Heather & Sarah Taylor
@BraaainsPodcast
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Tell us about yourself – what is your background?
Heather Taylor is a writer and director whose work focuses on TV, films, and podcasts about complicated family relationships -- often told through a supernatural/ horror/ sci-fi lens -- that strive to destigmatize mental illness, disabilities, and poverty. Sarah Taylor is a multi-award-winning editor with twenty years of experience. She has cut a wide range of documentaries, television programs, shorts, and feature films. Sarah strives to help shape unique stories from unheard voices.
Why did you get into podcasting?
There is nothing more intimate and accessible than audio so Heather started out in radio and storytelling podcasts, and Sarah began as the host and editor of the CCE podcast interviewing film and TV editors about their craft.
How did the idea for the show come about?
Heather & Sarah have been talking about mental health and their brains their whole life and found it frustrating to not always find their disabilities portrayed in an accurate way on film and TV. As entertainment professionals, they wanted to talk to people with lived experience of everything to do with the brain (including mental health and disabilities) and find out how they wished film and TV could portray that part of them.
What do you hope listeners take from the show?
We would love people to see a personal side to mental health, disabilities, and everything that impacts our brains -- and see how much authentic representation matters on film and TV.
What's been the biggest challenge for you?
Cutting out ANY of our interviews for time. We love EVERYTHING our guests share -- but Heather loves podcasts under one hour. Her ADHD brain appreciates that.
How can your listeners support your show?
Please listen and if you like our podcast, the best thing to do is review us. It helps us get other listeners, too!
Any future plans that you'd like to share?
We are releasing a three-part series on navigating the barriers of mental illness over the first week of October 2023 as part of Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW).
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