Ep 12 - Emma Metcalf talks TV producing, coming up in the creative industry and the importance of work/life balance
Emma Metcalf is first and foremost a wonderful human being. For work, she’s a Senior Producer, Director and Film-Maker with global experience spanning multiple platforms including live broadcast, documentary, branded content and traditional television.
She’s worked all over the shop with major brands like Discovery, MTV, Endemol Shine Australia and Red Bull, to help orchestrate everything from live-broadcasts of surf competitions and music festivals to shoots in the most remote parts of Oz involving herding hundreds of wild camel!
I’m lucky to have come to know Emma through working with her everyday - she joined Verizon Media in 2018 as a senior producer and general bosslady - responsible for the output of the company’s new in-house studio (her baby). Every week, she ensures Verizon’s Build Series Sydney and Yahoo Finance’s New Investors shows are chokka block with fantastic and interesting guests, as well as producing plenty of other exciting formats and projects.
We had a great lunch break chat and covered heaps in this episode. Emma shares how her upbringing on a cattle farm in Australia’s North-East Victoria influenced her work ethos, some career highlights on her journey to date and many pearls of wisdom from her wealth of knowledge and experience gained from well over a decade working as a creative in the media industry. We also talk about the importance of maintaining some form of work/life balance, mental health in the creative industry, mentors and the power of role models in helping encourage the next generation of female power-houses (like herself) in a traditionally male dominated industry.
You can keep up with Emma’s incredible work at Verizon with @buildseriessyd and elsewhere at her instagram @bondiproducerchick (although the name may be changing soon as she’s moved down the coast!)
Make sure you share with a friend and reach out via reviews if any of Em’s wise words particularly resonated with you and as always,