Episode 052: Truth, Justice, and Love with Fanshen Cox

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I didn't want to tell someone else's story. I wanted to speak my own,” shares Fanshen Cox, President of Trujulo Productions. Through her company and her podcast Sista Brunch, Fanshen uplifts underrepresented and marginalized voices, giving people a platform to tell their authentic stories in addition to telling her own. She joins Mike Horne in conversation to discuss the importance of authentic storytelling, the difficulties marginalized storytellers face in Hollywood, and the real meanings of truth, justice, and love. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hollywood has a long history of producing the stories of people with privilege rather than providing resources to marginalized storytellers. This leads to less authentic stories being made where the person telling the story does not actually have the lived experience behind it. Fanshen created her own production company and her own one woman show so that she could tell her own story the way she wanted to tell it. She gave herself the agency that Hollywood would not give her. In order to show stories that are inclusive, diverse, and accurate to the experiences of marginalized communities, it is pivotal to approach those stories from a place of truth. Love is an act of speaking the truth and actively pursuing justice. If you make your stories with love, they are sure to be authentic. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune into this week’s episode of the Authentic Change Podcast to learn more about what authentic storytelling means, why it matters, and how you can get started telling your own stories. </span></p> <p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When I got here, I really realized how limited Hollywood was around not just its depictions of different kinds of people, but also internally, it was limited in terms of who was telling the stories. So I learned how to write, I learned how to produce. And the more I got pushed back from Hollywood around how you fi