From Dreamer to Doer: Who Better Than You? Movie Producer, Will Packer on How to Build Success and Resilience in life.

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Will Packer has built a career producing movies that resonate with audiences and break barriers in Hollywood. Will shares his insights on storytelling, pitching, and how to turn an idea into a movie that gets made.

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0:00.0	Who's Better Than You?
0:07.4	That's the book written by Will Packer, who has been producing some of my favorite
0:12.2	movies since he was practically a teenager.
0:14.4	He produced Straight Outta Compton.
0:17.1	He produced Girls Trip with former podcast guest Tiffany Haddish starring in it,
0:22.1	and he's produced a ton of other movies against impossible odds.
0:28.1	How did he build the confidence?
0:30.1	What were some of his crazy stories?
0:32.4	Here's Will Packer to describe the whole thing.
0:39.0	This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host.
0:44.2	This is the James Altasier Show.
0:57.1	No, no. Are you in Atlanta?
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:58.7	Nice.
0:59.8	Normally I am.
1:01.3	What are you working on?
1:13.7	Other than the book, I got a couple of features that we're working on, that we're very close to getting our final green light on for this summer.
1:19.1	I'm working on a new television show that will shoot hopefully in the fall.
1:23.6	So a movie for Universal, television show for Amazon.
1:26.8	I just launched a new unscripted show.
1:29.7	I'm on my 10th season of a dating show. It's actually the longest running black dating show on television called Ready to Love. It's on Oprah's Network on own.
1:36.6	10th season. How do you make like a reality dating show stand out? It's hard. I mean,
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