Impact driven sports media from one of the most creative showrunners in sports content production
This week, it's episode 41 of The Wormcast and my guest is Podium Pictures COO Melissa Forman. We discuss her career from the MTV days through a wide variety of roles at FOX Sports and for the past few years how she's focued on impact-driven sports media. It's a very insightful conversation on storytelling philospophy through a completely different lense, one I feel you'll be compelled by. Enjoy!
Topics discussed: 2:00 Podium Pictures and The Podium Project 10:00 Working with Bode Miller and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 25:40 MTV years - Gregg Allman 29:00 FOX Sports "In the Zone" 33:30 Melissa's projects that made a difference and philospophy of production 39:00 More from MTV 43:20 Branded content-value aligned content with Corona "Free Range Humans 53:00 FLG-USWNT documentary and the fight for equal pay.
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