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Welcome to the SEASON 3 FINALE!!

Thank you for listening with us for another whole season! As we embark on a little break before coming back for SEASON 4 (YES! WE'RE DOING IT!!), we wanted to leave you with some coping strategies in the mean time.

As we all navigate everything going on at the moment, it's going to be as important as it ever was, if not more, to keep creating, keep making your art, and keep staying san...

Nepal native, Yale and NYU educated, non-profit founder, multi-talented artist, and literally one of the most extraordinary people, ARUN STORRS, shares her experiences in this industry with us today. We go from finding her space to making her space, training in other markets to training in LA, and “making a living” acting and “support services” to keep you able to do your career in the arts, and going from Co-Star bookings to her f...

You have your 2025 goals...now what? We are almost done with January already! HOW?!! And in this new year we've already undergone major societal and environmental changes, not to mention everything you're going through in your personal life. So how do we move forward? How do we move the needle in our careers throughout the chaos of it all?

Planting Seeds for your career to grow and blossom is an on-going and ever evol...

Festival season is upon us, so let's talk about it!!

We cover some of our favorite film festivals and tips on how to make the most of your experience when you go. From etiquete to networking, to travel tips we've got you covered!

Here are links to our fav fests mentioned in this episode:

Sundance - https://sundance.org/ (2025 tix on sale NOW!!)

Raindance - https://raindance.org/

Burbank Intl. Film Festival - https://w...

We're back in this incredible new year with one of our favorite people and creatives; Director, Cinematographer, Writer, & Editor CARLOS SANCHEZ!!!

Since we last spoke with him in Season 1 of the Get Set! Podcast, Carlos has been directing, DP-ing, and editing a TON in the YouTube content creator space, and has some amazing insight into what this looks like, the workload it entails, and how the sometimes larger than life creat...

Full disclosure: We are NOT experts…by any means. This whole episode is just our raw, honest opinions of the benefits of social media we have found, the positives of different platforms, how to avoid burnout and those moments of anxiety or distain around showing up on social media when possible. 

As this new year approaches we see many people set a “Followers” goal, but what is so much more effective is to understand what you want...

HERE IT IS!! The much anticipated ... and angsted over Goal Setting for 2025 episode!!

As we strive to demystify the different career opportunities and pathways within this industry, we also hope to demystify the whole goal setting process with this episode.

We explain our differing goal setting processes, and give you a fun way you can stay engaged in them throughout this upcoming year.

GIVEAWAY ANNOUCEMENT!!

At the end of th...

It's that time of the year again. The most magical, and the most expensive. But your Old Girls are here to tell you all about giving the best gifts for those professional relationships, and how NOT to break the bank doing it!

If you have a reader in your family or friend group, don't forget about Season 3's Podcast Guest Micheal Angelo Pastore's newest novel available on Amazon at:

⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9GF1V9Y⁠

And if y...

As we approach the end of 2024, and look into what we want our 2025 to look like... or not look like, we shed some light in this episode about some misconceptions we've found in he industry, to hopefully help make more educated goals and decisions in the new year.

Why have us make these same mistakes, when we can all learn from each other?! That's what we're all about. Let's sprinkle some lessons learned on that fake it til you m...

SOVAS Voice Award Nominee, ⁠MONIQUE BURIAS SHI⁠ joins the Old Girls this week and takes us through her journey as a vocalist, to actor, and how she found a love intertwining the two with Voiceover.

⁠Shi ⁠got REAL with us about discovering the right reps for you, finding your identity in this business, red flagging tall tale signs of scammers to avoid, and how to even get into Voiceover if you're just starting in that medium.

No...

As the instagram memes always say, "One day you dreamed of what you have now". When you're always goal setting, dreaming for the future, and hitting the grind to turn those into a reality, its often hard to sit back and appreciate what you have in the present and how far you've come.

In today's holiday inspired ep. all your Old Girls, ⁠Hannah⁠, ⁠Jessica⁠, and ⁠Monique ⁠talk about what their appreciative of in their personal and pr...

ROY JENKINS in the house!!! Roy was a staff writer for LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN, where he won two Writers’ Guild Awards, and received two Emmy nominations, is a current teacher at The Groundlings, and has written, produced, and performs in The Groundlings long standing show The Crazy Uncle Joe Show since 2001. 

We talk all about the different classes and performing companies at The Groundlings, Writing for Conan, and which Ro...

We recorded this episode prior to knowing how this past week would pan out, and feel that this topic is so important now, more than ever.

Support systems can be found in many different places; in industry work, out of industry work, in industry friends, out of industry friends, given or chosen family, and of course, the big one, yourself.

A main take away from this ep. is when one support system isn't fulfilling what you need, ...

As we move from the spooky season into this upcoming season of gratitude we talk about the BEST & WORST INDUSTRY ADVICE we've received thus far in our careers.

From the super cringy, to the "that just didn't work for us", to the "this was a total game changer" words of wisdom we've received from people.

With our three different roles within the entertainment industry, the note worthy advice we've received crosses all medium...

For the 3rd guest of our spooky Halloween Special to kick off Season 3, we have The West London Witch herself, BECCA STRUZYNA!! Becca is an actor and creator of The West London Witch Podcast, a show where she shares stories about those moments where we find ourselves very much not alone. From ghosts and ghouls, to serial killers and big foot, she covers it all!!

On this episode Becca shares with us her experience about booking ove...

In this 2nd episode of our spooky start to Season 3, we have special guest MITCHELL V. SLAN on the pod, talking to us about Directing & Screenwriting for HORROR!

Mitchell is developing his feature film, ROUGH CUT, starring David Howard Thornton from the TERRIFIER and Kimberly J. Brown from HALLOWEENTOWN. The screenplay placed at the Austin Film Festival and Slamdance and is in the top 1% on Coverfly.

From screenwriting, to cr...

WELCOME TO SEASON 3!

We're kicking off this season with a 3 part Spooky Special Guest series, and this week's is with Writer MICHAEL ANGELO PASTORE on SELF PUBLISHING the first book in his multi-part series "BLUE MOON: FOUNDATION & FOLKLORE".

Comprised of a collection of interconnected short stories, Blue Moon: Foundation & Folklore is the first book in a horror anthology series that chronicles the terrifying history of t...

Welcome to the Season 2 Finale!!!! Thanks for sticking with us, and never fear, Season 3 is already being recorded and will be out soon this Fall!!

In the meantime, we wanted to discuss the topic of navigating that voice inside you that says, "Something feels off" or "I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this" or "Is this even legal?" while many times being under the pressure of needing to m...

KATE BAILEY is not only a talented and accomplished writer in multiple mediums, but also got her start in the business providing coverage on scripts and giving feedback to fellow writers. In addition to her own creative pursuits, she is currently a script reader for a major network and freelance script doctor.

Kate breaks down how she got into the world of script reading and doctoring, how to provide effective coverage, how t...