So How Did I Get Here? with Sam Lax
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Emma Metcalf is first and foremost a wonderful human being. For work, she’s a Senior Producer, Director and Film-Maker with global experience spanning multiple platforms including live broadcast, documentary, branded content and traditional television.
She’s worked all over the shop with major brands like Discovery, MTV, Endemol Shine Australia and Red Bull, to help orchestrate everything from live-broadcasts of surf competitions and music festivals to shoots in the most remote parts of Oz involving herding hundreds of wild camel!
I’m lucky to have come to know Emma through working with her everyday - she joined Verizon Media in 2018 as a senior producer and general bosslady - responsible for the output of the company’s new in-house studio (her baby). Every week, she ensures Verizon’s Build Series Sydney and Yahoo Finance’s New Investors shows are chokka block with fantastic and interesting guests, as well as producing plenty of other exciting formats and projects.
We had a great lunch break chat and covered heaps in this episode. Emma shares how her upbringing on a cattle farm in Australia’s North-East Victoria influenced her work ethos, some career highlights on her journey to date and many pearls of wisdom from her wealth of knowledge and experience gained from well over a decade working as a creative in the media industry. We also talk about the importance of maintaining some form of work/life balance, mental health in the creative industry, mentors and the power of role models in helping encourage the next generation of female power-houses (like herself) in a traditionally male dominated industry.
You can keep up with Emma’s incredible work at Verizon with @buildseriessyd and elsewhere at her instagram @bondiproducerchick (although the name may be changing soon as she’s moved down the coast!)
Make sure you share with a friend and reach out via reviews if any of Em’s wise words particularly resonated with you and as always,
Thanks for listening!Ep 20 - Director of Photography Arlen Figgis talks the birth of Drum and Bass, filming Gumball 3000 with Dirty Sanchez and creating his music festival stage, The Shack
Ep 19 - Journalist Alice Matthews talks about finding missing people, winning Walkleys and what it's like to work at the Triple J and The Feed
Ep 18 - Director Julietta Boscolo talks acting, directing and finding your own creative voice
Ep 17 - The Inspired Unemployed talk about becoming inspired and being self-employed
Ep 16 - Scott Findlay talks about cooking for the stars, making it in the restaurant game and surfing his way around the globe
Ep 15 - Luke Boyton talks about new ways of teaching, lifelong learning and lightsabers
Ep 14 - Marc Fennel talks about his career and creative process; from interviewing news makers on The Feed to chasing chillis around the World in story telling and production
Ep 13 - Brent Wilson talks fashion, suit making and running your own business
Ep 11 - Carlo Ritchie talks about language, founding Improv Theatre Sydney and the creation of the Bear Pack
Ep 10 - Nathan Dalah talks founding Fishbowl, systematising growth and changing fast-food culture
Ep 9 - Flex Mami talks self-confidence, personal development and manifestation
Ep 8 - Paul Parks talks Beach Beer Bondi, drop-shipping sex toys and pursuing his passion
Ep 7 - Cathrin Machin talks deep space, nervous breakdowns and following your dreams
Ep 6 - Kate Peck talks modelling, motorsports and making it as a presenter
Ep 5 - Scott Purcell on accidental entreprenuership and the journey of Australia's Man of Many
Ep4 - Danny Clayton talks Channel V, interviewing stars and getting kissed by Katy Perry
Ep3 - Steve Crabtree talks about his journey from painting nuclear submarines to being the Editor of BBC Horizon (and going on a night out with the maker of Tetris)
Ep2 - Chris Greenwood talks about unwitting entrepenurship, hanging out with the Beastie boys and what it takes to run nightclubs, bars and festivals
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