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d'Arquoia"Quoia" Connor and Artisha "Tish" Mann-Cooper are your two best friend, accountability buddies and wealth partners providing advice, expert interviews and actionable tips to help artist and entrepreneurs. As actresses, producers and entrepreneurs with 10+ years of experience they are redefining how you visualize your skills and experience by encouraging and motivating you to create your own opportunities. Their guest are actors, creatives, writers, directors, producers, financiers and entrepreneurs who have billionaire dollar franchises, award winning films and tv shows, managed fortune five hundred companies, and provide tangible advice on how to LEVEL UP, SECURE THE BAG and ACHIEV…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid creative conversations make the choices, setbacks and ethical pressures behind acting, writing and filmmaking easier to see.
Quoia and Tish make creative work sound like a lived negotiation between ambition, rejection and the next opportunity. Their interviews bring actors, writers, directors and film casts into relaxed conversation, with questions that move easily from performance choices to the…
A last-minute self-tape meets nearly 60 project passes, with Koya and Tish rooting for your next try.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm, chatty interview that plays like a real hangout with theater kids who mean it.
Too Legit to QT settles into a loose, affectionate hangout with actress Nicole Berger, opening on praise, pregnancy congratulations, and a long stretch of mutual admiration before it moves into her acting roots and the pull of musical theater.
A warm, candid hang about motherhood, rejection, and keeping a creative life moving.
Kristen Fickman brings a candid, conversational energy that starts with family joy, shifts into the realities of raising a young child, and then settles into the tougher parts of creative life, rejection, and trying again.
A playful hidden-talent opener turns into a warm, easygoing story about rushed self-tapes and being seen first as a dancer.
Ade Chike Torbert's visit opens with a hidden-talent game and a beatboxing reveal before settling into a story about wanting to be seen for the right reasons.
A warm, urgent conversation about film craft, promotion, and the ethics of timing.
Darquia Koya-Connor sits with Lani Zipoy and Chisa Hutchinson for a conversation that stays close to the film, its writing, its release path, and the challenge of discussing Black pain without turning it into spectacle.
Faith, grit, and the next hard move.
Film-set upbringings, listener stories, and the hunt for normal.
Long-form Apple talk with sharp product judgment and deep tech history.
Weekly film, music, and arts criticism from Monocle 24's Midori House studio in London.
Two product designers talk Figma workflows, button sizing, and AI design tools weekly.
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert dissect CSS, CMS workflows, and AI coding agents weekly.
Nicole Berger gets welcomed like a favorite younger sister.
Kristen Fickman gets her flowers fast.
Koya interviews Brett Wagner, Virginia, and Jason about The Big Bend, a film shaped by a surreal family vacation in the desert and the pressures of middle-aged family life.
Ade Chike Torbert gets the room right away.
The room warms up fast.
Host Quoia interviews two members of the Indian Film Festival of LA about their work supporting Indian filmmakers.
Host Quoia interviews the co-director and executive producer of the independent film 'Lupe', discussing its creation and themes.
The hosts interview the cast and crew of the film 'Stealing Chapman' about their roles and the true story behind the movie.
Hosts interview filmmaker Jordan Roberts about his film '321 Frankie Go Boom' and his career journey.
Hosts Quoia and Tish interview D'Artagnan Conner, a serial entrepreneur and chef, about creating opportunities and leveling up in business.