Mary Trunk's guest appearances

Mary Trunk

Productive Flourishing

Expressing Motherhood

James Victore

Mike Vardy

Vanessa Van Edwards

Nir Eyal

Willie Jackson

Michael Bungay Stanier

Steven Kotler

Jeff Goins

Seth Godin

Laura Neff

Mark Nepo

Ryan McRae

Chris Brogan

Bryan Caplan

Srinivas Rao

OwlTail

Expressing Motherhood the podcast explores creative moms, what kind of projects they are up to and how they are finding time to create.Producer Lindsay Kavet talks to filmmaker Mary Trunk in this episode.Mary is an LA mom to a teenager who created the documentary "Lost In Living." In it, she followed 4 creative women for 13 years.Please Subscribe to Expressing Motherhood, the social media hashtag is #exmoshow.

Expressing Motherhood the podcast explores creative moms, what kind of projects they are up to and how they are finding time to create. Producer Lindsay Kavet talks to filmmaker Mary Trunk in this episode. Mary is an LA mom to a teenager who created the documentary "Lost In Living." In it, she followed 4 creative women for 13 years. Please Subscribe to Expressing Motherhood, the social media hashtag is #exmoshow.

Expressing Motherhood Talks To Mary Trunk

Mary Trunk has many titles to her name including painter, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker and has been making documentary films for over 20 years. Her first feature length film, The Watershed, screened at over 30 film festivals worldwide and has won numerous awards. She then spent seven years filming her latest documentary Lost in Living. Another short documentary, The Past is in the Present: At Home with Gunther Schuller, co-produced with her husband Paul Sanchez, is also touring the festival circuit around the U.S., and she is currently working on a new hybrid documentary project, which will be a reflection on her past dance career and how that has influenced everything she does. Mary has a new interactive website that she is working on and also teaches film and video at three different colleges in California. In addition to all of that, she is also a mother to one daughter and living in Los Angeles, California.   Key Takeaways: 02:14 – How Mary got started doing the work that she does. 04:16 – The bridge of Mary’s dancing to making documentaries. 08:50 – The relationship between choreography and filmmaking. 13:36 – How Mary stuck with making a documentary that ended up being a seven-year project. 18:11 – What Mary learned from the process of making Lost in Living. 20:49 – Transitioning from Lost in Living to The Past is in the Present. 24:51 – What Mary calls herself with all the different things that she does – businesswoman, filmmaker, etc. 30:48 – How Mary balances all of her work and family priorities. 37:38 – New projects Mary is working on. 40:26 – The most unanticipated challenge Mary is currently facing. 43:20 – We’re all struggling. Everybody has their story. Everybody has their issues.   Mentioned In This Episode: The Watershed Lost in Living The Past is in the Present: At Home with Gunther Schuller This Woman’s Life Art Center College of Design Loyola Marymount University Mount St. Mary’s University UC Santa Cruz My Mother Calls Me San Francisco Art Institute Marjorie Schlossman Slamdance Film Festival

Mary Trunk has many titles to her name including painter, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker and has been making documentary films for over 20 years. Her first feature length film, The Watershed, screened at over 30 film festivals worldwide and has won numerous awards. She then spent seven years filming her latest documentary Lost in Living. Another short documentary, The Past is in the Present: At Home with Gunther Schuller, co-produced with her husband Paul Sanchez, is also touring the festival circuit around the U.S., and she is currently working on a new hybrid documentary project, which will be a reflection on her past dance career and how that has influenced everything she does. Mary has a new interactive website that she is working on and also teaches film and video at three different colleges in California. In addition to all of that, she is also a mother to one daughter and living in Los Angeles, California. Key Takeaways: 02:14 – How Mary got started doing the work that she does. 04:16 – The bridge of Mary’s dancing to making documentaries. 08:50 – The relationship between choreography and filmmaking. 13:36 – How Mary stuck with making a documentary that ended up being a seven-year project. 18:11 – What Mary learned from the process of making Lost in Living. 20:49 – Transitioning from Lost in Living to The Past is in the Present. 24:51 – What Mary calls herself with all the different things that she does – businesswoman, filmmaker, etc. 30:48 – How Mary balances all of her work and family priorities. 37:38 – New projects Mary is working on. 40:26 – The most unanticipated challenge Mary is currently facing. 43:20 – We’re all struggling. Everybody has their story. Everybody has their issues. Mentioned In This Episode: The Watershed Lost in Living The Past is in the Present: At Home with Gunther Schuller This Woman’s Life Art Center College of Design Loyola Marymount University Mount St. Mary’s University UC Santa Cruz My Mother Calls Me San Francisco Art Institute Marjorie Schlossman Slamdance Film Festival

Episode 32 -  A Life of Storytelling with Mary Trunk