Shaina Feinberg falls into a category of SheSez guests that I’m just gonna call: You had me at hello. The hello happened a couple of months ago while I was reading the New York Times which featured a seven-and-a-half-minute movie—a “short” as they say in the biz.
In the movie Shaina told her story, recounting her struggles at being a forty-something mom of two kids and a filmmaker. She felt she was failing at both and wondered if she gave one up, would she be more successful at the other?
But, when it came to her career, she had a monkey on her shoulder: Shaina’s mother had given up her career aspirations to be a full-time mom and she’d always expressed regret about it.
Then—while working on a freelance job—Shaina met Joan Darling, a 90-year-old, retired TV director. Joan was an Emmy-winning pioneer with successes like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, MASH and Magnum PI to her credit.
