In this week’s episode of The Idealists (formerly Grit & Grace), Melissa interviews Gigi Pritzker, award-winning producer and CEO and co-founder of MWM (Madison Wells Media). Under Gigi’s leadership, MWM produced Academy Award-nominated feature film “Hell or High Water” and the National Geographic’s Emmy Award-nominated anthology series “ Genius,” among others. She talks to us about supporting young creatives and owning our creation stories.

“I had to defend this thesis to get credit back at school and I did this whole presentation and there were these four blank faces staring at me. I thought oh wow, that didn’t go well… And I walked outside and a professor I took one class with was standing outside and he said, ‘So that didn’t go well, huh? You know why?” I didn’t even know he knew who I was! And he said, ‘Because you’re too creative and you shouldn’t get a Masters in Anthropology.’”

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