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Why Black Women Over 40 Are TV's Biggest Untapped Audience w/ Award-Winning Felicia Pride 🎙

Read More Media Season 1 Episode 31

Award-winning filmmaker Felicia Pride, Co-Executive Producer of Bel-Air and founder of Honey Chile Production Company, joins Bookum Founders Talk to discuss why Black women over 40 represent television's biggest untapped audience. From her Hollywood breakthrough to launching her own production company, Pride shares the creative risks that transformed her career. Get an inside look at her new romance novella "Come Close" and discover how she's building an independent media empire focused on underrepresented stories.

Pride shares her journey from rejected scripts to executive producer, offering valuable advice for writers, creators, and entrepreneurs navigating the entertainment industry. Discover her unique perspective on healthy writer's rooms, optioning books to Hollywood studios, and the creator economy's influence on traditional media.

📚 GET FELICIA'S NEW BOOK "COME CLOSE": https://www.amazon.com/Come-Close-Romance-Felicia-Pride-ebook/dp/B0DWMM5VWC

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TIMESTAMPS
1:20 - Movies to Watch & Art to Consume
2:03 - Sinners and The Clipse new album
3:18 - What makes a great story?
5:14 - Come Close New Novella
6:10 - Writing Romance in TV
6:42 - New Book (Come Close)
7:52 - Writing Process for the book
8:40 - Writing for 40+ Black Women
10:13 - Speaking directing to a target audience
12:47 - Writer's Room
14:18 - Healthy v. Unhealth Writer's Rooms
15:32 - Process to Option Books to Hollywood
17:02 - Shopping Books to Movie Studios
18:05 - On Promoting A Book v Movie
20:34 - On Community
21:25 - Podcast (Honey Chile)
23:02 - On Creativity Comeback
24:18 - Navigating a writing career
25:15 - All that wander aren't lost
26:21 - Balancing Being A Multi-Hyphenate
28:43 - Life advice "Never too late"
29:52 - Age Graceful Advice to 20 and 30 year olds
31:59 - Going independent and having ownership
33:41 - Creator Economy influence on Hollywood
34:23 - Taking creative risk

CONNECT WITH FELICIA PRIDE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feliciapride
Instagram (Company): https://www.instagram.com/itshoneychile/
Twitter: https://x.com/feliciapride?lang=en
Threads: https://www.threads.com/@feliciapride
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feliciapride/
Website: https://www.feliciapride.com/

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