Ep19: You’re Never a Master of Your Craft: Putting in the Work & the Hours featuring Marissa Cooper

<p>Welcome to another episode of "She's in Focus", a podcast dedicated to inspiring and empowering #femalefilmmakers​​​​​ and #femalevideographers from all walks of life and on every step of their creative journey. </p><p>In this episode Kel sits down with Marissa Cooper - a filmmaker based in Denver, Colorado who has created social content and told stories of corporate missions in education, medicine and landscape architecture - along with producing a bilingual training program, documenting a medical mission trip, and filming weddings and elopements. Marissa is someone Kel tracked down on social media to get her on the show because she was blown away by her filmmaking skills and the work she has in her portfolio.  </p><p>In this episode they discuss:<br>- Marissa's background in marketing and how that has helped her video production career<br>- Marissa meeting her filmmaking mentor and sparking her interest in trying videography<br>- Switching corporate roles: From marketing to broadcast television to corporate video producer and video marketer<br>- Marissa's role with Designscapes Colorado and projects she's worked on<br>- Starting her own freelance videography business and exploring documentary filmmaking in Beliz<br>- Marissa venturing into wedding filmmaking to help her master her run and gun shooting skills<br>- Pricing her work and advertising her prices on her website<br>- "You're never a master of your craft until the day that you die" - a quote that drives her work<br>- How the pandemic affected Marissa's job and creativity<br>- Evolution of Marissa's videography business<br>- The biggest challenge Marissa is facing in her business: Balancing her full-time job, client projects and personal life<br>- What Marissa's day to day looks like<br>- implementing daily routines: yoga<br>- Fighting against the culture of "busy"  <br>- Navigating male-dominated and bilingual spaces as a monolingual woman<br>- Marissa's project experiences:<br>    - 60 videos for a bilingual training program (pre-planning,