Can a film bring an entire city back to life—not just its streets and buildings, but its flavors, music, memories, and the people who made it unforgettable?

In this cinematic conversation, Michael sits down with Peruvian filmmaker Ricardo de Montreuil, director of Mistura, to explore how food, cultural traditions, and groundbreaking filmmaking techniques helped recreate the vibrant world of 1960s Lima, Peru.

As we prepare to welcome a new season of conversations, we're returning to one of Michael's favorite journeys into the stories that connect people, places, and culture.

For Ricardo, Mistura is more than a period film. It's a love letter to Peru—a story that brings together the country's extraordinary culinary traditions, Afro-Peruvian influences, and the complex relationships between culture, social expectations, and belonging.

Michael and Ricardo explore the personal experiences behind the film, the creative challenges of bringing a vanished era to the screen, and how virtual production helped transform memories of a city into a living, breathing cinematic world.

But beyond the cameras and technology lies something deeply human: the way food carries memories, how cultural traditions connect generations, and why the stories we tell can preserve places and experiences that might otherwise fade with time.

Through the lens of Mistura, this conversation invites us to consider what we carry from the places we've known—and how storytelling allows those places to live on.

PRESENCE • CURIOSITY • STORY

The three pillars of The Herst Method™, and the foundation of conversations that look beyond the finished work to discover the person and experiences behind it.

Because sometimes the most powerful stories don't simply show us a place we've never been.

They make us feel as though we've always belonged there.

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What makes a crime story stay with you long after you've turned the final page? Is it the mystery? The characters? Or the emotional truth hiding underneath the story?

Michael sits down with writer, researcher, and author Rhonda Parker Taylor to explore the psychology behind compelling crime fiction—and how the experiences we carry through life can find their way onto the page.

New conversations return next week. In the meantime, we're reaching back for one of Michael's favorite conversations, exploring what happens when human behavior, emotional intelligence, and storytelling collide.

Rhonda's debut novel, Crossroads, may be a suspenseful crime thriller, but beneath the mystery are characters navigating emotion, relationships, difficult choices, and the consequences that follow.

Together, Michael and Rhonda explore how her experiences, academic research, encounters with law enforcement, and the people she's met have influenced the way she creates characters—and why emotional intelligence can make the difference between a character we simply read about and one we actually understand.

But this conversation goes beyond the mechanics of writing.

It's about why certain stories connect with us, why complicated characters feel real, and how the choices people make—on the page and in life—can reveal something about human nature.

Because sometimes the most compelling mystery isn't simply what happened.

It's why someone made the choice that changed everything.

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In this episode Michael sits down with Jessica McGann, a world traveler whose journey took her solo through 30 countries over more than two years. Discover what it’s truly like to experience the world firsthand—and how those experiences shaped the person she became.

Jessica’s journey eventually led her into the film and television industry, where she worked behind the scenes on popular productions including Big Brother Canada, Top Chef Canada, Blown Away, and All-Round Champion. But her story took another unexpected turn in 2020, when her mental health reached a breaking point.

That difficult chapter became a turning point, leading Jessica to pursue a Diploma in Life Coaching and eventually share what she learned through one-on-one sessions, workshops, and her podcast, The Pivot Point.

This is a conversation about travel, transformation, creativity, resilience, and the unexpected turns that shape a life.

Before we return to a new conversation next week, we’re reaching back into the One More Thing Before You Go archives for a story worth experiencing again—or perhaps hearing for the first time.

Sometimes the journey changes us in ways we never anticipated.And sometimes, the story is worth revisiting. This is In thisOne More Thing Before You Go,

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