“Being Yourself Is Marketable! Quit Pretending To Be Someone You Aren’t” With Nicole Russin-McFarland

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
Published in
28 min readAug 16, 2018

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Beyond looking a certain way and being told by publicists all my life I sought tips from and just about everyone to hide who I really am, I was often told because I happened to be born female, I have to make chick flicks. As someone who loathes the majority of chick flicks or clichéd women’s humor, I felt all alone. People told me to be Reese Witherspoon. Make chick flicks. Produce them. Star in them. No, I want to be Peter Jackson with some of my own trilogy adaptation ideas I’ve had since childhood.

I had the pleasure to interview Nicole Russin-McFarland. Nicole is a film director, film score composer, and singer. Nicole’s animated short, Pizza Delivery, premiered last month on Amazon Prime. Her next short for Amazon Prime coming up is O Girl of a Dream, a new spin on Beauty and the Beast. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator