Pink Among Men

Dearest Pinks, I have found your latest INSPO OBSESSION. Grab your notebook and a good pen, DARRAH BRUSTEIN is in the house!! 

Equal parts teacher, connecter, and founder, Darrah stands for entrepreneurial empowerment. In the fall of 2018, Darrah launched "Life by Design, Not by Default" sharing stories with visionaries like Deepak Chopra, Adam Grant and Jen Sincero in a 45 speaker online summit reaching over 7,000 people. For the past 10 years, she founded and scaled two businesses in tandem: a networking events company serving 30,000+ people and a payment processing company spanning 38 states. A prolific writer and interviewer, Darrah's thought leadership articles on lifestyle design have been read by over 1 million people across Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global.  Her motivating motto "build a life of your own design, a career to fund it, and a network to support it" has inspired thousands to reach higher and dream bigger. She was even named “#1 to follow” by BossBabe Magazine. Most recently, Darrah launched the video series “Diving Deep With Deepak & Darrah” to make deep topics relatable and translatable into your life. 

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ABOUT A DONKEY is the latest feature from the powerhouse duo of Christina Raia and Kelsey Rauber, long time friends, collaborators and co-owners of CongestedCat Productions. We talk about both their artistic processes, Christina's insanely organized color-coated calendar, as well as their new film and how they strategically brought it to audiences through a successful (and targeted) film festival run.

ABOUT, ABOUT A DONKEY:

About a Donkey follows the Owens family: Ann & Tim, their 3 adult children, Cecilia, Burgh, and Annie (and her husband Paul), and matriarch Farrah. When Tim brings home a donkey in a mixture of wanting to rescue both it and himself, all of the characters' lives are shaken up and pushed forward.

ABOUT CONGESTED CAT:

CongestedCat Productions is an award winning narrative production company that is very active in the New York independent film scene. Our monthly screening series IndieWorks, now in its seventh year, has screened over 250 local filmmakers. Founder Christina Raia’s motivation was to create a sense of community amongst local filmmakers where they could make connections and find collaborators, which is why the screenings remain free to attend.

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PINK AMONG MEN IS BACK! 

Season 2 kicks off with guests Naomi McDougall Jones, writer/producer and star, and Sarah Wharton, producer, of the new Romantic Comedy feature BITE ME! 

In this chat, we focus on the challenges and biases of the indie film distribution model and how Naomi and Sarah took matters into their own hands with The Joyful Vampire Tour of America, showcasing BITE ME! at 51 screenings in over 40 cities across America. We also talk about the romantic comedy genre, vampires and how the two obviously go together.

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BITE ME is a subversive romantic comedy about a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits them. The filmmakers of BITE ME are taking a radical approach to film distribution. For 3 months they are taking the film on a 51-screening, 40-city, RV-fueled Joyful Vampire Tour of America, featuring screenings, Q&As and Joyful Vampire Balls. The film is simultaneously available to rent or buy on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play, as well as streaming on Seed & Spark. The team is also releasing a weekly docu-series on YouTube with new episodes each Saturday that follows the tour and offers filmmakers and audiences a transparent case study in a ground-breaking distribution model.

MORE ABOUT PINK AMONG MEN:

Pink Among Men is a production company founded by film and media maker, Amy DePaola. Pink Among Men's mission is to make original media of all kinds for all kind. We focus on championing our differences through characters, creators and stories.

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Here is a special summer snack episode featuring the founders of the Women's Weekend Film Challenge. Katrina and Tracey are storytellers, filmmakers, producers; one is an actress, the other a writer; they are pioneers and co-founders of the WOMEN's WEEKEND FILM CHALLENGE, a unique weekend long opportunity to connect with other women in film production to create, form relationships and WERK! Want to know more about how to apply? LISTEN NOW.

Follow Women's Weekend Film Challenge at @womensweekendfilmchallenge and to be apart of the weekend apply here!

In this episode, I am awe-spired by my guest. She is an actress, writer, director and an emerging show runner, who is currently disrupting the TV festival scene with not one, not two, but THREE series. And a fourth one is on its way. Get to know MISHA CALVERT, my new role model, whose unwavering confidence and thoughtfulness on how she approaches her work will leave you reflecting on yours. Misha uses comedy to broach larger social conversations. Check out her work TEXTUAL INTERCOURSE (fka TINDER IS THE NIGHT), STRUT and STEP INTO MY OFFICE (coming soon). Misha will also next been seen pitching a new dramatic series at SeriesFest.

For more on Misha visit: https://www.mishacalvert.com/

And follow her on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mishacalvert/

TEXTUAL INTERCOURSE trailer: https://vimeo.com/222606156

STRUT trailer: https://vimeo.com/239655600

We are in an uproar of female sexual empowerment, as we should be, but the asexuals are forgotten. Enter to center stage, actress, writer and producer MARZY HART (@marzapproved), who recently (and successfully) crowdfunded her genre-bending short film 2 WEEKS. (2weeksmovie.com). Tanya (played by Marzy) struggles to find balance between honoring her sexuality and the commitment she made when she fell in love with her partner while pursuing an industry that perpetuates a woman's worth on sex appeal.

Marzy sits with Amy to discuss her recent successes; a feature film, several web-series and in addition her relationship with alcohol and grieving death. 

Marzy is Russian-born, New York raised and a f*cking powerhouse. Be sure to follow her and SHARE THIS EPISODE the world needs her voice.

WARNING: This episode is motivating AF. This week Amy sits down with writer, director and actress, Richa Rudola, whose recent film, TAAZA KOON has been accepted into 22 film festivals. The ladies discuss the inspiration behind the film, the themes that Richa tackles in storytelling and how to better define the term "Role Model." Plus growing up in India, how Dave Matthews led Richa to graduate school and how long does it take to change a society? 

Follow Richa on Instagram @richarudola. Her website at http://richarudola.com/.

Learn more about TAAZA KOON at https://www.freshbloodfilm.com/

Check Richa in her next show, www.themusicinmyblood.com, which has a 10-day run in NYC at the American Theater of Actors. 

Me. Myself and I. (and BAE). This week Amy invites her partner, Daniel from the Fantasy Brocus podcast, because she has some honest news to share! She's going on a journey with Pink Among Men and invites you to do the same. PLUS how men and women feel differently about asking for help, money, Michelle Wolf and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. LISTEN to learn more! 

Please take the time to rate and review us! Follow @PinkAmongMen on Instagram and Daniel's podcast at @FantasyBrocus.

Episode 110, how the f*ck did that happen? This week Amy sits down with fellow red-head and one of her besties, Morgan Brady! Morgan has years of experience in the start-up world and she's here to talk everything from raising capital, to negotiating AND FORGIVENESS! Plus find out how Amy really feels about the phrase "bad ass woman."

Follow Morgan on Insta @morgancbrady and Twitter @morganbrady.

Learn more about Morgan's latest venture at @RaisewithBax, http://bax.co and http://bax.co/careers to learn about Bax's Genderless Transparency.

Amy is back! Albeit she has the flu and there's snow on the ground in April. What empowers you? For Amy, its getting to the gym, yoga; exercising - and we thinks many can agree, movement helps! ENTER STAGE LEFT, the ladies of LAS:NYC, a collaborative movement company whose recent show LAS:SITAS debuted to sold out audiences in Brooklyn. Learn how these ladies gained control by losing control and hear their journey from the classroom at Maggie Flannigan to selling out an opening weekend. ALSO - we are going bi-weekly in order to bring you a higher caliber of content. We'll be back with weekly episodes soon!

For more and to stay up on future performances follow @las_nyc on Instagram.

This episode was recorded at Gotham Podcast Studio. Hit them up at @gothampodcaststudio.

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It's the 8th episode! This week Amy rants a little bit about how as women we've been trained to feel threatened by one another and she shares a personal story as an example. Amy is also joined by two women who do successfully work together, KEISH x REESE creators of the upcoming series NON IDLE HUMANS. Listen in to how these two met, how they put their faith into their work and OPRAH, need I say more?

You can follow Keish x Reese at @nonidlehumans

Hey guys! We are back this week with Pink Among Men's first MINI-SODE featuring just Amy! Listen to Amy congratulate all the female nominees, tell you what an inclusion rider is AND Ashley Judd's TimesUp Ring. Also, unlike the children of the Coco composers THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU! 

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Amy's back from a week-long hiatus where she took a stand to say I'm tired AND I quit my job. She also sits down with playwright, filmmaker and activist Alexis McCoy to talk about what she overcame in order to achieve her dreams and how she uses her art to bring together community in order to give back to community. Tickets to Alexis' annual show A DIFFERENT KIND OF WOMAN are on sale now, proceeds from this performance support Breakfast Before Books; a non-profit that serves breakfast to children and families in need before the school day begins. 

Follow Alexis on Instagram: @alonafuss and @alexismccoy. Her production company at www.loveisenoughproductions.com  

A DIFFERENT KIND OF WOMAN plays March 22, 2018 at the Rio II Gallery in Harlem. Tickets available at DKW.Eventbrite.com

It's Amy's birthday. Her 33rd one. To celebrate - and get a slap of reality - she sits down with the hilarious duo, BFFs Rikki and Charley, the gals behind the new podcast "Dear God It's Me 30." Rikki, Charley and Amy discuss what we love about getting older - what we hate - what we wish we knew when we were younger and how we feel like we've known each other for so long....BECAUSE WOMEN CAN SUPPORT WOMEN, YA HEARD! Follow Rikki and Charly at @DearGodItMe30, check them out on iTunes and hit up www.DearGodItsMe30.com for more info! 

This week Amy is joined by one of her besties, screenwriter and director, MCKENNA STEPHENS! McKenna is also the founder of YONIFEST, an LA based film festival showcasing female made films. In this episode, Amy and McKenna talk about their favorite thing: television; and the subsequent characters and influence it had on their lives and careers. They also talk the glass ceiling and how they - sometimes - take issue with representation -- WHAT! GASP! Listen to understand.

Learn more about YONIFEST at http://www.yonifestfilms.com. 

This week, Amy invites her other half, Dan Schwartz, host of the Fantasy Brocus podcast, to weigh his bro-pinion on feminism, consent, pay gaps and who is cooking dinner tonight. Amy and Dan get real about how they met on the internet, their past Tinder dates, Aziz Ansari, Michelle Williams and some other touchy topics.

Follow Dan (he's very cute and funny) on Instagram @FantasyBrocus and subscribe to Fantasy Brocus on iTunes and Stitcher. (You can find Pink Among Men there as well!)

It's Monday after Women's March, how are you feeling? This week, Amy sits down with documentary filmmaker, Colleen Kelly Poplin. Colleen creates films that explore themes of feminism, domestic partnership and religion. Her most recent film FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER is an exploration of her own relationship to the Mormon religion which she reassesses during the pregnancy of her first child. In addition to being a mother and an artist, Colleen is a professor at Emerson College in Boston where she created a class titled "Creating Feminist Media;" which is giving women and non-binary students the equal chance to be technical leaders on set while creating media that is easily digestible. EQUALITY! INTER SECTIONALISM! ROCKSTAR: Colleen may be the smartest person Amy knows.

This episode digs deep into mentorship, domestic equality, patriarchy in religion, equality in the classroom and so much more. 

Colleen is the real deal! Check out her films at www.colleenkellypoplin.com

In this episode, Amy sits down with Renee Powers to ask "what is a feminist life coach anyway?" PLUS learn about Renee's fascinating research on the beauty industry on YouTube, that Amy and Renee are both media nerds who love Jenna Marbles and some really brilliant thoughts on YOUR individuality! YOU KNOW YOU WANNA.

MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST: Renee Powers, founder of Wild, Cozy, Truth is a feminist life coach and writer from Minneapolis. She hosts a podcast of the same name, "Wild Cozy Truth", which is cultivating a space for women to own their stories and find strength in vulnerability. Follow Renee at @wildcozytruth and www.wildcozytruth.com.

Amy asks others: what does "pink" mean to you? Shockingly and not-shockingly, people don't really like it and the reasons cut deeper than its shade. PLUS: OH YEA, HEY WORLD! IT'S THE FIRST EPISODE! Amy will tell you what PNK AMONG MEN is all about and what to expect in the weeks to come.