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Yessica Sanchez Thurnherr

@nomapincluded

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🎙️ Host of No Map Included
A podcast about identity, creative careers, and navigating life’s uncertainty.

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What high school, teen media and #PrettyLittleLiars are still teaching us today ✨

New episode of #ConsiderThisForComfort featuring @nomapincluded is OUT NOW wherever you listen to podcasts 🎧

✂️: @zilaeditsvids

#pll #plledits #teenmedia by @nomapincluded

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Join us on Sunday October 25th of TRC Shorts Fest for Panel 2: Paving Your Own Path from 3:30pm-4:30pm✨🤩
Featuring:
@artakpictures
@latinadirector @ladirectorslab
@vertical.sunsets

TRC Shorts Fest is happening October 24th and 25th at the Glendale LOOK Dine-in Cinemas.
Tickets, day passes, and all access are available NOW (linked in bio)🎟️ taken in Look Cinemas by @nomapincluded

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ONE LAST NIGHT won Best International Film at @detblackfilmfest 💃🏽🎉 Let’s goooo!! We couldn’t have hoped for a better place to start the festival circuit with ONE LAST NIGHT ❤️ Huge congratulations to director @michaelguillod and our partners in crime @cornlandstudio.
Thanks to our fantastic actors @kernesha @ho.howw and @iamjadencarson. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the film. And of course, thanks to the amazing crew ❤️

Produced by:
@michaelguillod
@gindrax
@yessisth
@mariannebourg
@florianeandersen
@ninaseul_

Screenplay by:
@ho.howw

Director of photography:
@pietroz76

Sound engineer:
@unreallan

Production designer:
@lindimu

Editor:
@mykyta.kr

Music:
@kevin.queille

Street dancer:
@jiggawho

Artistic consultant:
@fabzfab3

1st AD:
@k8rosie

Script supervisor:
@scriptepascalerenaud

Camera crew:
@ecastrapel @autumn.palen @masonbrown

Gaffer:
@meinhardtist

Drone:
@kadianhall_

Studio teacher:
@chaseespinal

Color grading:
@unserefarben

Graphic designer:
@carlamarceau

Festival strategy:
@alphapanda_agency taken in Detroit Black Film Festival by @nomapincluded

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17 days ago

Documentary filmmaking is going through a difficult funding cycle, but Karin Fittante has a perspective I really like: you can’t measure the entire experience by whether you reach the end goal.

Sometimes what you learn while trying to make the thing becomes just as valuable as where it eventually goes.

🎙️ We talk about documentary filmmaking, creative careers, uncertainty, and continuing through the ebbs and flows on No Map Included.

#nomapincluded #documentaryfilmmaking #honestconversations taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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2 months ago

Cedric Angeles describes becoming a photographer as having a weight lifted off his shoulders: after trying different paths, something finally clicked.

Of course, creative work comes with its own complications. You don’t always get to clock out at 5 and stop thinking about it. But sometimes there’s an itch to make something that you can’t quite ignore.

🎙️ We talk about freelancing, changing industries, AI, downtime, and what keeps us creating on No Map Included.

#nomapincluded #creativecareer #creativelife #photography #filmmaking taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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2 months ago

Two things can be true at once: you can work incredibly hard for your career and still recognize the tailwinds that made some parts of the journey easier.

I really appreciated Taylor Nichols being so open about this.

Building a career in the arts often requires years when the money isn’t great, the work isn’t consistent, and there’s no guarantee any of it will pay off. Being able to survive those years is its own kind of privilege.

That doesn’t erase the work someone put in. It just acknowledges that we aren’t all starting the same ride with the same wind behind us.

And I think that’s worth being honest about when we talk about what it takes to build a creative career.

🎙️ Full conversation with Taylor Nichols on No Map Included.

What tailwinds, or headwinds, have shaped the path you’re on?

#NoMapIncluded #TaylorNichols #CreativeCareer #ActingCareer #WorkingActor CreativeLife FilmIndustry ActorsLife Artists Podcast taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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2 months ago

Maybe there’s a difference between having a direction and having a plan.

Taylor Nichols has spent more than 30 years as a working actor, and he says he’s never really followed a plan. He worked hard, studied, kept going, but left room for improvisation along the way.

I like that distinction.

You can know what matters to you without knowing exactly how your life or career is supposed to unfold. And sometimes leaving a little room for the unexpected is how you find the things you couldn’t have planned for anyway.

🎙️ My full conversation with Taylor is now on No Map Included.

What’s your relationship with planning? Do you need a map, or are you comfortable figuring out some of it as you go?

#NoMapIncluded #TaylorNichols #ActingCareer #WorkingActor #CreativeCareer ActorsLife CreativeLife FilmIndustry Actors Podcast taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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2 months ago

“We can be both powerful and unfinished.”

That’s a line from my conversation with @denisesolercox and it’s been sitting with me since we talked. Because it’s true, right? Your life can be falling apart in one area and you can still be doing your best work in another. Those two things aren’t in conflict. They’re just both happening at the same time.

We talked about the feeling of never being “enough,” and how she’s come to see enoughness as a decision, not something you earn. We got into the things we keep hidden, the guilt that comes with turning our own life into creative work, and the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught are “not to be disturbed and definitely not to be discussed.”

Her book, What Will They Say?, comes out August 19, 2026. And you can listen to our conversation on nomapincluded.com taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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“Am I paying my dues, or am I chasing my own abuse?”

I don’t think there’s an easy answer to that question.

Filmmaker @erinbrownthomas_filmmaker built her Sundance film Chasers around it, and it’s one of the most honest conversations I’ve had about what it means to build a creative career.

🎙️ Full conversation on No Map Included.

#IndependentFilmmaking #CreativeCareer #NoMapIncluded taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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2 months ago

The high is real. So is what comes after it.

The premiere. The green light. The meeting that finally goes somewhere. Those moments matter, and they change things. But almost nobody talks about the day after, when the high fades and you’re back at the desk with the next blank page in front of you.

I talked with filmmaker @thisisorganic about this. Her pilot Chasers premiered at Sundance last year, and she calls what follows a big win “the comedown.” Not a crash. Not failure. Just what happens after a peak that high.

We got into what actually changes after a moment like that, what doesn’t, and why success might have less to do with applause and more to do with whether you get the tools to keep making the next thing.

New episode of No Map Included is up. Link in bio. taken in Los Angeles, California by @nomapincluded

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2 months ago

I wanna go back! We’ve had such a blast at the @vanswarpedtour 🙌🏼

This should be the No Map Included theme song 😂

This was the perfect ending to a phenomenal concert 😍 taken in Long Beach, California by @nomapincluded

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