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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#128: Leslye Headland, Director, Screenwriter, Playwright

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As a playwright, screenwriter and director Leslye Headland’s creative prowess knows no bounds. In her most recent project, she collaborated with Amy Poehler and Natasha Lyonne to create the Netflix series “Russian Doll,” which has received not only critical acclaim but 13 Emmy nominations this year. On this episode, she discusses the internal misogyny that exists in Hollywood culture, how to know when you are too comfortable in your career and what it’s like to be the only woman in the room in a male dominated industry. Plus, what it’s really like inside of a writer’s room and the surprising public figure she considers a role model. Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week: Jerelyn Rodriguez, cofounder and CEO at The Knowledge House Find out more: https://www.theknowledgehouse.org/ Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations [email protected] Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! It’s easy! Click here: http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS: Rebecca Jarvis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the Chief Biz, Tech and Econ correspondent for ABC News. Follow Rebecca Jarvis: www.Instagram.com/RebeccaJarvis www.Twitter.com/RebeccaJarvis www.Facebook.com/RebeccaJarvis https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-jarvis-217ba052/ Snapchat: RebeccaJarvis “No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis” is produced by Taylor Dunn and edited by Brittany Martinez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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My job is to be smaller than this man. That's what I'm being paid to do is to be smaller and, and I know that I am bigger than this. Like, there was something inside me that said, I am bigger than what I am doing right now. So in order to do that, I have to leave. Even though everyone's saying, this is how you get what you want, but is through this,

0:22.7

is through this experience, through this trial at eye fire, there was just something in my

0:26.6

head that went, you're never going to be bigger than him if you don't leave.

0:32.9

Hey, everyone, welcome to No Limits.

0:35.5

I'm your host, Rebecca Jarvis.

0:37.1

And if you're a regular here, welcome back. If you're new, well, welcome to No Limits. I'm your host, Rebecca Jarvis. And if you're a regular here,

0:38.7

welcome back. If you're new, well, welcome to you as well. Every week, I sit across from one of

0:45.1

the most influential women from all different industries and talk to her about her life, her career,

0:51.5

the tough choices that she's had to make along the way, the tradeoffs.

0:55.3

These are the questions that I know we're all asking ourselves every single day on our journeys.

1:00.9

And I'm talking to her beyond the resume, from decision making to the tradeoffs, the most

1:06.2

pivotal moments, the worst advice that she's received along the way, I want all of you to be a fly on the

1:13.6

wall in the lives of these incredibly successful women and to be able to absorb some of that

1:19.6

knowledge and wisdom that they've had to gain, frankly, through hardship and struggle.

1:26.2

So whether you're looking for advice or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right

1:30.7

place.

1:32.0

I'm really excited about today's guest.

1:34.3

She is a playwright, screenwriter, and director.

1:37.0

And her most recent show just received 13 Emmy nominations.

1:42.2

Congratulations.

1:43.5

Russian doll. She co-created the project with Amy Poehler and Natasha

1:47.9

Leone. And you've had shows now at this point on literally every network.

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