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In this episode, Melissa Jones talks about how her faith helped guide her to switch from a career in entertainment law to becoming a pastor. In her insightful commentary, she encourages listeners to ask themselves to consider “who was I created to be?”

Ariel Trocino talks about her transition from acting into a career in public health, how the trauma of her boyfriend’s suicide impacted her journey, and how vital her arts education has been to her life. (Content warning for discussion of suicide.)

Actress April Sigman-Marx tells us about deciding to return to school to become a theatre professor, what it is like writing her own plays, and the weird experience she once had being recognized in a New York City bar.

Actress Laura Hunter Drago talks about how and why she transitioned into producing, what moving to New York City at 18 was like, and how she learned to make important life decisions by following her instincts.

Acclaimed playwright Samantha Macher talks about why she became a writer, her film projects Clown at War and To The New Girl, and the one thing she’d warn her younger self about if she could in the first episode of Creative Herstories.