Deep Dive with Reese Witherspoon on Narrative Power

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Reese Witherspoon has built an empire by betting on one simple truth: when you put women in charge of telling stories, you uncover whole themes that get missed when men are calling the shots—and it turns out to be wildly entertaining. In this fifth and final episode of our Women of Consequence series, Kelly sits down with the actress, producer, and founder of the media company Hello Sunshine, to talk about why she developed the Wild screenplay outside the studio system, what happens when women control the buying power, and why her ultimate goal is to make a lot of women a lot of money. This episode has been made possible by a grant from Ingeborg Initiatives, a social impact platform dedicated to improving maternal health and making it easier to raise a family. To learn more, please visit: ingeborginitiatives.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:10.4	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering what happens when a woman decides to change what stories get told and who gets to tell them.
0:20.4	This is the fifth and final episode of our series called Women of Consequence, made
0:25.1	possible by a grant from Ingaborg Initiatives.
0:27.9	My guest today is Reese Witherspoon, and we are talking about what it means to use your
0:32.9	platform and your instincts and your seat at the table, to change what the world gets to see and maybe
0:38.4	what the world ends up thinking about. Reese Witherspoon is Tracy Flick and Elv Woods and June
0:44.9	Carter Cash. Of course, she is an Academy award-winning actress and the founder of a giant
0:50.8	media company built around stories by and four women, which she called Hello
0:56.0	Sunshine. The first two books she acquired when she started Hello Sunshine were Gone Girl
1:01.6	by Gillian Flynn and Wild by Cheryl Strad. She turned big little lies by Leanne Moriarty into a
1:10.2	cultural moment and built a book club that has moved millions
1:13.5	of copies into millions of hands. Today we talk about the stories that only get made when women are in
1:19.3	the room and what it means to build a company around the radical idea that women's stories
1:24.3	are good business. Here's my conversation with Reese Witherspoon.
1:33.5	So I thought the most fun we could possibly have together
1:37.4	is to make a list of things that simply would not exist
1:40.7	if there were not women in powerful positions in the entertainment industry.
1:46.9	Oh, okay, okay.
1:48.2	So I'm going to start by way of example, and then it'll be your turn.
1:53.8	Okay.
1:54.7	The thing that wouldn't exist for me is that scene in Barbie, Margot Robbie, is sitting on the bench and that older woman who,
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