Media & Entertainment
I wish I had known that consistency beats inspiration — the people who finish things win.
My break was a side project — a scrappy series I made on weekends. It got noticed, and suddenly the work I did for free became the work people paid me for.
Film school → Production assistant → Coordinator → Producer → Executive producer
I studied film and it mattered less than the reps I got actually shipping things people watched.
I left a secure network job to freelance, which felt terrifying and turned out to be the smartest career bet I made.
Taste is a skill you build by making a lot of mediocre things and being honest about why they were mediocre.
Happy to share the unfiltered version of my path with students.