Anna Winger is the creator and screenwriter of hit television dramas 'Deutschland 83’ and ‘Deutschland 86’.

For 15 years, Anna worked as a freelance photographer before switching to write her first novel, ‘This Must Be the Place’ as well as personal essays for The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She then went on to create and write the screenplay for the hugely successful Deutschland ‘83 and ‘86 trilogy series which broke international barriers with their widespread international popularity in Germany, the US, and all over the world.

In this episode Anna shares her experience of creating a hit television drama from scratch with lots of advice for budding screenwriters including:

• The different roles at play in the writer’s room and how it all works
• Tips for becoming a great screenwriter (including staying committed to an idea and having the tenacity to respond well to edits).
• The importance of surrounding yourself with people who know your voice and will help you push through when struggling.

Alongside these tips, Anna is also a passionate advocate for following opportunities wherever they might take you and not sticking to a set career path. This episode is full of welcoming and practical advice for people following a creative career direction as well as anyone looking to diversify their professional endeavors.

Check out the Deutschland ‘83 & ‘86 series on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.de/Deutschland-83-Staffel-1/dp/B018J45ERC

And you can follow Anna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/annawinger

If you’d like to hear more from the women such as Anna who are behind some of the world’s most well known television shows then make sure you check out previous episodes of the Role Models Podcast: https://www.rolemodels.co/podcast/language:english-only/category:tv-music-fashion-film/

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A big thanks also to our Patreon patrons who support this podcast:

• Megan Quinn, General Partner at Spark Capital who supports the organization: http://www.code2040.org/
• Anna Caroline, a leadership coach based out of Berlin that you can find on https://truthcircles.com
• Emma Harris

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Rebecca Jarvis is the ABC News chief Business, Technology & Economics correspondent; the host and managing editor of the podcast No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis; and the host and managing editor of Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis.

After studying economics in college, Rebecca began her journalism career writing for Crain’s Chicago Business and Business 2.0 alongside gruelling hours working in investment banking and foreign currency trading. This early experience on the trading floor proved invaluable in giving Rebecca the confidence and know-how needed to later launch her broadcast journalism career through which Rebecca has interviewed some of the world’s most successful people including Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Diane von Furstenberg and Arianna Huffington.

Rebecca was also the first person at ABC News to launch a podcast, something she had to convince her bosses was the right move and build from the ground up. Through No Limits, Rebecca works hard to demystify success by interviewing bold and influential women about the decisions, trade offs, and realities they’ve had to face up to in order to get where they are today.

In this jam-packed episode Rebecca talks candidly about the lessons she’s personally learned during her career so far, as well as those she’s picked up through her extensive interviews with other women.

Topics touched on include:

• Effective ways to ask for career advice
• Defining personal success and how that changes over time
• Finding the “side door” instead of following the same path as everyone else
• Ways to influence your bosses and get the chances/breaks you deserve
• The top 3 skills for being a great journalist
• Simple life hacks to make long term goals achievable
• Why finding out the worst advice someone ever received is often more telling than the best advice
• Why we all have a “greatest hits failure” – and it isn’t something to feel ashamed about

And if today’s episode leaves you curious you can catch up with Rebecca by following Rebecca:

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebeccajarvis

On Instagram: https://instagram.com/rebeccajarvis

And listen to the No Limits podcast: http://abcradio.com/podcasts/no-limits/

Thanks to our patrons for this episode:

• Anna Caroline who coaches leaders in Berlin: http://truthcircles.com
• Megan Quinn who supports Code2014: http://www.code2040.org
• Caoimhe Keogan: http://twitter.com/caoimhekeogan
• Alexandra Cosma: http://alexandracosma.com
• Emma Harris

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Margaret Stewart is the VP Product Design at Facebook. Margaret credits being the youngest child of 9, as well as having initially studied Theatre as incredibly useful tools in the collaborative nature of all her work today. She then did a graduate studies at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunication Program before starting her career at Tripod - one of the big homepage building sites in the first dot.com era - and rising up the ranks through the design teams at Google Search and Google News, to become the global Head of Design at YouTube. These days, Margaret leads the designers and researchers who help the tools for business all around the world, allowing them to connect with Facebook’s 1.7B users in meaningful ways. This episode touches on many different topics including: Honouring the creativity inside of you, and why it’s OK to experiment and play around if you don’t know what you want to do How to be a good listener and collaborate well How to create the conditions so that people can do amazing work Key tips for positive leadership How to work against career inertia - and why going into management isn’t necessarily the best idea. Margaret approaches her work with a total appreciation of great design as well as the end goal of improving people's lives. Her knowledge, passion and insight into how to create workplace environments which inspire and allow people to create amazing work will be an invaluable tool for everyone - whether just starting out in careers, or already in management positions.

Follow Margaret on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mags Follow Margaret on Medium: https://medium.com/@mags Check out Margaret’s personal blog: http://www.fountly.com/

Thanks to our patrons for this episode:

Anna Caroline who coaches leaders in Berlin: http://truthcircles.com/ Caoimhe Keogan https://twitter.com/caoimhekeogan Johannes Kleske https://johanneskleske.com

If you want to help us create The Role Models Podcast in the future, become a patron and chip in $1, $3, $5, or $10 per episode. Read more about the different tiers and rewards on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rolemodels