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What happens when the future you've been planning for suddenly disappears? After retiring from a 43-year career as a pastor, Dr. Brad Miller expected to spend more time traveling with his wife, enjoying retirement, and becoming a grandfather. Instead, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. In this conversation, we talk about grieving the future you thought you were going...

In this episode of No Map Included , I sit down with my friend, collaborator, and Artak Pictures co-founder Floriane Andersen to talk about something we've both been thinking about a lot lately: boundaries. When you're starting out, saying yes to everything can feel like the only option. But eventually there comes a point where every "yes" starts costing you something, your tim...

In this episode of No Map Included , I look back on one of the biggest creative experiments I've ever taken on: making a zero-budget vertical series for social media. Before moving on to the next chapter, I wanted to unpack what this project taught me. I talk about what surprised me, what didn't work the way I expected, what I loved about producing for social media, and what ultimately m...

In this episode of No Map Included, I sit down with Dr. Laurie Bruce, a clinical psychologist, mindfulness coach, and host of the podcast From Both Sides of the Couch , for a conversation about major life transitions, identity shifts, grief, and learning how to navigate uncertainty when you don't know what's next. With more than 25 years of experience, Dr. Bruce helps people build resili...

In this episode of No Map Included, I share a real update on Stay/Away and why, after feeling stagnant for so long, the project suddenly feels alive again. I talk about bringing a Swiss production company on board, officially deciding to move forward with the proof of concept short film, and what happens when a project you've been carrying privately for years starts becoming real in the outsi...

In this episode of No Map Included, I sit down with actress and producer Nina Seul for a conversation about identity, intuition, reinvention, and what happens when a lifelong calling begins to shift. After spending more than twenty years building her life around acting, Nina opens up about the gradual realization that the career path she had centered her identity around no longer felt aligned in t...

In this episode of No Map Included, I talk about what it means to stop living entirely for the outcome. After spending years attaching my identity to achievement, momentum, and long-term goals, I’ve been trying to rebuild my relationship to creativity, ambition, and uncertainty in a way that feels healthier and more sustainable. I talk about stepping away from acting professionally, navigating rej...

In this episode of No Map Included, I talk about what it feels like to let go of a dream you built your entire life around. After more than a decade of pursuing acting professionally, I finally made the decision to step away from it as a career. Not because I stopped loving storytelling, but because my relationship to the industry, the instability, the constant hustle, and the version of life I ha...

In this episode of No Map Included , I sit down with student Emmy award winner Jacqueline Rosenthal for a conversation about what happens when the path you’ve been on no longer feels right. Jacqueline started out as an actor, then decided to pivot, because acting never seemed to be fully aligned with her. We talk about building your identity around acting from a young age, and how validation can s...

In this episode of No Map Included , I talk through the next phase of building LOVE/HATE, and everything I’m learning as I move into Season 2. Season 1 was an exploration. Testing format, structure, and how a vertical series can live on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Now, I’m looking at what’s working, what’s not, and what I want to adjust. I talk about the challenge of building something fo...

A few months ago, things were slow. Now, there’s momentum. Work, projects, responsibilities. It’s what I’ve been asking for. And still, I feel burnt out. Not overwhelmed in the way I used to be, where everything felt like too much, but a quieter version of it. The kind where you keep going, but you know something needs to shift.  This episode is a real-time reflection on time management, boundarie...

In this episode of No Map Included , I sit down with actress Zari Rose for a raw and honest conversation about grief, and what it means to find your way back to acting through it. We met in 2018, at a time when acting felt more straightforward. Since then, the industry has changed, and so have we. What started as a clear goal slowly turned into something more complicated: pressure, expectations, a...

In this episode of No Map Included , I share what the early development stage of Stay/Away actually looks like, after the proof of concept is written, but before anything is financed or produced. I talk about moving into pitch decks and grant applications, and how those materials don’t just present the story; they reshape it. Writing loglines, synopses, and a writer’s statement forced me to get cl...

What does it take to make a series with no budget, no crew, and no roadmap? In this episode of No Map Included , Yessi Sanchez breaks down the creation of LOVE/HATE , a vertical fiction series filmed entirely for Instagram. Shot in POV style and produced with a small group of collaborators across Los Angeles, the series became an experiment in building narrative storytelling outside traditional pr...

In this first episode of No Map Included , I share how the journey started, from touring European film festivals as an actor to discovering filmmaking and writing as the form I was meant to pursue. I talk about the story behind Stay/Away , a deeply personal feature film now in development, and LOVE/HATE , a zero-budget vertical series built entirely outside traditional systems. This episode is abo...

This trailer introduces the development of Stay/Away alongside the launch of LOVE/HATE , documenting what it actually looks like to build projects in real time; from early drafts to financing conversations and beyond. Along the way, the podcast features conversations with filmmakers and creatives about the work behind the work. Send us Fan Mail About the Podcast No Map Included documents the proce...