I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

And welcome to another episode of a car sellers podcast. Today we have one of the most talented people that we've had on this show.

I can just simply say ever, this is going to be an amazing episode but none other

than Alex Stapleton how are you doing today? I am great thank you so much for having me for

sure and my show is unique because we start each one of our shows with the same question for each guest, which is we like our guests to walk us through the arc of their careers. And you've been a director, producer,

documentarian and showrunner.

How did you get into this work and walk us through each one of your career stops

along the way?

Well, it all started leaving Texas at 18 years old after graduated from high school.

I couldn't wait to get out of the state and moved to New York.

And in New York, it was like the independent film era so you know this was over 20 years ago and I knew that I wanted to be a director but there weren't a lot of female directors there weren't a lot of female directors.

There weren't a lot of black female directors

at that time, like 99, 98, and 1999, 1998.

And so I just basically started from the bottom. I interned. 1999 and I'm

so I just basically started from the bottom.

I interned, then I was an assistant, always working in film

and so many different production companies.

I like to say that I'd work for everybody at this by this point and I just

worked my way up from the bottom you know filmmaking is a craft and it's it's one of the

last kind of like apprenticeships I guess you could say.

I didn't go to film school, I didn't finish college, but I had a very, very crazy work ethic and then I fell into documentaries because getting into

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