What was your favorite TV commercial project? With documentary filmmaker Serene Meshel-Dillman

How We Got Here - Career Stories - A podcast by Jonathan Torrey

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In this short clip, documentary filmmaker Serene Meshel-Dillman talks about her favorite experience working in television commercial production - a Miller beer commercial that featured a group of athletes, musicians, and other famous people.  The reason Serene enjoyed the experience so much is that she didn't know who most of those people were and was able to interact with them normally.  There's a key lesson here - at all times of our career, we're going to meet people who we are fans of, who may be very well-known and might even be famous. It could even simply be interacting with an executive or senior leader at the company you work for or a key stakeholder for a large client.  It's important to remember that they are people, too, just like us, and want to be treated as such. Going into those interactions with this mindset should reduce any performance anxiety you might have.  Enjoy!