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What if productivity didn’t have to feel like pressure?

Tomorrow, cinematographer @jendradp will be leading our monthly **Calm Productivity Discussion Group** an open conversation for filmmakers exploring how we might work, create, and move through life with less urgency and more steadiness.

We’ll explore questions like:

Can I allow myself to experience peace throughout my workday?

Can I be productive without feeling internally rushed?

What actually helps me feel grounded while creating?

This isn’t a workshop or another productivity system. It’s a space to slow down, reflect, listen, and learn from one another about what it might look like to build a more sustainable creative life.

⏰ Tomorrow, Thursday, October 8
⏰ 1:30–3:00pm ET
📍 Virtual - Zoom

Come with your thoughts, questions, experiences, or simply come to listen. ❤️

Open to all Nourish members. Join the community via the link in bio. by @thenourish.community

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8 days ago

Feeling stuck doesn’t always mean you need a big breakthrough. Sometimes, you just need a small next step.

Join us Tuesday, October 6 for "Getting Unstuck: Small Steps to Build Creative Momentum", an open conversation led by director @eeeeeeej

We’ll talk about creative paralysis, overthinking, waiting for the “right” opportunity, and how small, tangible actions can help us start moving again.

E.J. will share lessons from his own directing career, and we’ll open up the conversation to the challenges, roadblocks, and questions you’re navigating right now.

📅 Tuesday, October 6
⏰ 1:30–2:30pm ET
🎥 Live on Zoom

Open to all Nourish members. RSVP through the community. Join the conversation via link in bio or visiting TheNourish.Community by @thenourish.community

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14 days ago

What happens when the ambitions, expectations, or plans we once had no longer fit the season of life we’re actually in?

Join us Friday, October 2 at 12pm ET for a live Nourish podcast recording with filmmaker, therapist, and Nourish coach @saritha.rothermel

Together, we’ll explore the intersection of guilt, grief, and ambition, and what it might look like to acknowledge what has changed, loosen our grip on old expectations, and begin making plans from the reality of our lives today.

Because sometimes moving forward isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about grieving what was, listening to what this season is asking of us, and allowing our ambitions to change alongside us.

Open to Nourish members. RSVP through the community. Join us via the link in bio or visiting TheNourish.Community.

#FilmmakerLife #CreativeWellness #FilmmakingCommunity #CreativeCareer #TheNourishCommunity by @thenourish.community

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16 days ago

So much of a filmmaking career is shaped by relationships.

The collaborator who recommends you for a project. The friend who introduces you to someone. The mentor who believes in you. The community that reminds you that you’re not doing this alone.

But how do we build those relationships without making them feel transactional?

This month’s **Inner Frame** is an invitation to rethink networking and explore something deeper: trust, generosity, curiosity, and genuine connection.

Together, we’ll reflect on the relationships that have shaped our journeys, and how we might more intentionally invest in the people around us.

**The Inner Frame | Relationships: How Opportunities Actually Happen**

⏰ Monday, September 28 · 3–4pm ET
📍 Virtual, Zoom Link

Open to Nourish members.

Careers are often built project by project.
Lives are built relationship by relationship.

Open to Nourish members. If you are interested, join us via the link in bio or visit thenourish.community

#FilmmakerCommunity #Filmmaking #CreativeCommunity #FilmIndustry #CreativeCareer by @thenourish.community

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20 days ago

What does making your first feature ask of you, beyond simply making the film?

In Episode #54 of The Nourish Podcast, “The Journey of a Breakthrough First Feature,” writer/director @lizziesarge Sargent joins @jbregel for an honest conversation about making @take_me_home_film, a deeply personal film centered around her sister Anna.

Together, they explore:

• Turning our own lives and relationships into stories
• The emotional realities of making deeply personal work
• Trusting your instincts when traditional ways of working don’t fit
• Building a team that understands and supports how you create
• Learning how you want to lead
• Redefining success after reaching a major creative milestone

Liz also reflects on what ultimately matters most to her as a filmmaker: making honest, human stories that allow people to feel something.

If you’re working toward your own first feature, making deeply personal work, or simply wondering what the next creative breakthrough might ask of you, we hope this conversation gives you something to reflect on.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.

#filmmaking #filmmaker #indiefilm #filmcommunity #creativecareer #thenourishpodcast by @thenourish.community

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23 days ago

NYC filmmakers 🎥, we’re getting together again.

Join us next Tuesday, September 22nd from 7–10PM at DSK Brooklyn for a casual night of connecting with other filmmakers, meeting potential collaborators, talking shop, and just hanging out.

No panels. No awkward networking. No agenda. Just good people who care about film spending some time together.

Bring a friend, a collaborator, or come on your own. All are welcome.

📍 DSK Brooklyn — 710 Fulton St, Brooklyn
🗓 Tuesday, September 22
⏰ 7–10PM

In partnership with @newyorkcitycameracompany, shout out to @jared_levy, Drew Vaughan @rattlesnake_bolo and @hunterrbaker for hosting.

Hope to see you there❤️

#NYCFilmmakers #FilmmakingCommunity #FilmCommunity #NYCFilm #Filmmaking taken in DSK Brooklyn by @thenourish.community

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a month ago

How do you pursue meaningful creative work while staying present for the people who matter most?

Join Nourish Coach, therapist, and filmmaker @saritha.rothermel for a thoughtful conversation about parenting, ambition, and family life within the unpredictability of the film industry.

We’ll explore the tension between creative ambition and being present at home, including guilt, emotional bandwidth, relationships, boundaries, and the fear of slowing down creatively.

This is a space for filmmaker parents, future parents, and anyone thinking about how to build a meaningful creative life alongside a meaningful personal one.

📅 Tuesday, September 15
⏰ 12–1 PM ET
📍 Virtual - Zoom

Open to Nourish Community members, Join the community via 2-week free trial.

Link in Bio or visiting thenourish.community. by @thenourish.community

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a month ago

What are you ambitious for, and has the answer changed as you’ve changed?

In Episode #53 of The Nourish Podcast, director and co-founder of @theartofdocumentary Mark Bone @markandrewbone joins Jon Bregel @jbregel for a conversation about the evolution of ambition throughout a creative career.

Together, they explore:

• When ambition serves us; and when it begins to cost us
• Separating our identity from our work
• Validation, ego, and the pursuit of success
• Knowing when it’s time to let go of an old ambition
• Learning to say no as our priorities change
• Finding meaning beyond what we accomplish

Mark also shares a question that has shaped the way he thinks about his own pursuits: At what cost?

If you’re reconsidering what success means to you, we hope this conversation gives you something to reflect on.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.

#filmmaking #filmmaker #creativecareer #ambition #creativecommunity #thenourishpodcast by @thenourish.community

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a month ago

Ten years ago I asked myself a question that changed how I write, and how I teach: what is this story actually about, not in plot, but to me?

That question became Intuitive Outlining. It’s what I’m bringing to @thenourish.community this month, live, on September 16th and again on the 29th, same session, two chances to catch it.

If you’ve got a story sitting in you right now, half-written, shelved, or not yet started, this is built for you.

In Nourish? Find it under Community Gatherings.
Not in Nourish? Consider joining, and The Intuitive Outlining Workbook walks through the same process at your own pace, link in bio. by @thenourish.community

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2 months ago

How much does where you live actually determine what’s possible for you as a filmmaker? (Episode Link in Bio)

For nearly twenty years, @taprootpictures Pictures has built commercials, documentaries, and branded films from Grand Rapids, Michigan, far outside the traditional film hubs.

In Episode #52, Taproot President & Executive Producer @joshfromtaproot joins @jbregel to explore:

• Creating opportunities wherever you are
• Why relationships are foundational to growth
• Building trust, reputation, and long-term momentum
• The role culture has played in Taproot’s success

If you’ve ever questioned whether you need to move somewhere else to build the career you want, we hope this conversation offers some perspective and encouragement.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.

#filmmaking #podcast #creativecareer by @thenourish.community

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2 months ago

🎙New Podcast Episode #51 with @michaelryan900:

Most freelance filmmakers spend years refining their craft.

Far fewer spend the same amount of time learning how to consistently find work.

In our latest conversation, commercial director Michael Ryan Fagan @michaelryan900 shares what it actually took to move beyond the feast-or-famine cycle of freelancing, not through hacks or overnight success, but through years of intentional relationship-building, clearer positioning, and practical systems.

Together, we explore:

• Why getting work is often a bigger part of the job than doing the work
• How trying to appeal to everyone can actually make you easier to overlook
• The mindset shifts that helped Michael build a more sustainable freelance career
• Why relationships continue to matter more than shortcuts

One moment that stuck with us:

**"I spend 80% of my time trying to get jobs, and 20% of my time doing the jobs."**

If you've ever wondered where your next project is coming from, or felt exhausted by the uncertainty that freelancing can bring, we hope this conversation offers both practical perspective and encouragement.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.

#filmmaking #filmmaker #freelancelife #creativecareer #commercialdirector #creativecommunity #director #cinematography #thenourishpodcast by @thenourish.community

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3 months ago

HOW TO GET WORK: WITHOUT LOSING YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS (Tap the link in our bio to save your spot)

If you’re a freelance filmmaker trying to find more consistent work without letting your entire life become about finding the next job, this session is for you.

On August 26 & 28, director and Nourish collaborator @michaelryan900 is leading a practical, three-hour Zoom intensive on the systems, relationships, and habits he uses to build and sustain his freelance directing career.

Michael will walk through:
• How he finds and pursues new opportunities
• The actual tools and systems he uses to stay organized
• Building relationships that naturally lead to work
• Creating momentum during slow seasons
• Navigating rejection
• Marketing yourself without feeling inauthentic
• Building a career without sacrificing the rest of your life

This isn’t about hacks or promising more work. It’s an honest look at the practices that can help you create more opportunities and build a freelance career that feels sustainable.

August 26 at 6 p.m. ET
August 28 at 3 p.m. ET

Both sessions are identical, include live Q&A, and are limited to 50 filmmakers. Everyone who registers receives the recording.

Nourish Members: $100
Standard: $200

#FreelanceFilmmaker #FilmIndustry #Filmmaking #FilmProduction #FreelanceCareer by @thenourish.community

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3 months ago