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Jesse Russell is the founder and CEO of Hiatus Homes, a development company in Bend, Oregon, that specializes in small home design and cottage community development. In 2019, he introduced Bend's first small-scale housing community. He's also been involved in citywide policy and incentive reform for small-scale development and urban infill. Russell joins Tiffany on today's episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution to discuss his journey from Los Angeles TV producer to small-scale developer. They talk about how to navigate the challenges of building small homes, including city policies and project financing, and how this kind of development can benefit communities. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Local Recommendations: Deschutes Bar Boneyard Brewery Hayden Homes Amphitheatre Whitewater Park Surf Wave Hiatus Homes (website) Learn how to bring more housing to your city: “The Housing-Ready City: A Toolkit for Local Code Reform” Accelerator program, spring session: Get expert guidance in making your community housing ready. Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram) Do you know someone who would make for a great The Bottom-Up Revolution guest? Let us know here! Subscribe to The Bottom-Up Revolution on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Podbean or via RSS.

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This time on a quick bonus episode of the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast, a chat with Sue Hinkin of Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America about the 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Virtual Con, a FREE conference for all writers being held on Saturday, Feb. 8 via Zoom. Sue Hinkin is the author of the award-winning thriller series, The Vega & Middleton Novels, featuring the investigative team of Los Angeles TV news journalist Bea Jackson and best friend, photographer Lucy Vega. BestThrillers.com called Lucy and Bea one of the top female detectives of 2023. A former Cinematography Fellow at the American Film Institute, Hinkin was a TV news photographer like her character, Lucy. Now living in Colorado, she was voted Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year. Complete details about 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Virtual Con - and to register, for free - are at rmmwa.org Schedule for Virtual Con: SCHEDULE: 10-10:55 AM CRAFT: The Power of Now The former President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, Mark Stevens is the son of two librarians. Raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts, he has worked as a reporter, as a national television news producer and in public relations.  Stevens is the author of acclaimed The Fireballer (Lake Union, 2023). He is also the author of the award-winning The Allison Coil Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl. He has had short stories published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, and in Denver Noir (Akashic Books, 2022).  Denver Noir went on to win the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology in 2023. In 2016 and again in 2023, Stevens was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Writer of the Year. He hosts a regular podcast for that organization. Stevens also publishes reviews for the New York Journal of Books, Four Corners Free Press, and on his review website.  He lives in Mancos, Colorado. Learn more at www.writermarkstevens.com 11-11:55 AM Book Marketing Strategies: What Publishers and Authors Say What Works NowBestThrillers.com founder Bella Wright and Staff How are publishers, writers and publicists marketing their books right now? What are the most valuable formats, services and channels? To find out, we reached out to hundreds of authors, publishers and publicists involved in creating and promoting mystery and thriller books. There are quite a few surprises in our BestThrillers.com Book Marketing Survey. You'll earn about what we found. See more at www.BestThrillers.com LUNCH BREAK 1-1:55PM CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: THE LATEST IN FORENSIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DP Lyle, MD, is the Amazon #1 Bestselling; Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winning; and Edgar (2), Shamus, Agatha, Anthony, Scribe, Silver Falchion, USA Today Best Book Award (2), and Foreward INDIES Book of the Year nominated author of 25 books, both non-fiction and fiction, including the SAMANTHA CODY, DUB WALKER, JAKE LONGLY, and CAIN/HARPER thriller series, and the ROYAL PAINS media tie-in novels. His forensic science books (FORENSICS FOR DUMMIES, HOWDUNNIT:FORENSICS) and his very popular Q& A Series (MURDER AND MAYHEM, FORENSICS AND FICTION, MORE FORENSICS AND FICTION) are published worldwide. See more at www.dplylemd.com 2-2:55PM Writers LIFE: Anne Hillerman New York Times best-selling author Anne Hillerman's debut novel, Spider Woman's Daughter, received the Western Writers Spur Award as best first novel.That book and the six novels that followed were all New York Times best sellers. Her ninth mystery, Lost Birds was launched April 23, 2024 and the tenth book in the series is due for release in 2025. Her mysteries continue the Navajo detective stories her father Tony Hillerman made popular. Anne has also been involved in script development for the AMC TV show, Dark Winds, featuring Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. When she's not working, Anne likes to read, cook, ski and travel. She lives in Santa Fe and Tucson with frequent trips to the Navajo Nation. Learn more at www.annehillerman.com   Intro Music by Moby Gratis: https://mobygratis.com/ Outro Music by Dan-o-Songs: https://danosongs.com/   Host Mark Stevens www.writermarkstevens.com   Watch these interviews on YouTube (and subscribe)! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBP81nfbKnDRjs-Nar9LNe20138AiPyP8&si=yl_seG5S4soyk216

https://suespeaks.org https://suzannetaylor.substack.com Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Was Incomplete Maslow couldn't see the culture right in front of him. https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-was-incomplete-bc1 After the election, a call for us to unite and what we can do: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/electing-trump-may-have-saved-humanity Suzanne Taylor went from academic superstar to deep involvement in the human potential movement, while enjoying a decent acting career and painting post impression pictures good enough for a one-woman show. In the mid ‘70s she made a big shift in turning all her attention to the world problematique. The latest of the inventive projects she has produced – that including two feature documentaries about crop circles and 38 episodes of The Cosmic Fuel Pump on local Los Angeles TV -- is the How We Saved the World Essay Contest, where 175 people wrote stories from 2050 about what led to the success humanity was enjoying with what part they played. Now, the ideas in the essays provide material for conversation she is initiating for how we can get to the world we

MUSICThe estate of late drummer Joey Jordison has settled its lawsuit against his former band, Slipknot.The Diddy Update: People are still buzzing about the insane amount of baby oil found when the feds raided Diddy's homes and his lawyer is offering up an explanation. Ringo Starr has canceled the final two shows of his current tour due to a nasty cold.Former Dio and Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich has been diagnosed with throat cancer.  Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced the first wave of performers and presenters for the induction ceremony on October 19th in Cleveland. This year's inductees are Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest. Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Big Mama Thornton will be given the Musical Influence Award and Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield will be given the Musical Excellence Award. The inductees who will be performing are Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, and Dionne Warwick. The other performers and presenters are Busta Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Ella Mai, James Taylor, Jelly Roll, Julia Roberts, Keith Urban, Lucky Daye, Method Man, Roger Daltrey, Sammy Hagar, Slash and The Roots. The Hall says more will be announced. The show will stream live on Disney+ at 6pm on October 19th. A three hour highlights show will air on ABC on New Year's Day.Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee had a close call when a coyote tried to abduct his dog Neena from the backyard of his Brentwood, California home. The coyote grabbed the 10-year-old dachshund, but Lee's wife, Brittany, says she “climbed up the wall and grabbed her out of its mouth. Thank God she's a little bit fat because he couldn't make it over the wall with her." The abduction was caught on tape and Brittany later went on Los Angeles TV to warn other dog ownersQueens of the Stone Age have rescheduled most of the dates they postponed due to Josh Homme's recovery from emergency surgery in July. The shows are in Boston on June 10th and 11th, Cincinnati June 18th, Madison, Wisconsin on June 20th and Chicago June 21st.Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen from Queens of the Stone Age, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode will take part in Mark Lanegan 60: A Celebration December 5th at The Roundhouse in London. Lanegan, who sang for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, died in 2022 at the age of 57.AND FINALLY"Rolling Stone" magazine put together a list of the 101 greatest soundtracks of all time. 1. "Purple Rain", 19842. "Help!", 19653. "The Harder They Come", 1972AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MUSIC The estate of late drummer Joey Jordison has settled its lawsuit against his former band, Slipknot. The Diddy Update: People are still buzzing about the insane amount of baby oil found when the feds raided Diddy's homes and his lawyer is offering up an explanation. Ringo Starr has canceled the final two shows of his current tour due to a nasty cold. Former Dio and Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich has been diagnosed with throat cancer.   Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced the first wave of performers and presenters for the induction ceremony on October 19th in Cleveland. This year's inductees are Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest. Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Big Mama Thornton will be given the Musical Influence Award and Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield will be given the Musical Excellence Award. The inductees who will be performing are Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, and Dionne Warwick. The other performers and presenters are Busta Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Ella Mai, James Taylor, Jelly Roll, Julia Roberts, Keith Urban, Lucky Daye, Method Man, Roger Daltrey, Sammy Hagar, Slash and The Roots. The Hall says more will be announced. The show will stream live on Disney+ at 6pm on October 19th. A three hour highlights show will air on ABC on New Year's Day. Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee had a close call when a coyote tried to abduct his dog Neena from the backyard of his Brentwood, California home. The coyote grabbed the 10-year-old dachshund, but Lee's wife, Brittany, says she “climbed up the wall and grabbed her out of its mouth. Thank God she's a little bit fat because he couldn't make it over the wall with her." The abduction was caught on tape and Brittany later went on Los Angeles TV to warn other dog owners Queens of the Stone Age have rescheduled most of the dates they postponed due to Josh Homme's recovery from emergency surgery in July. The shows are in Boston on June 10th and 11th, Cincinnati June 18th, Madison, Wisconsin on June 20th and Chicago June 21st. Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen from Queens of the Stone Age, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode will take part in Mark Lanegan 60: A Celebration December 5th at The Roundhouse in London. Lanegan, who sang for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, died in 2022 at the age of 57. AND FINALLY "Rolling Stone" magazine put together a list of the 101 greatest soundtracks of all time.  1. "Purple Rain", 1984 2. "Help!", 1965 3. "The Harder They Come", 1972 AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How did we get from the terrible 2020s to here?  ​ Suzanne Taylor created an essay contest to answer that question and people shifted from being overwhelmed by doom and gloom to excitement about humanity's future! ​ Join us in talking with Suzanne about the wealth of ideas generated by her contest -- and where we can go from here.   Suzanne was a painter and an actress – her many TV credits include The Dick Van Dyke Show, (she played Van Dyke's secretary in the feature film Divorce American Style), I Dream of Jeannie, and My Favorite Martian. ​ In the 1970s, she turned all her attention to the world problematique. She's made many wonderful contributions since then, including two feature documentaries about crop circles: What on Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery and Crop Circles: Quest for Truth.  As well as 36 episodes of The Cosmic Fuel Pump for “How I get sane in a crazy world” on local Los Angeles TV. On her current platform, NOW WHAT? (where the contest came from) she is working on rallying we-the-people to become the force we could be. SUESpeaks.org See the video and ask questions of future guests at:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/club⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Endorse the ban on Nuclear Weapons: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/endorse⁠

Today on AirTalk, ‘Rust' manslaughter verdict. Also on the show, listeners share  their favorite quintessentially Californian films; history of SoCal Latino politics;TV-Talk: ‘The Gentlemen,' ‘Elsbeth,' ‘Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin'; and more.   ‘Rust' Armorer Found Guilty Of Involuntary Manslaughter (00:17) Hoboken Has Seemingly Eliminated Traffic Fatalities–Can LA Do The Same? (17:31) Lights, Camera, Green Juice! What Movies Are Quintessentially Californian? (33:41) You Can Capture Stormwater On Your Own Property. Here's How To Do It (51:00)  History Of Latino Politics In Los Angeles Explored In Gustavo Arellano's New Four Part Series ‘Power y Glory' (1:03:09) TV-Talk: ‘The Gentlemen,' ‘Elsbeth,' ‘Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin,' And More (1:24:51)

Phillip, a two-time Emmy nominated TV producer, bares his soul alongside guests Daniel and Donna. Unveiling the layers of his life, Phillip takes us on an emotional rollercoaster – from the pinnacle of professional success to grappling with the challenges of alcoholism and personal loss.As the narrative unfolds, Phillip shares the profound impact Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) had on his journey to sobriety. Delving into his relentless pursuit of peace, he reveals how his struggles led to a deeper understanding that personal accomplishments do not define one's essence.Discover the raw and unfiltered experiences of Phillip's quest for inner tranquility, interwoven with the realization that true self-worth is not measured by accolades. Through his inspiring revelations, Phillip urges listeners to engage in introspection, guiding them towards making life decisions based on personal desires rather than societal expectations.In a poignant moment, Phillip encourages everyone seeking solace to reach out and foster meaningful connections. He emphasizes the transformative power of dialogue in navigating life's intricate paths. Join us on this riveting episode filled with resilience, introspection, and the unwavering pursuit of peace beyond the surface.Check out Phillip's websitehttps://www.phillipbarbb.com/Support the showWe've got fresh merch and it's amazing! Pick yours up HERE Are you getting something from our content? Tap here and buy us a coffee to say thanks and help us keep this train on the tracks! Check us out on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@hardknoxtalksStronger Together Canada Peer Led Support Groups by Moms Stop the HarmAre you struggling with the substance use of a loved one? Go to https://www.holdinghopecanada.org/Have you tragically lost someone to drug related harms? Visithttps://www.healingheartscanada.org/Prairie Sky Recovery Centrehttps://www.prairieskyrecovery.ca/The Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewanhttps://elizabethfrysask.org/

EPISODE 244: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: Do the Republican leaders know WHERE their fugitive foreign agent Gal Luft is? Does Senator Ron Johnson – demanding immunity for Luft so that this multi-national con-man can testify to the House – know Where Gal Luft is? Does Chairman James Comer – still insisting Luft must testify despite the damning revelation that he has been under indictment in this country for 20 months for allegedly bribing a Trump Advisor on behalf of Chinese interests – does Chairman Comer know where Gal Luft is? Does Congresswoman Nancy Mace – still on board the sinking Luft ship and calling him quote “our witness” and promising “we are going to work as hard as we can and deliver as much evidence as we can to the American people so that they can decide whether or not Joe Biden should be in prison” – does Representative Mace know where Gal Luft is? And if the answer to any of these questions is yes – or the answer to the question “do any of them know how to reach him through intermediaries” is yes – then why have they not communicated to the proper authorities the whereabouts of this FUGITIVE FROM THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM AND FOREIGN SPY – and why has the Department of Justice not questioned them about what they know about Gal Luft What do the Republicans know about Gal Luft and how long have they known it? ALSO: Jack Smith's gang goes back to work, the Fani Willis Grand Jury is impaneled in Atlanta, and incredibly the DOJ is defending Trump in the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page lawsuit because it's not like Trump is trying to end representative government in this country by manipulating the law or anything. B-Block (17:19) IN SPORTS: We had that rarest of sporting events last night: one in which THE highlight was carried off by…the fans in the stands at the Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle and what they chanted. It is staggering to realize that the telecast of 1980 Game was watched by roughly five times as many fans as watched the one last night – and the population was a third smaller in 1980. There are lots of reasons (the players are not playing to win; the stars don't show up; gone are the days when 9 of the 10 All Star MVP Awards between 1963 and 1972 went to Hall of Famers). But the real reason the game is now meaningless is that baseball threw away the greatest organic gift it was ever given. For 96 seasons, the owners, players, and fans of the American League HATED the fans of the National League, and vice versa. Happily baseball was good enough to throw that away and reduce the two Leagues to bookkeeping arrangements by introducing Interleague Play so they could sell some New York Subway Series caps. (30:25) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Senator Tommy Tuberville doubles down in defense of White Nationalists, then suddenly reverses and says they are racists, then disappears. Congressman Jim Jordan wants to move the FBI Headquarters to Alabama. And this is the kind of man you want leading the free world: the dark horse Republican presidential candidate who will pay you TWENTY dollars if you will donate ONE dollar to his campaign. How does he do it? Volume! Volume! Volume! C-Block (35:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Baseball used to matter so much that local Los Angeles TV sportscasters used to make up crazy conspiracy stories about it, to try to get ratings. Let me tell you of two mind-blowing stunts told by two of my rivals in just my first year doing the sports on the local news in LA nearly 40 years ago: the guy who told his viewers to call a hotel and harass the manager of the All-Star team whom he believed had insulted a local Angels player, and the other guy who insisted that even though the L.A. Dodgers lost the 1985 playoffs they should show up anyway to the World Series and demand to play, because HE and HE ALONE had discovered that the home run that beat them wasn't a home run at all!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is interesting. He was found Dead Ball gag in mouth, extremely compromising position in a motel in Glendale Ca. Matt was supposed to be on the show!!

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, South Korea and Japan say Verstappen seals title amid confusion after Japan win Yellen says OPEC oil production cuts bad for global economy New York City declares state of emergency over migrant crisis situation Climate change World aviation agrees aspirational net zero plan Will the Biden administration overhaul US cannabis policy Gambia cough syrup scandal Police investigate deaths linked to medicine Zaporizhzhia attack Russian shelling in annexed city kills 17 Crimea bridge Russia ramps up security after blast Thai nursery attack The story of the three year old survivor Suspect in Las Vegas Strip mass stabbing appears to have spoken to Los Angeles TV station 2 days prior Herschel Walker centers pitch to Republicans on wokeness Democrats were already struggling in Florida. Then came Hurricane Ian. Protests in Iran State run live TV hacked by protesters Suspect arrested in unprovoked stabbing death in Bronx subway station Russian divers to check damage to blast hit Crimea bridge Uvalde suspends school police force after mass shooting Residents allowed to return to Florida island slammed by Ian Hurricane Julia makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 1 storm

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv New York City declares state of emergency over migrant crisis situation Thai nursery attack The story of the three year old survivor Suspect arrested in unprovoked stabbing death in Bronx subway station Gambia cough syrup scandal Police investigate deaths linked to medicine Herschel Walker centers pitch to Republicans on wokeness Climate change World aviation agrees aspirational net zero plan Crimea bridge Russia ramps up security after blast Suspect in Las Vegas Strip mass stabbing appears to have spoken to Los Angeles TV station 2 days prior Hurricane Julia makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 1 storm Will the Biden administration overhaul US cannabis policy Protests in Iran State run live TV hacked by protesters Yellen says OPEC oil production cuts bad for global economy North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, South Korea and Japan say Uvalde suspends school police force after mass shooting Russian divers to check damage to blast hit Crimea bridge Residents allowed to return to Florida island slammed by Ian Verstappen seals title amid confusion after Japan win Democrats were already struggling in Florida. Then came Hurricane Ian. Zaporizhzhia attack Russian shelling in annexed city kills 17

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Herschel Walker centers pitch to Republicans on wokeness Crimea bridge Russia ramps up security after blast Yellen says OPEC oil production cuts bad for global economy Gambia cough syrup scandal Police investigate deaths linked to medicine Suspect arrested in unprovoked stabbing death in Bronx subway station Suspect in Las Vegas Strip mass stabbing appears to have spoken to Los Angeles TV station 2 days prior Thai nursery attack The story of the three year old survivor Uvalde suspends school police force after mass shooting Residents allowed to return to Florida island slammed by Ian New York City declares state of emergency over migrant crisis situation Russian divers to check damage to blast hit Crimea bridge Hurricane Julia makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 1 storm North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, South Korea and Japan say Zaporizhzhia attack Russian shelling in annexed city kills 17 Will the Biden administration overhaul US cannabis policy Verstappen seals title amid confusion after Japan win Protests in Iran State run live TV hacked by protesters Climate change World aviation agrees aspirational net zero plan Democrats were already struggling in Florida. Then came Hurricane Ian.

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Hurricane Julia makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 1 storm Gambia cough syrup scandal Police investigate deaths linked to medicine Protests in Iran State run live TV hacked by protesters Uvalde suspends school police force after mass shooting North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, South Korea and Japan say Herschel Walker centers pitch to Republicans on wokeness Will the Biden administration overhaul US cannabis policy Residents allowed to return to Florida island slammed by Ian Climate change World aviation agrees aspirational net zero plan Suspect arrested in unprovoked stabbing death in Bronx subway station Yellen says OPEC oil production cuts bad for global economy Zaporizhzhia attack Russian shelling in annexed city kills 17 Russian divers to check damage to blast hit Crimea bridge New York City declares state of emergency over migrant crisis situation Thai nursery attack The story of the three year old survivor Verstappen seals title amid confusion after Japan win Democrats were already struggling in Florida. Then came Hurricane Ian. Crimea bridge Russia ramps up security after blast Suspect in Las Vegas Strip mass stabbing appears to have spoken to Los Angeles TV station 2 days prior

There have been a number of workplace controversy stories in the news lately, including a fired Los Angeles TV anchor protecting his BFF co-anchor, and CNN's Christiane Amanpour getting her interview with the President of Iran because she refused to wear a head covering in his presence, so the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro asks how do you balance your personal values with workplace boundaries?  KGO's listeners weigh in with their experiences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There have been a number of workplace controversy stories in the news lately, including a fired Los Angeles TV anchor protecting his BFF co-anchor, and CNN's Christiane Amanpour getting her interview with the President of Iran because she refused to wear a head covering in his presence, so the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro asks how do you balance your personal values with workplace boundaries?  KGO's listeners weigh in with their experiences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is Pod Crashing Episode 132 with Jonathan Walton host of Queen of the Con. Imagine waking up one day and realizing your best friend is actually an international con artist on the run from authorities. She has also scammed you out of your life savings. That's what happened to Los Angeles TV producer Johnathan Walton, as he explains in QUEEN OF THE CON, a 10-part podcast series beginning September 30th that explores the life-and larceny-of Marianne Smyth. Johnathan brings listeners along as he recounts his personal history with "Mair," and the investigation that led him to connect all the dots and unmask the more than 40 other victims Smyth had terrorized across the world-everyone from politicians to lawyers to the Irish police and U.S. judges. While Johnathan's dogged pursuit first exposed Smyth's cons to the world and landed her in LA County jail in 2019, he picks up the trail now that she's out on probation in 2020. and likely to start scamming again!

This is Pod Crashing Episode 132 with Jonathan Walton host of Queen of the Con. Imagine waking up one day and realizing your best friend is actually an international con artist on the run from authorities. She has also scammed you out of your life savings. That's what happened to Los Angeles TV producer Johnathan Walton, as he explains in QUEEN OF THE CON, a 10-part podcast series beginning September 30th that explores the life-and larceny-of Marianne Smyth. Johnathan brings listeners along as he recounts his personal history with "Mair," and the investigation that led him to connect all the dots and unmask the more than 40 other victims Smyth had terrorized across the world-everyone from politicians to lawyers to the Irish police and U.S. judges. While Johnathan's dogged pursuit first exposed Smyth's cons to the world and landed her in LA County jail in 2019, he picks up the trail now that she's out on probation in 2020. and likely to start scamming again!

This is Pod Crashing Episode 132 with Jonathan Walton host of Queen of the Con.Imagine waking up one day and realizing your best friend is actually an international con artist on the run from authorities. She has also scammed you out of your life savings. That's what happened to Los Angeles TV producer Johnathan Walton, as he explains in QUEEN OF THE CON, a 10-part podcast series beginning September 30th that explores the life-and larceny-of Marianne Smyth. Johnathan brings listeners along as he recounts his personal history with "Mair," and the investigation that led him to connect all the dots and unmask the more than 40 other victims Smyth had terrorized across the world-everyone from politicians to lawyers to the Irish police and U.S. judges. While Johnathan's dogged pursuit first exposed Smyth's cons to the world and landed her in LA County jail in 2019, he picks up the trail now that she's out on probation in 2020. and likely to start scamming again!

This is Pod Crashing Episode 132 with Jonathan Walton host of Queen of the Con. Imagine waking up one day and realizing your best friend is actually an international con artist on the run from authorities. She has also scammed you out of your life savings. That's what happened to Los Angeles TV producer Johnathan Walton, as he explains in QUEEN OF THE CON, a 10-part podcast series beginning September 30th that explores the life-and larceny-of Marianne Smyth. Johnathan brings listeners along as he recounts his personal history with "Mair," and the investigation that led him to connect all the dots and unmask the more than 40 other victims Smyth had terrorized across the world-everyone from politicians to lawyers to the Irish police and U.S. judges. While Johnathan's dogged pursuit first exposed Smyth's cons to the world and landed her in LA County jail in 2019, he picks up the trail now that she's out on probation in 2020. and likely to start scamming again!

Two weeks ago, we listened to Jason Miles talk about Mary, Martha and Lazarus in John, Chapter 11. (See Sew Powerful Podcast, episode 67) Today, Jason moves on to John, Chapter 12 and introduces several Biblical references to the poor and caring for those living in poverty, including Deuteronomy 15, Galatians 2, Acts 2 and Isiah 61. But Jason also quotes the New York Times and plays a clip from a local Los Angeles TV station. He reminds us to find the balance between faith with no action and action with no faith. As always, Jason includes great contemporary stories to illustrate the lessons he finds in scripture.

He may have created and starred in “Gold Rush,” one of the top-rated shows on cable television the last 10 years, but there was no rush to gold for Todd Hoffman. From humble and unconventional beginnings, you'll see how this week's game face exec had just enough vision, mixed with a dramatic dose of craziness, to prove he knew more about what the world wanted to watch than high-salaried Los Angeles TV executives ever could imagine. Join me, and learn about the man behind the beard, where he derives his inspiration and drive, and why he truly does have a “mine of his own.”

The world knows him as the voice of The Price Is Right.  Los Angeles TV viewers remember him as a CBS weatherman.  Here in Tampa Bay, we knew him as a Q105 host.  But now Rich Fields has a new endeavor and I'm so excited to let him tell you about it.  Rich talks in this episode how he arrived at the decision to make a big pivot in his professional and personal life. Bob Barker set him up for life financially.  Later, working in weather and radio fulfilled his interests and passions at the time.  But what Rich has planned now is much bigger.  It's a cause that's close to his heart and is a way for him to give back.  When Rich left Q105 earlier this year, many on social media assumed Rich had plans to move back to Hollywood.  But Rich has something to accomplish of a much greater significance. He wants to make an impact and help families and children in particular.  And I'll stop right there and let him tell you about his mission in this episode of The Other 59 Minutes.

Our Raiders and NFL Insider, Vinny Bonsignore, joins the show to talk about the 14 team playoff format, the plan to move the season forward without delay and more. Might the Federal government send financial aid to NCAA schools? Also, Los Angeles TV news legend, Pat Harvey, joins the show to talk about a worthy cause to aid LAUSD students

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Writer/producer Elle Johnson is currently an Executive Producer on the Amazon series Bosch. Previously she has worked on other TV series including CSI: Miami, Law & Order, Ghost Whisperer, Saving Grace and The Glades. Listen to this episode to find out how a New York City parole officer's daughter became a Los Angeles TV writer. Watch episodes of Bosch. Read more about The Passionistas Project. ----more---- FULL TRANSCRIPT: Passionistas: [00:00:00] Hi and welcome to the Passionistas Project Podcast. We're Amy and Nancy Harrington and if you enjoy listening to the show, please consider becoming a patron. Just a small donation of one dollar a month can help us keep the project going and you'll get rewards like buttons, access to premium content and invites to Passionistas Project events. Today we're talking to writer/producer Elle Johnson. In addition to her current role as Executive Producer on the Amazon series Bosch, Elle has worked on the TV series CSI: Miami, Law and Order, Ghost Whisperer, Saving Grace and The Glades. So please welcome to the show Elle Johnson. Elle Johnson: Thank you it's really wonderful to be here. Passionistas: What are you most passionate about? Elle Johnson: [00:00:40] This is going to sound bizarrely selfish but I am most passionate about telling my stories. I have gotten to a point in my career, in my life, where I realized that the way I best communicate with the world and also the way I best process life is through telling stories. Writing them down. I came to writing late in life, or later I wasn't one of these people who started out as a kid and knew that I just wanted to be a writer. I had to discover that for myself. And once I discovered that that was the thing that made me happiest, I just wanted to learn how to be the best writer I could be and tell stories the best way that I could. As I've written I've come to realized that I'm what I would refer to as a method writer in that I like to have an experience with something. So in order for me to write about something I feel like if I haven't already had a personal experience with it or some involvement with it, I like to go out and get that personal experience with it and kind of use that to inform my writing. And so that's enabled me to learn about everything and anything in the world that I want to and kind of insert myself into situations that I have no understanding of or no business being a part of. But suddenly I can learn about another part of the world. And to me that is I think the thing that drives me as a writer is being able to find stories that I can make my own and tell my stories. Passionistas: [00:02:19] How do you translate that into what you do for a living? Elle Johnson: [00:02:23] The great thing about being a television writer is so much of writing TV is exploring other worlds. And I primarily write cop shows. My dad was a parole officer in Manhattan for 30 years. My uncles were homicide detectives. I have a lot of law enforcement in my family and so I'm really comfortable with that world and also kind of with that character. It's a very particular personality who goes into law enforcement. I really feel like I understand that. So while I generally have ended up working on cop show. And when you do a cop show, usually what happens is you have the detectives kind of walking in and out of different worlds. Whoever the victims are, whoever the suspects are you're usually entering their world. And that's what makes it fascinating for me because it makes it, I get to enter worlds. I get to decide OK this this week I want to discover what's going on in the world of fashion or in the world of anthropologists or just whatever it is. And then you get to do kind of a deep dive and really explore that. And the best experience or one of the best experiences that I had in my career was working on a show called The Glades. And we had been approached about or asked by the network if we could find a way to do a story about NASCAR. And I said, "I'm a black girl from Queens. I don't know anything about NASCAR." But I started to do research and I realized it was this incredible world that in many ways was similar to being a writer or being in television in that they worked, most of the year. Like their season was I think you know 10 out of 12 months and the intensity of it and the passion with which they approached it I thought, "OK I kind of get what this world is." And I went to the Daytona 500 as part of my research and NASCAR opened their doors to me. They got me a hot pass. I was in the pits. I was meeting drivers. I was in the garages all of a sudden. And I just fell in love with this world and started going to races. And writing that episode I really had to kind of have my own experience with NASCAR and it ended up being a fantastic experience. NASCAR gave us cars to put it in our show. They gave us the trucks. We shot at a Homestead in Miami. We had four drivers in our episode. And it just ended up taking over my life. But it was such a wonderful experience because I really got to do a deep dive and understand that world. So much so that they invited me at the end of the year to their championship dinner and put me on panels and flew me out to Las Vegas to participate. And it's just like I was included in this family and that's exactly the kind of experience I want to have as a writer where you say, "OK I don't know anything about this world but I'm going to find out about this world." And I really found out about a great. Passionistas: [00:05:25] Tell us your path to becoming a writer/producer. Elle Johnson: [00:05:27] I really didn't know what I want to do after college. And the smartest thing I did. Through all of the mistakes that I've made was saying to myself that I needed to take time to figure out what my passion was. Like what it was that I really wanted to do. So right after college I rode a bicycle across country with a group of students called the Ride for Life and we were raising money for Oxfam America and Save the Children. So it was during that bike ride where we biked back from San Francisco to Boston that I just kind of allowed myself to think about what do I want to do with my life? And being on the road on a bicycle, seeing the country thinking, seeing the country and meeting all kinds of different people and really just seeing how other people lived, helps me to understand that I had stories that I wanted to tell. At the end of the ride, I ended up taking a job working at the American University in Cairo — an intern at the school. And I started my job was to write grant proposals for Egyptian students like soliciting American companies primarily like Raytheon. A lot of kind of defense contractors who were giving money to educate Egyptian students. And so I started, that was kind of my first quote unquote writing job writing those grants and proposals. And while I was in Egypt I just started writing stories about my life in the states like short stories. When I got back to the states I got a job as a technical writer for a small company called Lutan Technologies that had created the computer program that allowed the Bank of Boston to track asset backed securities. I know this sounds crazy. It was that it was the computer program that allowed them to track their home mortgage loans or mortgage loans. And it was one of the first computer programs that did that and it was a startup company. I mean I didn't realize I was in a startup computer company but I was. And I was tasked with writing the technical manual to explain to the bankers how to use the system. I was a fine arts major. So this was not in my wheelhouse at all but I needed to use the system and figure out how to write it clearly so that people could understand. So I sort of started doing a little bit of technical writing and while I was doing technical writing I realized this was not the type of writing I wanted to do. I wanted to write stories and short stories. So I applied for a Rotary scholarship to go to the University of East Anglia in England and learn creative writing. I did that for a year and started writing screenplays and while I was in England I was like, "Okay I've tried all these different types of writing. I want to try to get into film and television." So I went back to New York where I'm from and managed to get a job on a television show as a script coordinator, was my first job in television. I did not know what a script coordinator was but they said don't worry about it will teach you what it is and it's basically using the computer program to generate the scripts that someone showed me how to do it. And all of a sudden I was surrounded by these professional television writers and working very closely with them and taking notes for them and working on the scripts and seeing how scripts come together and I was like, "Okay this is what I want to do." I want to write TV for the reason that I saw that there was so much that you could learn every day as you're trying to write your episode. And also unlike film, television you have to produce a script. Like what you write is going to be produced because they need something for air. So something's going on the air whether it's good or bad and you're going to have something going on the air. And I thought this is great. This is a way to actually get your stuff made. And that was really my entree into writing for television. And when I was writing on this show I met a writer by the name of Eric Overmeyer who became my mentor and has helped me throughout my career. He gave me my very first job in television and he's hired me on other shows including Bosch where he was the showrunner. He also hired me to work on Law and Order. He got me a job on a show called Street Time that was about parole officers and parolees which he knew was in my wheelhouse because my dad was a parole officer. So through that one job basically I found my mentor and kind of got my career. Passionistas: [00:10:05] And what show was that? Elle Johnson: [00:10:07] It was a show called The Cosby Mysteries staring Mr. Bill Cosby as a forensic expert in the NYPD. It was a very quirky show. His character had a housekeeper who had been a dancer and she was a very eccentric woman who never clean the house and she was played by Rita Moreno. He had a sidekick who was a young African-American kid who, the actor's name was Dante Beze and he left the show to become Mos Def. So it was just in terms of the people who were involved with it was kind of incredible. And on that show were a bunch of writers also who who worked on Law and Order. And it filmed in New York on Pier 62 which at that time, before it got built up into the pier that it is now, was kind of well known as a Mafia dumping ground for bodies. Just like abandoned pier situation that has since been refurbished and is now a place where a lot of television shows shoot. But it was kind of like the one hour drama ghetto. Law and Order was filming out of there and a show called Homicide was filming out of there. And Eric Overmeyer who was a writer on The Cosby Mysteries when that show got cancelled went to work on Homicide. And I at that time was just trying to figure out how to actually become a working writer — make the jump from being a script coordinator to a working writer. So I'd moved out to L.A. and Eric Overmeyer and Tom Fontana were like, "Oh okay she's serious about becoming a writer because she actually moved out there." So Eric approached me about writing an episode of Homicide. And I was so grateful for the opportunity to do a freelance. He was doing something that at the time I didn't realize how incredible a gesture it was. He offered to split a script with me. Which I now realize is taking money out of his own pocket to give me an opportunity. But at that time Homicide was an NBC show and it was always on the bubble. They never knew if they were going to come back or not. So he offered me this with the caveat that they didn't know if they were going to have enough episodes or not. And as it turned out they ended up saying you know we can't give you an episode because we have a writer on the show and her grandfather was a writer and he needed a credit to keep his health insurance which is a situation that happens all too frequently in this business. You know it's so hard to have a consistent career and sometimes you just need to do a freelance episode to keep your health insurance. And I totally understood that. So they were gonna give him the episode that was supposed to go to me. His name was Julius Epstein. And if you know anything about writing you know that he is one of the twins who wrote Casablanca. So if I had to be bumped by anybody needed health insurance I was like, that's totally fine go for it. During the course of all of this happening Jerry Seinfeld decided that he was not going to continue with Seinfeld. So he told NBC. And NBC basically panicked and picked up all of their shows including Homicide. So all of a sudden they had more episodes so the guys say Homicide came back to me and said, "Oh we can give you an episode you can have one." I was like great. So I ended up writing the first part of a two parter. It was the ninety ninth episode. It was a big shoot out in the station. And they'd also said to me they wanted to do a story in the world of parole. And so they knew that I was a parole officer's daughter and that I would have a bunch of stories. So I went through my mental file of all the stories my dad had ever told me and came up with this story a very personal story to him that had really influenced him. There was one of the few parole officers killed in the line of duty in New York. He was gunned down in the streets by his parolee. So I kind of knew a little bit of the inside story of who they thought it was and why it had happened. And so I basically just pitched them that story and that was the story that I ended up writing. My first episode of television. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow. It was a great experience and a great way to get my feet wet in television. Passionistas: [00:14:42] So then how do you make the transition from writer to producer? Elle Johnson: [00:14:46] Making the transition from getting a freelance episode to staff writer is the first difficulty as well. So I was already in Los Angeles when I got this freelance episode. But I was working as a secretary at Sony Animation. And my boss was a lovely gentleman who understood that I wanted to be a writer and that this was kind of a day job for me. And that I was going to get out of there at 5 and go home and start writing. I had written this freelance episode and was in the process of just trying to get a staff job. The writer who helped me was a gentleman named Kevin Arkadine. A friend of my sister's who was in the industry got in touch with him and said, "Will you read this woman's samples and give her notes? She's trying to get into the business." And Kevin said to me later that he does this favor once a year for people. So I was once a year favor of reading my script. He gave me notes. I didn't agree with all of the notes but I executed all of the notes because he'd spent the time to give me notes and I thought I want to show him that I can execute his notes. So he did his notes and gave him the script back and he was impressed. And when he got his own show he called me to come in and interview to be a writer. And that ended up being my first staff job on television. And he'd said to me because I had not only taken his notes but executed them, that he knew that I could do the job because I'd already kind of proven it to him. So it was a show called Rescue 77. It was about firefighters and it was another great experience because we, I knew nothing about firefighters especially firefighters in L.A. So one of the first things that they had to do was go out on ride along with various fire departments. Sleep over in the station houses. I mean it was incredible in terms of doing research. And I went to a bunch of different station houses and rode with the paramedics and the firefighters. And they loved having people because according to them, it seemed busy to me, but according to the firefighters inevitably have when you have a ride along nothing happens. So it was like a superstition like great somebody in a station house so it's going to be quiet nothing's going to happen we'll be able to sit down and have dinner. It seemed busy to me but to them they're like others is the great we're not getting as many calls because you're here. But it was just kind of my entree into the power of being able to call someone up and say, "Hey I'm writing a television show. Can I come and do some research?" And then like the door gets opened and suddenly you're invited into all kinds of people's different worlds. And you can see how they do their jobs and how they live. So that was my first staff writer job and I have been lucky enough to have worked every year since then. I've always had either a job on staff or have managed to sell a piece of development. That show Rescue 77, I think we only lasted five episodes. So this was at a time when it was primarily network television. We were on I think it was the UPN, like the Paramount Network, but there weren't too many choices in terms of television at that time. So we're dealing with a network and it was my first experience of being on a set and feeling the panic when network executive shows up unannounced which I then learned means that you're going to be canceled. Like at first you think, "Oh how wonderful they're coming to check up on your show." And then all of the more seasoned people are like, oh no, this is what this means, because they don't ever come to check up after a certain point especially not like on the fifth episode. So we were canceled when the network executive showed up and everyone's like all right we're canceled. So after that you know I had an agent and my agent was great in terms of getting me onto my next gig. Passionistas: [00:18:55] At what point did you make the step to be a producer as well? Elle Johnson: [00:18:58] So on Rescue 77 I was a staff writer and then I went on another show. I think I was a staff writer again on a show called Ryan Caufield which is a show about a 21-year-old rookie police officer. And that was another show again that lasted I think I think we got canceled after maybe seven or eight episodes. At that point I was able to get on a show called Any Day Now, which was more a character driven show starred Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussant as friends, two women who had grown up together in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. And it kind of followed their lives when they were little girls and also adult women. And we cut back and forth between their lives and their stories and it was a great show. I was a story editor on that and I stayed on that show for two years and made it into the Co-Producer ranks before Annie Potts decided that she she wanted to stop acting for a while. I think that lasted for a year and then she did another show. But because that show went down. I kind of ended it as a Co-Producer. And at that point Eric Overmeyer stepped back into my life. He'd met a gentleman who was doing a show about parole officers. The gentleman named Richard Stratton who had been like America's biggest pot smuggler had done 20 or was sentenced to 25 years in the federal pen for smuggling pot and he found a loophole in his sentencing and got out. And of course with that kind of background the only place that will take you was Hollywood. So he was able to sell his show about his experiences being a parolee and being a pot smuggler. And he'd met with Eric looking for writers. And Eric was like I have just the person for you about a show that includes a parole officer and his parolee. And so I met with Richard Stratton and he ended up hiring me to be on the show called Street Time which was a Showtime show that was like completely in my wheelhouse. It was so great we got to tell a lot of my dad's stories. You know a lot of kind of parole stories that I don't think I would have ever been able to put anywhere else because they were so specific. And it was a really interesting experience for me as a young writer. It was a very small room. I think we had I think we had there were only four of us in total. And I was the only writer kind of in a lower level producer range everybody else was an EP or a Co-EP but very seasoned writers but they didn't have the same experience as I did having a parole officer for a father. And a lot of the show also dealt with the families of the parolee and the parole officers. So I know I had a ton of stories and kind of understood what it was like to be raised in a parole officer's house. And in terms of building confidence and navigating that experience I was interesting to be in the room with Richard and myself and then these kind of TV writers who were used to writing cop shows and they'd be like, OK well in this episode you know we had a storyline where one of the parole officers had to kill a parolee in the line of duty. And the other writers were talking about how, "Yeah we want to do a follow up episode where the parole officer is kind of wracked by guilt over having had to kill this parolee and how that affects him." And I remember Richard and I looked at each other and started laughing and we're like, "That's not how the parole officer feels." And we were kind of just talking about from our experiences what we knew would have been going on and the parole officers had it's like it's him or me. This is part of the job. He's not racked with guilt. He did what he had to do. And so it was interesting to be in a situation where even though there's a lower level writer I kind of had experiences that could make the show more authentic. And that was another show where I met met a writer, a wonderful writer named Clifton Campbell who then became definitely another mentor to me and has hired me on other jobs. He was the creator and showrunner of the show called The Glades. That he then hired me to work on because we had such a good experience working together on Street Time. So a lot of it is relationships. A lot of it for me is getting into a room and doing the job and doing the job well with integrity knowing that you are mimicking somebody else's voice. You're there to make the showrunner job easier your job is as much as you want to infuse the stories with parts of yourself and tell your stories which I definitely want to do your main job is to execute the show and help the showrunner and get the voice of the show. So having learned that and having learned how to do that, that's always kind of kept me in good stead because I feel like people value that I'm going to come on a show and really try to give them what they need and what they want so that they're not constantly having to rewrite me. That they know that I'm going to try and hand in a script that's going to be as close to their voice as possible. As network ready as possible. And through that experience I kind of started to develop a set of rules for myself about how to how to be in a room what I wanted to be in terms of a writer. And I remember early on just through observation and how I interacted on a staff. I came up with three rules that seemed to be the way that you had to comport yourself in a writers room. One was even if you didn't respect someone you always had to respectful because I want to be respected. But even if I don't agree with someone or I think you know always treat people with respect. The second thing was to do every note even if I don't agree with the note our I don't think it's going to work. I have to try it and prove it. Like execute the note. If it doesn't really work then at least you can say I didn't. It doesn't work. I tried it. I've really tried it but then it might work. Find a way to make it work. So execute every note. And my last rule was more of a self-preservation one which was the money always wins. Which is you know we're artists we all want to we try to be good craftsmen you want to write something that's artful but at the end of the day you know the Medici is paying for them the Medici is the studio and the network and if they want something you have to give it to them because you'll get the note once and you might be like ah, I'm not going to. I'm not going to do that. And then you'll get the note again and you'll get the note and you'll get the note and you'll get the note until you execute the note or they fire you. So the money always wins. So you know we're there to not only execute the vision of a creator of a show but to provide a brand to provide something that the network is buying. And you have to find a way to maintain your integrity. Tell stories that you want to tell but also give the people who are buying it what they want. Passionistas: [00:26:46] We're Amy Nancy Harrington and you're listening to the Passionistas Project Podcast and our interview with Elle Johnson. Check out Elle's work on the TV series Bosch on Amazon.com, Now here's more of our conversation with Elle. What challenges do you feel like you've faced as a woman and as a black woman in Hollywood? Elle Johnson: [00:27:04] My experience as a woman of color writing in Hollywood has been I am... The reason I get in the room is because they're looking for a woman of color. They are specifically looking to fill that quota. They either feel like they have, there's a female character in the show so they're like oh we need a woman's perspective. There's a minority character in the show that they feel like they need that perspective and I kind of click off a couple of boxes for them. That's the reason that I get the first job usually. But then the reason that I get hired again by the same people is because I'm good. Yes I feel like that in a weird way, it's you know it feels like okay, maybe I'm being hired for something that seems like well it's limiting. But once they get in the door it's like I realized that my responsibility is to prove that I can write the show and write it really well. And also bring a perspective that people might not have. I know some writers feel like oh you don't want to be that person in the room where you're always pitching the black story or their gender story. And I feel the opposite way I feel like that's my responsibility. It's my... because nobody else is going to tell those stories. People are not... and I understand that to a degree when you're in a room and it's predominantly white men. They're not thinking from that perspective. So I have to bring that perspective. And always point out, "Hey there's another way of looking at this situation." Or you know this character has no life. I've been in rooms where you know you have kind of the black female character. She's usually a lieutenant. An interesting thing kind of happens where you're on a show and they're staffing a show and people will realize that they they're not representing women or they're not. You know they want to have a person of color. And that and usually that person is usually delegated to like the lieutenant or somebody who's not there on the periphery there. They're there in a high position. But you don't end up having to tell a lot of stories about them because they're not the main focus. I remember hearing someone joking about how if you watch television you would think that every judge in America is a black woman because that's what they cast because it's like, "oh right we need to put a black woman in here" or "we need to put a person of color." So they stick them into a role that you really don't get to see the full life of that person. There are a mouthpiece. You know they have a position of power but it's in terms of the story it's not really ever the main focus of the story. So I've been in situations and shows where you have the lieutenants or you know that that one character where it's like you don't go home with them. They seem to have no life. It's almost as though they only exist in the gaze of the main lead character who's usually a white man. And I feel like my job is to try to fill that character out. Like what do they do when they go home. I've been on shows where I've said, "If this character for our Christmas episode ends up having Christmas with the main character because they have no family or friends I'm going to slash my wrists." Like this is completely ridiculous. This person has loved ones. They have friends. They have a life outside of this office. Please do not make them show up at somebody else's Christmas. Let's give them a life. And let's make a bigger story for them. So I feel like that is part of my job. To fill out the world of these other characters and say you know there's more going on with them than just the job. Let's do for these characters as we do for all the other characters. Passionistas: [00:30:54] Do you have a mantra that you live by? Elle Johnson: [00:30:57] Over the years I have had several mantras. It's really interesting that you ask that because I I'm a person who likes to make New Year's resolutions. So I like I love the holidays. I love December because I start to close out the year mentally and reflect on what I've done and start to think about what I'm going to do next year. And project into the next year. And over the course of my career, particularly when I first started out, I would come up with these mantras that I'd be like okay this is the mantra for the year going forward. And I remember one of my earlier ones was "You know it you must do. It's inside of you for a reason. Don't deny yourself any longer." And I would say that to myself every day. Like I'd wake up and be like "OK. You know what you must do. It's Inside of you for a reason. Don't deny yourself any longer." And that's how I kind of got myself to be a writer. And one of my other mantras was it had to do with... "There's magic in the ether. You can do whatever you want. And you're responsible for whatever you have or don't have." But I love the idea of you know sometimes you look at a situation you look at like how do I become a television writer? How do I do this? How do people do this? And for me it was there's magic in the ether. You just got to go for the magic. There's there's something out there, I don't know, I can't explain how it happens but I'm going to believe that there's magic in the ether. And I'm going to make it happen somehow. Right now it's you know December I'm kind of trying to figure out what my mantra for the year going forward is. Two years ago my mantra was "This is the year that you're going to fail at everything. And I decided that I was just going to start swinging hard. I knew I was going to fail. This is the year that you can make mistakes. You're going to fail. You're going to fall on your face and it's OK. But you got to take those big swings, big risks for big rewards. So my mantra was "This is the year that you fail at everything." And I really approached it as just try to try and allow yourself to fail miserably and see what happens. Passionistas: [00:33:18] How did it turn out? Elle Johnson: [00:33:18] It was great. You know, that was a year when I believe I had started pitching pilots for the first time. And I sold a pilot like my first time out it was an amazing experience. But I was willing to fail. And that was also one of the things that someone had said to me early on in my career when I first moved out to Los Angeles from New York he said you have to gamble Vegas style. You've picked something that you know it's impossible. There's no reason why you should succeed at this. So you're already gambling. So if you're going to gamble don't do scratch off if you're going to gamble gamble all of it. All of it go all end. Gamble Vegas style. And I was like You're right that's how you do it just go all in. There's no plan B. This is working. I'm spending everything on the table and that mindset of like this has to work because what else I going to do that works. Passionistas: [00:34:24] So the journey so far what do you consider the most courageous thing you did? Elle Johnson: [00:34:29] Moving out to L.A. I know I was... I'm a born and bred New Yorker... Didn't learn to drive 'til I was 21. The idea of having to come to a city where I owned a car and car insurance that alone was like, "How do people do that? What is that? I don't understand that. There's no subway? How will I exist here?" So the decision to leave my life in New York which included a boyfriend who was a neurosurgeon and African-American. My mother wanted to kill me like that relationship. I ended that relationship because I realized I that wasn't my life. I had to try this. I had to come out to L.A. and my parents were not supportive at all. They like you're insane you're ruining your life. We're watching you ruin your life and getting on a plane and coming out to sleep on somebody's couch with no job. And I'm like I'm just going to get a day job and trying right. Passionistas: [00:35:38] Worked out okay. Elle Johnson: [00:35:38] Yeah it worked. It worked out. Yes. Passionistas: [00:35:42] Have you ever thought of quitting? Elle Johnson: [00:35:45] No. Once I started it was like I'm doing this. This is you know I tell people who young writers who are coming up like, "Don't get out of line. Once you're in line don't get out of line because the person behind you is going to take your spot. You're going to move up. Just stay in line and keep doing what you're doing. You only fail when you stop trying. So just don't stop trying. It's still trying. You're still you can still do it. Keep stay in line and keep doing what you're doing." Passionistas: [00:36:16] What's your secret to a rewarding life? Elle Johnson: [00:36:19] Secret to a rewarding life is finding a way somehow to do what I want to do which is write. Finding a way to tell my stories and within my career early on I realized that I had to learn craft to get on shows that would challenge me even if it wasn't exactly the type of show that I wanted to write. Finding a way to express myself and to learn craft and really write well. So that now, 20 years in, I'm at a place where I kind of look around and not that I can pick and choose but that I can be more selective in terms of the things that I do. So you know as I get older I just realizing you only had a limited time and what do you want to spend time doing taking shows that maybe have fewer episodes but you love the material. This last year I've been an Executive Producer on Bosche which is a dream job. A show that I love. It's just writing about L.A. Writing about cops in L.A. Writing the Harry Bosch character. Getting to work with Michael Connelly who's in our room is an amazing experience. And working with Eric Overmeyer again who was the showrunner who brought me on. It just it was an incredible experience. But I only did half a year this year so that I could work on another show... Helped develop another show about Madame C.J. Walker. Which is she was the first African American millionaire in the late 1800s early 1800s. And telling her story of how she created an empire of haircare products for black women. It's just such an amazing story and I had to do it. I've really wanted to work on this show. The only way I could do it was if I spent half of my time on Bosch and the other half working on this show. So I was co-running it with a woman named Janine Sherman Barrois, who runs a show called Claws. We were both in our writers room she was on Claws. I was on Bosch during the day. At 5 o'clock, we meet and start a second writers room to break the Madam C.J. story. But we were both so passionate about this story and the woman who created it. Nicole Jefferson Asher was this incredible feature film independent film writer. So the three of us were kind of like working on other projects full time and then coming together in the evenings to break the story because we wanted to. It's like I want to do this and that's what makes me happy even though it was like you know you're working until 10:00 at night doing two shows at the same time. But we were so passionate about the material and that's what makes me happy. Being able to work on stories tell stories that I want to tell. And incredibly like it having no time at all somehow you figure out how to fit it all in because you just you have to tell these stories. Passionistas: [00:39:23] What's your definition of success? Elle Johnson: [00:39:25] My definition of success is being happy. Being happy doing what you're doing. Being satisfied and being able to pursue something that is of interest and value to you. That's my definition of success. Passionistas: [00:39:42] Thanks for listening to the Passionistas Project Podcast and our interview with Elle Johnson. Check out Elle's work on the TV series Bosch on Amazon.com. And be sure to subscribe to the Passionistas Project Podcast so you don't miss any of our upcoming, inspiring guests.  

Low Country Blood is the second book in Sue Hinkin’s Vega & Middleton Mystery Series and it launches in a few short weeks, on April 1. The new story focuses on Los Angeles TV journalist Beatrice Middleton, who has lost her job. With a possible employment offer in Atlanta, she heads home to Savannah to reconnect with her contentious African-American family, arriving to find that her 15-year-old nephew has been murdered. This begins the unraveling of a cloak of family secrets surrounding another devastating crime, one that shattered Bea's world when she was a teen. Low Country Blood, follows the launch last year of Deadly Focus. Both titles drew rave reviews from Kirkus and the next two books in the series are ready to go. A native of Chicago, Sue headed to Minnesota and majored in art at St. Olaf College, She completed graduate work in Michigan before hightailing it to warmer climes. Sue was cinematography Fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and was one of the first camerawomen in the news business. She also spent a number of years working in the NBC-TV Art Department. On the podcast, Sue Hinkin talks about researching the novel in Savannah and also about the challenges she has encountered along the way, particularly in featuring an African-American as her protagonist. Sue Hinkin's website Intro music by Moby Outro music by Dan-o-Songs

This week I talked to Erica Mandy, an award-winning TV news reporter and host of the daily news podcast, theNewsWorthy, about making the transition from TV journalism to entrepreneurship. We talk about the difficulties she's faced in being her own boss, why neutral/unbiased news is more important than ever, and what it was like to work for a Sinclair-owned news station.  As a TV news reporter, Erica was live on the scene during terrorist attacks, wildfires and federal court rulings, to name a few.  She's interviewed politicians, CEOs, experts, and everyday people doing extraordinary things. Erica quit her job as a Los Angeles TV news reporter to launch theNewsWorthy: a daily roundup of politics, tech, business and entertainment that makes it faster, easier and way more fun to get all the news you need to know.

Erica Mandy Showing The World How To Be Truly News Worthy My guest today, on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots free podcast interview is with a lady who started on a career path that the world would say was sexy, and then deciding it wasn't for her and going a totally different direction. Leaving the Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Missouri-Columbia with degrees in Journalism, our guest spent the last decade -- on TV, radio and online -- reporting news and sharing stories around the country. First working for Newsy, an over-the-top news network that provides "news with the why," built to inform and engage by delivering today's top stories across platforms. Its content is available in on-demand and to Los Angeles CBS News, where she would report national and local news for the second largest news market in the country.  As a TV news reporter, she was live on the scene during terrorist attacks, wildfires and federal court rulings, to name a few. She's interviewed politicians, CEOs, experts, and everyday people doing extraordinary things and it seemed that she was loving every second. So what was going on internally to make her quit her job as a Los Angeles TV news reporter to launch theNewsWorthy: a daily roundup of politics, tech, business and entertainment Which she says "Makes it faster, easier and way more fun to get all the news you need to know. Listen on-the-go in less than 10 minutes, Monday through Friday." Is this an inspired move into a world that consumes information when and where they want it? Or has she taken on a world that is already dealing with tsunami of information and now zoning out? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Erica Mandy Show Highlights During the show we discussed such weighty topics with Erica Mandy such as: Erica shares how all her hard work and experience over the last decade has left her with the skills to progress to where she wants to be. No experience is ever wasted no matter what you may think at the time. We discuss that moment in your life when you realise that your business is actually a nuisance and there are things you just have to do away from work. Erica reveals that she has given herself a year to see what she can make of her new venture, safe in the knowledge that she can always get a job if needed. We dont have to end in despair, but we do need something to give us the courage to move forward with. and lastly…. Why Donald Trump's fake news is such big news at the moment, and how the world feels about such reporting. 

Ken Davis is a multi-Emmy-winning producer for some of LA's top local newscasts, and his new memoir "In Bed With Broadcasting" has amazing stories of his encounters with finding a dead Hollywood legend in a shocking situation, encountering one of America's most notorious serial killers one on one in darkness, and much more. The book is great, but oh man he's survived some funny awful moments! Tune in!

It’s Day 112 of Bath Time! Paul and Anthony McCormack have just been to see Nightcrawler and they are thoroughly creeped out. Jake Gyllenhaal is downright incredible as the socially awkward and determined businessman filming on the scene gory crime footage for Los Angeles TV news. There are some lessons to be learned about business operations, fake city backdrops and how not to seduce a woman. The post 112 – Nightcrawler w/ Anthony McCormack appeared first on Mammoth Audio.

FROM THE BEST OF STATE OF THE ARTS – OCTOBER 4, 2010 - How do you keep the music playing? The incomparable Roslyn Kind (younger sister of Barbra Streisand) answersthat question, and more, as she talks about her life on Broadway, in nightclubs, and as a popular recording artist. It’s another “No Pants Monday” as Sterling & Stroili share tales of tails. The live Arts Calendar for the week is read; followed by reviews of 19 year old musical theatre star Derek Klena’s headlining concert debut at Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s in Studio City; and the world premiere of the New York bound Leap of Faithat the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, starring Broadway sensation Raul Esparza and Brooke Shields. Critically acclaimed Los Angeles TV, film and stage actor Ian Vogt talks about his role in SeaGlass Theatre’s hit comedyOf Grapes and Nutsat the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, CA. Senses are tested as Vogt and Kind share their most embarrassing moments on stage. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

How do you keep the music playing? The incomparable Roslyn Kind answers that question, and more, as she talks about her life on Broadway, in nightclubs, and as a popular recording artist. It???s another “No Pants Monday??? as Sterling & Stroili share tales of tails. The live Arts Calendar for the week is read; followed by reviews of 19 year old musical theatre star Derek Klena???s headlining concert debut at Sterling???s Upstairs at Vitello???s in Studio City; and the world premiere of the New York bound Leap of Faith at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, starring Broadway sensation Raul Esparza and Brooke Shields. Critically acclaimed Los Angeles TV, film and stage actor Ian Vogt talks about his role in SeaGlass Theatre???s hit comedy Of Grapes and Nuts at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, CA. Senses are tested as Vogt and Kind share their most embarrassing moments on stage. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

Kris & David are joined by Mike Sempervive (@Sempervive) to discuss the weeks that were March 4-17, 1985 as we finally get caught up to our usual schedule after our real-life induced backlog of shows. We talk about some odd shows in the Northeast under the Pro Wrestling USA banner with a bunch totally different looks and lineups, as well asthe new talent entering JCP such as Arn Anderson & Buddy Landel. Speaking debuts, we discuss the debut of the Road Warriors in All Japan and how big of a phenomenon they were before they even wrestled there. We also talk about Ole Anderson's surprise for Mr. J.R., Mike Graham's tastless angle with the Freebirds in Florida, Poffomania turning heel and running wild as Tux Newman’s new charges in Memphis, Terry Taylor becoming a double champion in Mid-South, the WWF getting ready for WrestleMania with Hulk Hogan & Mr. T showing up live at the TBS studio on Techwood Drive in Atlanta, and much more. A tremendous show, so you’d best not miss it!!!! Timestamps: 0:00:00 Pro Wrestling USA & Jim Crockett Promotions 1:15:38 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, Kuwait, AWA in Canada, & EMLL 1:49:04 Classic Commercial Break 1:54:29 Housekeeping/The amazon Game 2:24:17 USA East: CWG, CWG, SECW, & Memphis/CWA 4:12:19 USA West: Mid-South, Houston, WCCW, SWCW, St. Louis, Central States, AWA, Portland, Los Angeles TV situation, & Home Video 5:00:52 WWF To support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets ( http://patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets ) and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows! Shop at Amazon via our link ( https://www.amazon.com/?tag=betweenthesheets-20 ) (go here ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=btsheets-21 ) for Amazon UK if you’re in Europe)— Nothing extra comes out of your pocket; for you, it’s the same experience you’d get going to Amazon the usual way. For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv ( http://independentwrestling.tv/ ) and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets ( http://tinyurl.com/IWTVsheets ) to sign up that way.) To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app's directory, or you can also paste Feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/BTSheets ) into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/between-the-sheets/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands