Tiffany Shlain to Launch Book with Woman Connect4Good

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 to set on over to mission matters. com and click on, be our guest to apply. All right. So I've been waiting for this interview for quite some time now. So. So we have Tiffany slain on the line and she's going to be launching a book with us and women connect for good, big shout out to Dr. Nancy for making that intro to Tiffany. And Tiffany is an artist, a filmmaker, and so, so, so much more. We're today, we're going to get into the book just a little bit because we'll be bringing Tiffany back on the show later when the when the book is out and live, but Tiffany also has a ton of other. Projects and films and things she's working on. So the teen brain film she's got a whole lot more. She's got an art show coming up in NYC on and on. We're going to get into all this, but before we do we'll start this episode the way that we start them all. First off, Tiffany, welcome. So happy to have you here. I'm so happy to be here. So Tiffany we're going to start it with our, our mission matters minutes. So at mission matters, Tiffany, our aim is to amplify stories. We get them out for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's our mission. Tiffany, what mission matters to you? The mission that matters to me is telling stories and history in new ways. So I'm just finishing a film on the teen brain and I'm taking very complicated neuroscience and making it accessible for teens and the adults that love them, parents and educators. And one of the big artworks I've done recently is called dendrofeminology, a feminist history tree ring. And like the timelines you see at national parks, I have reimagined the timeline on a slice of tree to be about a feminist history dreaming. So both of those are examples. Like a lot of my films and work is telling stories in new ways or re imagining and highlighting histories you don't normally hear about. So women's histories, feminist histories in my work. Yeah, it's amazing. And we're glad to have you here. And I want to get further into this work, but I guess just to get us kicked off, Tiffany, how, like as an artist, a filmmaker, a lot of different directions you can choose for your, for your career. You mentioned the theme a lot to support in supporting women supporting women topics, issues around, around feminism and helping and, and equality. Like, How did you, did you know, like, was this a progression? Had you always started here with your art and with your craft or like, like, how'd you get here? That's such a great question. I mean, I think I always felt in my family, you know, both my father and mother were feminists. My mother went back to school to get her PhD in psychology when I was eight. So I really watched her and she wrote about successful women and their female mentors for her dissertation. And then my father, who was a surgeon, he also wrote a lot about goddess culture, like, Wow. How come in every civilization in the world got goddesses were worshiped and what was the single event that kept happening that changed the sex of God from a woman to a man? And so, and he always thought women were almighty and powerful. And so I think from both of my parents, I really, I think, Came from a place of strength. And then when you go out into the world, so if you grew up in a really feminist household where you, you can do anything and the dynamics of society where that isn't the case. And so I think in a lot of my work, it felt like my responsibility to lift up the stories of women and fight for women's rights. And and I think, you know, I've made a lot of films that deal with that. And now I'm making a lot of art dealing with that subject sculptures. And, but I think. All of my work is really it usually comes from something I'm really interested in. Like, I'm curious myself, like being a woman in the world, I also have two daughters. So I have a husband who likes strong women. So I think just reframing that narrative through my work has been important. That that's interesting to me. I I mean, for many reasons, but even just your household dynamic growing up for you to say your father, you know, he's a student. Surgeon and a feminist. Like I've heard some variations of having that, but normally they're not, so normally they're not surgeons. Normally they're like, you know, they were I'm not picking anybody. My dad was a hippie, whatever. And he was very open minded when he would not, you know, like whatever, but normally they're not surgeons. My dad wasn't a surgeon. I feel like that's pretty forward thinking or like, or I don't even know what the word is there, but that's unique. He was definitely extraordinary person. And I think he had a strong mother. I think that very much. But I think maybe it was having two daughters who are really strong. And I remember him telling me and my sister as young. Girls at the time that we had an amazing

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