Heather

"when I was in college, there was an Ebony magazine that had, um, on the cover, the top 50 black women in the entertainment industry. And I held onto that magazine."

"So I sit in my current role as head of business affairs between our creative teams, the production teams, and the development teams and our legal team."

"Our company is fan first. Every day we are always putting thinking about how we can serve our fans anytime, anywhere."

"Being really transparent and being an active listener and clarity in your conversations are all key elements to create collaboration and consensus."

"I love collaborating with brilliant people who have different types of expertise, different kinds of perspective."

"The consensus building can be tough. So while I enjoy that part the most, I didn't say it was easy all the time."

"if we can take funding that we create and then reinvest it in the creative community in exciting ways, I, I love that."

"Open-minded, um, curious, collaborative, thoughtful, um, wanting to, like rising tides, lift all boats."

"It's really just really hard contracts with, uh, important people's names on them, or like popular people's names on them."

"I think another way to do it is to grow up with someone else who is just entering the industry. So, for instance, if you think what I really wanna do is be an agent to an athlete or a manager or a lawyer to an amazing singer, finding that person when they're at the same place you are, they're early in their career too, and it's almost like a bartering system."

"Respect everyone. Don't get caught up in titles or seniority. Treat everyone with the same level of respect."

"I wish I would've been able to curb back the work piece of it a little bit more and have more time to inundate into the culture of just being in college."

"pick a topic within your social science study that is really important to you and just focus on being detail oriented within that topic."