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Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I am your host,

Daniel Levery, and with me in the studio this week is Daniela Taplin-Lenberg,

a film producer and the host of The Hollywood Gold Podcast.

She is the founder of Stay Gold Features, an independent film,

finance and production company. Daniela, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Danny. Thanks for having me. This is so fun.

I'm so, so pleased that you're here. I feel like we have some really fantastic

rich questions to spend a little time with today.

I'm feeling so good about them. Do you have a favorite or a least favorite yet?

Well, I mean, this is the first time that any, I mean, outside of my friends and family,

that I have been asked to weigh in on broad-reaching personal topics. So I'm so excited to dig in

and just like marinate in workshop it. These are really, really serious personal issues.

But I think the fact that I'm 46 and have been through a lot will build like way heavily into

my thoughts and suggestions. I think that sounds absolutely fantastic and I'm very excited

to hear what is the product of those years of experience. And you also remarkable restraints

because it sounds like you've done a very good job of holding back on giving advice

unless it's been asked for. Well, I try. You know, I'm in a club called YPO. It's like young

presidents organizations and it's like it brings together a lot of like leaders of different

companies and like the sort of recommended MO there is to like share your experiences rather

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