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Creative failure, warmly put to work.
Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry is a chatty creative-life show built around the usefulness of falling short. Recent episodes move from actor interviews and rapid-fire Hot Seat questions to Los Angeles diary updates and South by Southwest conversations about film, AI, ambition, and staying curious.
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Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry is built around a simple creative premise: failure can teach, redirect, and expose the blind spots that ambition often tries to skip. The show applies that idea to actors, writers, producers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, and people working close to the entertainment world. It is not a tidy career seminar. It is warmer and more lived-in than that. Recent episodes move between sit-down interviews, shorter Hot Seat chats, Los Angeles diary entries, and event coverage from Australia House at South by Southwest. The actor conversations are especially clear about process. Damien Strouthos talks through audition pressure, first contact with a script, and the danger of locking in a performance too early when a turnaround is tight. Jillian Shea Spaeder’s episodes bring together acting, songwriting, producing, writing, and the experience of making Saving Buddy Charles. Those conversations stay practical, but they also make room for nerves, identity, and the strange confidence needed to sell one’s own talent. The diary episodes loosen the format. They capture Los Angeles heat, recording studios in North Hollywood, movie nights at the Grove, birthday presents from Tarantino-owned cinemas, upcoming interviews, meditation, therapy, and the cost of hiring filmed podcast space. That casual texture matters. It makes the show feel like creative work is being discussed from inside an actual week, with all the errands, weather, fatigue, and small wins still attached. The South by Southwest episodes expand the lens to Australian creatives, AI, data centers, coffee culture, pilots, crowdfunding, and the make-it-anyway spirit around screen projects. Guests talk about curiosity, hustle, and moving quickly when the ground keeps shifting. Across formats, the show keeps coming back to vulnerability as a working tool, not a branding exercise. It suits people who want candid entertainment-industry stories with heart, momentum, and useful detail. It also suits anyone who likes the emotional side of ambition taken seriously without being treated too preciously.
Made for: For actors, writers, producers, performers, podcasters, and creative strivers who want candid career talk with emotional texture. It also fits fans of personal diary episodes that mix travel, wellness, movies, food, and behind-the-scenes logistics.
What sets it apart: The show blends failure-focused interviews with loose, highly specific diary episodes, so career advice sits beside real-life creative logistics. Its edge is the mix of vulnerability, practical craft talk, and casual Australian warmth.
This is a podcast about failure with author, nutritionist and yoga teacher, Lola Berry.Here we will get to know these guests and learn how their failures have ultimately helped shape their dreams.Follow Lola Berry on Instagram: @yummololaberrywww.lolaberry.comwww.lolacoffee.co
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes creative careers legible as a business of auditions, rejection, self-generated work, crowdfunding and persistence.
Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry turns career setbacks into candid working conversations about how creative people keep moving. Berry draws practical detail from actors and makers: responding instinctively to an audition script, building a body of work through writing and…
An audition inbox meets SXSW hustle when your creative plans need Lola Berry's company.
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A practical acting conversation about first reads, fast auditions, and leaving space to play.
Damien Struethos' conversation with Lola Berry stays close to acting craft, from the first read of a script to fast audition turnarounds and the danger of locking into a performance too soon.
A brisk festival pass through creative hustle, crowdfunding, and the people trying to get projects made.
Fearlessly Failing uses its South by Southwest Australia House stop to show how creative projects get made, funded, and premiered. Lola Berry moves through writers, directors, producers, showrunners, and actors, starting with Dario on The Fox and its cast including Olivia…
A brisk South by Southwest conversation where data-center sustainability meets AI's unsettling pace.
At Australia House during South by Southwest, Lola Berry's conversation with Dennis Skrinnikoff of Iron keeps its focus on a compact set of technology questions: what Iron is doing in data centers, why sustainability matters there, how quickly AI is changing assumptions, and why…
A long Hollywood workday becomes a grounded lesson in background acting as apprenticeship.
Los Angeles works as more than scenery here, giving the diary a practical spine as a 6am call time in Agora Hills becomes a 15-hour background-acting day on an Apple TV production using a fake filming name.
A candid, practical snapshot of the nerves and quick thinking behind podcasting at South by Southwest.
South by Southwest plays here as a brisk case study in making media on the fly. Lola Berry and her fiance Matthew revisit a hectic festival stretch as she talks through how panels, sponsors, and early arrivals turned into podcast openings.
A candid conversation about creative momentum, rejection, waiting, and building a career across more than one lane.
Sanaa Shaikh's conversation with Lola Berry frames a creative career as a set of commitments kept in motion, not a single fixed lane. Shaikh moves from acting work linked to Dive Club and Class of 07 into the writing and directing ambitions that were already part of her plan.
Lola Berry delivers a personal diary episode from Los Angeles, sharing recent activities like movie outings, podcast recordings, and yoga teacher training preparations.
This episode features an interview with Alice Dodge from The Comm Suite, focusing on PR, communication strategies, and crisis management for businesses and brands.
Host Lola Berry interviews actor Sana'a Shaik about navigating the creative industry.
Lola brings on actor Damien Strouthos during her last Sydney-holiday recording.
The host shares a personal diary entry from Los Angeles, recounting warm weather, a rattlesnake sighting, and a themed birthday party for a friend that included a gift from Quentin Tarantino's theater.
This episode features a rapid-fire interview with actor Jillian Shea Spaeder, covering topics like her favorite coffee order, matcha drinks, and her love for Sydney.
Host Lola Berry interviews 23-year-old multi-talented Jillian Shea Spaeder about her journey as an actor, writer, producer, and singer-songwriter, focusing on her first feature film 'Saving Buddy Charles' and embracing failure.
The host shares a personal diary update from Los Angeles, discussing recent activities including finding a recording studio, interviewing an actor and journalist, and seeing a new movie.
Australia House is buzzing.
Lola Berry drops listeners into Australia House at South by Southwest in Austin.
Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry's "LA Diary" centers on a 15-hour background-acting day on an Apple TV production in Agoura Hills, where 500 extras worked through a rolling lunch and crew slang like "martini" for the final shot.
Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry: SXSW with Lola & Matt follows Lola Berry and Matt Sofo through South by Southwest in Austin, from Four Pillars gin at Australia House to the Paramount Plus Lodge and the Lumineers at Moody Amphitheatre.
Host Lola Berry interviews actor Sanaa Shaikh about embracing failure, navigating creative careers, and balancing multiple pursuits like acting, writing, and producing.
This Valentine's Day special episode features hosts Lola Berry and Matt discussing their personal approach to the holiday, including small gifts and reflections on love, as part of a podcast about embracing failure.
This episode features an interview with Alice Dodge from The Comm Suite, focusing on PR, communication strategies, and crisis management for businesses and brands.
Lola Berry and her boyfriend Matt Sofo discuss their stay in Byron Bay while introducing a podcast episode focused on celebrating failure through New Year's questions.