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Call Sheet Confessions

Call Sheet Confessions

De : Mia LePage
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Call Sheet Confessions was built from early call times, long days, career pivots, and the candid conversations that happen off-camera. The podcast creates space for entertainment industry professionals to share real advice with aspiring creatives—offering honest insight into how to break into the business, navigate the industry, and build a sustainable career.Hosted by Los Angeles–based entertainment professional Mia LePage, the show pulls back the curtain on what truly happens behind the scenes, demystifying the paths, challenges, and wins that often go unseen.

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  • Take #23 | Ryan Nilsen’s Route from New York Intern to Marvel Studios Post Coordinator

    Take #23 | Ryan Nilsen’s Route from New York Intern to Marvel Studios Post Coordinator
    Jun 19 2026

    Ryan Nilsen didn’t grow up with a straight line into Hollywood post‑production. He was a kid from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania — mushroom drop, small‑town Americana, classic suburbs of Philly — whose world was more theater camp and high school sports than red carpets and studio lots. At Temple University, late‑night train rides to New York, PA gigs on grad thesis films, and internships on ABC daytime talk shows became his crash course in how “real” sets run, long before Marvel, Skydance, and Apple TV+ ever entered the picture. What started as an ADHD‑kid’s love of The Office and movie nights with his parents quietly turned into a full‑blown obsession with producing, editing, and post — the part of the process where the story actually comes together.

    In this episode of Call Sheet Confessions, Ryan and I walk through how a Temple film major who almost stayed a New York talk‑show intern became a post‑production coordinator on shows like Reacher, Marvel’s Agatha All Along, and big Netflix series, while also stepping into story producing on Fox’s Reality Check with Kalen Allen. We trace the brutal 12‑hour days at a talk‑show network where he literally lived at work during COVID, the furlough that forced him back to Philly, and the single referral from a fellow Owl that dropped him into his first big post job — and changed his entire career trajectory. Ryan opens up about what a post coordinator actually does day‑to‑day (dailies, edits, ADR, vendor wrangling), how union hours, tax incentives, and strikes shape where jobs even exist, why goals are allowed to change after family health scares and industry upheaval, and how a random “think tank” visit led to meeting his favorite filmmaker and acting in his movie. We also dig into navigating LA cost of living, shifting from “corporate post” to freelance story producing, the myths about staying a year at your first job, the reality of nepotism, and why community and networking — from Temple alumni mixers to Marvel hallways with Samuel L. Jackson — matter more than any one credit.

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    🔔 Subscribe for more honest conversations about working in entertainment, breaking into post‑production, building creative careers through internships and referrals, surviving LA in an unpredictable industry, and what really happens on the other side of the call sheet.
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    1 h et 13 min
  • Take #22 | Reagan Hewes’ Route from Small‑Town Studio to World Tours with BTS

    Take #22 | Reagan Hewes’ Route from Small‑Town Studio to World Tours with BTS
    Jun 12 2026

    Reagan Hewes didn’t grow up with a roadmap for touring the world with one of the biggest bands on the planet. She was a small‑town kid from Pennsylvania, dancing at a tiny, non‑competition studio where the vibes were more family cookout than cutthroat convention. Dance was always “the thing that stuck” — soccer came and went, gymnastics came and went — but dance stayed, quietly turning from an after‑school activity into the thing she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Hip hop companies like Reverb, performance‑based studios, and a drama‑free environment gave her a rare foundation in an industry that can be notoriously toxic.

    In this episode of Call Sheet Confessions, Reagan and I trace how a girl who loved Ash conventions, contemporary combos, and commercial jazz went from AMDA dorm rooms and Universal’s Horror Nights to performing with TWICE at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and touring the world with BTS. We walk through her decision to leave a four‑year performing arts program, the grind of retail jobs and 3pm–3am haunt shifts just to pay LA rent, and the nearly two‑year stretch of “radio silence” before her first big booking. Reagan opens up about building a career without an agent, turning Instagram into a visual résumé, navigating rejection without losing yourself, finding real community in a city full of “fakes,” and what it actually looks like behind the scenes when you’re a working dancer on a global K‑pop tour.

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    🔔 Subscribe for more honest conversations about working in entertainment, creative careers, the reality behind “overnight success,” life between LA and small‑town roots, and what really happens on the other side of the call sheet.
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    1 h et 5 min
  • Take #21 | Life’s a Hike: How Dave Silver Built REC Philly, Failed Fast, and Rewrote His Life

    Take #21 | Life’s a Hike: How Dave Silver Built REC Philly, Failed Fast, and Rewrote His Life
    Jun 5 2026
    Dave Silver didn’t grow up with a roadmap for building a creative empire. He was a goofy kid from Warminster, Bucks County, who loved sports, found his first real sense of leadership in his Jewish youth community, and discovered his creative side almost by accident through high school media classes. He met his future co‑founder Will Toms because their last names — Silver and Toms — sat them next to each other in class. Before long, they were “the video guys” at school, taking over afternoon announcements, with Dave as the weatherman, and quietly laying the foundation for what would become REC Philly.In this episode of Call Sheet Confessions, Dave and I dive into how a kid who picked advertising at Temple University mostly because he liked Mad Men and wanted an “easy major” ended up co‑founding one of Philly’s most important creative hubs. We walk through his journey from frat basement concerts and the Broad Street Music Group, to launching and losing a record label, to building a 10,000 sq. ft. state‑of‑the‑art creative facility… and then making the agonizing decision to close it. Dave opens up about what it really looks like to build something from scratch, scale too fast, survive a pandemic, confront burnout, and then completely redesign your life on your own terms.We get into:• Growing up outside Philly as a goofy, sports‑loving kid who only really found direction in high school through leadership in his Jewish youth organization• Meeting his future business partner Will Toms in high school, becoming “the video guys,” and taking over their school’s afternoon announcements• Choosing advertising at Temple almost at random, not loving school, and pouring his energy into extracurriculars: a Jewish fraternity, media and advertising clubs, and student leadership• The capstone project at Temple (Diamond Edge Communication) that became his first real event — booking a band, raising sponsorships, creating graphics — and realizing how much he loved event planning• Treating frat parties like a business: staffing, logistics, booking DJs, and turning his basement into a full‑on venue called the Broad Street Music Lounge• Getting kicked out of that basement over a “$2M insurance policy,” and how that forced him to level up from house shows to real venues across Philadelphia• Building Broad Street Music Group into an event production company, throwing concerts Monday–Thursday at multiple venues while still in college• Acting as a de facto manager/opportunity‑maker for a close friend and using every show to put local artists on stage and in front of media• Trying to evolve into a community record label, running a Kickstarter that ultimately failed, and how that “failure” became the catalyst for the birth of REC Philly• Turning a rough North Philly warehouse into a scrappy creative hub with DIY studios and stages, and then evolving that into a 10,000 sq. ft. Center City facility with 12 production studios, concert spaces, and a full membership model• The explosive growth from 100 to 900 members almost overnight, and what it felt like to see their long‑imagined space finally become real• The brutal timing of opening in December 2019, then immediately getting hit by the COVID‑19 pandemic — shutting down, laying off team members, and scrambling to reinvent the business• Pivoting REC Philly into a virtual production hub, working with corporate partners, and distributing relief funds to local creators during the pandemic• Why REC never fully regained its original momentum post‑lockdown, how investor pressure and impatience led to expanding too quickly, and the hard lessons that came with that• Making the decision to close REC Philly (final closure in December 2025), what it meant emotionally to walk away after a decade, and why that choice was ultimately about protecting his well‑being• Going from 30 employees, big leases, and constant debt to “just Dave” — and what his life and “call sheet” look like now: slow mornings, long walks in the park, cooking for himself, and hand‑selecting a small roster of partner clients• How a solo journey on the Camino de Santiago in Spain — hiking 70 miles mostly alone — helped him process 15 years of entrepreneurship and sparked the idea for his book “Life’s a Hike”• Talking to a handheld camera on the trail, pouring out stories and lessons, then writing at night without editing or overthinking — and why he refused to let perfectionism stop him from publishing• Why he believes you don’t need to “identify” as an author to write a book, or as any one thing to create something meaningful and share it• Busting big myths: that creative careers aren’t sustainable, that you “need” outside funding, that bigger always means more successful, and that closing a business equals failure• What he’s learned about entitlement in creative communities, companies ...
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    1 h et 2 min
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