Who Cares? - Learning to Storytell with Hope, Love, and Agency with Rudy Valdez
Ronderings10 Jan 2024

Who Cares? - Learning to Storytell with Hope, Love, and Agency with Rudy Valdez

Stories are the threads that weave the fabric of our identities, embracing our cultural roots, shaping our resilience, and illuminating the transformative power within us all.

Rudy Valdez, a two-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, shares his remarkable journey, triumphing over adversities such as homelessness while underlining the underlying value of embracing one’s cultural heritage and identity. His success isn’t just about luck or money: it’s about love, passion, and a strong cultural background.

The conversation is a goldmine of insights into how personal stories and cultural background shape the way we tell stories. Valdez spills the beans on how facing challenges is often a key ingredient in making meaningful art.

There’s a call to action here: empower new filmmakers and make sure that underrepresented voices are heard loud and clear in the world of storytelling.

Tune in, feel inspired, and let’s take steps together to champion diverse storytelling. Your action today could pave the way for a more inclusive and empathetic tomorrow. Let’s make it happen!

Notes
💥 Appreciate all the wonderful things around us: people of color can just be great without an asterisk. 02:22
👦🏽 Wrestling on the beach: jujitsu, storytelling, and childhood memories. 07:52
⚡ Lessons from his brother: high school struggles and one special improvisation in drama class. 09:55
🎭 Drama class as refuge place from the rough life: finding support from his family. 19:43
🚌 Writing 5–7 stories a day: creating his own game to writing stories. 24:39
🥥 ‘Coconut’ comedy show: a breakthrough in performing, teaching, and writing comedy. 28:56
🎥 A family issue that alters Rudy’s life: the moment he becomes a filmmaker. 31:29
🌞 Who cares?: sharing stories to evoke empathy, and Sundance Audience Award. 36:30
🎬 Learning from sets: Rudy’s formula for filming. 38:49
⚖️ Documentary The Sentence: taking risks, failing, and learning from it. 41:53
🥊 Documentary by Sylvester Stallone: Hollywood to produce crime movies. 44:06
🤩 Deciding not to limit himself to criminal justice films: Rudy created 17 documentaries. 45:55
😇 Sharing experiences: letting others learn from personal stories. 51:55
💎 Rudy’s RONderings: Believe in yourself, your voice matters, and push for positive change. 54:19
🎦 Carlos Santana movie and Disney projects: pushing everyone up the hill is crucial. 56:06

LINKS

Connecting with Rudy: www.rudyvaldez.com

Rapatalo Group: rapataloconsulting@gmail.com

Leverage Publishing: www.leveragepublishinggroup.com

Connect with Ron: www.linkedin.com/in/rapatalo

Twitter: https://twitter.com/phenomeron

Instagram: www.instagram.com/phenomeron

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(107)

Invest in Your Energy: Liberation, Burnout, and Leading Without Shrinking with Shayna Renee Hammond

Invest in Your Energy: Liberation, Burnout, and Leading Without Shrinking with Shayna Renee Hammond

Executive coach and Lead For Liberation founder Shayna Renee Hammond has spent two decades coaching Black leaders through burnout, and she says the work starts with energy, not strategy.In this episod...

19 Aug 54min

Make the Ask: Social Capital, Trust, and Why Slow Does Not Mean No with Dr. LaShawnna Harris

Make the Ask: Social Capital, Trust, and Why Slow Does Not Mean No with Dr. LaShawnna Harris

Founding principal turned entrepreneur Dr. LaShawnna Harris opened a New York City public school with 220 kindergartners and ran the operations flawlessly. Her appointment still stalled, because syste...

12 Aug 55min

Leadership Is a Creative Practice: Nonprofit Boards, Trust, and Saying Yes to Possibility with Gary Bagley

Leadership Is a Creative Practice: Nonprofit Boards, Trust, and Saying Yes to Possibility with Gary Bagley

Nonprofit leadership is a creative practice, not a title you master. Executive coach Gary Bagley led New York Cares and now works with the executives and boards holding organizations together.In this ...

5 Aug 52min

Equity Over Equality: Failing the Gifted Test, Parent Advocacy, and Asking Families What They Actually Want with Punam V. Saxena

Equity Over Equality: Failing the Gifted Test, Parent Advocacy, and Asking Families What They Actually Want with Punam V. Saxena

Parent engagement advocate Punam V. Saxena failed the gifted test in second grade, and spent the next twenty five years believing she was not smart.In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Pu...

29 Jul 57min

Belonging, Masculinity, and Black Boy Joy: Taking L's on the Way to Elevation with Craig Aarons-Martin

Belonging, Masculinity, and Black Boy Joy: Taking L's on the Way to Elevation with Craig Aarons-Martin

Educator and community builder Craig Aarons-Martin, founder of the Black Boy Joy Summit, has spent more than two decades doing transformative work in Boston's schools, and he is candid here about the ...

22 Jul 50min

The System Will Replace You, Your Family Cannot: Wellness, Burnout, and Leaving the Principalship with Dr. Nadia Lopez

The System Will Replace You, Your Family Cannot: Wellness, Burnout, and Leaving the Principalship with Dr. Nadia Lopez

Dr. Nadia Lopez banked 156 unused sick days. When she finally got too sick to work, the Department of Education separated her from payroll and told her she could come back to work.In this episode of R...

15 Jul 59min

From Urban Planning to the Akashic Records: Intuition, Life Purpose, and a Science of Spirituality with Julie Chan

From Urban Planning to the Akashic Records: Intuition, Life Purpose, and a Science of Spirituality with Julie Chan

Julie Chan was a Yale and MIT-trained urban planner building a career in economic development when a spontaneous spiritual awakening opened intuitive abilities she never asked for and could not explai...

8 Jul 52min

Ask Why, Then Act: From a High School Newsroom to New Leaders and the Good Jobs Economy with Jon Schnur

Ask Why, Then Act: From a High School Newsroom to New Leaders and the Good Jobs Economy with Jon Schnur

A high school sports editor watched a fellow editor dismiss a brilliant Black student's writing. The question that moment raised never left him.In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Jon Sc...

1 Jul 1h 6min

Populært innen Business og økonomi

stopp-verden
dine-penger-pengeradet
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
e24-podden
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
rss-borsmorgen-okonominyhetene
rss-skravla-gar
finansredaksjonen
utbytte
rss-pa-konto
pengepodden-2
lederpodden
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
rss-orjasater
tid-er-penger-en-podcast-med-peter-warren
stormkast-med-valebrokk-stordalen
morgenkaffen-med-finansavisen
okonomiamatorene
liberal-halvtime
rss-markedspuls-2