Being The Hero of Your Own Journey - Speaking with Jesse Szymanski

In this episode, Katherine is joined by Jesse Szymanski, founder and CEO of Modern Muse Media, an all-female video production company. Find out how Jesse went from losing her mother, no car, and no phone, to starting a new chapter in her story.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Jesse had the idea to start an all-female video production company to challenge the male dominated environment. She though if there wasn’t a seat at the table for women in the industry then she would just have to build her own table. That table became Modern Muse Media.
• The F word, failure, has a lot of negative energy attached to it. Failing isn’t falling down, it’s staying down. We all trip up but as long as we pick ourselves back up then it’s not a failure, it’s an opportunity for growth.
• Jesse believes we should share more of our truths. When someone tells her ‘oh you’re doing so well’, she will respond by honestly saying thank you but I’m actually having a really bad day. We don’t need to be pulled into a negative spiral, we’re not perfect, life’s not perfect, things are challenging. Being honest breaks that barrier.
• Look out for toxic positivity. You don’t need to force yourself to be happy when faced with something we haven't overcome yet. It’s okay to be honest with yourself and acknowledge how you really feel.
  
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘I crawled up off that kitchen floor and just got to it’

‘If there isn’t a chair, then bring your own chair to the table. Better yet, I built my own table for others’

‘I don’t want to be chained to my business. I don’t want it to define my identity’

‘The only person we need to compare ourselves to is us and where we have placed our own goals’

‘How am I becoming the hero of my own journey’

EPISODE RESOURCES

https://modernmusemedia.ca/

https://www.facebook.com/modernmusemedia

https://www.instagram.com/modern_muse_media/

info@modernmusemedia.ca

ABOUT THE GUEST

With a mandate to train, mentor and empower, Modern Muse Media is Jesse's latest adventure in an ever-changing multi-media landscape. With nearly two decades of executive producing, hosting, writing, directing, post-production, social media, promotion and marketing, Jesse is now focused on helping industry professionals build their brand meaningfully. Modern Muse Media is a video production company that teaches businesses and individuals how to produce their own video for social media, how to build up their social brand and how to take their social media marketing to the next level through video.

Jesse's career path has included executive producing and launching several award-winning television series. Her latest web series, "Life of a Producer", profiles incredible women she meets on her journey and shares their meaningful stories. Her achievements led to a cover feature in Avenue Magazine's "Top 40 under 40" and being twice nominated for the Mayor's Celebration of the arts Award for Excellence in Artistic Management. Jesse dedicates time to sit on the board of GIFT (Girls in Film & Television) is past Vice-President of Women in Film and Television Alberta (WIFTA) and is a supporter of EDSNA (Eating Disorder Network of Alberta).

Follow Jesse in the Modern Muse episode vlog production, "Life of a Producer" across social to watch how it all goes down. 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

http://katalystcoaching.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/katherinelorangerkatalystcoaching

https://www.instagram.com/katalyst_coaching/  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinewaller/

ABOUT THE HOST

Transformational Life Coach and founder of Katalyst Coaching, Katherine Loranger asserts to the bold and determined that life is theirs for the taking.

For over 25 years, Katherine has been driven to spark lasting, heartfelt transformation for fearless and fierce souls in progress… working to research, study and implement results-oriented principles and programs to incredible success. Through her evocative and expertly guided series of vision building and life mastery classes and workshops, heart-centred entrepreneurs, organizational leaders, and dreamers learn to realign their efforts and energies with their soul’s purpose to design, build and realize their wildest fantasies… igniting a world of limitless possibilities and changing the trajectory of their lives, their businesses, and their relationships for the better.

PODCAST DESCRIPTION

Are you looking to learn how to:

• love yourself?
• increase your sense of self-worth? 
• discover your purpose in life?
• create authentic success and abundance in all areas of your life? 

Would you love to hear inspiring stories from women like you who did just that?  

The My Dead Dragon podcast brings you conversations and coaching with women who woke up one day and realised that no one or nothing was riding in to save them so they become the heroine of their own life and the main character of their story.  

Get ready to feel inspired, hopeful, motivated and ready to take charge of your own life. 

Discover what to do with your dead dragon as transformational life coach for souls in progress, Katherine Loranger interviews women in all stages of the journey to find out how we can all create and live a life we love!

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