The episode you're about to listen to was released back when the mere Christians podcast was called the call to mastery

Now if you love mere Christians, you're still going to love these older episodes because the majority of each

conversation focuses on how the gospel influences the work of our guests. With that disclaimer out of the way, please enjoy the episode. Hey everybody welcome to the call to mastery. I'm Jordan Rayner. This is a

podcast for Christians who want to do their most exceptional work for the glory of God and the good of others.

Every week I'm bringing you a conversation with somebody who's following Jesus Christ and also pursuing world-class mastery of their craft. We're talking about

their path to mastery, their daily habits and routines, and how their faith influences

their work. Guys, I'm releasing this bonus episode because we had to get it out as quickly as possible.

Today you're going to hear from Cheryl Anderson.

She's the showrunner for at the time that we record this episode the number one show on

Netflix in all of the US. The show is called Sweet Magnolias. You've probably seen it right there on your Netflix home screen.

Cheryl is a masterful screenwriter who's spent decades honing her craft. She's written for

shows like Charmed, the mega hit in the late 1990. She wrote for Flash

Gordon. She sold pilot scripts to Disney and NBC and Lifetime. Man I was so

excited for this conversation you guys know how much I love TV. As I talk about in the episode, I think being a showrunner, running a show is like one of the greatest jobs, if not the greatest job in the world.

So Cheryl and I sat down.

We talked about how Netflix reacted to her

having Christian characters in a show that isn't overtly

Christian, but is definitely playing on some gospel-centric themes and

what their reaction was to that content. We talked about how we as artists, as entrepreneurs,

whatever our craft is, how we can model gospel subtext.

Jesus' gospel subtext as we tell great stories through our work.

And we talked about how to give and take great notes of feedback as we seek to master our

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