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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#50: Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

To say that Sheila Nevins has been influential in the documentary film industry would be a vast understatement. She has supervised the production of more than 1,000 documentary programs for HBO and has won countless Emmy Awards, Academy Awards and Peabody Awards. Nevins has always been comfortable telling the stories of others, but that hasn't always been true about sharing her own story…until now. She's adding New York Times Bestseller to her list of accolades with her new book "You Don’t Look Your Age…and Other Fairy Tales" - a memoir of sorts that shares her own story through reality and fiction. She also enlisted some of her friends like Meryl Streep, Edie Falco and Diane von Furstenberg to voice stories for her audio book. Order Sheila's book: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Look-Other-Fairy-Tales/dp/1250111307 Follow Sheila Nevins on Twitter and Instagram: @TheSheilaNevins Find out more about HBO Docs: http://www.hbo.com/documentaries Want a chance to ask Rebecca your career questions? Send an email to [email protected] for a chance to ask Rebecca yourself on an episode of “No Limits”!   No Limits Entrepreneur of the week: Ashley Dombkowski, CEO and Co-Founder of Before Brands Find out more: https://beforebrands.com/  Know someone who should be a featured ‘No Limits’ Entrepreneur? Send your nominations to [email protected]   Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0

So as some of you might know, if you've been listening, we are going to start answering your

0:04.5

questions in an Ask RJ segment at the end of No Limits. So tell me, what are you worried about?

0:11.2

What's going on in your world? What's problematic for you at work? If you want to have your

0:15.3

questions answered, you have to email me at No Limits with RJ podcast at gmail.com. Give me a little detail and then we will

0:24.0

set the whole thing up so you can call in and have the conversation right here on No Limits

0:28.6

so that all of your friends can hear you and maybe your boss too. Well, hopefully not your boss,

0:33.2

but your friends. Or maybe you are the boss, which is even better.

0:37.1

There is a moment I think in everybody the bus, which is even better.

0:44.0

There is a moment, I think, in everybody's career, which you realize that other people don't necessarily know the answer. And that moment when you realize that your insecurities are no greater than others and that you may know as much, if not more, than the person you're either working

0:55.0

with or working for or working among, you change.

0:59.1

From ABC, it's no limits.

1:02.6

I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women

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playing at the top of their game, trying to demystify success and what it

1:12.5

really takes to get there and all the tradeoffs. Whether you're looking for answers or

1:17.9

you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place. On today's show, Sheila Nevins,

1:25.8

she's the president of HBO documentaries, and she has transformed the industry.

1:31.0

She's got the hardware to prove it, too, 32 primetime Emmys, 34 News and Documentary Emmys, and 42 Peabody Awards.

1:39.7

Plus, under her leadership, HBO documentaries have won 26 Academy Awards.

1:45.5

So why now, after years of telling everyone else's story, is she finally ready to tell her own?

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You're about to find out.

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Sheila Nevins, welcome to No Limits.

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Thank you.

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