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Relocating for Work with Mikayla Baiocchi

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A producer overheard that Mikayla was from Rhode Island and offered her a job back home within two weeks.

Camille Wilson sits down with Michaela Biocchi for a conversation about relocating for work. They talk through what it means to leave Los Angeles for a role in Rhode Island, and how that kind of move can feel like both a career step and a life reset. Michaela is based in New York City now. She walks through graduating from the University of Maryland in 2017 with a degree in multi-platform journalism, aiming toward a creative career in film and television, and then working through the long road from school into real industry work. The path starts in post-production. From there, she describes moving back to New England to take a producer's assistant opportunity, which brought her closer to family and also closer to a different version of her career. That choice opens up the rest of the episode. She shares how she worked as an assistant locations manager on The Gilded Age and Hocus Pocus 2, which gives the talk some real industry grounding. Family comes up a lot. Michaela explains that for a while her mom was in Hawaii, her sister was in New Hampshire, and her dad was in Rhode Island, so the idea of being close to everyone was already complicated. When the Rhode Island job arrives, it feels like a chance to stitch some of that back together. She moves in with her dad and starts the new chapter from a small apartment instead of pretending the transition is glamorous. Camille keeps coming back to the day-to-day. She asks what living and working there actually looked like, not just what it sounded like on paper. Michaela answers in a practical way. She says you do not manifest something by staying home and waiting for it to show up. You have to work, take the opportunity, and trust that the people you meet along the way may matter later. That idea sits at the center of the conversation. It is also where the episode lands its clearest point: you can love a city and still build your career somewhere else. The whole thing stays warm, a little sprawling, and honest about how messy a real move can be.

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A grounded look at relocating for work while keeping a creative career moving.

Michaela Biocchi and Camille Wilson talk through the move from Los Angeles to Rhode Island in a way that feels practical before it feels inspirational.

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You want the real logistics of leaving LA for a job that still keeps you moving.

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