November 11, 2024 • 35 mins
Paul Amadeus Lane welcomes the dynamic Hannah Fletcher to the Entertainment Zone! Get to know this talented actress and entertainment host as she shares her story, her passions, and what's next on her horizon. An inspiring and entertaining conversation you won't want to miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Paul Almadi's Lane. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are
you ready for the highlight of our show. I'm excited
to welcome the incredibly talent and inspiring Hannah Fletcher to
the entertainment Zone. Now. Hannah is truly a force in
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the entertainment world. She's a host, an actress, and all
around amazing person. Today she's here to tell us all
about her exciting new venture and her career, what got
her in this business in the first place, and she
and I we have a mutual friend in this industry.
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So without any further ado, let's give a warm welcome
to the amazing, the beautiful, the awesome Hannah Fletcher. I
am so delighted to have with me right now. My
next guest. She is a host, she is a producer,
she's an actress and also a content creator. We're talking
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about Hannah Fletcher. What's going on, Hannah? How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I am so good. I'm so glad to be here.
Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh, Hannah, I am so delighted to you know, to
talk with you before we started started recording. Fellow You
and I have a good friend in common, so it
was really great to see see how how we're kind
of connected for people that we know we are.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You know, I find it so funny because this industry,
it's it's so big yet so small.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Literally, like one of the people that I work with
the most and especially in my career, that I've had
in LA so far, that's our mutual Michael Sanderval shout
out to Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We love it. Yeah. I call them big money Mike
so big Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, Hannah, let's
talk about the journey. You know, what what made you
want to pursue entertainment as a career when you were
growing up? Is this something you always saw yourself doing?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes? So ever since I was three years old.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
My parents recognized that I had very unique abilities that
I wasn't shy, you know, and and basically it was
kind of this decision where it was like, let's start
her off in dance class and let's kind of see
where it goes.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And yeah, it started.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
At the age of three, I was enrolled in dance classes,
and then at five, I went into the into the
theater world. I got a had a lead role given
to me when I was five years old, so I
was I was.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I peaked. It was amazing. I loved it so much.
And then ever since I was little, it's just always
been a part of my life.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And even as I got older and I decided to
go to college, it wasn't really a matter of like
what am I going for? It's more like where am
I going? And it's just always been. It's always been
a part of my life. And I'm very grateful and
my parents have been extremely supportive, and that has played
such a tremendous part in this entire journey, has been
my parents' support. It keeps me grounded and there's nothing
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like having the support of your parents.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'm very grateful, So true, so true, so what was
that first role? You know, I'm being nosy.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So there was a production called Cats and Bats. I
don't know if this is still like around. You would
have to probably deep dive on Google to find it.
But there was a production called Cats and Bats and
it was about this little girl that her dad had
like some kind of like lab situation, and it was
about like cats and quite literally bats.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And the little girl's name was Nolan. And the thing
that I remember the most was.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I carried this bird cage out on stage and it
was massive, like I'm talking like a forty pound bird cage.
And I was like five years old, so teeny tiny,
but there was nothing I couldn't handle.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And that was that was my role.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I think I had like a whole monologue and everything,
like I had a lot of I had a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
To do at five. I was very busy. I was
booked and busy at five years old.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was awesome. That's pretty cool. Well, pretty cool kind
of reminds me of growing up and some of the
shows we put on in my elementary school. You know,
I kind of remember some of those memories and I
was like, wow, I remember I remember a couple of
my lines, but other than that, I can't remember, you know,
the rest the rest of the story. And so very young,
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you knew this is something you wanted to get into.
So what were some of the steps that you took
to kind of put you in the place that you
can now pursue this as a career.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
So when I graduated from college, I was twenty two.
I graduated in twenty nineteen, and I relocated to LA
right in time for the pandemic, and it was a
very I mean, it was a horrible time for so
many people, and it was just very isolating and very confusing.
But I made it a point that while I was
going through that, I was like, what can I do
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for myself? Obviously, you know, having a BFA in acting,
I'm very grateful to have the degree, but I have
to also find other things that are very interesting to me,
because a lot of my friends do. They typically, I've
found that they've come to LA with one specific idea
in mind that they want to pursue, i e.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Acting or singing, and they're really just sticking to that route.
And I think that that's wonderful for myself.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What I found really worked was yes, I love acting, Yes,
that's what my degree is in. But I fast tracked
myself and I realized that I had an epiphany and
realized that I loved interviewing and that I loved hosting.
And then I said, okay, well, what kind of steps
do I need in this industry?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You have to show for what you abilities are.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
So, yes, I have an acting reel, but that tells
me My mind thinks to myself, well, I have to
have an interviewing reel now, and I don't have that currently,
So what can I do to build that up? So
I took on a bunch of internships in addition to
the full time supporting job that I'd had throughout COVID,
and I took those steps to be able to end
up landing to where I am today. I also crafted
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a podcast. The podcast was never intended to go viral.
It was never intended to necessarily be the most popular
podcast or be the next Call Her Daddy. It was
more or less something that I used to be able
to display my abilities and practice and understand and gain
respect of how the media industry works and how to
book talent and how to reach out and how to
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pitch and how to interview. So that's basically what ended
up landing me to where I am today. It's all
the self education that came after the formal education.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I totally get that because I remember when I was
in broadcasting school, you know, I had I had one
focus on what I wanted to do, and it wasn't
until I got out that reality hit and I was like, Okay,
I got to diversify my talents. I have to try this,
try this, try that, and uh and then and and
what I've found out too, Hannah, that gives you longevity
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in the game. You know, when you take the route
that you have taken, where you've learned how to how
to produce, you learn how to host, you learn all
these things, you can still act, you know. And so
that just shows and content creation. That just shows that
where we've come in a stream of time where when
it came to journalism or actress, it was either one
or the other. But now we can do many things
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and we can really be uh doing it at a
high level too. And when you when you look at
the difference now of now being an actress and now
being a host interviewing ones, did that prepare you to know?
The right questions to ask because you know the actress
life and you know share that with this if you
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don't mind.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Definitely, I think that interviewing is such a unique skill
in general. I find that so many different interviewers interview
with different ideas in mind. You know, there's definitely the
type of interviewer or journalists rather that even exists where
you know they're looking at this whole conversation and they're
really looking for certain things. You know. I know that
there's there's hosts out there that they really want to
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get clickbait and they're really looking for certain things out
of certain people. For myself, I've always interviewed from the
point of just authentic curiosity, and I think that that
is what sets my interview style aside, and also with
the idea of really making somebody feel supported.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I realized when I.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Had the opportunity to work at red carpet events that
I felt like there was this this wall up and
this disconnect, and I felt horrible at times when I
was speaking with celebrities because of the fact that I
could tell that they were just scared of me. And
I never wanted somebody to ever feel like that. I'm
very much the type of person. Even when I go
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about my day to day life, I'm very empathic. I'm
very open to other people, and I love to be
able to support people in any way that I can.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And that's just how I am. And so when I
realized this after the first.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Few Red Carpets that I had the opportunity to work
back in like twenty twenty one, I kind of incorporated
that with what I was doing and with my podcast,
and as I was moving forward, and I told myself,
I said, look, I'm going to interview from authentic and
genuine curiosity, but I'm also going to interview to make
sure that when these people go to either log off
of the virtual interview or they walk away from you
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with their publicist on the carpet, that if they see
me on the carpet moving forward, they're going to want
to come and speak with me. And that is something
that's very important to me. I think that I think
a world can exist where you get exactly what you're
looking for from somebody in our position, but you're also
getting the opportunity to make somebody feel like they're supported,
seen and heard. And it is scary to be interviewed like, honestly,
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it's a completely different bear.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
To be interviewed versus being the interviewer.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I mean, it's two different hats completely, and I'm very
used to wearing your hat. So this is a whole
new practice for me, and it's very fun, but it
is it is a challenge, and I am sympathetic towards
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You know, I always tell people like, when I'm being interviewed,
I said, I am the worst interviewee you will ever see,
you know, because you know, when someone's asking me questions,
I'm like, oh, you know, I'm doing those things instead
of instead of you know, so I'm not used to it,
but but I totally get that, Hannah. I definitely, I
definitely know were you're coming at when when it comes in.
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And that's one thing that I've noticed too whenever doing
carpet events, and my dynamic is a little bit different
being in a wheelchair. People see me and they're like,
I don't know what to do, you know, but but
but you're right when they when they feel comfortable. It's
it's a beautiful thing. I mean, Hannah, you've probably gotten
this too, where you've interviewed someone and he was a
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famous person. They're like, hey, you got my number. I'm like, no,
I don't have number, and they're like, you know, isn't
that pretty cool? When when you make people feel so
comfortable that they want to interact with you, they want
to continue to, you know, associate with you outside of
the interview, that's pretty amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It's also even I don't know if you've gotten this
in your interviews too, but when somebody calls you by
your name, like midway through the interview, when they're when
you know, if you're asking a question, and.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
They're like, oh, yeah, Hannah, well let me tell you this.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Especially if it's somebody that you're like a fan of
or something like that, you're like, oh, say it again,
like you just love it.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's just so it's so cathartic.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It's the little things that just make you have that
validation of knowing that you are in alignment with exactly
where you need to be in what you're doing, but
also that.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You're making that person feel utterly supported. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, and you know, you know, Hannah, I don't know if
you feel this way too, but you know, like you
mentioned before, about about how the talent to actors. You know,
they're they're they're scared too, you know, because this is
you know, they they they normally are in a controlled
environment where they have the producer, director, you know, all
these things, and then now they have to talk to
us strangers, and and and and oftentimes. You know, I
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feel for them because they're real people with with with
real problems with real life. I mean, in their minds,
they are calculating so many things like how long is
this ride gonna last? You know, am I gonna get
a second season? You know, all these things are going
through their mind when when they're trying to give us
an interview, and I find myself, really I feel for
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them because it's a it's a challenge for them. And
sometimes what I try to do, I try to go
below that surface and be like, you know, what are
some things that keep you up at night when it
comes to this business? And I love and hand you
probably you probably deal with this too. It's that when
they just open up the floodgates and let you know
how they feel in their inner inner person. And I
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don't know, when they do that, hand, I feel like, wow,
I know them a lot better and that they're real
persons like us with this challenges exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's like cracking Pandora's box.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Like you said, there's points where you know you'll get
their whole story or something like that, and it and
they're just speaking their mind and oh, it's such a
cathartic feeling. It's it's really really lovely when you have
that happen, and it happens I feel like more often
than people would assume too. It really just depends on
depends on the whole the whole situation. You know, how
you are in the position of being the interviewer, how
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they're feeling, what's going on with them, even you know
what their.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Relation is to the project.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I find that actors are a little bit more likely
to divulge versus like a producer, But I've had producers.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Open up and speak to me and divulge as well.
So it really just depends.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
But it's such a beautiful feeling to know that somebody
trusts you enough to just kind of just go for it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, you make it feel so comfortable that they, Oh
I should have said that, you know, can't we edit
that out? You know what I mean? When they right,
they let the cat out of the bag and it's like, Okay,
those are pretty cool. And Hannah and industry, you know,
our industry has gotten kind of like a black eye
here recently, just with the you know, the gotcha journalism,
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all these different things that are going on and looking
at looking at you and how your interview style is.
You know, you are You're not rolling that way, you
know what I mean, You're you're rolling in a way
that that there really shows that you care about your audience,
care about you the person you're interviewing, and you care
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about your reputation. You know. Is that something that that
you have done so knowingly or is that just you
as a person.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I honestly, I can't sit here and say that I'm
not self aware, you know. I think that we all are,
especially in this industry because of the fact that our
work is on camera, you know, or or the fact
that our work is being recorded. But honestly, as a person,
and as I mentioned earlier, I am very sympathetic and
empathetic when it comes to people and making sure that
they feel supported. So if I can do anything to
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make somebody feel their absolute best, I will, And I
just I really do empathize with others, and I really
do just always want for somebody to feel like I'm
authentically present because I am, and even when I'm interviewing,
it's such a cathartic experience.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And I'm so.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Excited and blessed to be able to say that even
when I'm interviewing someone, I am not thinking about anything else.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I am able to completely just immerse myself.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's like when you're watching the plot of the film Thickening,
and it's when you even have that vision change and
you realize that you're actually even watching TV in the
first place. You know, when you're like in deep thought
when you're driving, you're like, oh my gosh, I'm actually driving.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know. It's kind of like that for me every
time I have an interview.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So to be able to support somebody like that, and
to be able to bring my empathic qualities from life
into an interview, it's definitely a blessing. And I recognize
that ability that I have within myself, and I'm so
grateful that I'm able to kind of bring that into
my job, because not a lot of people can bring
their traits and their qualities about themselves into the workspace
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quite like.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
This, Norue, that's true. What's been some of your most
memorable interviews?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I would have to say that is such a good question.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I had the opportunity to interview Eric Roberts and his
director Felipo. Prandy and Felipo and I are still very
very close. We call each other probably, like i'd say,
at least every two to three months, and we have
plans of working together in the future. And it was
a very neat interview because Eric's a legend and we
all just saw him on Dancing with the Stars. I
thought he did a great job. I'm very sad that
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he's not on the show anymore. I feel like they
also hot take. I think Dancing with the Stars needs
like a golden version, just like they had with The Bachelor.
I think a lot of people have been saying things
like that. I wish that that were the case for
Reginald and for Eric. But I would say that that
is an interview that stands out very near and dear
to my heart because of the connection that I had
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with them when we were interviewing, and we got along
so well and we just clicked. And then also to again,
like you mentioned earlier. You know, when you get the
phone number, when you get the contact in phone, when
actually can stay in touch with that person. So it's
been great to be able to continue to stay in
touch with Filipo. He's so wonderful. He's so supportive, and
he's always dming me telling me how proud he is
of me, and I see him when he comes to LA.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It's a whole thing and I'm so grateful for that connection.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You and I have have Eric Roberts story because I
have one too. It was twenty i want to say
twenty eighteen Comic Con and Erico was part of a
series called Medina and I had a chance to interview him.
So what Eric did. Eric came and brought a chair,
sat right next to me, and during the whole interview,
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Eric is like hugging me while we're going to interview,
and I'm like, this is pretty amazing right here. And
Eric Roberts, You're right, he is just a cool cat.
Uh And thank you for sharing that. See, that's just
what I like, these Sarah diippitous moments when it comes
to the industry where we have these kind of similar
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similar things and to the audience, Hannah and I did
not we did not plan this to talk about Eric
Roberts together out of the blue. And that's that's really
amazing in Hannah. Now, let's talk about how all this
has parlayed into your new show owned too Me.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yes, so, so the Hannah Fletcher Show, that is my
talk show. We have seven episodes currently shot and we
do continue to uh, we are planning to.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Continue to shoot.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
But I'm I'm in all that I'm even able to
actually have the opportunity to talk about this. But basically,
this show came to be because I met a wonderful
man and his name is Eric Wheelwright and him and
I connected back in March of this year at an
oscar viewing party. There's a gentleman in Hollywood named Jonathan Baker,
so it was at his Oscar viewing party and it
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was such a wonderful encounter that we had. We we
got along very well, and we actually we talked and
interacted at the party, but not too too much. Most
of the interaction came afterwards. And the thing is with
la and with Hollywood, you know, there is this there's
this need to be able to network, and you should network,
and so I take that to a whole different level.
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I'm constantly networking and constantly trying to reach out and
really sure up connections. And yes, I look at somebody
as a connection, but I'm also trying to actually craft
a friendship out of it as well, because I love
looking at people beyond just their abilities, their talent and
their job. So I reached out to Eric and I
invited him to a coffee and I met him up
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North and we went and got coffee and we chatted
for probably five hours. We sat down and chatted and
I articulated my passions to him and what my goal
was for twenty twenty four because it was at the
beginning of the year and where I really even wanted
to see my career go.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And from there we really got along.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
We had so many more conversations, many more five our
coffees after that, many more phone calls, and he ended
up taking a chance on me, and that's how the
Hannah Fletcher Show came to be. And we just shot
this past September and it's just been it's been a
dream come true. And I've had the opportunity to even
learn the production side of things as well, and I'm
learning so much about the other side by being in
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front of the camera, but I'm also doing so many
other things and working so closely with this crew, so
closely with the staff that's on hands. So far, we're
still building the team out and everybody is amazing. And
it's almost all women too. It's basically all women and
Eric and it's so wonderful and I'm so proud of
this show, you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Know, it's so refreshing, so refreshing to hear that. I
always tell people, you know, And as I'm building out
my company, now you know, eighty five percent of my
workforce is going to be women because I mean, women
pay attention to detail. We may, you know, we just
want to get the job done. We don't pay attention,
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you know. But but a woman workforce is really forward thinking.
And I mean women are just brilliant and brilliant minds.
And that is so great. And the congratulations on the
news show too, And the importance of networking. I'm telling
you it just it just shows you know what I mean,
and just build a netwrapport with people and you never know,
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you know, what can parlay, you know, from a conversation
and what has been the kind of most eye opening
experience now of doing your own show and looking at
things in its totality, was there any like epiphanies that
that happened now doing your own show.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yes, I had, I will say my pinch me moment,
I think was when I was sitting on set. So
we shot seven episodes over the course of three days,
and every episode that you see will be it will
have two interviews, and then there was one in particular
that we'll have one guest for the whole episode with
Spencer Sutherland, but every other episode had two guests, basically.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Ideally around a half hour and a half hour. And
I would say what.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Was interesting about this whole process was it was the
final day of shooting. I look behind me, I see
my name on this digital background, and I literally just said,
oh my god, I did it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I did it. And it was a really unique experience.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And it was very interesting because I'm very much the
type of person where I operate with a lot of humility.
And my mom is actually mentioned to me multiple times.
She's like, be proud in addition to being humble. And
it's not that I'm not proud, but I'm the type
of person where my fire is always stoking.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I never let it burn out.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'm constantly putting the metaphorical wood on top of the
fire to keep it going. And so I had that
pinched me moment on set and it was very surreal.
And then even recently we just had the website. It's
all done. You guys can check it out at the
Hannah Fletcher Show dot tv and it's very well done.
Eric and his crew did such a great job. And
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even just looking at the website, I was like, wow,
I have It's like I see her and then I know,
I feel like it's two different people a little bit.
And I've been telling my parents about this on the
phone a lot, and I'm like, this is such a
unique experience. But I'm so grateful and so blessed and
this is exactly what I've worked for pretty much every
minute of my life up until this point.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That that's amazing. And moms have a way of humbling you.
My mom will always say and she'll say this in
front of people too, no matter if it's professional or
around different different pass And my mom is ninety years
old and she's like, all right, I'm gonna take your
take your batteries out your chair, leave you in the desert,
you know, so that always not that you know that
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that that that humbles me. I'm like, okay, you know,
I'm still I'm still because I'm of the youngest in
the family, so I'm still I'm still pawy, you know
what I mean. So that's yeah, that's me. So it's
a parents have a way of home, you know. And
and when does the episodes drop?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yes, so the episodes are coming out this fall.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
We are still finalizing everything, so there will be a
formal announcement within I would say a couple of weeks
at max, but definitely this fall. I'm I'm thinking right
around the Thanksgiving mark ideally is kind of where I'm
where I'm I'm hoping. And again I don't want to
say a specific date, but it is.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Going to be sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
But everybody can definitely tune into either The Hannah Fletchershow
dot TV for our website. We also have a Facebook page,
we have Instagram that's at the Hannah Fletcher Show and
that's where everybody can stay tuned to be able to
see that formal announcement drop.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But sooner rather than later. We're very excited about that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's awesome. That's awesome. And Hannah, I look at where
we're at. I cover tech too, and I look at
how technology has allowed us to have these different platforms
now where we can show off our talents, we can
have our visions, and it's great to have platforms like
to Be and all these other platforms so that we
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can we can just do our thing. And twenty years
ago we didn't have that. You know, it was just
this and that, and we were forced to watch this,
this and that. But now we have just this mortgage
board of amazing content where we can see ones like
yourself do yell.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Thang, I love it.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I was a YouTube kid through and through, so to
know that, like so many different platforms exist now and
to be able to say, okay, even beyond YouTube, like
you mentioned, we have Instagram, we have TikTok, we have
platforms like to Be as well, Amazon Prime.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
We have all of these.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Wonderful resources to be able to show our abilities. And
I think that it's so important, and I think that
we're in a really unique time where, yes, the world
has so many different things going on in it, but
I think there's also something so beautiful about the fact
that so many people are so inclined to create now,
and that's even bringing it back to the whole point
of this show. It's to really highlight this younger generation,
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even that does very much involve themselves in the space
of social media, and to give them a voice, because
we don't see anybody that's in the talk show space
for the younger generation. And that's really even what inspired
me to create this show the way that I did.
And I've been obsessed with social media in my whole life,
even like I mentioned, with YouTube, I was making the
videos where it was like the Logitech webcam, but like
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the first generation where when I would move it would
take ten minutes for me to just shift forward towards
the camera. So this show is it's for that younger
generation especially to be able to see that, you know,
it's all about talking about the power of social media
and let's use it for good and build each other up.
And even we have so many guests on the show
that are content creators themselves, and we're so excited for
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everybody to be able to see those episodes.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Awesome man, And one of my last questions, what has
been the biggest challenge in this journey for you, and
how have you you overcome some of those challenges and
what gives you that sticktuitiveness to keep on going when
you when you have these lows in your journey.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Definitely great question. This year, this year has been so
transformative it it hurts a little.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm not gonna I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Not gonna lie and in a such a beautiful way though.
So I'm a Christian and the show has different people
on as guests that will speak about their Christianity. There's
one gentleman in particular, you know, he's he's his name
is Tyrone, and he talks all about God and his
journey with God. And it's not a show just for
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anybody who is spiritual or religious. There's those components there
if that's if that's what you like, and I mean
it's it's again not a show for anybody of a
particular faith in any way, shape or form. And you know,
for me personally, when the going gets tough, I've really
been lenient on God and that's helped me a lot
and a lot of this this whole journey is just
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you know, it is. It's an intricate process, especially when
your name is attached to a project so so obviously,
you know, and it's a product that I want to
be so beautiful and so polished, and every guest that
I have a conversation with, I want them to leave
feeling like they were on cloud nine and that they
had the best opportunity possible. So, you know, I really
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I give it up to God. I give it up
to my faith. And that's honestly what's kept me very
grounded and very rooted. And you know it is it's
a tedious process, and there's been many many sleepless nights
or I'll go work a full time job and then
I'll come home at night and be in front of
my desktop until one am. My cat's up in front
of me trying to get my attention. He's like, can
I have attention? I'm like, I'm coming, you know. So
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it's been a journey, but all for the best. And
I've grown closer to God this year and I don't
find for that to be a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I think that that was intentional for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah. I love that when you, when you receive guests,
make him feel better than they do when you receive them.
And that's another scripture that that really helps me out
and keeps me grounded and this whole thing, my whole career.
As Matthew five three says, happy are those conscious of
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their spiritual needs. So it's like when we are conscious
of our need for God and we pray to him,
we read scripture, we meditate on what we read that
that keeps us happy, and and our careers and everything
are just secondary to the happiness that He gives us.
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If we're happy, we're going to be happy in all
aspects of life and and and it's refreshing to hear
someone is your age that has a focus on spirituality,
because I think so often some are afraid to talk
about their spirituality for fear that ones feel that we're
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going to be judgmental. I'm like this, what I do
is different from what the the next person is gonna do.
What you do, that's between you and the creator, you know,
but that you know, I'm still love you anyway. I'm
gonna love you up. I'm gonna feed you if you're hungry.
I'm I'm gonna clothe you if you if you need
some shelter. You know. So, because I'm so glad to
hear you have that focus about a spiritual need. And
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that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Thank you, I really do.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I love God and I love the fact that I've
grown so so close. I've always had him in my life,
but this year's just been so exceptionally different. And I mean,
I've gotten to the point that I crave something, whether
it's changing out.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I love Sabrina Carpenter so much. I've been listening to
her music all the time.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
But maybe instead of listening to Taste for the third
time today, I'm gonna listen to Reckless Love by Corey Asbury,
you know. And it's just the little things like that
that I'm doing in my life, and I find that
it really like that's the way that I get charged,
not by drinking three cups of coffee every single day,
although it helps.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm not gonna sit here and say that it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I don't about that.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
But it's the little things like that. It's the little nuances,
and I do really enjoy that. And and you know, again,
it's one of those things where that's who I am
and that's what I identify with. But it is not the
type of thing where, you know, I would never want
somebody to, you know, somebody who is of a different faith,
or maybe they're agnostic, or maybe they're even an atheist,
you know, still tune into the Hannah Fletchers show. There
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are pieces there if you want to latch onto that,
but there's so much to latch onto if that's not
your speed.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
It's never ever me talking about my faith in any way,
shape or form to It's it's to provide a sigh
of relief for those who are looking for that in
this industry and for those who are looking to see
other people in this industry that do.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Represent themselves and stand with faith. But it's also it's
never to shove it down the throat to anybody. It's
always just there. If somebody wants to be interested in
that side of me, I'm totally willing to talk about it,
but I welcome anybody of any any background in terms
of spirituality and anything like that.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I mean, it's so it's I'm very open about it.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
But again, I never want for somebody to feel like,
you know, they wouldn't like me for that, or they
don't feel like they can tune in because of that,
you know, it's that's not the point.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
So no, I love that, and it shows that there's
so much that we have in common that that divides us.
And you know, no matter no matter what faith, like
you said, agnostic atheists, there's so many things that that
we all have in common that we can all celebrate together.
And and Hannah, I believe your show will will help
continue on, you know, with that, with that conversation and
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just you know, allowing ones to see you know, some
amazing guests, amazing host and and you know, and and
much success, Hannah. And and why don't you give the
information out again how ones can can can keep abreast
of how things are going and and when the show
is going to drop And you don't mind share that
with this police.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yes, absolutely so. Do stay tuned. So the website is
the Hannah Fletchershow dot tv. You can follow me personally
at Hannah ur Fletcher, and you can follow the show's
Instagram at the Hannah Fletcher Show. And definitely stay tuned.
We will be announcing details in terms of when the
show is specifically dropping on to be I believe it
is going to be all at once, so you'll get
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access to all seven episodes just as a teaser. There
are a couple of really wonderful guests that I'll drop
their names. We have Lady Kazan, Spencer Sutherland, Gary, Anthony Williams,
so many ranging interviews. We have content creators such as
Ronaldo Garcia and Dylan Hwing, and there's so many more.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
We have a psychic, we have a healer.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
We have so many wonderful people that are on the show,
and they have so many varying stories and it's.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Just a really great show.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
I do believe that there's an episode that is dedicated
for everybody, and I think that everybody can find at
least one guest that they relate to or that they're
interested in learning more about in terms of their journey.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And very excited for everybody to be able to see
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Amazing, Hannah, and thank you so much for coming on
the show. Can't wait to do it again and talk
about some other great things and hopefully with see each other,
you know, around different events and everything. But I wish
you nothing but success and thank you again for joining me.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Absolutely it's been my pleasure. Thank you so much for
having me, Thank you for your time. I appreciate you, Paul,
you rock.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Thanks appreciate you to Thanks. Wow, what an awesome, incredible
conversation with Hannah Fletcher. Hannah, thank you so much for
sharing your insight and your passion with us today. It
was truly inspiring. Everyone. Please be sure and to follow
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Hannah support her amazing work. She's an awesome person. Well.
That brings us to the end of another exciting edition
of the Entertainment Zone. Remember we kick things off with
a look back at RIBA's McIntyre new show Happy Place,
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which promises laugh and heartwarming moments. Then we dove into
the history of superhero movies with that Fact, a fun
fact about the Mask of Marvel, and of course we
capped it off with a fantastic interview with Hannah Fletcher.
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I want to thank you all for joining me today,
whether you're watching us on TV and listening on the
radio or catching us in your favorite podcasts platform, it
means truly the world to me. So until next time,
stay healthy, stay safe, and remember I love you all
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the life.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Take care, ain't your averaging the teament show more in
the team, And then what's on the screen? Connecting dots
on what you see
Ain't your average entertainment show more to entertainment than what's
on the screen, connecting dots on what you see.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
A big thank you to everyone sticking with us through
the break, whether you're watching at home, listening on the radio,
or catching us on your favorite podcast app. We appreciate
you being here and don't forget. You can always connect
with me at Paul Amadei's lane dot com, or you
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can find me on all social media platforms. Just searched
Paul Almadi's Lane. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are
you ready for the highlight of our show. I'm excited
to welcome the incredibly talent and inspiring Hannah Fletcher to
the entertainment Zone. Now. Hannah is truly a force in
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the entertainment world. She's a host, an actress, and all
around amazing person. Today she's here to tell us all
about her exciting new venture and her career, what got
her in this business in the first place, and she
and I we have a mutual friend in this industry.
(01:20):
So without any further ado, let's give a warm welcome
to the amazing, the beautiful, the awesome Hannah Fletcher. I
am so delighted to have with me right now. My
next guest. She is a host, she is a producer,
she's an actress and also a content creator. We're talking
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about Hannah Fletcher. What's going on, Hannah? How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I am so good. I'm so glad to be here.
Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh, Hannah, I am so delighted to you know, to
talk with you before we started started recording. Fellow You
and I have a good friend in common, so it
was really great to see see how how we're kind
of connected for people that we know we are.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You know, I find it so funny because this industry,
it's it's so big yet so small.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Literally, like one of the people that I work with
the most and especially in my career, that I've had
in LA so far, that's our mutual Michael Sanderval shout
out to Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We love it. Yeah. I call them big money Mike
so big Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, Hannah, let's
talk about the journey. You know, what what made you
want to pursue entertainment as a career when you were
growing up? Is this something you always saw yourself doing?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes? So ever since I was three years old.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
My parents recognized that I had very unique abilities that
I wasn't shy, you know, and and basically it was
kind of this decision where it was like, let's start
her off in dance class and let's kind of see
where it goes.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And yeah, it started.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
At the age of three, I was enrolled in dance classes,
and then at five, I went into the into the
theater world. I got a had a lead role given
to me when I was five years old, so I
was I was.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I peaked. It was amazing. I loved it so much.
And then ever since I was little, it's just always
been a part of my life.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And even as I got older and I decided to
go to college, it wasn't really a matter of like
what am I going for? It's more like where am
I going? And it's just always been. It's always been
a part of my life. And I'm very grateful and
my parents have been extremely supportive, and that has played
such a tremendous part in this entire journey, has been
my parents' support. It keeps me grounded and there's nothing
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like having the support of your parents.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'm very grateful, So true, so true, so what was
that first role? You know, I'm being nosy.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So there was a production called Cats and Bats. I
don't know if this is still like around. You would
have to probably deep dive on Google to find it.
But there was a production called Cats and Bats and
it was about this little girl that her dad had
like some kind of like lab situation, and it was
about like cats and quite literally bats.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And the little girl's name was Nolan. And the thing
that I remember the most was.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I carried this bird cage out on stage and it
was massive, like I'm talking like a forty pound bird cage.
And I was like five years old, so teeny tiny,
but there was nothing I couldn't handle.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And that was that was my role.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I think I had like a whole monologue and everything,
like I had a lot of I had a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
To do at five. I was very busy. I was
booked and busy at five years old.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was awesome. That's pretty cool. Well, pretty cool kind
of reminds me of growing up and some of the
shows we put on in my elementary school. You know,
I kind of remember some of those memories and I
was like, wow, I remember I remember a couple of
my lines, but other than that, I can't remember, you know,
the rest the rest of the story. And so very young,
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you knew this is something you wanted to get into.
So what were some of the steps that you took
to kind of put you in the place that you
can now pursue this as a career.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
So when I graduated from college, I was twenty two.
I graduated in twenty nineteen, and I relocated to LA
right in time for the pandemic, and it was a
very I mean, it was a horrible time for so
many people, and it was just very isolating and very confusing.
But I made it a point that while I was
going through that, I was like, what can I do
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for myself? Obviously, you know, having a BFA in acting,
I'm very grateful to have the degree, but I have
to also find other things that are very interesting to me,
because a lot of my friends do. They typically, I've
found that they've come to LA with one specific idea
in mind that they want to pursue, i e.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Acting or singing, and they're really just sticking to that route.
And I think that that's wonderful for myself.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What I found really worked was yes, I love acting, Yes,
that's what my degree is in. But I fast tracked
myself and I realized that I had an epiphany and
realized that I loved interviewing and that I loved hosting.
And then I said, okay, well, what kind of steps
do I need in this industry?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You have to show for what you abilities are.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
So, yes, I have an acting reel, but that tells
me My mind thinks to myself, well, I have to
have an interviewing reel now, and I don't have that currently,
So what can I do to build that up? So
I took on a bunch of internships in addition to
the full time supporting job that I'd had throughout COVID,
and I took those steps to be able to end
up landing to where I am today. I also crafted
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a podcast. The podcast was never intended to go viral.
It was never intended to necessarily be the most popular
podcast or be the next Call Her Daddy. It was
more or less something that I used to be able
to display my abilities and practice and understand and gain
respect of how the media industry works and how to
book talent and how to reach out and how to
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pitch and how to interview. So that's basically what ended
up landing me to where I am today. It's all
the self education that came after the formal education.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I totally get that because I remember when I was
in broadcasting school, you know, I had I had one
focus on what I wanted to do, and it wasn't
until I got out that reality hit and I was like, Okay,
I got to diversify my talents. I have to try this,
try this, try that, and uh and then and and
what I've found out too, Hannah, that gives you longevity
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in the game. You know, when you take the route
that you have taken, where you've learned how to how
to produce, you learn how to host, you learn all
these things, you can still act, you know. And so
that just shows and content creation. That just shows that
where we've come in a stream of time where when
it came to journalism or actress, it was either one
or the other. But now we can do many things
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and we can really be uh doing it at a
high level too. And when you when you look at
the difference now of now being an actress and now
being a host interviewing ones, did that prepare you to know?
The right questions to ask because you know the actress
life and you know share that with this if you
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don't mind.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Definitely, I think that interviewing is such a unique skill
in general. I find that so many different interviewers interview
with different ideas in mind. You know, there's definitely the
type of interviewer or journalists rather that even exists where
you know they're looking at this whole conversation and they're
really looking for certain things. You know. I know that
there's there's hosts out there that they really want to
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get clickbait and they're really looking for certain things out
of certain people. For myself, I've always interviewed from the
point of just authentic curiosity, and I think that that
is what sets my interview style aside, and also with
the idea of really making somebody feel supported.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I realized when I.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Had the opportunity to work at red carpet events that
I felt like there was this this wall up and
this disconnect, and I felt horrible at times when I
was speaking with celebrities because of the fact that I
could tell that they were just scared of me. And
I never wanted somebody to ever feel like that. I'm
very much the type of person. Even when I go
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about my day to day life, I'm very empathic. I'm
very open to other people, and I love to be
able to support people in any way that I can.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And that's just how I am. And so when I
realized this after the first.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Few Red Carpets that I had the opportunity to work
back in like twenty twenty one, I kind of incorporated
that with what I was doing and with my podcast,
and as I was moving forward, and I told myself,
I said, look, I'm going to interview from authentic and
genuine curiosity, but I'm also going to interview to make
sure that when these people go to either log off
of the virtual interview or they walk away from you
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with their publicist on the carpet, that if they see
me on the carpet moving forward, they're going to want
to come and speak with me. And that is something
that's very important to me. I think that I think
a world can exist where you get exactly what you're
looking for from somebody in our position, but you're also
getting the opportunity to make somebody feel like they're supported,
seen and heard. And it is scary to be interviewed like, honestly,
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it's a completely different bear.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
To be interviewed versus being the interviewer.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I mean, it's two different hats completely, and I'm very
used to wearing your hat. So this is a whole
new practice for me, and it's very fun, but it
is it is a challenge, and I am sympathetic towards
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You know, I always tell people like, when I'm being interviewed,
I said, I am the worst interviewee you will ever see,
you know, because you know, when someone's asking me questions,
I'm like, oh, you know, I'm doing those things instead
of instead of you know, so I'm not used to it,
but but I totally get that, Hannah. I definitely, I
definitely know were you're coming at when when it comes in.
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And that's one thing that I've noticed too whenever doing
carpet events, and my dynamic is a little bit different
being in a wheelchair. People see me and they're like,
I don't know what to do, you know, but but
but you're right when they when they feel comfortable. It's
it's a beautiful thing. I mean, Hannah, you've probably gotten
this too, where you've interviewed someone and he was a
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famous person. They're like, hey, you got my number. I'm like, no,
I don't have number, and they're like, you know, isn't
that pretty cool? When when you make people feel so
comfortable that they want to interact with you, they want
to continue to, you know, associate with you outside of
the interview, that's pretty amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It's also even I don't know if you've gotten this
in your interviews too, but when somebody calls you by
your name, like midway through the interview, when they're when
you know, if you're asking a question, and.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
They're like, oh, yeah, Hannah, well let me tell you this.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Especially if it's somebody that you're like a fan of
or something like that, you're like, oh, say it again,
like you just love it.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's just so it's so cathartic.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It's the little things that just make you have that
validation of knowing that you are in alignment with exactly
where you need to be in what you're doing, but
also that.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You're making that person feel utterly supported. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, and you know, you know, Hannah, I don't know if
you feel this way too, but you know, like you
mentioned before, about about how the talent to actors. You know,
they're they're they're scared too, you know, because this is
you know, they they they normally are in a controlled
environment where they have the producer, director, you know, all
these things, and then now they have to talk to
us strangers, and and and and oftentimes. You know, I
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feel for them because they're real people with with with
real problems with real life. I mean, in their minds,
they are calculating so many things like how long is
this ride gonna last? You know, am I gonna get
a second season? You know, all these things are going
through their mind when when they're trying to give us
an interview, and I find myself, really I feel for
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them because it's a it's a challenge for them. And
sometimes what I try to do, I try to go
below that surface and be like, you know, what are
some things that keep you up at night when it
comes to this business? And I love and hand you
probably you probably deal with this too. It's that when
they just open up the floodgates and let you know
how they feel in their inner inner person. And I
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don't know, when they do that, hand, I feel like, wow,
I know them a lot better and that they're real
persons like us with this challenges exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's like cracking Pandora's box.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Like you said, there's points where you know you'll get
their whole story or something like that, and it and
they're just speaking their mind and oh, it's such a
cathartic feeling. It's it's really really lovely when you have
that happen, and it happens I feel like more often
than people would assume too. It really just depends on
depends on the whole the whole situation. You know, how
you are in the position of being the interviewer, how
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they're feeling, what's going on with them, even you know
what their.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Relation is to the project.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I find that actors are a little bit more likely
to divulge versus like a producer, But I've had producers.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Open up and speak to me and divulge as well.
So it really just depends.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
But it's such a beautiful feeling to know that somebody
trusts you enough to just kind of just go for it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, you make it feel so comfortable that they, Oh
I should have said that, you know, can't we edit
that out? You know what I mean? When they right,
they let the cat out of the bag and it's like, Okay,
those are pretty cool. And Hannah and industry, you know,
our industry has gotten kind of like a black eye
here recently, just with the you know, the gotcha journalism,
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all these different things that are going on and looking
at looking at you and how your interview style is.
You know, you are You're not rolling that way, you
know what I mean, You're you're rolling in a way
that that there really shows that you care about your audience,
care about you the person you're interviewing, and you care
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about your reputation. You know. Is that something that that
you have done so knowingly or is that just you
as a person.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I honestly, I can't sit here and say that I'm
not self aware, you know. I think that we all are,
especially in this industry because of the fact that our
work is on camera, you know, or or the fact
that our work is being recorded. But honestly, as a person,
and as I mentioned earlier, I am very sympathetic and
empathetic when it comes to people and making sure that
they feel supported. So if I can do anything to
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make somebody feel their absolute best, I will, And I
just I really do empathize with others, and I really
do just always want for somebody to feel like I'm
authentically present because I am, and even when I'm interviewing,
it's such a cathartic experience.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And I'm so.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Excited and blessed to be able to say that even
when I'm interviewing someone, I am not thinking about anything else.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I am able to completely just immerse myself.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's like when you're watching the plot of the film Thickening,
and it's when you even have that vision change and
you realize that you're actually even watching TV in the
first place. You know, when you're like in deep thought
when you're driving, you're like, oh my gosh, I'm actually driving.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know. It's kind of like that for me every
time I have an interview.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So to be able to support somebody like that, and
to be able to bring my empathic qualities from life
into an interview, it's definitely a blessing. And I recognize
that ability that I have within myself, and I'm so
grateful that I'm able to kind of bring that into
my job, because not a lot of people can bring
their traits and their qualities about themselves into the workspace
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quite like.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
This, Norue, that's true. What's been some of your most
memorable interviews?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I would have to say that is such a good question.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I had the opportunity to interview Eric Roberts and his
director Felipo. Prandy and Felipo and I are still very
very close. We call each other probably, like i'd say,
at least every two to three months, and we have
plans of working together in the future. And it was
a very neat interview because Eric's a legend and we
all just saw him on Dancing with the Stars. I
thought he did a great job. I'm very sad that
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he's not on the show anymore. I feel like they
also hot take. I think Dancing with the Stars needs
like a golden version, just like they had with The Bachelor.
I think a lot of people have been saying things
like that. I wish that that were the case for
Reginald and for Eric. But I would say that that
is an interview that stands out very near and dear
to my heart because of the connection that I had
(16:57):
with them when we were interviewing, and we got along
so well and we just clicked. And then also to again,
like you mentioned earlier. You know, when you get the
phone number, when you get the contact in phone, when
actually can stay in touch with that person. So it's
been great to be able to continue to stay in
touch with Filipo. He's so wonderful. He's so supportive, and
he's always dming me telling me how proud he is
of me, and I see him when he comes to LA.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It's a whole thing and I'm so grateful for that connection.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You and I have have Eric Roberts story because I
have one too. It was twenty i want to say
twenty eighteen Comic Con and Erico was part of a
series called Medina and I had a chance to interview him.
So what Eric did. Eric came and brought a chair,
sat right next to me, and during the whole interview,
(17:41):
Eric is like hugging me while we're going to interview,
and I'm like, this is pretty amazing right here. And
Eric Roberts, You're right, he is just a cool cat.
Uh And thank you for sharing that. See, that's just
what I like, these Sarah diippitous moments when it comes
to the industry where we have these kind of similar
(18:01):
similar things and to the audience, Hannah and I did
not we did not plan this to talk about Eric
Roberts together out of the blue. And that's that's really
amazing in Hannah. Now, let's talk about how all this
has parlayed into your new show owned too Me.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yes, so, so the Hannah Fletcher Show, that is my
talk show. We have seven episodes currently shot and we
do continue to uh, we are planning to.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Continue to shoot.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
But I'm I'm in all that I'm even able to
actually have the opportunity to talk about this. But basically,
this show came to be because I met a wonderful
man and his name is Eric Wheelwright and him and
I connected back in March of this year at an
oscar viewing party. There's a gentleman in Hollywood named Jonathan Baker,
so it was at his Oscar viewing party and it
(18:55):
was such a wonderful encounter that we had. We we
got along very well, and we actually we talked and
interacted at the party, but not too too much. Most
of the interaction came afterwards. And the thing is with
la and with Hollywood, you know, there is this there's
this need to be able to network, and you should network,
and so I take that to a whole different level.
(19:17):
I'm constantly networking and constantly trying to reach out and
really sure up connections. And yes, I look at somebody
as a connection, but I'm also trying to actually craft
a friendship out of it as well, because I love
looking at people beyond just their abilities, their talent and
their job. So I reached out to Eric and I
invited him to a coffee and I met him up
(19:39):
North and we went and got coffee and we chatted
for probably five hours. We sat down and chatted and
I articulated my passions to him and what my goal
was for twenty twenty four because it was at the
beginning of the year and where I really even wanted
to see my career go.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And from there we really got along.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
We had so many more conversations, many more five our
coffees after that, many more phone calls, and he ended
up taking a chance on me, and that's how the
Hannah Fletcher Show came to be. And we just shot
this past September and it's just been it's been a
dream come true. And I've had the opportunity to even
learn the production side of things as well, and I'm
learning so much about the other side by being in
(20:20):
front of the camera, but I'm also doing so many
other things and working so closely with this crew, so
closely with the staff that's on hands. So far, we're
still building the team out and everybody is amazing. And
it's almost all women too. It's basically all women and
Eric and it's so wonderful and I'm so proud of
this show, you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Know, it's so refreshing, so refreshing to hear that. I
always tell people, you know, And as I'm building out
my company, now you know, eighty five percent of my
workforce is going to be women because I mean, women
pay attention to detail. We may, you know, we just
want to get the job done. We don't pay attention,
(21:00):
you know. But but a woman workforce is really forward thinking.
And I mean women are just brilliant and brilliant minds.
And that is so great. And the congratulations on the
news show too, And the importance of networking. I'm telling
you it just it just shows you know what I mean,
and just build a netwrapport with people and you never know,
(21:23):
you know, what can parlay, you know, from a conversation
and what has been the kind of most eye opening
experience now of doing your own show and looking at
things in its totality, was there any like epiphanies that
that happened now doing your own show.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yes, I had, I will say my pinch me moment,
I think was when I was sitting on set. So
we shot seven episodes over the course of three days,
and every episode that you see will be it will
have two interviews, and then there was one in particular
that we'll have one guest for the whole episode with
Spencer Sutherland, but every other episode had two guests, basically.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Ideally around a half hour and a half hour. And
I would say what.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Was interesting about this whole process was it was the
final day of shooting. I look behind me, I see
my name on this digital background, and I literally just said,
oh my god, I did it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I did it. And it was a really unique experience.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And it was very interesting because I'm very much the
type of person where I operate with a lot of humility.
And my mom is actually mentioned to me multiple times.
She's like, be proud in addition to being humble. And
it's not that I'm not proud, but I'm the type
of person where my fire is always stoking.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I never let it burn out.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'm constantly putting the metaphorical wood on top of the
fire to keep it going. And so I had that
pinched me moment on set and it was very surreal.
And then even recently we just had the website. It's
all done. You guys can check it out at the
Hannah Fletcher Show dot tv and it's very well done.
Eric and his crew did such a great job. And
(23:09):
even just looking at the website, I was like, wow,
I have It's like I see her and then I know,
I feel like it's two different people a little bit.
And I've been telling my parents about this on the
phone a lot, and I'm like, this is such a
unique experience. But I'm so grateful and so blessed and
this is exactly what I've worked for pretty much every
minute of my life up until this point.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That that's amazing. And moms have a way of humbling you.
My mom will always say and she'll say this in
front of people too, no matter if it's professional or
around different different pass And my mom is ninety years
old and she's like, all right, I'm gonna take your
take your batteries out your chair, leave you in the desert,
you know, so that always not that you know that
(23:52):
that that that humbles me. I'm like, okay, you know,
I'm still I'm still because I'm of the youngest in
the family, so I'm still I'm still pawy, you know
what I mean. So that's yeah, that's me. So it's
a parents have a way of home, you know. And
and when does the episodes drop?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yes, so the episodes are coming out this fall.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
We are still finalizing everything, so there will be a
formal announcement within I would say a couple of weeks
at max, but definitely this fall. I'm I'm thinking right
around the Thanksgiving mark ideally is kind of where I'm
where I'm I'm hoping. And again I don't want to
say a specific date, but it is.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Going to be sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
But everybody can definitely tune into either The Hannah Fletchershow
dot TV for our website. We also have a Facebook page,
we have Instagram that's at the Hannah Fletcher Show and
that's where everybody can stay tuned to be able to
see that formal announcement drop.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But sooner rather than later. We're very excited about that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's awesome. That's awesome. And Hannah, I look at where
we're at. I cover tech too, and I look at
how technology has allowed us to have these different platforms
now where we can show off our talents, we can
have our visions, and it's great to have platforms like
to Be and all these other platforms so that we
(25:08):
can we can just do our thing. And twenty years
ago we didn't have that. You know, it was just
this and that, and we were forced to watch this,
this and that. But now we have just this mortgage
board of amazing content where we can see ones like
yourself do yell.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Thang, I love it.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I was a YouTube kid through and through, so to
know that, like so many different platforms exist now and
to be able to say, okay, even beyond YouTube, like
you mentioned, we have Instagram, we have TikTok, we have
platforms like to Be as well, Amazon Prime.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
We have all of these.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Wonderful resources to be able to show our abilities. And
I think that it's so important, and I think that
we're in a really unique time where, yes, the world
has so many different things going on in it, but
I think there's also something so beautiful about the fact
that so many people are so inclined to create now,
and that's even bringing it back to the whole point
of this show. It's to really highlight this younger generation,
(26:04):
even that does very much involve themselves in the space
of social media, and to give them a voice, because
we don't see anybody that's in the talk show space
for the younger generation. And that's really even what inspired
me to create this show the way that I did.
And I've been obsessed with social media in my whole life,
even like I mentioned, with YouTube, I was making the
videos where it was like the Logitech webcam, but like
(26:25):
the first generation where when I would move it would
take ten minutes for me to just shift forward towards
the camera. So this show is it's for that younger
generation especially to be able to see that, you know,
it's all about talking about the power of social media
and let's use it for good and build each other up.
And even we have so many guests on the show
that are content creators themselves, and we're so excited for
(26:47):
everybody to be able to see those episodes.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Awesome man, And one of my last questions, what has
been the biggest challenge in this journey for you, and
how have you you overcome some of those challenges and
what gives you that sticktuitiveness to keep on going when
you when you have these lows in your journey.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Definitely great question. This year, this year has been so
transformative it it hurts a little.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm not gonna I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Not gonna lie and in a such a beautiful way though.
So I'm a Christian and the show has different people
on as guests that will speak about their Christianity. There's
one gentleman in particular, you know, he's he's his name
is Tyrone, and he talks all about God and his
journey with God. And it's not a show just for
(27:39):
anybody who is spiritual or religious. There's those components there
if that's if that's what you like, and I mean
it's it's again not a show for anybody of a
particular faith in any way, shape or form. And you know,
for me personally, when the going gets tough, I've really
been lenient on God and that's helped me a lot
and a lot of this this whole journey is just
(28:02):
you know, it is. It's an intricate process, especially when
your name is attached to a project so so obviously,
you know, and it's a product that I want to
be so beautiful and so polished, and every guest that
I have a conversation with, I want them to leave
feeling like they were on cloud nine and that they
had the best opportunity possible. So, you know, I really
(28:22):
I give it up to God. I give it up
to my faith. And that's honestly what's kept me very
grounded and very rooted. And you know it is it's
a tedious process, and there's been many many sleepless nights
or I'll go work a full time job and then
I'll come home at night and be in front of
my desktop until one am. My cat's up in front
of me trying to get my attention. He's like, can
I have attention? I'm like, I'm coming, you know. So
(28:43):
it's been a journey, but all for the best. And
I've grown closer to God this year and I don't
find for that to be a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I think that that was intentional for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah. I love that when you, when you receive guests,
make him feel better than they do when you receive them.
And that's another scripture that that really helps me out
and keeps me grounded and this whole thing, my whole career.
As Matthew five three says, happy are those conscious of
(29:13):
their spiritual needs. So it's like when we are conscious
of our need for God and we pray to him,
we read scripture, we meditate on what we read that
that keeps us happy, and and our careers and everything
are just secondary to the happiness that He gives us.
(29:34):
If we're happy, we're going to be happy in all
aspects of life and and and it's refreshing to hear
someone is your age that has a focus on spirituality,
because I think so often some are afraid to talk
about their spirituality for fear that ones feel that we're
(29:55):
going to be judgmental. I'm like this, what I do
is different from what the the next person is gonna do.
What you do, that's between you and the creator, you know,
but that you know, I'm still love you anyway. I'm
gonna love you up. I'm gonna feed you if you're hungry.
I'm I'm gonna clothe you if you if you need
some shelter. You know. So, because I'm so glad to
hear you have that focus about a spiritual need. And
(30:18):
that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Thank you, I really do.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I love God and I love the fact that I've
grown so so close. I've always had him in my life,
but this year's just been so exceptionally different. And I mean,
I've gotten to the point that I crave something, whether
it's changing out.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I love Sabrina Carpenter so much. I've been listening to
her music all the time.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
But maybe instead of listening to Taste for the third
time today, I'm gonna listen to Reckless Love by Corey Asbury,
you know. And it's just the little things like that
that I'm doing in my life, and I find that
it really like that's the way that I get charged,
not by drinking three cups of coffee every single day,
although it helps.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm not gonna sit here and say that it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I don't about that.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
But it's the little things like that. It's the little nuances,
and I do really enjoy that. And and you know, again,
it's one of those things where that's who I am
and that's what I identify with. But it is not the
type of thing where, you know, I would never want
somebody to, you know, somebody who is of a different faith,
or maybe they're agnostic, or maybe they're even an atheist,
you know, still tune into the Hannah Fletchers show. There
(31:16):
are pieces there if you want to latch onto that,
but there's so much to latch onto if that's not
your speed.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
It's never ever me talking about my faith in any way,
shape or form to It's it's to provide a sigh
of relief for those who are looking for that in
this industry and for those who are looking to see
other people in this industry that do.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Represent themselves and stand with faith. But it's also it's
never to shove it down the throat to anybody. It's
always just there. If somebody wants to be interested in
that side of me, I'm totally willing to talk about it,
but I welcome anybody of any any background in terms
of spirituality and anything like that.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I mean, it's so it's I'm very open about it.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
But again, I never want for somebody to feel like,
you know, they wouldn't like me for that, or they
don't feel like they can tune in because of that,
you know, it's that's not the point.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
So no, I love that, and it shows that there's
so much that we have in common that that divides us.
And you know, no matter no matter what faith, like
you said, agnostic atheists, there's so many things that that
we all have in common that we can all celebrate together.
And and Hannah, I believe your show will will help
continue on, you know, with that, with that conversation and
(32:28):
just you know, allowing ones to see you know, some
amazing guests, amazing host and and you know, and and
much success, Hannah. And and why don't you give the
information out again how ones can can can keep abreast
of how things are going and and when the show
is going to drop And you don't mind share that
with this police.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yes, absolutely so. Do stay tuned. So the website is
the Hannah Fletchershow dot tv. You can follow me personally
at Hannah ur Fletcher, and you can follow the show's
Instagram at the Hannah Fletcher Show. And definitely stay tuned.
We will be announcing details in terms of when the
show is specifically dropping on to be I believe it
is going to be all at once, so you'll get
(33:08):
access to all seven episodes just as a teaser. There
are a couple of really wonderful guests that I'll drop
their names. We have Lady Kazan, Spencer Sutherland, Gary, Anthony Williams,
so many ranging interviews. We have content creators such as
Ronaldo Garcia and Dylan Hwing, and there's so many more.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
We have a psychic, we have a healer.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
We have so many wonderful people that are on the show,
and they have so many varying stories and it's.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Just a really great show.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
I do believe that there's an episode that is dedicated
for everybody, and I think that everybody can find at
least one guest that they relate to or that they're
interested in learning more about in terms of their journey.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And very excited for everybody to be able to see
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Amazing, Hannah, and thank you so much for coming on
the show. Can't wait to do it again and talk
about some other great things and hopefully with see each other,
you know, around different events and everything. But I wish
you nothing but success and thank you again for joining me.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Absolutely it's been my pleasure. Thank you so much for
having me, Thank you for your time. I appreciate you, Paul,
you rock.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Thanks appreciate you to Thanks. Wow, what an awesome, incredible
conversation with Hannah Fletcher. Hannah, thank you so much for
sharing your insight and your passion with us today. It
was truly inspiring. Everyone. Please be sure and to follow
(34:34):
Hannah support her amazing work. She's an awesome person. Well.
That brings us to the end of another exciting edition
of the Entertainment Zone. Remember we kick things off with
a look back at RIBA's McIntyre new show Happy Place,
(34:56):
which promises laugh and heartwarming moments. Then we dove into
the history of superhero movies with that Fact, a fun
fact about the Mask of Marvel, and of course we
capped it off with a fantastic interview with Hannah Fletcher.
(35:18):
I want to thank you all for joining me today,
whether you're watching us on TV and listening on the
radio or catching us in your favorite podcasts platform, it
means truly the world to me. So until next time,
stay healthy, stay safe, and remember I love you all
(35:40):
the life.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Take care, ain't your averaging the teament show more in
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