Welcome to the Tending Creativity Podcast!

This podcast focuses on creativity for and of women and non-binary folks.

In this episode I interview Brielle Webb about her experiences as an actor and content creator living in Brooklyn, NY. I hope you enjoy the episode!

In this episode we talk about:

• Brielle’s interest in acting and creativity from childhood on
• Shifting her mindset on motivations for acting in high school and taking acting seriously
• Attending a performing arts high school in New York
• Family support of creative pursuits and acting
• Her creative process and process as an actor
• Personal impact of acting
• Gaining confidence through performance
• Different types of acting and performance
• Brielle’s journey and experience with school
• Graduating high school
• Taking a gap year after high school
• Attending community college
• Getting accepted at and attending University of Minnesota and the Guthrie Theater
• Societal messaging around school, success, failure, and overcoming those
• School loans and debt in your early 20s
• Leaving the University of Minnesota due to being unable to afford it
• The oppression of higher education
• Universal free higher education
• The impact of growing up and living in Brooklyn/New York on creativity
• Her experience living in New York during quarantine & COVID-19
• When  and how Brielle began content creation
• Her first brand collaboration with Mejuri
• Thoughts on skincare
• Self-care as protest
• Exploitation of “self-care”
• Deciding what brands to work with
• Interconnectedness of beauty, fashion and racism and social justice
• Sharing a spectrum of interests on social media
• Finding creative motivation and inspiration and going through creative seasons
• Other creative mediums
• Photography, street photography and photography in New York
• Writing
• The importance of everyone’s story and work

Brielle's Instagram: whoisbriellewebb

Mud Flower Film Instagram: mudflowerfilm

Mud Flower Film gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mud-flower-film

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