Marie Incontrera shares how she got her stories from page to stage, and what it taught her about producing her very own (award-nominated) movie in a quarantine. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Marie Incontrera – Rom-Com Rule Breaker, Quarantine Movie Producer, Broadway Nerd.
Timestamps
1:10 – How did you find your voice?
4:20 – “Hey, look! Dorie was right.”
8:25 – “I had to create skills out of things that I didn’t even know.”
9:30 – “All of a sudden, I became this TEDx person.”
10:00 – Are you the only person who has done a TEDx talk in roller skates?
12:02 – How did you find your way to roller derby?
14:50 – “In roller derby, I found a lot of people that looked like me.”
17:06 – “The thing about music is that everybody is an aspiring soloist.”
21:25 – How did you make the decisions about when you say something or when you don’t?
23:22 – “As a leader, no one wants to have to say that to somebody else.”
26:15 – I used to tell people that I got paid to meet strange men in hotel lobbies.
32:54 – I would totally watch that show.
33:28 – “It’s the first holiday rom-com featuring non-binary lead characters.”
33:45 – “There’s no coming-out story,…there’s no queer trauma. It’s just a fun story…I think we deserve that too.”
36:23 – Are you getting pushback from some of the networks?
40:23 – “You don’t serve everybody. You serve a niche.”
46:10 – “He said, ‘You’re nothing but a skinny goof with a rainbow flag waving over your head.’”
49:44 – Hurt people hurt people.
55:57 – “Your ego just cares that you’re alive. It doesn’t care that you’re happy. When change happens, even if it’s the best change in the world, your subconscious is going to react.”
Links
https://www.averyqueerholiday.com/
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https://facebook.com/marie.incontrera
https://linkedin.com/in/marieincontrera
https://www.twitter.com/marieincontrera
Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.