This week Larissa chats with Molly McGlynn an award-winning writer and director. Molly’s second feature film Fitting in (fka Bloody Hell), starring Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire, had its World Premiere at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight section in March 2023. Molly has TV credits on Wonder Years and Big Door Prize. She also hosts a podcast called Hello My Mom is Dead with Molly McGlynn.

Larissa & Molly chat:

• What Molly was like in middle school
• Molly’s Irish heritage and growing up the youngest of 5 girls in Pleasantville New Jersey
• How weird it is to have divorced parents
• A gut sense of not being like her peers
• Not being able to articulate the sense of uneasiness around her
• Making amends to our bodies after abandoning them
• Working out and mental health
• Molly’s sober journey
• How everyone suffers from some “-ism”
• Going on a silent retreat
• How intimidating meditating is
• When people think they know you, but they don’t, and how weird that is
• Alchemizing hardship
• Hello My Mom is Dead podcast
• Grief and the absurd
• How intense people are about labels and how it’s pointless
• Stopping pretending we are all fine

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• @MollyMaryMcGlynn (IG)
• Learn more about Molly at: mollymarymcglynn.com
• Listen to Hello my Mom is Dead podcast

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Original music by Haile Meirow “inside your tears”

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(VIDEO PODCAST AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND YOUTUBE) This week, Larissa sits down to tell some of her latest boundaries stories that she’s never shared before alongside her sister Serena.

Larissa & Serena chat:

• Larissa’s boundary storytime
• What it means to grey rock
• How being boring is a helpful way to make people loose interest in you
• How triggering boundaries are
• Having boundaries with people we’re not close with
• The pain/trauma around boundaries
• How vulnerable having boundaries is
• How boundaries make us less open
• Being afraid of what people will think of us when we put up boundaries
• People who forget/don’t acknowledge boundaries
• Serena’s favorite boundary
• Boundary alter egos

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This week Larissa speaks with Mimi Munoz, Cannes Silver Lion recipient and Executive Producer.

Mimi is a first-generation Vietnamese-American daughter of refugees. Mimi has produced award-winning social impact films “The Myth” and “Call it Covid.” Mimi is the Global Creative Producer for Wieden + Kennedy. Mimi tells stories of people and marginalized communities. She is an advisor for Asiancy, Wieden + Kennedy’s Asian ERG. Mimi and her work have been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Ad Age, and Adweek.

Larissa & Mimi chat:

• Being a kid, being shy, and keeping your head down
• Wanting to make her parents proud more than anything else
• Growing up in a family that was in survival mode
• Mimi feeling it was necessary for her to experience being shy and withdrawn as a kid because her story resonates with people today
• How important it is for her to show her two daughters how to love themselves and embrace all the things that make them unique
• How Mimi moves through the world so unapologetically
• Making Call it Covid regardless of the consequences to help her community
• The angry late-night phone call that led to Call it Covid
• How exhausting it is to try and be everything for someone else
• Advocating for others and how Mimi’s love language is words of affirmation
• Imposter syndrome and how Mimi was approached to work at Wieden + Kennedy
• Trying hard to replicate what success looked like in the workplace, and how that never worked because she didn’t look like them or have their experience
• Fashion insecurities and role models
• Not apologizing for how you feel
• Elevating more voices not just celebrities
• Mimi’s Superpower and her new podcast “Hi Love with Mimi”
• Letting go of needing to give all parts of yourself to friendships

Follow Mimi:

• @mimitieuvo (IG)
• Mimi Munoz (LinkedIn)
• Check out Mimi’s films callitcovid.com

Follow Larissa:

• Sign up for Seriously Authentic Newsletter with resources, tips, insights on how to be your most authentic self to achieve your dream life.
• @larissavictoria (LinkedIn IG)
• Work with me (1:1 Coaching)

Original music by Haile Meirow “inside your tears”

Talent Advisor Serena Board