This week, we speak with Kennedy McMann and Tian Richards, who played Nancy Drew and Tom Swift respectively on their CW shows. They give us the secrets of how to raise performance levels by creating a kind, inclusive and nurturing environment while being number one on the call sheet. Episode Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vdt2gzawixsu0sahc1doo/LWK_Ep2_Transcript.pdf?rlkey=mhpi4vh9l759ym1tdk9vioqv1&amp;dl=0 <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Trust = Performance w. Andrea Thornton Bolden & Malek Mouzon

Lead with Kindness, hosted by showrunner Melinda Hsu, is a podcast where we talk about how kindness and inclusion, and intentionally fostering both in your environment, leads not only to better business results and higher standards of professionalism but PS - is the right thing to do.Melinda Hsu is a TV writer-producer who was the showrunner of NANCY DREW as well as the showrunner/co-creator of TOM SWIFT; currently, she is in a development overall at ABC Signature. A lifelong genre geek, she started writing at age 8, when she authored a Star Trek fan fiction novella series on a stack of spiral notebooks in her childhood bedroom in Bangor, Maine. Her TV credits include LOST, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, THE GIFTED, FALLING SKIES, STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, MEDIUM, and one-hour pilots for Amazon, Netflix, NBC and Lifetime. For her work on LOST, she was nominated for an Emmy and a Writers’ Guild Award. She is an alum of the Warner Bros. TV Drama Writers' Workshop as well as an alum of and presenter for the WGA Showrunner Training Program. She mentors writers and producers through the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, helped found the Asian American Writers’ Brunch, and also serves on the Executive Board of the Sarah Jones Film Foundation, which fosters set safety through awareness and accountability. Her podcast, Lead With Kindness, is aimed at changing the culture of Hollywood; this series of ten 30-minute conversations is available on Apple Podcasts (IG: @leadwkindness). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.