When you see Stephanie Koenig on the screen, you may do a double take. You might have seen her before on the TV series The Flight Attendant or The Offer. But with her role in the upcoming Apple+ series Lessons in Chemistry (debuting October 13), I think you’ll soon recognize her name as well. Indeed, Stephanie is a star on-the-rise and she’s defeating the odds of being a working actress in Hollywood (you all know how much I love defying the odds stories). But the real thing that made me ask her to be on the SheSez podcast: she is a Michigan native (both parents work in the automotive industry) who is earthy, self-deprecating and funny. And she doesn’t have a self-important bone in her body. She’s a girl’s girl who I think you’ll enjoy getting to know—before everyone else does. (Photograph by Michael Becker)