Invisible Man

Our podcast host Roses Okhipo takes the hot seat to be interviewed about her experiences of being a female black woman with an invisible disability and trying to carve a career for herself in film and TV production.  There are no taboos here - Roses shares personal stories of daily battles with both nuanced and outward racism, as well as dealing with menorrhagia and chronic fatigue.

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Meet Redwood, an experienced Creative Director and TV Exec.  He shares his crushing stories of the systemic racism that has been perpetuated in the fabric of British media culture for generations. Redwood describes what it feels like for an educated black man to build a career in media and the challenges he has battled on an almost daily basis. And his thoughts on the BlackLivesMatter movement…?  Listen on...

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Executive Producer, Dahlia has often found that her sexuality has arrived before her as an individual.   Internally damaged by the bullying and constant media shaming of lesbianism in the 80’s, Dahlia is now ready to confront her past and has a slick comeback to the insults.  There have been leaps and bounds for the LGBTQ+ community in the media industry but like many other diversity issues there is still a heck of a lot to do.

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Meet Lotus, a VfX producer turned mental health trainer.  Anxiety, depression and bullying behaviour in the workplace drove her decision to leave the craft and now helps others.   

Lotus has seen mental health from both sides of the coin. This is Lotus’s story and her advice for those silently struggling or discern the telltale signs of mental health problems.

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Wheelchair user Hawthorn is a broadcaster, actor, journalist and self proclaimed punk who has no qualms about calling a spade a spade.  Having been at the receiving end of insults and injustice, he is now an inclusion and disability expert who is adamant to ensure that disability is not at the bottom of the diversity agenda. SOHO MEDIA CLUB
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Roses Okhipo speaks to French script supervisor Iris, who is a little sass and a lot of badass. She’s experienced misogyny, sexism and chauvinistic behaviour in the UK and across the Channel.  She upsets the setup in a positive way and never apologises for being a powerful woman.

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Roses Okhipo speaks to Daisy, a producer whose early experiences of the TV industry include working on a Harvey Weinstein project, going from one runner job to the next and dealing with men who took advantage of her in the workplace.  Being young and new to an industry shouldn’t mean you can be treated like shit, but for Daisy this crap just kept happening.

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Roses Okhipo speaks to Linden, a British film and TV editor who believes now is the time to use his voice to champion East Asians behind the camera talent and challenge misconceptions. Born in Hong Kong, raised in Britain Linden feels that East Asians are the invisible minority, often ignored and hardly given the opportunities he sees others being given. This is his story.

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Roses Okhipo speaks to Azalea, the ‘fat brown gal’. Azalea is a TV researcher who at the age of 25 has already battled health anxiety, sexism and racism. This is the story of not only personal challenges but also the dangers of gaslighting, terms like ‘noisy’ and microaggressions which are all too common in media and entertainment.  

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Roses Okhipo speaks to Orchid - a mixed-race, gay, female film producer with credits in a number of well-known British and Hollywood films about the tormenting parts of her career in media.

As a teenager, Orchid was a chubby, burgeoning lesbian, from a family that wasn’t the wealthiest. This is Orchid’s journey from childhood, to teenhood, to film producer.  

Discover how throughout Orchid’s career, her sexuality began as contempt, developed into empowerment and then it was the thing that became her shield.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prlstudioldn/