Episode 242: Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood: How a Female-Led Production House Is Making Movie Magic on Their Terms | Hayley Young, Rose Julian & Bhavishya Sharadhi of Curator Pictures
What happens when women lead with authenticity, empathy, and creative power? In this episode, Kara Duffy sits down with Hayley Young, Rose Julian, and Bhavishya Sharadhi of CURATOR Pictures, a female-led production company redefining what inclusive filmmaking looks like. They talk about what drew them to storytelling through film, how intentional collaboration changes the creative process, and why diversity behind the camera matters as much as what’s in front of it.
This is a conversation about purpose-driven creative work, the power of trusting your team, and what it means to make an impact through how, not just what you create.
“A female-led division of COLOR, passionate about authentic storytelling and bringing an inclusive and empathetic approach to content.”
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Rose - Philippines, Hawaii, Senior Art Director Creative Lead
Bhavishaya - Lead Producer at Curator, India, immigrated 10 years ago for degree in tv and film producing, bring diversity and representation to what she does and a makes in every aspect
Hayley - Executive Director of Curator
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Chapters:
(00:00:00) Meet the team behind CURATOR Pictures
(00:03:00) What brought each of them to filmmaking
(00:07:10) Finding purpose through storytelling and cultural identity
(00:10:00) Creating inclusive sets and collaborative cultures
(00:13:15) How representation behind the camera shapes the final product
(00:16:30) Why long-form content still matters
(00:18:20) Making an impact through the creative process itself
(00:20:45) Film as a mirror: memory, vulnerability, and human creativity
(00:24:30) Embracing creative magic and the power of timing
(00:27:00) The emotional cost and reward of doing meaningful work
(00:29:30) How women have shaped their careers at every stage
(00:31:00) What “powerful” means when you’re a woman in film
(00:34:30) Evolving definitions of success and power
(00:38:30) Manifesting opportunities and spaces for authentic storytelling
(00:42:30) An open invitation for brands, creators, and collaborators
humans have always been a collection of memories. If nothing else we're all storytellers, but some insanely creative people have figured out a way to show people what their stories are.
That's Haley Rose and BKA of Curator Pictures. I'm Kara Duffy and this is The Powerful Ladies Podcast.
I'm excited to have all of you here today. Let's begin by going around the horn and saying who you are, where you are, and what you're up to in the world. And Rose, let's start with you.
Yes. Hi. I am Rose. I'm born and raised in the Philippines that continue to grow up in Honolulu, Hawaii.
I am a senior art director. I'm basically curators creative lead, and I am here to basically show up in this world amongst these women and make the world a little bit better in our own way. Yeah. Great. Welcome. Love that.
I can go next.
Sure. Thank you. My name is Bisha. I am the lead producer at Curator and I work with these fantastic women.
I originally, I was born in India, the south of India, and grew up there. I immigrated to the United States almost a decade ago now to pursue a degree in film and television producing and have been here ever since. And I think, yeah it's been my aim to just bring diversity and representation to the forefront of anything that I do and the content that I create by, of course, practicing inclusivity in every aspect of what I do.
So that's been such a pleasure. And with that I can pass it on to Hailey.
Thank you. And yeah, I am Haley Young. I am the one lucky enough to work with these two women on a daily basis. I'm the Executive Director of Curator, and just to give a little bit of context as to what Curator is, we are a, as you can see, female led division of creative agency based in Seattle called Color Creative.
And what makes us a little unique is our focus on. Inclusivity, authenticity and empathy in the content that we make and the fact we've been building and nurturing and engaging a network of fellow female, non-binary, L-G-B-T-Q, people of color, directors, creatives, and crew that we actually like our name suggests curate based on what the project does, the worlds will be moving through and trying to reflect.
A team that is reflective of the space and the content that we're trying to capture in a nutshell, I think that kind of gets it all there. Perfect. Hailey and I had the pleasure of meeting at Mountain Film Fest, and it is one of my favorite things to go to each year. I love the fact that I get to meet people like Hayley and engage with other creatives who.
Being led from a their hearts and a sense of passion and knowing that they're creating film for purpose and storytelling for purpose. All of you mentioned what that means for you. How did you realize or decide that's how you wanted to spend your time? As a creative maybe I can go back to my origin, might help me for my answer.
I was always been drawn to the arts since I was young. And so I just kept following that instinct, trying to discover why. So I jumped from one medium to another and I started in art and then moved into design, which is much more practical and easily to explain to my parents what that actually means because art is a whole abstract thing.
But then when I went into design and advertising in general, gradually learned that the ethos of creativity is basically an endless pit of human truths, and for years now in my career, I swim in that endless pit to understand the world around me and ultimately myself. And it creates this ecosystem for me to show up better in the world and learning about it.
Also holding accountability of how I become part of that. And Curator just came into place, enough to get here. But also we all are cultivating a space to just align our natural values and how we wanna show up in the world. I love, I have big love for our culture and ancestry and just community in general. And so having that as our core, and everyone kind of relates to that too, it falls into place of how to bring the community together in the most mindful way. And I think everything that we do in our roles answer that. Yeah. That's beautiful. Yeah. I'll try to keep the shot because I think it all started with, it started with my love for film and movies.
Good old Bollywood had a big role to play. I think for the longest time it was about films or movies or anything on the television being an escape from the world that I was living in or just. My, my childhood or the place that I come from. But I think as I grew up with films, it was about seeing the world in a different perspective.
It was gaining more perspective. From what I was watching that helped me look at things from a completely new angle or inspire better decisions or adventure in all the things that I was doing. So I think. It transformed me in so many ways and then I just had to study it, understand it in a, in at a deeper level.
In terms of creating content with a lens of diversity and wanting to tell stories that particular way. I think that is no longer a conscious effort. That's just something that naturally, I don't know another way to do it because that is the reality that we live in, and it's all about just reflecting.
My reality. So that has been more effortless. But curator has just been a place where there's other people who align with me on doing things that particular way. So I've just been, I've gotten lucky, but that's where it started. And it's movies or art has inspired life and I know that.
Now life will inspire things that I create in the future. So yeah, Haley beautifully said. So my background is growing up in southern Oregon and by comparison it's quite it. It lacks diversity in many ways. So growing up as a kid. I was always looking to the arts and to like, perspectives and things. I would never have seen otherwise, right?
I knew that there was something bigger, a bigger world than what I was growing up in. And then fast forward, I found myself directing music videos. Writing, producing, doing all hands on of that experience and getting to a place where I was. I was starting to work with bigger crews, but more resources and over coming to a set that I'd spent several months preparing for writing for.
Getting this opportunity and then looking around and seeing nobody would look like me and often being mistaken by the crew as the stylist or the makeup artist, and being told where I should go set up. And I very much DIY myself into this space. So it was a bit of a shock to start to get into the bigger productions and see how people were talked to and how people maybe shared what was happening or didn't share.
I felt like the way when I was doing it with my friends worked really well. I could trust them, I could delegate. We would come together and solve problems together and we had fun. So in, as I started to, get representation, have a production company behind me. It took me longer than I wish it had, but I started to ask, I, no, I wanna work with a female producer on this.
I'd actually like to try a female assistant director. I'd like to have somebody with a shared experience to my own and maybe explore different ways of handling talent and communicating and talking to clients. And as that. Can continue to work out. I started to feel more comfortable. I started to direct better and I saw it affect every aspect, including the client's experience.
So when it came to beginning curator in the state that it is now, which is less than three years ago, it was an opportunity to recognize okay, we can redefine how we behave on set. We can redefine the expectations. The inclusive vibes that we can curate for our clients, for our subjects, and for our partners.
And I would say it was more of a function. I was always looking at it more as this just feels better. Let's do it this way. And also while that's happening, as a, somebody watching movies and content constantly, little things started to trickle out, like book Smart. Blew my mind. I've watched it a thousand times because of the absence of these stereotypes.
Once you start to see content and films told through the lens of somebody that you feel seen by, it changes you. It's almost like you've retuned your instrument and anything that isn't in that kind of, tone, you don't wanna hear it anymore. The last time I made a film. That wasn't for social media content, I think was in high school and we had to make a film for some class project, and it was with, at that time probably like BCR recording equipment.
And it was 20 minutes and it was like, we did it in an afternoon and I don't even remember like really doing any editing process. It was like, how do we do this all in one shot because we don't know what we're doing and that's the safest way to get it done. So like for me, the idea of being like, I have these stories I wanna tell, and you know what?
We're gonna make it into a movie. Sounds complete insanity to me. 'cause I, it's like that whole world of the how opens up of, I know the story to tell. I know who should be in it. I know what the, the story arc is. But then I'm like, I have no idea where to begin after that. And it seems really intimidating and.
The way you guys have talked about what you're doing seems so obvious and easy to you guys. So maybe we break down some of that barrier between, there's so many ways to tell stories today. Podcasting short form content on social media, logger form content shorts and features in addition to writing and everything else that's possible.
What is it about? The film space that you think tells stories in maybe the best way out of all the mediums we could choose. And the second part of this question is it as scary or intimidating as it seems from the outside? I'll just jump in while I have a thought to throw out there. Yeah. It's funny that you said you did it in one take, Kara.
'cause that was the first few videos I directed, wrote, and directed were single Take music videos. Because I loved the magic of the 270 degrees that the camera wasn't looking at. And what could you do with that? And I think it came also from growing up, watching like Jim Hansen and practical special effects in the eighties and nineties.
Trying to figure out how did they do that? And like that engagement of I would never see this from this perspective. Oh, I'm in the air now looking down, or I'm super low or super close to something. And there's all these different perspectives. And then the linear experience, like we all experience time in a way that, that, that.
Essentially we all agree with, we all accept that time exists in a certain direction, and so it levels us into a certain place. And then we decide how much do we wanna hold your attention and how do we hold your attention? And so I guess it's really about, yes, it's scary. It's, it was always scary when I started as well, but you just take it step by step and then when you start to break it down and you start to get more and more people involved to help.
Then it becomes like lightning, then that's all you ever wanna feel, and you only really get to feel it when you're doing the thing. 90% of it is preparing to do the thing, right? So I would say like the magic that is possible and the leveled expectations of an audience, meaning like they, you, you're not entitled to them liking what you do.
But you are all speaking a similar language. 'cause we generally understand this medium. We've had it around for a while. So that's, I think it's almost like mad science in a weird way that it takes you out of your reality, but it also challenges you to be thoughtful and connect with people.
You maybe never will ever meet through this digital platform or piece of time. That's why I'm doing this. It's totally selfish. I get to meet people like you guys. Yeah. And it's totally okay to be selfish. We need to integrate ourselves in it, right? That's how we create something fulfilling that returns back to us, and that's what we're, what curator is right now for us as selfish, but also unselfish.
That is in terms of film or just long form content in general. Or movies. It's, I think the magic is the immersiveness, and let's say we're, if we're comparing it to like social media content, which is short in this form, you connect deeper. You have. A path to connect way deeper than you probably expect because things unfold as they are.
We are conditioned to see it and view it in many ways. So I always love when people experiment, especially as a creative, like I love being able to see how they execute certain things and make you understand a character in a different way. And I love just the whole. Playground sandbox that you get to play in.
And there's really no right or wrong in terms, at least as I believe, to create something and to show a story. And like Kaley is talking about target audience. I. Yes, in the world there's target audiences, but it's also like you're not truly catering to everybody. You almost don't want to. You wanna cater to the right people, and whoever resonates with it will take away something from it.
And I think when you create something, you have to be open. To the interpretations of what it is. And that's also always me as a creative trying to figure out, because there's always a goal that we need to like reach. Sometimes you miss that goal, but also there's other things within that goal and subcategories that like your target audience could learn about the brand, about the story, about themselves ultimately.
And it always ends up there. You always learn about yourself. Because of how, what that medium reflects inside of you. And so I think the magic happens there. And we, me and Visia, we watch a lot of movies together and we always have time to reflect and we like, what do you think about this? What do you think about that?
And we honor each other's perspectives and open ourselves up to oh, you saw it that way. Interesting. But why? Like it's just a way to communicate and to open our perspectives. And I think that's what we wanna keep doing. Create a space where people are like, oh, okay.
Or or learn something. So yeah, I think there's magic there. It is very intimidating to do, but if you work with the right people, if you create the right spaces, I say this many times, it's not just making. Content that makes an impact, but making an impact while making the content.
That's, we a lot of the weight of our shoulders dissipate a little bit and we all disconnect with one another and create spaces for that. So it's intimidating but also very rewarding at the same time. And I think in that, making an impact while creating content, you guys in particular are really good at doing from.
The idea through to the viewer experience, which, there's four key words that are part of my business, which are how do we make more money, have more fun, have more freedom and more impact? Those are the mores that we, I think most people want. So that's where I'm, I focus with my business and that impact piece we often only think about as the result.
Not part of the process, which I think is really amazing about how you guys are approaching everything that you're thinking about making, surrounding yourself with the every choice of the way is very intentional and I love that you guys are coming at it from a space where every piece has the power to make that impact.
And you don't have to wait till the end. I think I can I would want to talk about the significance of the process because the, I couldn't have said all of that better myself. I think it's been really interesting to. Like you said, not just think about the end result, but think about how we can make an impact while doing something.
It goes back to films being such a good medium because they are already, saying so much without having to say everything out loud. Humans have always been a collection of memories. If nothing else we're all storytellers. But some insanely creative people have figured out a way to show people what their.
Stories are, they've figured out ways for people to really place themselves in a certain period of time or space or it's incredible what the medium can already do. I think the fact that so many people can come together and contribute a little piece of them to whatever you're making is the best part of creating this type of content.
I think. You asked whether it's as complicated or messy as it is on the outside. I think it is way more complicated and messy than what it seems like it is Probably the biggest. I think making a film is a miracle to me. And when it happens, it's magical and that's what I consider to be magic, but it is the most complicated process.
It is humans being the most vulnerable opening up this, creative, energy inside of them and then having to share it with everyone else and, giving a piece of work a piece of themself. I think all of those things are just a testament to humanity and human creativity but yes, and I thoroughly enjoy every part of it.
You mentioned the, that it's a miracle that these films come together. I would love to speak a little bit about how like magical coincidence shows up in your lives and how it's gotten you to where you are and how it shows up in the work that you do. I think just how Hailey and I met is an example of that.
What are the chances that someone who actually knew Kristen and had worked with Nike skateboarding happened to be in the audience. At Mountain Film. Like it's, you don't expect there to be. Like, I literally watched, I was like, I know them. Like how do you know them? And it was, I wasn't expecting it.
I didn't know that film was coming. Like I don't do a lot of homework before I go to Mountain Film. Part of the experiences just be surprised. I usually peaked to see if I, any friends are coming. And that's about it. Whose names do I recognize? 'cause the first year I went. A friend of mine released their huge movie and I didn't know they'd be there, so I like literally saw them walk out and I was like, you've got to be kidding me.
So part of what I like about going to Mountain Film is the surprises that you get, the coincidences. So how is that coincidence in magic kind of woven through your own journey and is there a particular moment that you think really symbolizes that for you? I can say with certainty that it happens.
Often enough for me to be here. Now. I think that when you're doing something that you love, it is really scary, especially in the beginning. But it's those coincidences that kind of tell you're doing it right or you're doing something right, or you're going in the right direction. And while I'm struggling to think of specific examples they are abundant and they're my mile posts.
Yeah. 'cause it, it is very hard. This work is very hard there. I liken it to when, I wanted to play football as a child and it's oh, you're a girl, you can't play. So I had to be extra good to be let on the field. And then it was a whole other, like however long before they threw the ball to me, there's something there that I think has been, it's a shared experience with everybody on this call probably, and a lot of people listening to this.
So self-doubt is a hard thing to. Digest sometimes, or it's to overcome and it's when this coincidence, it's hit that you're like, take this is your like nitro button for the next however long you need it to be and to keep going. So I, I acknowledge very much a part of the process and I regret not having any to, if I think of one, I'll waste my, raise my hand.
Yeah. I can, I've experienced some of your magic, Hailey, I think in general, curator has a lot of magic. Sometimes we realize ourselves, you're like, oh yeah. Like it just sparks and it things happen and just falls into place. And I think it's just also giving credit to who is part of this team and allowing ourselves to just, we always show up and as our authentic selves and.
That's all it takes for everything to just fall into place. Hailey has her own magic. I wanna tell you what it is, Hailey, because it is your timing and reaching out to people that you've reached out before. It's a consistent pattern that you have within reaching out to friends or acquaintances that you've had for years.
And once you reach out now it's actually the perfect opportunity that they're looking for. Something like those are one of the magics, another magic that. I have shared with Visia is, it was for, I'm not gonna disclose any projects, but it was for a project and we were basically writing a bunch of scripts and things to revolve around this creative concept for this commercial and.
It just, I always trust my creative instincts. And that night, and we were running out of time, there was so much pressure, I was anxious, all of that. I was just like, oh my God, it's, I'm not gonna get it. And to a point where I was like, no, I gotta keep praying. I gotta keep doing it. It's something there, but I can't get it.
And then it was already like. Outside of business hours and ba she was like, okay, come on. Let's sit down. She was like, she grounded me. She's an earth sign. So she grounds me a lot. I'm a water sign. So I'm like, woo, like that. And so anyways, she took that opportunity. She helped me, she grounded me.
And basically what came out of that is that night before I slept, it came, the magic came and I wrote the script on my phone in bed and brought that. Little did I know that was the winning piece that the client chose. And so moments like that is like the, that the adversity that you go through is for a reason and I try to let go of control and just letting it happen.
The timing and things like that is the most inconvenient thing because you can't control that like the deadline is tomorrow. But I think just. Trusting yourself that you'll find it there and then it'll just fall into place is good. And having someone like Visia witness is a whole nother magic in itself, because then I would've been ulu and be like, yeah, no, it just sleeping.
Nobody would that's other than. And Rose is magic. I completely believe that she's a witch. A good witch. A good witch who can manifest anything we want. But beyond that, I think it's also, it's a lot of trust and it's already. A very hard thing to place your trust in people to show up and do their job really well.
But it is a whole other challenge to know that there's people who have placed a lot of trust in you and to not let that. Make you crumble into dust, but really take that and know that you have been trusted with with so much res creative responsibility. And then to be able to deliver something that will never be of.
Any lesser quality than any of your best work. And always maintaining that is, is probably roses power and just everyone else as well. So I think there's a lot of trust involved. And the fact that things get made is a miracle. But I think I wanna talk about how at every. Pivotal moment in my life.
It has always been a woman who has been there and taken a chance and has said, I see something in you. I know you will. You'd be able to do this and you are 100% capable. Even when I was thinking, I'm just faking it till I make it, that was how I was going through life. But at every one of these pivotal moments, it has always been a woman who's either shown up for me emotionally or with tangible things, a job a project, or.
Anything else that has happened in my life has happened because someone, passed that on. And now I have no other goal. But to be able to do that to someone else and to another woman or anyone who's talented and like Haley said, is not let on the field and just has to be that good. Being able to recognize that person has put in the work and deserves to be on the field.
I, I want to go into every room. Reminding myself of that so I can make that happen for someone else. So I think that has been very important in making these miracles happen. I think that's a great segue into asking you guys, what do the words powerful and ladies mean to you, and do they mean something different individually versus when they're next to each other?
I can, I think it reflects on what Bovis said to me. Together, powerful ladies in general is just an active community and collective acceptance of our potential. I think that's what it means, and I see it. In front of me every day, and I wake up grateful every day because I get to do this with all of you.
We get to see, I see my best. Oh my God, I'm gonna cry. I see my best selves in these women. And I think we nurture that. We continue to nurture that. And I also see the worst parts of myself, but I need that. I need that so I can, hold accountable to my own growth and things like that.
But like just having this community and just accepting what our potential is. And also I always talk about for me as a powerful woman or yeah, as a powerful lady, is this, it's finding the power in my powerlessness that I, allow, and in this team, like working, there's this always.
Always this barrier of why doesn't a producer work with a creative more collaboratively? And I broke that barrier because I was like, why? Everybody's creative. Everyone has a voice, everyone has a perspective. Everyone can be creative. And our team. We're just one entity. Titles are nothing. Title will ground us later on, but when it comes to creation of things, like we become this powerful entity because we are an active community and collaboration.
I there, somebody said something, and I'm sure this is some mantra that somebody came up with, is like, when you lose, don't lose the lesson. It's, it is, it takes, it feels very, dangerous to put ourselves out there. It feels very unwelcoming, especially in your early twenties when you're like coming out of college and you're trying to begin your career and along the way, like I heard Visia say, fake it till you make it.
What? So something that like, I think we've all had to do in a lot of cases. But what I've come to learn even as recent as yesterday. That we are humans. Everything is human size. Everything is here to give us an opportunity to either look at it and learn from it or not. And sometimes it's hard.
Sometimes it's really hard to admit mistakes or face these moments that are very humbling. But I feel like that's where the power comes from when you do that, when you do face those things and you do say what can I learn from this, even though it sucks right now, how can I turn this into something that is functional, that is helpful, that, that promotes, that my growth.
And hopefully helps me from repeating something like this. So I don't know that's, that feels universal to me across all humans, what, where, what element of that applies to the fact that we are ladies, I think just means that maybe we have a little bit more that we have to prove. And so maybe it just in intensifies that pressure a bit, maybe.
But yeah I think that's a thing that makes me feel strong is that when I am up against facing where. Where my weaknesses are that I love this work enough to try to like work through it. Powerful lady is all of the above. And it, I'm not surprised that and Rose and I share this belief that I do truly believe that a powerful lady is anyone who navigates feeling powerless and helpless most of the time, and is still determined to grow and nurture everyone else around them at the same time.
I think that is, is a powerful lady to me and. There are moments when I am and there's lots of moments where I am not, or I don't want to be, or I want to just exist. But I do believe that, someone who is able to navigate those moments really well, shows a lot of character.
And then being able to still nurture people around you, which is very much a feminine driven energy for me, I think is what makes me feel powerful. We ask everyone on the podcast where they put themselves in the powerful lady scale. If zero is average, everyday human and 10 is the most powerful lady you can imagine, where do you put yourself today and not an average day.
Today I am feeling quite powerful and that is definitely a result of this conversation. So I wonder if everyone's answer for where they're feeling on a scale today is pretty high in that pretty high, probably an eight and a half because I do know I have to get back to work after this and deal with amount of situations where I'm not going to think about.
Yes, definitely an eight or above. Definitely the same, I think every day because of the people I work with the world that I surround myself with, my perspective, my outlook I wake up as one less than average, but then over the course of the day. It becomes, more powerful and the more I feel grateful that I can show up in a way that I can, whenever I can, even if it is, I don't feel like it, but it's powerful to find, again, that powerlessness and that makes me feel powerful in itself.
So I. I don't, I love being an average girl. I love that there's beauty in that, I think. And because I think, like I don't have to only live life in the pursuit of power to prove anything. So I am okay with being an average. I'm also very okay with being a powerful woman, but love that.
I like that you open the door up rose to a scale. I like the idea of maybe you wake up here and then by the end of the day you're there. I would say that my, my scale is constantly changing. I will acknowledge that when you ask that and when I've anticipated this question. There's something inside of me that's I should say something low.
I should be modest. I should be modest, and I'm still working on how. Why is that there? Who put that there in my brain? Yeah. But I also, I'm that modesty or that humility is also what has helped ground me over the course of time. So I think that. I do feel very powerful. I love listening to this team speak.
I love having the space to hear them and to relearn what inspires them. It always is super inspirational. So I do feel pretty powerful in that space and by osmosis, if you will. But I also do think it's, it is fair and important to be honest with ourselves and recognize like sometimes.
Sometimes I just wanna be, in the fetal position on my couch. Yeah, that's cool too. But yeah, right now I'm feeling like an eight. That feels pretty good. And to that point of there are some days that you wanna be on the couch, like there are days when I'm cursing myself or creating a company called Powerful Ladies 'cause I don't wanna be powerful today.
Like it's, there are days when I don't wanna make the powerful choice. I don't want to. Hold space for somebody else because I can barely hold space for myself. Obviously that I don't get to be in that space very long. I don't wanna be in that type of space for a long time. But there are moments when I'm like, when did I agree to lead the charge here?
Who signed me up for that? And so that's why I think having these conversations. It gives me that feeling of, even if we're not in the same place, if I put my hands out and like I'm holding hands if we were side by side, I know that you guys are there and I know that past guests are there.
There's nobody who's been on this podcast who isn't waking up every day, whether they feel good or feel bad, or feel great, and they're not still doing everything that they know they can in that day to. If not create, the ripple effect that they are to at least not take from it and to not be a negative force.
So I think when you realize how much in the world you wanna impact or change or to even just shine a spotlight on I, I think that's what so many of us are actually doing, is just look over there. Look at how great they are. Like, I don't know how to fix it, but you should know about it.
And just by doing that sometimes, like it's easier I think to just be able to highlight something than to have the answers and we get so stuck in the how I don't know how to do it. I don't know. Like I brought it up earlier about I don't know how to turn some of these stories that we have over here in Powerful Ladies Into Film Beyond 60 Seconds on, on social media, right?
Finding the people who do know how and just asking the questions. Which actually leads me to my next question for you guys, which is, what do you want? What do you need? What's on your wishlist? What's on your to manifest list? Whether it's personal or business. This is a powerful community and I know that by just asking for what we want, whether it seems ridiculous or ordinary.
It's amazing how we get it when we ask for it. A, as the executive director of curator, I will selfishly, happily talk about what we would love to have in that realm. Basically anybody who's listening to this conversation and says, I wanna work with them, we wanna work with you. And the more we get to engage with people who are in need of content, who, people who have stories to tell, that see the value and the impact and in the process that we're trying to cultivate, that's what we want.
Like the, it's such a joy. All of the clients that we are working with are. Here for, they're working with us for a reason. They recognize in us what it is we're trying to accomplish, and they support it and they like it. And that makes our relationships really exciting to build and to grow.
That said, one of the things that we really are enjoying as one of the many buckets of the types of content that we want to make is pairing directors with stories and just letting them tell the story. Get the commercial agenda out of the way. But how does this story enhance or support your brand's values, mission?
And let's give the, all of the directors that we work with, they can tell a story. From beginning to end, they have that vision. And sometimes I think a lot of the impact that vision can make, creatively can get chipped away at the more people who touch it before it gets to, to the rest of us.
And I challenge brands out there who want to see what we are made outta and want to support. Letting us show the world what we are made out of and the stories that we can tell when you trust in us and support us and give us the resources to do it. So more partnerships like that I would love.
So I'm manifesting that. Okay. My personal aspirations or my aspirations as an artist are constantly evolving. I think at some point in my future when I'm an older lady, older, powerful lady I want to be able to manifest a space for people to just be present. Eat, drink, watch films and get inspired.
I think those are all the most important things to me in life, but also just experience life through all of your senses, which is why we are here on this planet in the first place. So that is, is where I hope to go as, as an artist, I think as a human being, and a woman. I just want to manifest a future where.
Women just aren't questioned. It's so simple, but we're not there yet, are we? So that, that's something that I can still continue to dream for. We shouldn't have to explain how to have it all, or why we desire everything or don't desire everything. I just, I hope women have the luxury to simply exist.
So if I am able to get to a point where I can, feel that, or other women can feel that, I think that would be a great manifestation. You can put some, spells in place to make that happen. It's there, it's been put into place, which is, I manifest that everything will just fall into place as it should, and I manifest that.
I keep seeing the beauty and like the simplest things and that I. Selfishly, keep embracing just like radical acceptance of the world around me, the people that I meet, and ultimately the, the person that I become amongst all of it. And that's, I manifest that for me, for everyone, for every woman, and to just keep reflecting a world that we want to create.
And I think with one another, community is the strongest thing that we can have. And, we can just support that. And as simple enough, it'll become something and we don't need to manifest it. We just create it. So for everyone who wants to work with you guys, collaborate, just hang out, ask you to be their mentors, whatever the thing is that they're inspired right now.
Where can they find and follow you? At this point, I think the best place would be just to go to our website. Really? Curator pictures.com. They're all, we're all showcased along with Samira, our associate producer. We are growing soon too, so we're about to add a fifth. To our team, which is very exciting.
We are also at Curator Pictures on Instagram. That's where we like to share like stories of behind the scenes when we're on set and whatnot. So that's a cool place. Also, LinkedIn is a great place to meet with us as well. We are a small team, so we're heads down pretty often. But with the email at Curator Info at curator pictures that comes to all of us, we all get that.
That would probably be the best way. Amazing. More than anything. I think if you are in Seattle, Washington, or wherever we end up at, have coffee with us and we love having a conversation, just talking about life and everything, and we can manifest together because there is magic around here.
Well guys, thank you so much for taking time from being on your island to share your wisdom and. What it's like to work on a entire team of powerful ladies making amazing things for the world. It has really just been such an inspiring conversation and each of you brought so much wisdom to the table.
So thank you for just being who you are and taking that space in the world. And like I said before, if you're having a bad day, just put your hands out and know that I'm holding them back. And yeah, whatever you need to keep going forward, please let me know. I'm here. But thank you so much. Thank you, Kara, thank you for creating this space and for aligning us all mentally and to think about these things before we got here.
It was a really great exercise and. Yes. Thank you. I think I've, I didn't know I could fall in love with these women even more, but I did today. Thank you for that. Thank you for listening. It's not easy. It's the hardest thing to do, so thank you for being a great listener.
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I'll be back next week with a brand new episode. Till then, I hope you're taking on being powerful in your life. Go be awesome and up to something you love.
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