If you've ever found yourself asking, "Am I on the right path?" or "Who am I becoming through all of this?" this episode offers an invitation to pause, reflect, and begin asking different questions.

What happens when outward success no longer feels like enough? In this conversation, filmmaker and SOWN founder Jake Viramontez reflects on purpose, contribution, and building a creative life that serves something larger than yourself.

Danielle Goetz is a comedy director and Nourish Coach who helps filmmakers trust their intuition, embrace their individuality, and build careers rooted in their unique point of view. Alongside her coaching work, Danielle has directed campaigns for brands including Nike, Snickers, Twix, Facebook, and HomeGoods, earning a reputation for vibrant, performance-driven storytelling.

Throughout the conversation, Devin offers a refreshing perspective on career development: success is rarely the result of a single breakthrough. More often, it emerges through consistency, adaptability, meaningful relationships, and the willingness to stay in the process long enough to grow.

In this episode of The Nourish Podcast, filmmaker, actor, writer, and producer Jay Duplass joins host Jon Bregel for a thoughtful conversation about creative growth, reinvention, ambition, fulfillment, and what it means to build a sustainable creative life.

“Rather than focusing on tactics, scripts, or how to "work the room," we explore a different question: What if networking is really about cultivating meaningful relationships?”

“Filmmaking culture often rewards external momentum while ignoring internal sustainability. We celebrate the filmmaker who is always moving, always grinding, always available, always attached to something exciting. But very few people talk about what happens when your nervous system starts paying the price for years of living in survival mode creatively, emotionally, relationally, spiritually, and physically.”

“The Filmmaker Reset Circle is intentionally small and application-based to create an environment of trust, honesty, and meaningful conversation. Participants meet weekly for 75-minute Zoom sessions and are invited into an ongoing process of reflection, growth, and recalibration.”

“I recorded this episode a few months ago but never released it. At the time, I was experiencing some burnout of my own, while several close filmmaker friends were quietly navigating the same thing. Through those conversations, I found myself returning to a realization that took years to understand: burnout isn't always caused by too much work. Sometimes it's caused by too much distance from yourself.”

“No one is going to swoop in and give you permission to be who you are. No one is going to anoint you as ready. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you realize something else: you are already enough. You are already equipped.”

“There’s a certain kind of cinematography that immediately announces itself. And then there’s the kind that slowly reveals itself over time.”

“If selling what you’re selling doesn’t feel right, maybe it’s time to ask if you’re selling the thing that’s true to your heart.”

Most conversations in filmmaking focus on the work itself. Life Off Set, hosted by Jon Bregel on The Wandering DP Podcast, explores the other 90%: identity, relationships, burnout, ambition, and what it means to build a creative life without losing yourself in the process.

“Studying what sustains us on a human level has fundamentally shifted my perspective on work. Filmmaking is no longer something that consumes my life, but something I’ve learned to integrate in a way that supports creativity, well-being, and the relationships that matter most.”

“Your values act like an internal compass, helping you say yes to the right opportunities and no to the ones that quietly pull you off course.”

“Fear Setting offers a structured way to identify and confront the fears that quietly stand between you and the life or career you want.”

“For years, I believed calm and productivity could not coexist. Lately, I’ve been wondering if peace is not the reward at the end of the workday, but the way we are meant to move through the work itself.”

“I don’t have this career fully figured out. I’ve found ways to make a living in film, but I’ve never quite found a way to make it work for my mental health.”

“Jared Levy’s podcast Art vs. Commerce, reflects a tension many filmmakers eventually encounter.”

“What does it feel like to create from a grounded place rather than a reactive one?”