Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews Katherine Warnock, known as the vice president of the original content series The Chosen! She was also previously the head of Faith and Family content ay MGM studios and helps to steer growth through the innovative content creation. She has worked with elite brands such as Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony, and Ford to name a few!

Katherine was a high school teacher and went on a mission trip to Mozambique. It was there that God placed on her heart that she'll be working in Hollywood, despite having absolutely no experience in Hollywood at all. In her words, she was simply a high school teacher who just said yes!

Katherine talks about the good, the bad and the ugly of Hollywood, and realising that she really did not expect what she saw. But God taught her to love people better and not judge, and she strives to love people wherever she goes. She also shares the importance of understanding your 'why?' when it comes to being in the entertainment industry.

She explains that she's not in Hollywood to conform, she's there to be the light and so, unlike most people who see the darkness of Hollywood, she sees the hope that God sees! She highlights the need to trust God, even if it means not moving up as fast as you want, but knowing that like God did with her, He takes you higher, even if it takes a little longer, than you would go if you conformed and joined in what Hollywood expects of you!

Listen here as Katherine explains that it is important for actors or professionals in the entertainment industry to hear God's voice, to be in a community who is NOT in the industry who will be able to see from an outside perspective what is right or wrong so not to make you compromise, let God shape your character, and invest deeply and richly and lavishly in his presence. If you want impact and you want authority and people to trust you and testimonies and His favour to come forth, this will be an overflow of His presence in you!

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Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews LA talent agent Jean Selig Wenger at Treasure Coast Talent who represents a vast variety of people and projects including Guardians of the Galaxy, The Chosen and Vindication!

Jean's career started by simply helping her son who was interested in film and entertainment. 7 years ago, at a conference, she felt God tug on her heart about being available to serve in the film industry, then no sooner heard Alex Kendrick talk about following your calling in film which further prompted her to pursue what God was trying to tell her.

She didn't know anything about the film industry other than what she had helped her son with but having relied heavily on God showing her where to be and opening doors and providing opportunities to learn, she started as a manager managing just 15 actors in Florida, to becoming the agent that she is today in LA!

Jean shares how God helped her to be who He called her to be in a place that is intense, not having to conform to the culture of LA but instead be who she is in God, and talks about the need to trust God because he knows the beginning middle and end, even when all we see is what's directly in front of us. She talks about the importance of not taking the glory for yourself but glorifying God and being confident in Him, and shares about the need to be prepared for self-tapes and taking seriously the first impression that you make. It is also important to create and know your boundaries as a Christian actor ready for when scripts come in, and being honest and real, and tactful in sharing where you feel uncomfortable with a project or script.

Join us to hear more fantastic advice and encouragement for Christian actors who are pursuing a career in the entertainment industry!

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Hello and welcome to Faith and Famous the Podcast! Join us as your host Alan Shires interviews Bill Curtis, the Executive Producer of Redeem TV!

Bill's Dad started Gateway Films then in 1981 he started Vision Video and Christian History Institute. Bill from a young age helped his Dad and felt called to Christian media, having come to the Lord in 3rd grade and publicly declaring his faith in highschool.

In 2019 Bill donated Vision Video to Christian History which made way for the Lord to show him about using a donation basis which they used for Christian History to launch a streaming platform, something that he'd been thinking about doing, with one of the drivers for creating a platform was having the ability to be directly in contact with customers which was lost when working with other platforms.

He shares his experience of the Lord showing him to persevere when externally, it didn't make sense, but God always pulls through, and his heart for reaching out to a mainstream audience as well as Christians, which was able to be done more by creating a streaming platform which brings Christian content directly to homes and is not limited to Christian bookstores. He also explains the focus of an eternal perspective, focusing not on the here and now, but on what matters eternally.

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