- I'm on your website right now and it certain...

Today's podcast is an interview, finally! It's been since episode #45 with Amy Mayes since I've done an interview - wow. Well, now that we are back to an interview format - you are in for a real treat. I had a chance to talk with Mona Elyafi of ILDK Media. She owns a boutique public relations agency based in Los Angeles. She shared her personal story of how she came to found her company and all of the important milestones she hit along the way. We also discussed the nuances of pitching LGBT stories to LGBT publications and mainstream publications. She provides some solid PR strategies you could take and run with in your own business. I hope you enjoy the show! Please reach out with any thoughts or comments! Links mentioned in today's podcast: Check out my survey here! Today's episode  #45: Expert Interview with Amy Mayes of Amy Mayes Photography [Podcast] ILDK Media Website for the Dinah Shore To listen to the podcast, click the play button below! Would you prefer to read the transcript than listen to the episode? No problem! Read the transcript below. AUDIO TITLE:  Episode #54 – Mona Elyafi Jenn T Grace: You are listening to the Gay Business and Marketing Made Easy Podcast, Episode 54. Intro: Welcome to the Gay Business and Marketing Made Easy Podcast where you'll learn how to do business with and market to the LGBT community in an authentic and transparent way. We're talking about the $790 billion lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender community. We'll help you grow your business, gain market share and impact your bottom line. And now your host - she's an entrepreneur, a marketing maven and an advocate for the LGBT business community. Jenn, with two N's, T. Grace. Jenn T Grace: Well hello and welcome to episode number 54 of the Gay Business and Marketing Made Easy Podcast. I am your host, Jenn Grace, and today I have a real treat for you. It's been probably, I have to say at least a couple of months since I have done an interview with someone. And I am now getting back into the swing of things. It does require far more additional planning to schedule and line up guests and all that great stuff. But fortunately this time around works out beautifully. So I have the guest today on the show, is Mona Elyafi, and she is the founder of ILDK Media which is a PR agency based in Los Angeles. And she had reached out to me in terms of actually mentioning one of her clients that she wanted to see if she could get as a guest on my show. And come to find out she had already been a guest which is Christin Mell from Tello Films, so she has already been a guest which is pretty awesome, and then we also discovered that Rony Tennenbaum was also on my show quite some time ago and is also working with Mona. So she's certainly well connected and very involved in the LGBT space as you're going to find out from a public relations standpoint. It was just a great opportunity to connect with somebody that I did not know and just really learn and she had some great insights, and words of wisdom to share. So I'm really looking forward to sharing today's interview. As always before we hop into the interview I do have a couple of things that I want to announce in advance. So we are in episode number 54, which seems quite crazy that we're already at episode 54. But I want to mention the next webinar that is coming up. I have an absolute ton of RSVP's for this webinar, I'm really excited about it. I don't know- I think I might have said this in the last podcast, I have no idea what it is about this particular webinar that has everybody excited, but it is happening and I'm stoked. So it is on March 24th, so it's a couple of weeks out from the time that you're listening to this. And of course if you are listening to this and it's after March 24th of 2015, don't worry because there will be another webinar available for you.

I am pleased to bring you a fun episode of the Gay Business & Marketing Made Easy podcast! Today we talk with Christin Mell, the co-founder and CEO of tello Films. We discuss her film making calling at an early age, what the coming out process looks like in her world and the incredible impact tello Films is having on the lives of many lesbians around the world. Below are the items mentioned in this episode of the podcast. FunkyPlot.com AfterEllen.com Tello Films SheWired.com Hootsuite Hastag Project Trailer Tello Films Listen to the episode by clicking the play button below! Would you prefer to read the transcript than listen to the episode? No problem! Read the transcript below. AUDIO TITLE:  Episode #33 – Christin Mell – Tello Films Jenn T Grace: You are listening to the Gay Business and Marketing Made Easy Podcast, Episode 33. Intro: Welcome to the Gay Business and Marketing Made Easy Podcast where you'll learn how to do business with and market to the LGBT community in an authentic and transparent way. We're talking about the $790 billion lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender community. We'll help you grow your business, gain market share and impact your bottom line. And now your host - she's an entrepreneur, a marketing maven and an advocate for the LGBT business community. Jenn, with two N's, T. Grace. Jenn T Grace: Well hello, thank you for tuning into Episode 33 of the podcast. Today's intro is going to be very, very brief because actually I had intentions of talking to you today about LGBT Chambers of Commerce and how they can help your business and their purpose, and all that kind of great stuff. But unfortunately my house has come down with a stomach bug and it's hit every single person in the house, currently I am in the clear, however my wife and two children are home sick today and I have very little time to actually put together a fully thought out episode for you about LGBT Chambers of Commerce. So what I'm doing instead is what was supposed to be episode number 34, which is a story telling with Christin Mell. She is the cofounder of Tello Films, which basically produces and distributes innovative, high quality web series content with a lesbian focus. So we really talk about a lot as it relates to the film making business, what she's doing in terms of helping promote creativity in the LGBT community, how to market to lesbians specifically; so there's a lot of great stuff that we talked about in today's interview. And instead of Christin's interview being 34, what I'll end up doing is I will talk to you in the next episode about LGBT Chambers of Commerce. So without further ado, let's just dive into today's interview and if you have any questions, comments or want to chat about what you heard today, please feel free to reach out to me either on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, send me an email, whatever it is. Just reach out, I always love to hear from you. Thanks so much and I will talk to you soon. So why don't you take a moment, or several moments, and tell the listeners a little bit more about yourself and your story, and basically what your path looked like that led you to be doing what you are doing today. Christin Mell: Sure so you know, I think my love of storytelling started really young. I was an absolute move and like TV junkie. And then I was really lucky because when I was growing up is when VHS cameras just came out, and my family was lucky enough to get one and was nice enough to allow my sister and I to play around with it. So we would- you know in addition to playing games in the neighborhood, we would actually have neighborhood kids over and we would take video or time- it was during the great Saturday Night Live with Dana Carvey and those guys. And so we would then also do like our own sort of night live phase. And I- at some point,

This week Christin Mell of Tello Films joins us to talk about how she's built a subscription service for web series geared to a lesbian audience. The network is growing its subscription base by providing high quality original content that isn't available anywhere else. That plus the week's news!