Joan Burney Keatings on Outrageous Serendipity, Leading With Your Gut & The Purpose Driven Life

 

Joan Burney Keatings is the Chief Executive of Cinemagic: an award-winning charity that provides young people around the world with opportunities to break into the film-industry.

In today’s episode we talk about:

  • How her parent’s entrepreneurial flair is being passed onto her kids

  • Producing films in the Middle-East

  • Bringing the muppets to Northern Ireland

  • The outrageous events that led to her meeting Liam Neeson

  • Times she listened to her gut rather than her head

  • Working with major film studios in places like LA

  • The number one trait she sees in people who succeed in the industry

  • And advice to her younger self.

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