Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking from the Edge is a weekly window into the successes, failures, and adventures of an independent filmmaker. Every week, award-winning writer, actress, producer Naomi McDougall Jones busts the myth of the “overnight success” by pulling back the curtain on her real struggles, real wins, and real conversations as she makes her movies, attempts to crack the nuts and bolts of breaking through, and, ideally, takes down the patriarchy in the process.
Naomi talks about the radical and inspiring work of getting the leaders of the women in film revolution into a “Circle” together to figure out the fut...
Naomi talks about the regularity with which the word “fear” has come up in doing research for her book – as in, there’s a giant pit of fear at the cen...
Naomi gives an evaluation of the state of the women in the film movement several months after the Weinstein revelations and the resulting cultural win...
Naomi drops in briefly to announce that she is going to switch Fear(ful)less to being a monthly podcast so that she can continue giving it the attenti...
Naomi – freshly back from her speaking engagement in Asia – talks about the cosmic gathering of – not change – but the opportunity for change in the w...
Naomi talks about the difference between success and fulfillment and the oddly inverse relationship that can sometimes happen between the depth of pas...
Naomi talks about her recent descent into the artistic chasm of despair and why, no matter where you are your career, there is truly nothing to do but...
Naomi talks about rethinking how we set goals – moving from accomplishments to instead designing our ideal days – and the problem with simply becoming...
In the first episode of Season 2, Naomi speaks about the roller coaster ride she’s been on since her TEDTalk got posted to TED.com one month ago and t...