25: The Financial Risks of Being a Working Actor & Moving the Needle on LGBTQ+ Rights with Emmy Award-Winner Anne Heche & Heather Duffy
Trading Secrets
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4.9 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Trading Secrets, Jason sits down with Emmy Award-winner Anne Heche and Heather Duffy, hosts of Better Together podcast. They discuss how Anne historically moved the needle on LGBTQ+ rights, motherhood, and the financial risks of being a working actor.
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Host: Jason Tartick
Voice of Viewer: David Arduin
Executive Producer: Evan Sahr
Produced by Dear Media.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. |
| 0:19.2 | Today we are joined by two of my friends, none other than the inspiring bold badass herself, |
| 0:25.5 | Anne Haysche and her good friend, fellow podcasts co-host of Better Together at CEO of the Duffy |
| 0:32.4 | Co. Heather Duffy. And you ready for this? I got some stuff for you here. And got her |
| 0:38.1 | straight here we go. Let's pump your tires a little bit. And got her start on soap opera |
| 0:43.3 | another world. She made her film debut in 1993's an ambush of ghosts. In 2002, she made her Broadway |
| 0:50.8 | debut. Her performance of the 2004 movie Gracie's Choice received a prime time Emmy award |
| 0:57.1 | nomination for best supporting actress and her acting in the Broadway show 20th century earned her |
| 1:02.2 | a Tony award nomination for best actress in a play all along the way. She has played influential |
| 1:09.5 | role in history on moving the needle for the LG BTQ rights. She faced many career highlights |
| 1:15.8 | and setbacks that she discusses in her book titled Call Me Crazy, a memoir. And we're excited |
| 1:22.0 | to hear all about them and have this dynamic duo on and and Heather thank you so much for being |
| 1:27.4 | here today. My tires are inflated. It is a pleasure to be here. I've said some things I didn't know. |
| 1:32.9 | And right here by my test. I damn welcome guaranteed that she does not know what the |
| 1:38.0 | Gracie's choice is. I do. I like to tease her sometimes Jason because she is, well you know, |
| 1:44.6 | before she became my business partner, she was my PR and I tease her because she knows about |
| 1:49.2 | as many of my movies as I do. That band to right there is exactly what I want to start off with. |
| 1:54.2 | Is that banter that everyone just heard is exactly what I heard and I heard that. So Kaelin was on |
| 1:59.7 | dancing with the stars with Ann and I heard what they would adept to do is zoom calls because you |
| 2:03.7 | couldn't beat in person. And I would hear you to like take it over the meetings having so much fun |
| 2:09.2 | and I'll never forget it was a Disney theme night. And Anne had a simple line and you're talking |
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