Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
Supervising Producer
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I am a nonfiction production creative based in Los Angeles. I grew up in a Silicon Valley home that gave out walnuts on Halloween, and I escaped to Boston where I earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College.
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My 20+ year career creating premium nonfiction content includes exploring mental health from North America to Africa for the feature documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, chronicling the rise and fall of Death Row Records for MTV News, documenting life-saving rats, being embedded with storm chasers, co-creating and selling a TV docu-series about a chef, photographing Morgan Freeman & Tommy Lee Jones on set of their movie, and directing Channing Tatum in tear-away pants.
My TV credits include producing & directing true stories about real people for Apple TV+, Discovery+, Nat Geo, Food Network, Showtime, Bravo, Oxygen, NBC, CBS, MTV, CMT, and TLC.
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Documentary digital credits include producing, directing & editing spots for Meta, Innerworld, Lifelock, Desert Magazine, Rejuvila, and AwareAwakeAlive – plus birthography and legacy/memoir work for private clients.
I am a member of the Producers Guild of America, and I serve on the board of Just DeClare Foundation, whose mission is to create awareness and support for mental health in the arts community.
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My passion for mental health storytelling began in 2008 when I documented a community in mourning, and my path was cemented after I sat in a remote African village with a Swahili translator interviewing strangers about struggle and suicide.
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Brandy Menefee
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My Mission
to rewrite the story around mental health
one person at a time
As Supervising Producer of Selena Gomez: My Mind And Me, I interviewed 70 people throughout urban & rural Kenya and across America about their mental health challenges.
I’ve worked with sensitive subject matter throughout my career, profiling humans with lived experience: trauma survivors, grieving families + communities, and people navigating their mental disorders.
But when I was sitting in a mud hut in a remote African village talking about struggle and suicide with strangers – using a Swahili translator – I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be.
I love talking to you about your trauma, your turning points, finding out the way your pain manifests, and how that pain has shaped your life – because the lightness you feel after sharing your private pain is palpable.
Providing a warm safe space for humans to open up about topics and feelings we’re rarely asked about – and helping shape & share stories of hope – is my passion and my purpose.
Our Vision
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MY EXPERTISE
Our Vision
As a mental health storytelling INTERVIEWER:
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I create a warm, safe space for humans of all ages + backgrounds to open up, describe your experiences, and explore the pain, heart, grit, and humor in each scenario
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I help you talk about your personal lows - your traumas, your triggers, your turning points - and how they've shaped your life
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I draw out relatable stories, details, and feelings that resonate deeply with readers, listeners, and viewers
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I create a warm, safe space for humans of all ages + backgrounds to open up, describe your experiences, and explore the pain, heart, grit, and humor in each scenario
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I help you talk about your personal lows - your traumas, your triggers, your turning points - and how they've shaped your life
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I draw out relatable stories, details, and feelings that resonate deeply with readers, listeners, and viewers
Our Vision
I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.
As a mental health storytelling INTERVIEWER: