Rosser Goodman Interviewed at the 2024 Power Up Conference: Together We Lead

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today's a very special day. I'm in Washington DC for the Power Up Conference 2024. We're also celebrating Women's Equality Day. We're celebrating a Mission Matters Book launch. We got a whole lot to talk about. But first off we have Rosser on the show. Thank you so much for coming out. So good to see you. It's great to see you, Adam. Thanks for putting all this together. This is wonderful. All right. So we're here to celebrate the conference. I know you've been, I believe, to conferences in the past. Am I off on that? How'd you originally get, get introduced to the PowerUp conference and, and the whole network? I love that question because it really has been a career changing, life changing in many ways. So, back in 2017, in LA, I kept getting these emails to either nominate myself or nominate somebody else for 50 Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment. And it was all from Take the Lead, which I hadn't heard of. On a whim, I decided to nominate myself. And then I got in, and Entertainment. That was my initiation into Gloria Felt's programs and they're really life changing. Yeah. So you went to the conference last year. You've been through some of the trainings as well. Like, tell me a little bit about what you've gotten out of this. I know that's a big question. It is. It is because I've gotten so much out of it. Yeah. You know, there's the first cohort. And then last year at this conference, when it was in Los Angeles, I went, I was on the panel for the entertainment cohort. And I just, I looked around the room, women and men supporting women in what felt like to me an indescribable way. Yeah. Something I'd always wanted and expected from like fifth grade on and actually could never find it. And it's been here, maybe not all along, but it's been here for the last. A decade or so, thanks to Gloria and all the people like her. And I was inspired. I was so inspired last year that for the newer cohort, there've been many, but the one about to be launched a year ago was 50 women can change the world in entrepreneurship. So I was like, I'm going to nominate myself for that. And I actually was invited and got a whole new experience. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. What would you say to those that have, like, the other women or men out there that, like, about participating, coming to this conference, like, why would, why would you tell them they should be here? Well, I have told many people they should be here. And from my standpoint, I've said the support for each other, the genuine support, which kind of don't see a lot in Hollywood. Yeah. And I'm sure other industries. But. It's so deep and so rich and so heartfelt and very actionable like there's there's not just words there's you know walking the walk and Gloria Felt does it Everyone I've met in the cohorts and conferences have done it and do it. And it's really helped me up level, you know, as someone to help others and to see myself in definitely a more successful light. Yeah. And we had a little bit of a, we, we went to a meetup, so we got a little bit of a talk and I want, I want you to bring some of that to the interview so good for the audience. Cause obviously they weren't with us and more to be very specific, it was about you thinking about like you went to the conference, you've been, you were part of one of the cohorts and then all of a sudden when you're talking about leveling up, that even took you further into your ideation process of creating what your current business, give me a little bit of that. Okay. It's so exciting. So last year at this event in Los Angeles, when I heard about the next cohort for entrepreneurial women, I'm a filmmaker. I've always been a filmmaker. That's what I do. However, I was so, I found it so enticing this, this next cohort. I was like, okay, okay, okay. I have to think of an idea. And it's like, well, it's not going to be a film. You know, I've done all these things a million times. It's not going to be my production company. It's not necessarily going to be real estate. And I was like, okay, what is it? And then, you know, It's, it's just all world together and it's philanthropic film finance and I founded the company Tano Rising Film. And I never would have thought of it if I didn't, if I hadn't been there last year and if I hadn't become part of the, the entrepreneurial cohort. So it just, it took the both, the best of both worlds for me. It took film, you know, 25 years of experience in that and then my business acumen, but giving it somewhere to go. And so for me, all of this wasn't just about starting a company or another company. It was about solving a lot of problems in the independent. Film space in terms of what, I'm, I'm one of the sad filmmakers that goes through, you kn

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