The Creative Cut Up Felicia Pride, Driadonna Roland, Georgette Pierre

We don’t play about our money. And in this business, we don’t have the luxury to, especially when we’re part of historically excluded groups. 

As an artist, it’s important that we cultivate a healthy relationship with money and to ensure that our money is working for us. In this episode, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up about having multiple streams of income as freelancers (cause this business will try to play in your face), not having any job be our master, and what financial freedom looks like for us. Hint: Looks a lot like creating forever, but not having to for money. Oh and retiring on some beautiful island.

A breakdown of our chat:
(00:03:22) Hollywood not being encouraging of entrepreneurship
(00:04:41) Difference between freelancing and entrepreneurship
(00:06:30) The pursuit of financial, creative, and professional freedom
(00:8:03) Dria still making the shift on building her enterprise up to be sustainable outside of these traditional systems
(00:10:25) Folks wanting to put you in a box and Hollywood not wanting you to create your own destiny
(00:11:45) How living the life you’re supposed to live can also be part of your purpose
(00:12:42) Our experiences getting a taste of living the way we wanted to live
(00:13:31) Felicia knowing the type of life she wants to live and the fear that comes along with building it
(00:16:07) The capacity to have
(00:17:30) Felicia using the Profit First method and making it work for her
(00:19:38) Working through our lies of not being able to manage money well
(00:22:26) Multiple streams of income we’ve dabbled in
(00:26:44) What does scaling look like
(00:27:08) Entrepreneurship and balancing multiple things not being for everyone
(00:28:00) Being a good steward of our money
(00:29:03) The work works especially when you’re consistent with it
(00:30:04) Believing energetically that money is easy to make
(00:32:23) Drip comes at a cost
(00:34:03) Excess not working for us
(00:35:58) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Our Rich Journey couple on Instagram who FIRED at 39 (Financial Independence, Retired Early)
Dria: Movie marathon with her friend
Georgette: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

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In this episode, it got real with Felicia, Dria, and Georgette having a vulnerable discussion around navigating their personal sh*t in therapy and how our mental wellbeing is connected to our art-making. We’re clear that sitting with the uncomfortable emotions helps with the work we create, but that the self-work ain’t easy. We cut about our entry points into therapeutic practices and how therapy helped give us a deeper perspective.

A breakdown of our chat:
(00:04:53) Felicia’s entry point into therapy
(00:09:31) How life and therapy opened Georgette up as an artist
(00:13:44) The ability to sit in our emotions and feelings to transfer it to the page
(00:14:10) Dria’s experience seeing the importance and connection between therapy and art
(00:14:23) Writing from your scars and not your wounds
(00:15:53) How Felicia channeled the relationship with her father in her work
(00:18:44) How therapy helps to give us different perspectives and context
(00:21:13) How self-work made us sensitive and appreciative of other artists’ work
(00:22:36) Self work making us hypersensitive to other people’s sh**
(00:23:53) Needing to refine tools that were formed during a time of trauma
(00:25:58) The amount of vulnerability in the writer’s room
(00:26:43) Being able to work through shame and traumatic experiences
(00:28:10) Artists being put on a pedestal and disrespected at the same time
(00:29:15) New tools we’re using to increase groundedness and be more embodied
(00:33:14) Knowing when there’s a break in the healing work
(00:34:19) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Percival Everett + his visual artistry (also author of Erasure, the novel in which the film American Fiction was based)
Dria: DJ sets
Georgette: Synthesis drag performance show in Brooklyn

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Writing ain’t for the faint at heart and not having a process can make it miserable. In this episode, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up about their own writing processes, learning to trust the process, and the importance of being aligned with projects they want to work on. Because on the other side of that is not putting out your best work. And we can’t afford to do that.

A breakdown of our chat:
(00:06:08) Felicia breaks down her writing process into three phases: outlining, drafting, rewriting
(00:10:16) What it means to have a script as studio ready as possible
(00:12:00) Why it’s important for writers to have a process and protect that process
(00:13:09) How having a writing process can help you develop confines and write faster
(00:16:24) Georgette’s experience taking writing classes and developing a writing process
(00:19:40) How the writing process can reveal if your story’s working or not
(00:21:16) Georgette using writing classes to become a better producer
(00:23:05) Folks not understanding the messiness of the creative process and being careful about who you bring into your process
(00:25:42) The development aspects of working with writers
(00:26:53) Having empathy for the writer while still being in service to the story
(00:29:17) Why early feedback is helpful
(00:30:52) Getting a lot of notes doesn’t make you a bad writer
(00:32:30) How getting notes is part of the process in Hollywood and having the skill to pull off the draft
(00:33:50) Notes calls
(00:35:06) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Quinta Brunson and her journey to keep going
Dria: Personal heart break and what she can learn from it
Georgette: ABC’s Not Dead Yet

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There is so much that is out of our control in Hollywood. But the one thing they can’t take away from us is how we choose to show up for ourselves in the work we create.
In this episode, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up about different forms of inspiration that helps them hone their skills, how putting in the work landed more opportunities, and the importance of remaining a student of the craft.

Grab your notebook. In addition to this episode, The Creative Comeback Workbook & Journal is a great tool to help you hone your craft and help you get clear on your creative journey. Get your copy at http://creativecomeback.com.

A breakdown of our chat:
(00:04:12) How putting in the work has landed Felicia more opportunities
(00:06:30) What separates “writers” from “people that write”
(00:08:44) What Felicia looks for in writing classes
(00:10:43) The value of being in a writer’s group
(00:13:23) How Dria hones her craft as a development executive
(00:15:47) The importance of living life and using other mediums to hone your craft
(00:20:12) How Georgette hones her craft as a producer
(00:22:39) Why we need to create our own schools
(00:24:15) People of color not having the luxury to skip steps
(00:25:43) Taking writing classes as a producer to understand the creative process
(00:27:55) The reality of what it takes to get a draft to a solid place
(00:29:01) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: A live DJ Jazzy Jeff performance
Dria: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Georgette: Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter edited by Veronica Chambers

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Our sister production company, HONEY CHILE, knows a thang or two about adapting IP, as we’re fresh off the announcement that we’ll be adapting Tia Williams’ New York Times’ bestselling book, SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE for Amazon, along with our production partners, Will Packer Media and Kinetic.
In this episode, Felicia, Dria (our book maven), and Georgette cut up about HONEY CHILE’s unique approach to sourcing the right stories for Honeys, the nuances of adapting books, articles, and life rights, and what makes a story worth adapting…cause chile some stories aren’t right for the screen.
For a more in-depth look at adapting IP, check out our first on-demand class taught by Felicia and Dria called BASED ON: How to Adapt Books, Articles, Real Life Stories for Film and TV.

A breakdown of our chat:
(00:04:53) HONEY CHILE’s process of adapting books and finding IP
(00:06:10) Strategy around how we approach the books we want to adapt
(00:09:03) Other ways HONEY CHILE locks in big IP (work with production companies that lock in the rights / relationships with authors that come to us)
(00:10:12) What else goes into locking in IP if you don’t have the relationships or money (using a lot of intangibles)
(00:12:44) If any form of IP is easier to adapt than others
(00:13:59) Our experience developing projects in the three main IP areas (books, life rights, and articles)
(00:16:12) Studio perspective on why books are more attractive to adapt
(00:17:38) How HONEY CHILE became attached to SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE with Will Packer and Kinetic
(00:21:03) Factors that can make adapting IP a hit or miss
(00:23:02) How HONEY CHILE sources IP
(00:25:47) More details about what we covered in our BASED ON, Adapting IP class now available on-demand
(00:27:11) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Author Terry McMillan
Dria: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Georgette: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

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No shortage of laughs, Felicia, Dria, and Georgette cut up with our first ever guest, award-winning writer and stand up comedian, Rochée Jeffrey, as she walked us through her initial resistance to becoming a comedy writer, her fear of being funny on the page, and how she honed her comedic voice.

Rochée will also be teaching The Create Daily Lab’s multi-week class on comedy writing starting April 14. Learn more at https://www.thecreatedaily.com/crafting-comedy.
A breakdown of our chat:
(00:06:12) What led Rochée to comedy writing
(00:08:20) How TV writing informed Rochée’s skills as a stand-up comedian
(00:10:16) The differences between drama writing rooms and comedy writing rooms
(00:12:13) The differences between writing comedy and writing drama
(00:14:30) Rochée’s fear of being funny on the page and working up the confidence to be funny in her NAACP Award winning scripted podcast, Yes We Cannabis
(00:16:16) How aspiring writers can find their comedic voice
(00:20:11) What development execs look for in comedy writers
(00:22:44) Tips on getting to the root of who you are and ways to bring that into your writing
(00:26:34) The importance of artists dealing with their trauma and living their lives boldly
(00:28:52) The value of people being able to see the connective tissue between you and your work
(00:29:24) Advice for emerging writers preparing for a career in writing comedy
(00:31:43) The benefits of improv classes and why all comedy writers should take them
(00:32:59) How Rochée stays grounded through the rejection and the challenges of the business
(00:34:45) Rochée’s upcoming class on comedy writing at The Create Daily Lab
(00:34:58) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week

HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: HGTV’s Mediterranean Life
Dria: Financing webinar by Mara McCann to support HONEY CHILE’s programming goals
Georgette: Inspired by all the Black women getting their flowers during this past award season
Rochée: Cord Jefferson’s Oscar winning speech for his directorial film debut, American Fiction

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This podcast is a production of The Create Daily. It was produced by Georgette Pierre and executive produced by Felicia Pride. It was edited by Wize Grazette of the Indie Creative Network.
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