The One Great Story: The Complete Map of Every Story You Have Ever Lived A Two-Day Masterclass for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Understand the Architecture of Their Own Life — and Use It to Transform What Comes Next There is a reason you have been drawn to certain stories your whole life. The films that…
The Heroine’s Journey of Grima Irmudottir
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about my work is that filmmaking allows me to witness the world with uncommon attentiveness and to honor stories that might otherwise remain invisible. I cherish the intimacy of listening observing and shaping fragments of reality into something that breathes…
The Heroine’s Journey of Nicholette Neilson
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is how it allows me to turn art into motion and emotion. I began my journey as a model, working with icons like Kanye West, Dapper Dan, and Marc Jacobs, learning early that movement and presence…
The Heroine’s Journey of Shauna Knapp
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is that it allows me to turn real life experiences into something meaningful that others can connect with. Whether it’s music, business, or creative projects, everything I do comes from a place of passion, growth, and…
The Heroine’s Journey of Shobana Gomes
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the idea of crafting great stories that resonate with people’s lives, and when the stories educate, inspire, and entertain, as in the Faction genre (facts & fiction) I write, I feel I have accomplished my writer’s portfolio in a great way. What…
The Heroine’s Journey of Amela Kurz
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom to turn emotion into something visible. My work allows me to translate feelings, ideas, and inner movement into something that others can see, feel, and connect with. That connection is everything to me. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is health,…
The Heroine’s Journey of Heloisa Prieto
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Storytelling has always been the path of sages and healers. I love spending hours crafting a new narrative or retelling an ancient one, several times I try to combine both by weaving plots in order to generate a timeless space. Writing takes me to…
The Heroine’s Journey in Vox Lux
The moment is unnerving: 15-year-old Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) lies in bed with a man she just met, a man much older than she is who is drifting in and out of pill-induced unconsciousness. A piece of silver fabric is wrapped around her throat, and her eyes are smudged with mascara. She looks very young and…
The Heroine’s Journey in Belle
When he lectured on literature at Cornell University, Vladimir Nabokov referred to Jane Austen’s 1814 novel “Mansfield Park” as a “fairy tale,” a term he did not use disparagingly. He also obliquely noted that none of its fairy-tale romantic doings would have been possible were its characters not somewhat affluent, and that the source of the money that…
The Heroine’s Journey in Greenleaf
“Promise me you’re not here to sow discord in the fields of my peace.” That’s the first line of dialogue spoken by Lady Mae Greenleaf (a chilling Lynn Whitfield) in OWN’s faith-based drama Greenleaf, and it sets the tone for a series that serves its dynastic melodrama with a liberal sprinkling of regal diva camp. The…
The Heroine's Journey in Amsterdam 