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What it's like to work in the Entertainment Industry in LA/Busy Mum of two with my American sister Molly Miller · She Said It Out Loud with Emma Young

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  You're listening to She Said It Out Loud, where real women share real stories without sugarcoating a thing.
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  I'm your host, Emma Young, and I'll bring you on filtered conversations with ambitious women who faced challenges, made bold moves, and learned a lot along the way.
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  You'll get real takeaways, honest lessons, and stories that you're gonna relate to.
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  Righto, let's get started.
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  Hey there and welcome to the podcast.
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  I'm your host, Emma Young, and this is She Said It Out Loud.
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  Today's episode, I have a very, very important guest.
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  This person I have known for 28 years, and she is another one of the Miller girls.
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  You would have heard last week I interviewed her elder sister, Abby Miller.
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  Well, Molly Miller is my guest today, and she is the sister who I shared a room with when I did Student Exchange all the way back in 1998.
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  I have visited the States eight times, and every single time I have caught up with Molly.
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  I was very privileged to go to her wedding with my husband Chris back in 2018.
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  To say that her wedding was a dream is an understatement.
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  She had a three-day event which was like summer camp for adults, and I'll never forget it.
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  She is generous beyond words.
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  She is absolutely a kind-hearted woman and somebody that I hold very dear to my heart.
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  But the reason why I wanted to get her onto the podcast is because ambition, I think, is her middle name.
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  She is so incredibly driven.
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  She is a mum of two beautiful girls.
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  She has a husband, Wiley, and she works at Netflix.
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  And she has been there for nine years.
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  To say that you can rely on her, again, a massive understatement.
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  And so I feel like she is an inspiration to all.
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  I'm gonna stop waffling.
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  Here's our conversation.
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  Welcome to the podcast, Molly.
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  Last week I would have interviewed your elder sister, uh Abby, and now that I've been here for a couple of days, I have to get you on.
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  Molly, the one that I lived with when I was an exchange student in Nebraska, all the way back in 1998.
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  Yes, we're that old.
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  Yes.
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  But we have kept in contact, visited several times, and then you actually made it to my wedding two years ago.
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  Yeah.
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  All the way to Broome, which I was incredibly grateful for because you'd never been to Australia before.
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  Right.
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  So to go from LA to Sydney and then barely be in Sydney and then go straight to Broome, you got a really hard good taste of Australia.
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  It was fun.
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  It was fun.
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  I uh got off the plane and spent a day in Sydney and I did the boat around the harbor, right?
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  Yeah.
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  I went to the zoo and then I got back to my hotel, got on a plane the next morning, and was in Broom and it was awesome.
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  I had a little sign waiting for me saying, Welcome, Molly, the Emma Ben put different name tags over as each person came in.
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  So it was great.
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  I'm multitasking.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  It was cool.
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  So great.
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  Now, if that snippet of Molly didn't give you a good look into how she operates, she does not mock around.
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  I barely think she sleeps, to be honest.
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  Tell my listeners out there who Molly Miller is.
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  Oh, jeez.
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  I am a mother of two girls.
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  That's like the most important thing, obviously, a wife.
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  And I currently I work in the industry, the entertainment industry.
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  I work for Netflix, and I'm originally from Nebraska, where Emma is very familiar with.
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  I am an athlete.
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  I grew up playing sports.
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  I played sports in college, got my master's in sports.
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  Like, yeah, just very sports-oriented, but also now I'm at Netflix.
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  Yeah, mother, wife, employee, daughter, friend, all those things.
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  So that's that's pretty much me.
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  That is you.
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  That's you to a T.
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  We're the same age, and I was really grateful to have obviously been given the opportunity to go and be an exchange student.
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  But then the fact that there was three girls in this family, the Miller family, and obviously one boy, which was Zach.
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  But we shared a room together.
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  Yeah.
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  So we got up to all sorts of mischief.
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  We'll talk about that a bit later, but that was a lot of fun.
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  And I was grateful for those years.
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  Yes.
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  Speaking of Netflix, I know that you just dropped that in there.
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  That to me sounds like a dream job.
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  I don't know anybody that works in the entertainment industry that's Australian.
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  And I know that there's lots of Australians, but Netflix seems like this amazing dream job that people could only just in their wildest thoughts think that that's even something that's a possibility.
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  Can you tell us just a smidge about that, about your job?
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  Yeah.
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  Um, so yeah, it's actually kind of what I thought, you know, like I grew up in Nebraska where like what my job is, it's not something that you learn about in career day.
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  You know, it's not something that you even know exists when you're growing up in Nebraska.
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  Probably people in Nebraska wouldn't even know anything about my job.
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  When I explain it, even to my friends that aren't in the industry or live in LA, then they're they're the same way.
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  They're like, what does that mean?
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  My friend just visited, she's the president of the WNBA team, a professional women's basketball team.
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  And I tried to explain my role to her.
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  And she's kind of in the entertainment in industry in a way.
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  She's on the sports side, but even she was like, wait, what is like, what is this?
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  So, you know, I don't know where I mean, I work as a launch manager at Netflix.
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  So I oversee television shows.
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  I oversee fiction series shows.
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  Those are just like some of our big shows that are based out of UCAN, out of the US, kind of work on ensuring that everything that we need, like on the service, is gets in and delivered on time so that we can launch the show.
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  So I have a lot of visibility around the show when it's filming and everything when it's coming in.
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  And then I have I have insight as to like everything going up on service.
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  I make decisions around that type of stuff.
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  So it's really, really interesting.
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  It's kind of hard to explain, but such an incredible job.
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  I've been there nine years as of I think this week.
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  So this week it'll be nine years that I've been at Netflix, which is such an awesome opportunity because you just don't.
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  Today's world, I mean, our parents' generation, they would go and work at these companies and they would stay there for their their whole career, right?
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  Like the whole time.
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  And until I got this role at Netflix, I did bounce around a lot, which I can get into if you want.
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  Yeah, well, that was gonna be my thing.
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  Like, it's not like you just went and got this degree or this master's and then went straight into Netflix.
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  Tell us more about that.
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  Because even getting a you know, a master's in sports management, yeah.
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  I'm just picturing like a basketball team.
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  Right.
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  I ran track in high school and then I got a full scholarship for track in college.
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  And so I was always an athlete, and I didn't really know what to do once I graduated college.
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  I was in Nebraska and I knew that I kind of wanted to be outside of that, put myself in a situation outside of my comfort.
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  And so what I did was I reached out to one of my mentors.
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  Like there's this role at my university, it's where it's almost like a person who ensures that they're the connector between the NCAA, which is the league that runs all of college sports, and the the university.
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  So they're like the compliance director, right?
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  So they make sure that athletes are eligible, they meet their grades, getting everything in to stay eligible for competing in their sport.
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  Okay.
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  So this person was my mentor and they they left.
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  There's two of people who filled this role when I was in college, and they both were mentor of mine.
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  And this person left and went to Dartmouth, which is this really big university on the East Coast in the US.
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  So I didn't want to do.
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  So I reached out to them and I said, What should I do?
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  And they said, Why don't you get a master's?
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  Because a lot of times athletes, we just don't get an enjoy undergrad because we're I was competing in cross-country, indoor, and outdoor track.
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  So I was in season all year round.
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  And then the summer I had to train or I was had a job, you know, so I didn't have a chance to like study abroad or do anything interesting.
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  I just didn't really get that college experience.
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  He's like, Get your master's degree in sports.
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  Awesome.
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  I want to be in sports anyway.
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  He made a phone call for me and he called this person he knew over at BCU, which is Virginia Commonwealth University.
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  It's in Richmond, Virginia, on the East Coast.
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  Okay.
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  Nebraska's in the middle of the country and Richmond's on the East Coast.
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  So it would have been a big move.
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  I just decided to apply and I he made a phone call.
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  I got into this university.
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  It's a really hard sports management program to get into.
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  So it was pretty amazing.
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  It's all about my whole career has been connections.
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  I have these stories like all over the place.
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  We love connections.
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  Yeah, all about connections and about just the right conversation at the right time and just being super lucky in life.
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  Always, you know, acknowledging that I've been really lucky.
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  He made a phone call, I got into my master's program, I got one of the internships that was paid.
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  So I got a little financial help, which was great.
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  Grad school's expensive, and I I was on my own trying to figure a lot of that out.
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  I have my parents' support, but financially I was doing a lot of that on my own.
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  How age was this?
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  This was when I was eight, I was 22.
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  So I was graduating college, 22.
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  You graduate high school, you go to university for four years.
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  Okay.
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  And then I was 22, went to grad school in Virginia for my master's, got my master's in sports management, and when I was there, I met this guy named Fran Frischella.
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  He is a commentator on ESPN.
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  He covers college basketball.
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  He knew one of my professors.
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  He came and spoke at my school, and I just like sent him a random message after and I said, Hey, you you cover college basketball.
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  My high school prom date played basketball for Nebraska.
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  And he was like, Oh yeah, he still knew who he was.
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  And he was like, Oh, yeah, he's great.
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  And I was, I'm gonna use this high school prom date as an in to talk to this guy.
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  Oh my god, that's so unique.
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  And then ask him, Can you help me get a job at ESPN?
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  ESPN, I don't know if you are guys are have ESPN in Australia.
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  Do you have I don't know, but people would know what it is.
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  It is the biggest sports network, essentially, or at the time it was the biggest sports network in the country.
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  So they had all the sports deals.
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  Really big deal.
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  I always wanted to work at ESPN.
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  I wasn't sure like how that was gonna go, but I had an internship to do.
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  I got a really good internship down in Florida working for the Atlanta Braves, which is a professional baseball team, spring training camp down there.
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  It was at Disney's Wide World of Sports.
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  So I worked at Disney World at this huge facility now called ESPN Wide World of Sport.
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  Did my internship down in Florida with the Braves.
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  I mean, if you know the Atlanta Braves at all, Chipper Jones was on the team, then he's like a Hall of Fame guy.
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  My job was like wrangling him to sign autographs sometimes here and there.
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  And that was it.
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  We had like old men baseball, like softball between as a filler between spring training.
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  So they would we would do like these UAASA old man leagues where they would hit home runs and we would be out in the outfield like little 20-year-olds trying to catch balls.
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  Um this is so random.
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  Yeah, this internship sounds completely random.
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  Yeah, it was wild.
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  So then I had that.
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  I didn't know what I was gonna do.
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  I had a master's degree in sports management, but I wasn't sure.
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  That's when I was like talking to Fran.
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  He got me an interview.
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  The head of HR at the time was like one of his old players.
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  So he did him a favor.
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  There was a job in California.
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  I had no money.
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  The person at the job at ESPN in California was like, if you fly yourself out here for the interview, we'll interview you.
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  And I'm like, great.
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  So you got this interview from this guy.
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  Yeah.
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  And I had zero money, but I had points that I had a free flight that I had gotten at one point, like a year ago, and it was about to expire anyway.
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  But it was just enough to get me to California.
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  My sister Abby lived in California at the time with my best friend Hillary, and they happened to live like blocks from where this building was that I was interviewing at.
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  Just all worked out like perfectly.
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  Interviewed for the job and I didn't know about it.
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  Thought I had a chance to get it, but I hadn't heard back yet.
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  I didn't know what I was gonna do.
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  My internship ended, so I was just driving back through the night from Florida to Nebraska, just unsure as to what was gonna happen.
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  And I get a phone call when I'm in Kansas.
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  This is after I've been driving for like 22 hours or something like that.
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  It was crazy because it's like a really long drive, and I just drove it straight through.
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  I didn't have enough money to like stay anywhere.
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  So I just kept driving, pulled over to the side of the road, and it was this guy, and he's like, Hey, we really want you for this job at ESPN in LA, but I have to just ask you a couple more questions.
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  And so I'm okay, I'm delirious, and I'm in a cornfield in Kansas, and I my phone is cutting out, but I'll answer your questions.
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  And I thought at that point that I had blown this job, you know, because I was I'm so delirious, I don't even know what I'm saying to you.
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  But he was so nice.
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  Okay, we'll be in touch.
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  And literally I got to Nebraska, and the next day I found out I got the job at ESPN.
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  So I knew I had like a week of just getting myself self together and then driving another 24 plus hours to LA.
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  So you didn't fly to LA, you drove?
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  No, I drove because I needed a car.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Yeah, my car like barely made it.
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  And when I got to LA, traffic was horrible.
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  And I turned on the radio, and there was like had been someone who shot at someone in traffic, so there had been like some gun violence on the freeway.
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  And that was on the freeway I was on, and that was my introduction to California.
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  Oh god.
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  I moved in with my sister and my best friend Hillary from growing up, who you know, Emma.
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  I slept on their couch for like a year.
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  I got to go to all these different like sporting events, and it was a really cool experience.
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  I didn't know that if sales was like for me, it was like a sales and marketing job.
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  I kind of just from there moved on to the NFL network, which is like our football league.
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  So I was doing when I was doing the NFL network, went to the NFL and I did the ticker.
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  So, what that is, the thing you see scrolling across the bottom that gives you like sports updates and stuff like that.
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  I was updating that and my job would start at 4 30 in the morning because on the East Coast it was 7 30, so sports needed to be start being broken at that point.
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  But I would always like fall asleep because I was like so tired.
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  You are so overqualified.
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  Oh, yeah, I probably was.
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  I feel like I could probably do this ticket thing, and you know my tech skills.
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  Yeah, and they like you had to do this test to get into the NFL network where you have to they test your football knowledge.
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  Oh, good.
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  And I totally bombed it because I followed football, but not the people who worked at the NFL Network were males, right?
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  All males, and I was the only female in the in the whole newsroom, and they were like hardcore football fans their whole life.
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  So they knew they knew who won the Super Bowl in 1980, whatever, you know?
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  Oh, okay.
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  And I didn't know that stuff.
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  So I bombed the test.
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  And so I was like, Oh, I didn't get the job.
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  The boss at the time was, no, you got the job.
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  And then I found out like an article came out like a month later or something about the NFL's trying to hire women.
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  Oh.
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  So I essentially got hired because I was a woman.
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  Oh my god.
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  Well, I guess in this case, we'll take it.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, maybe really deep down they saw the qualifications that you had, and you'd like to think that they inspired you because you hadn't just rolled up off the street.
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  Do you know what I mean?
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  I mean, it was a good filler job.
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  I just was like, I need to figure out like what I want to do.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay, so you did ESPN for a couple years, then you did NFL for like a season, and then I jumped over to I got a job with NBC.
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  And NBC, my boss at NBC was awesome.
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  She was great.
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  One of my best friends today is at NBC, and she was wonderful, and it was really good people.
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  And what are you doing at NBC?
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  Distribution.
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  So, man, I'm trying to think of all my jobs.
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  No, I was at E first.
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  Sorry.
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  E network, and then E got bought by NBC.
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  And so then I got moved over to the NBC side.
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  So they were wonderful, but then I was feeling like a little bit studios like NBC.
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  The thing with those is that you have to wait for someone to retire or leave, or it's like hierarchy a little bit, and you're in your group and you're in the distribution team was lovely, but you don't work outside of that team, you don't really know.
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  So I just felt like, man, the opportunities are here and I am moving up.
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  But my friend Jackie was amazing.
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  And so, like, it was a kind of a thing where she would get promoted, and then I would wait my for my time and then I would get promoted.
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  I just felt, is there something somewhere I could go where maybe that there wouldn't be as much hierarchy, right?
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  I just needed to still wanted a little bit of a challenge and a little bit.
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  So I wanted to try casting.
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  So I ended up le I don't know, ended up leaving and trying casting for a little bit.
• 14:36
  I helped this casting director cast the four leads on the film Straight Out Compton, the leads on that movie.
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  We worked on casting.
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  We actually went into Compton.
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  We did like an open casting call, and that was really odd because people just off the street could audition for the role.
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  We didn't we didn't end up casting anyone from that, which I think was probably for the best because it didn't feel like as cool as it would have been, there was just no one that really you have to be like a professional actor.
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  Is that like with OS Cube scene in it?
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  Yes, and so I was from the day one was like, okay, so we're gonna cast Cube's son as him, right?
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  Because they look exactly like and they sound very sound exactly like he's great.
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  He's been doing meeting with an acting coach, he's wonderful.
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  We're casting him, right?
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  And they were like, No, we're gonna do this open casting call.
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  He had to audition a bunch, and he it took a lot a lot longer for him, but he was wonderful, and I'm glad at the end they cast him.
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  And yeah, I thought everyone that they cast was really good.
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  But casting was not.
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  You realized that it wasn't for you, yeah.
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  It wasn't for me.
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  And so I went back to NBC to my lovely boss at the time, place of security, you know?
• 15:32
  Yeah.
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  And then Netflix was part like the person I was working with.
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  They were the studio that I managed.
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  And so I have these co-workers still today that are awesome, and they were my the people I worked with at Netflix that much.
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  So he uh 90s letting me.
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  Here I am nine years later, and I'm not the only one.
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  My whole team is, I think the person who's been there the shortest amount of time is I'm one of the shortest amount of time people in my group.
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  Yeah, man, I work with incredible people and you go into a room, it's just like so fun to like go into a room and everyone that speaks up, you're like, geez, they're so smart and they're so qualified and they're so cool.
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  How am I like surrounded?
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  You have like imposter syndrome a little bit because how am I in this room with these people because geez, they're like so smart, you know?
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  I think you need to give yourself more credit though.
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  Yeah.
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  Anybody that knows you knows that when you get a job, doesn't matter where it is, you are incredibly hardworking and you were committed.
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  Yeah.
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  There's a lot of people that just bum off on the side.
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  I know a lot of people that do that.
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  Yeah.
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  So and you are certainly not one of them.
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  Yeah.
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  Think this suits you.
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  Yeah, I feel really fulfilled.
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  That's good.
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  And I, you know, I've known you for a long time now.
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  I don't reckon I've seen you this happy in a job.
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  So that's good.
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  Going completely on a whole new direction here.
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  Yeah.
• 16:38
  You said at the very start that you're a mum.
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  Being a mum is no joke in this day and age.
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  I mean, you've so you've got two girls, Juniper and Felix.
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  Juniper is gonna be four.
• 16:47
  Yeah.
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  And Felix just turned one, so they're really little girls.
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  I know that falling pregnant for you wasn't easy.
• 16:52
  I think you and I share something similar where it's like unexplained infertility.
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  You then chose the path of IVF and you were very lucky to be successful on both times that you tried to do it because now you have two little girls.
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  Can you tell us a little bit more about your IVF journey?
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  Yeah, my husband and I got married.
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  I mean, in LA, it's not uncommon to get married later in life or have children later in life.
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  I don't, a lot of my friends are just having kids now, you know, and they're in their 40s or late 30s.
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  That's just an LA thing.
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  I think it's because women are having careers, right?
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  And so we have to kind of do it that way.
• 17:23
  And so, and it just took me a long time to meet my husband, Wiley.
• 17:26
  I was single in LA for eight years.
• 17:28
  It's just not a city where people are as concerned about being in relationships.
• 17:32
  It's like people are very driven towards their careers in a lot of different ways.
• 17:35
  You know, you have actors here, you have scientists.
• 17:38
  There's like a big scientist community or the entertainment industry.
• 17:41
  I met Wiley as younger than me by the little bit.
• 17:45
  So I met him when he was in his early 20s and I was 30.
• 17:47
  So we wouldn't have ever met before that because younger than me, you know.
• 17:50
  So it just took that long to just meet someone.
• 17:53
  So we got married when I was 36.
• 17:54
  We started trying immediately.
• 17:56
  It takes a long time, you know, sometimes when you're older to get pregnant.
• 17:59
  We tried for a year and then we thought, I have a really good support system when it comes to family planning at Netflix.
• 18:04
  They have like a really great support at the company for employees.
• 18:07
  I was like, well, I want to tap into this opportunity, get some help from Netflix on that.
• 18:11
  Started doing IBF.
• 18:12
  It was right like as COVID was starting.
• 18:14
  Oh, yeah.
• 18:15
  And so it was a little bit rough because the first round of IBF, they didn't dose me as high because they were worried about overstimulation with the drugs.
• 18:22
  They dosed me low.
• 18:24
  So my first round of IBF resulted in like no embryos at all.
• 18:27
  That was really hard because you do all this work, you spend all this money, and nothing comes of it, you know?
• 18:32
  Uh, I had to take a little bit of break.
• 18:34
  I did some extensive blood work with this person who he likes to do blood work for like professional athletes.
• 18:38
  Well, yeah.
• 18:39
  But he also fertility clinics use him to kind of narrow down like what could it be?
• 18:43
  Because they couldn't figure out like why I was having infertility.
• 18:45
  Blood work just showed, oh, she doesn't eat onions.
• 18:47
  Yeah, I don't like onions.
• 18:49
  And your husband has too much cheese, and so he had to cut cheese out, which is devastated about.
• 18:53
  Oh.
• 18:53
  Because he must be half cheese or something.
• 18:55
  I don't know.
• 18:55
  He has like he tested like off the charts for cheese.
• 18:58
  Oh my gosh.
• 18:58
  Um, while he did.
• 18:59
  We did a couple of different like approaches in our diet from that.
• 19:02
  We got one embryo.
• 19:03
  So that embryo was Felix.
• 19:04
  Okay.
• 19:05
  So our second.
• 19:06
  And then the third round, we got two embryos.
• 19:08
  So we did another round and got two.
• 19:09
  So we had three embryos, all girls.
• 19:12
  So Juniper was from the third round.
• 19:14
  So our oldest daughter, she was pulled as a third round embryo, and Felix was pulled as a second round embryo.
• 19:20
  So I don't really know, but technically that's science.
• 19:24
  Technically, Juniper's younger than Felix, but she's the older sister, so it is very odd.
• 19:29
  It's so weird to think about that.
• 19:30
  We put Juniper in first, and then she took.
• 19:34
  We had her in 2022, and then we just put Felix in in 2025, and we had hers.
• 19:38
  It's been awesome.
• 19:39
  I wanted a boy, and Wiley wanted girls, and Wiley, of course, the universe gives him girls.
• 19:46
  I'm like so happy that it turned out the way it did.
• 19:48
  Man, I uh they're awesome.
• 19:50
  You're loving motherhood.
• 19:51
  Yeah, it's been great.
• 19:52
  Well, I mean, just even listening to that story, you're obviously incredibly driven just in everything in your life.
• 19:58
  But so your mum, she, you know, Denise, that's my American nose mum, she recently retired from being a nurse after 43 years.
• 20:06
  Yep.
• 20:06
  Very similar to my mum, that's a very long time.
• 20:08
  And she obviously raised four successful children.
• 20:11
  Your mother-in-law, who I have interviewed, and her interview's coming up, I think, next week, Corby, so that's Wiley's mum, she was a writer for Murphy Brown.
• 20:20
  Yep.
• 20:20
  Your older sister Abby is a successful actress and a writer here in LA.
• 20:24
  And Rebecca, your younger sister, is a producer on reality TV shows, just as just a little snippet.
• 20:30
  The women that you're surrounded with are incredibly ambitious, to say the least.
• 20:34
  Do you think this is what's sort of created your own pathway?
• 20:37
  I mean, you've always been ambitious, but I feel like even going into your early 40s, just seems like every time I see you, you're just doing more and more and more and become more and more successful.
• 20:47
  Do you think obviously being around all these successful women has rubbed off?
• 20:50
  Yeah, and I think that it also has something to do with growing up in a small town where you just do everything, right?
• 20:55
  So you, for example, you know this, Emma.
• 20:57
  We grew up together.
• 20:58
  I was in, I was a cheerleader, so we would cheerfully, I would play in the women's basketball game, and then I'd shower really quick and cheer in the men's game right after ours, you know?
• 21:06
  And I was in speech and I was in drama and I played the trumpet and I was in marching band and I was involved in everything, and you kind of had to be because in a small town of 27 people in our class, if you don't do everything, then you don't have a team.
• 21:17
  You know, you don't have enough people to put together a band or put together a team.
• 21:21
  Do you a lot and you just don't even think about it and you just learn really young time management and you learn how to juggle a lot of different things.
• 21:27
  When I went to college, I didn't understand not having that same mentality.
• 21:30
  In college, I was on student government, I was up for Home Queen Queen, I ran track, I was a student leader, everything.
• 21:36
  And in college, that's a little bit unheard of.
• 21:38
  I just kind of continue that on, but I didn't really understand then even how what do you mean unheard of?
• 21:42
  Like to do all this stuff.
• 21:43
  I can do everything that I want to do.
• 21:45
  I always have continued that on into my career.
• 21:47
  And so at the companies I've been with, I raised my hand for everything to a point where I'm like, okay, don't raise your hand for everything.
• 21:53
  Cause I'm but and my four teammates, they're like, Oh, I wanted to do that, but Molly's always taking everything.
• 21:58
  And I just don't sit still very often.
• 22:00
  You don't sit still.
• 22:00
  Yeah.
• 22:01
  Part of me wonders if you've got ADD, to be honest.
• 22:04
  Like you just always sew like a little energizer bunny.
• 22:07
  I don't know.
• 22:07
  Do you guys have energizer bunny in America?
• 22:09
  Yes, yes.
• 22:10
  Yeah, yeah.
• 22:10
  Yeah, that thing.
• 22:11
  That's you.
• 22:11
  Yeah.
• 22:11
  You don't stop.
• 22:13
  But going back 1998, I'm curious.
• 22:17
  I'm just gonna ask you this out.
• 22:18
  What was it really like having an exchange studio?
• 22:21
  Can I tell stories about you?
• 22:22
  Are you okay?
• 22:24
  Oh yes, here we go.
• 22:25
  This is the only reason I came on this podcast.
• 22:27
  This is to talk about you, by the way, Emma.
• 22:28
  Oh my god.
• 22:29
  I don't need to talk about me.
• 22:30
  To all of Emma's lovely listeners, she flew into Nebraska.
• 22:33
  It was the middle of winter.
• 22:35
  She comes from warm, beautiful Australia to the middle of the country where it's freezing.
• 22:41
  She just disappears for two days.
• 22:42
  We have these waterbeds.
• 22:43
  You used to tuck yourself down in the crack of the waterbed, and like we couldn't find you.
• 22:48
  We didn't know where you were.
• 22:49
  And you did that all the time in slumber parties to get out of like staying up all night.
• 22:52
  And I like did all this stuff because I was so pumped to have an exchange student.
• 22:55
  My family just did not have exchange students.
• 22:57
  There's a lot of families in our town that did.
• 22:59
  And it was so odd because Abby had just gone away to college.
• 23:01
  I had this huge upstairs room all to myself.
• 23:04
  And then my parents decided, oh, we're gonna have this exchange student.
• 23:06
  She's your age, Molly.
• 23:07
  And her favorite color is purple.
• 23:08
  And I was immediately, oh my god, this is meant to be, you know, my person.
• 23:12
  And I painted the cut the whole room purple and it prepared it perfectly for you.
• 23:16
  I like did all this stuff and you came and you slept for two days.
• 23:20
  Yes.
• 23:20
  And you were like, did not seem happy to be there.
• 23:24
  I was like, oh no.
• 23:25
  It was like a oh no, what have I done face for like two days straight?
• 23:28
  And so I was super jazzed and she was not.
• 23:30
  It's like, oh no, is she not gonna like me and and not like being here?
• 23:34
  But man, you warmed up so quick after that.
• 23:36
  To put that in context, and I know a few people that know me well, they'll be like, hang on a minute, Emma liked purple because I bang on so much about loving pink.
• 23:43
  Oh yes, yes.
• 23:44
  Now you're in my teenage years, I was obsessed with purple.
• 23:46
  Yes.
• 23:47
  I when I got given like a bio or something ready.
• 23:50
  This is back before email.
• 23:51
  This is how old we are.
• 23:52
  And you you got something sent to you in the mail, and it was literally like there was pictures, there was like a letter that was like writing from you.
• 23:59
  Oh, this actually seems really, really cool.
• 24:01
  And I read through it, and then we actually got out the encyclopedia and checked where was Nebraska.
• 24:05
  And then you're like, oh no.
• 24:06
  I was so bummed because I'd put down, I'm gonna be an actress in Hollywood, I have to be put in California.
• 24:12
  Like I got a choice, but that was just the mentality that I had back then.
• 24:15
  And so when I arrived, we spent four days of just non-stop activities trying to get us culturally immersed in American culture.
• 24:24
  Yeah.
• 24:24
  And I think it was the day before I flew out, we'd gone to Disneyland.
• 24:27
  That day just seemed to go on forever and ever and ever.
• 24:30
  And I guess being 15, I was already tired from that day.
• 24:34
  And then the next day, it was like two flights to Nebraska, which for a 15-year-old isn't that much, but it just the layovers, it was intense.
• 24:41
  And so then when Kevin picked me up from the airport, which wasn't even in Clay Center, yeah, no, no.
• 24:46
  It was in, I think it was Grand Island.
• 24:47
  And then when we're in the car, I was getting really nervous.
• 24:50
  And it felt like the longer I was in this car and then got out, and I remember there were these boys, the Anderson boys, peering through the window.
• 24:57
  I was like, oh my gosh, what have I done?
• 24:59
  Those two days, I definitely slept for the first day, probably an entire day.
• 25:03
  Yeah.
• 25:04
  But then the second day, I was terrified to get out of this hot water-up bed because A, it was freezing, it was snowing outside, and I was like, this is way colder than I ever anticipated.
• 25:13
  And not only that, what have I done?
• 25:14
  Yeah.
• 25:15
  And I said this in Abby's interview where I had a fleeting moment of I've actually stuffed up here.
• 25:19
  It all came crashing down like a realization.
• 25:21
  And when you think about 15 is so young.
• 25:24
  Yeah.
• 25:24
  15, I felt like I was ready, but then in those moments, there was times where I thought, if I don't like this family, this is gonna be struggle town because this is 12 months of living in this family.
• 25:36
  But it worked out.
• 25:37
  Yeah, and I've seen like exchange students come to my town before and not like their family.
• 25:42
  And that's been sad to see for both parties, right?
• 25:45
  And so there was a moment like, oh, she's not gonna like us.
• 25:47
  Man, Emma was such a hit in our small town.
• 25:50
  She was instantly like everyone was obsessed with her.
• 25:53
  She was a cheerleader with me, and she made me be the bottom of the I always have to put you on my shoulders for all the cheers.
• 26:00
  And you were so tiny, so it was fine.
• 26:01
  But I was, why do I always have to be the base?
• 26:04
  I never get lifted up.
• 26:05
  And now I see like the size difference of me between everyone else was probably drastic enough where I was like, yeah, okay, that makes sense.
• 26:11
  But you always struggled.
• 26:12
  Emma was a little cheerleader with me, and she did track.
• 26:16
  Oh my god, you did track.
• 26:18
  That was so hilarious.
• 26:19
  I was dying.
• 26:19
  Emma was a sprinter.
• 26:21
  Apparently.
• 26:22
  She would do, and so in practice, you would have to do repeats, right?
• 26:25
  You'd have to do like, and we do things in meter.
• 26:28
  So she was running the hundred meter over and over.
• 26:30
  So you have to do like 10 repeats of the 100 meter or whatever it was.
• 26:33
  And Emma would be do one as fast as she could, and then she'd go, Oi, I'm puffed, I'm puffed, and sit down on the side of the track.
• 26:40
  And after one, and all the coaches were like, get up, Ozzy! Like, you have to keep going.
• 26:46
  Every day I saw a dramatic fall by Emma on the side of the track as I was running lap after lap after lap.
• 26:52
  Because I ran the most miserable races.
• 26:54
  The most you can run in high school track in Nebraska is a two-mile race, a mile race, a four by eight, which is two, an 800, and an 800.
• 27:03
  That's the most you can run.
• 27:04
  I think it's 20 some laps or whatever it is.
• 27:06
  You can run four events.
• 27:07
  And I did that every meet in high school.
• 27:09
  And so I was running the most you could possibly run in track, and Emma was falling down after 100 meters.
• 27:16
  And I was like, oh, the life of a sprinter.
• 27:18
  Well, and then you would like, and then Emma couldn't work, obviously.
• 27:21
  There were like rules against it.
• 27:22
  So in the summer, I had to work in the cornfields, and I would come home.
• 27:26
  I'd have to get up at like four in the morning and get on this bus and go in the middle of a cornfield, be dropped off in the middle of a cornfield.
• 27:31
  I would get corn rash all over my arms and my neck, and I'd come home.
• 27:34
  And Emma would be sitting there watching Jerry Springer, which is like this horrible like show on TV in America back in the day where it was like what was it like trashy television.
• 27:43
  Yeah.
• 27:43
  And she'd be eating taffy and these like frozen hamburgers that you would get in like a gas station that you would just warm up in a microwave.
• 27:50
  And I was like dying.
• 27:52
  Every day I'd roll home so miserable.
• 27:54
  But then seeing you and happy and like that made me feel better.
• 27:57
  That year was so special to me.
• 27:59
  And I think like to see thrive, do you know I think a few people are always like, Why are you going back to America?
• 28:04
  Uh, haven't you already been there before?
• 28:06
  Oh yeah.
• 28:06
  Yeah, it's because it's my American family.
• 28:08
  And so I've always treated you guys like my extended American family.
• 28:12
  Totally.
• 28:12
  It's never just like that one time in 1998 where I lived there for a year.
• 28:16
  It's just and so I'm gonna spring this on you then now that you're a mom of girls, would you ever let them do anything similar?
• 28:22
  So there's this thing that we do, a lot of people do in the US where they go and study abroad in college, right?
• 28:27
  Okay, yes.
• 28:28
  It is amazing.
• 28:29
  I didn't get a chance to do that, obviously, because of sports, I would have lost my scholarship.
• 28:33
  A lot of people I know have done that and it's been such a cool experience.
• 28:36
  So I would let them in college.
• 28:38
  Yes.
• 28:39
  But I think you being 15, I agree with a lot of what you say about it, where it's like, that is just, I don't know, 15 is seems so scary to let someone go away that far away.
• 28:47
  But I think that to do that, to get out of, especially having grown up in Nebraska and then moved away, to get out of that like small town mentality environment and just put yourself in a situation where you're surrounded by diversity, you're surrounded by challenges, you know, every day to learn and stretch yourself and grow, is you cannot match that, you know, especially young before you commit a family and before you commit definitely a job, even.
• 29:09
  So I'm hoping that like my girls in college can do a study abroad.
• 29:12
  I think that would be something that I would definitely impress upon them.
• 29:15
  No, that's good.
• 29:16
  I agree on that.
• 29:17
  Rapid fire, because we're coming close to the end.
• 29:19
  I want to ask you these questions and I don't want you to think too long and hard.
• 29:22
  Okay.
• 29:22
  I don't know.
• 29:22
  I've been really strict on my American friends.
• 29:24
  I'm just like, nope, we're not even thinking about this.
• 29:26
  Poor Molly.
• 29:27
  Okay, the first one is gonna be but where's a place that you feel most yourself?
• 29:31
  I don't know if there's like a place I really like people are where I feel at home with people, you know, like my family.
• 29:37
  But I do really like being on the walk on a boat.
• 29:39
  Like I know I've said this to you.
• 29:40
  I like I have this dream of having a place, a little piece of land and a house on a boat, and being out like on the water on a boat.
• 29:46
  And I think that would be like really awesome.
• 29:48
  A long-term goal of my husband and mine.
• 29:50
  What do this is gonna be funny?
• 29:52
  What do you do to wind down and relax?
• 29:53
  Do you ever wind down and relax should be the question.
• 29:56
  What is this question?
• 29:57
  I don't understand it.
• 29:59
  Interesting because you are so buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, busy, busy, busy.
• 30:03
  Yeah, I watch a lot of TV.
• 30:05
  Okay.
• 30:05
  I don't know that it's relaxing because sometimes I'm watching shows that I work on.
• 30:08
  I know that's what I'm thinking.
• 30:09
  That sounds like research for me.
• 30:10
  But sometimes exercise is really big for me.
• 30:13
  I love to, I mean, I haven't done enough of it since having kids, but I'm trying to get back into it.
• 30:17
  But exercise really makes me feel relieved a little bit.
• 30:20
  And I do walk up this hill outside my house and around and through the neighborhood.
• 30:24
  I've got a rough idea, but if I was to get three of you mates, like you're really close friends, and say, let's pick three words to describe you, what do you think they're gonna say?
• 30:32
  Probably driven.
• 30:33
  I want to be as good as I can be at anything I put my mind to.
• 30:36
  I would hope that they would say kind, because I feel like I try and be kind, I try and be inclusive of people, I think of others.
• 30:42
  Oh, you have a third word, Emma?
• 30:43
  I know.
• 30:43
  Yeah, generous.
• 30:44
  Oh, generous.
• 30:45
  That is like the first word.
• 30:46
  I would have said, if this was just me, I would have said generous, ambitious, and kind.
• 30:51
  Yeah.
• 30:51
  Because you are one of the most generous people.
• 30:53
  But not only just in the things that you give to people, yeah, but your time.
• 30:57
  Yeah.
• 30:58
  And you're always thinking of others, but you just do it so instantly, you don't even hesitate.
• 31:02
  Thank you.
• 31:02
  That's really nice of you say.
• 31:03
  Okay.
• 31:04
  Yeah.
• 31:04
  My last one, what's something that you're truly grateful for?
• 31:06
  My family.
• 31:07
  That's and my just opportunities I've had in life, you know, and just the people I've been surrounded by.
• 31:12
  I've been so lucky to have a wonderful family.
• 31:15
  You would know this because you have listened to the podcast.
• 31:17
  I do a shout out at the end.
• 31:18
  Yeah.
• 31:18
  And it doesn't have to be one person because I've noticed that a lot of these Americans that I've been into, they're like la la la la.
• 31:26
  I love that.
• 31:26
  You can give me a list of women, people in your life that you're, you know, that have inspired you.
• 31:32
  My sister Abby, of course, she was my first friend.
• 31:34
  She's older than me, so she was the first one there for me.
• 31:37
  My mom, my I mean, my mom is the biggest cheerleader.
• 31:40
  And I think that's where I get a lot of that.
• 31:41
  I want to cheer people on because my mom is just like everyone's cheerleader.
• 31:44
  She's sweet Denise, you know?
• 31:46
  Like that's if you don't, you don't get the nickname sweet Denise if you're not anything, but my aunt Kim is the most incredible, incredible human being.
• 31:52
  She is she built a company from the ground up, and I hope that you get to interview her at some point.
• 31:57
  So she's coming to Australia next year.
• 31:58
  Yes.
• 31:59
  And I'm gonna hassle her out.
• 32:00
  That woman is just like, talk about generous.
• 32:03
  She is the most generous person I've ever met.
• 32:05
  And I like learn, have learned just I've observed her my whole life and just watching her and just trying to imitate her, you know, like she's just so wonderful and been a huge part of my life.
• 32:14
  And then my sister, you know, Rebecca, too, my little sister.
• 32:17
  I've had so many lessons being a big sister, you know, to her.
• 32:20
  She's done wonderful things.
• 32:21
  So I'm excited that you'll be having her on the show as well.
• 32:24
  And then, you know, my mother-in-law, who you spoke about earlier, and my sister-in-law, Wiley's sister Casey, who has been on the show, and then my sister-in-law, Trish, my brother married.
• 32:32
  She's like good at everything she does, and just a natural person and just really kind as well.
• 32:37
  Yeah.
• 32:38
  Friends from growing up, Hillary and like all these people.
• 32:40
  And you, Emma, you're so inspiring.
• 32:42
  Like you are.
• 32:43
  You're like, look at you in this podcast.
• 32:45
  Like, you just built this.
• 32:46
  You have done, you always have like five things going at the same time, and you always just do 100% all of them.
• 32:52
  Well, thank you.
• 32:53
  Always raw and telling it like it is, right?
• 32:56
  Yeah, geez.
• 32:57
  Sometimes that can get me in trouble.
• 32:58
  Listen, thank you so much for coming onto the podcast.
• 33:00
  I'm grateful for having this chat.
• 33:02
  Thanks for coming to the States.
• 33:03
  You're always welcome back.
• 33:05
  All right, love you.
• 33:05
  Okay, love you too.
• 33:06
  Bye.
• 33:10
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• 33:13
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• 33:17
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• 33:20
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• 33:24
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