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In this Career Reinvention episode, I’m sitting down with Lynn Hyllden, who made a powerful pivot inside the entertainment industry—from 15 years on set in television production (the “factory”) to production finance and corporate decision-making.
We talk about the moment she realized she couldn’t keep chasing the producer path, even though it looked like the obvious next step, and the identity discomfort of not being able to say “I am a producer.”
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Lynn shares how getting clear on what she’s genuinely good at opened the right door—literally, when she turned down a VP of production role and discovered the company was desperate for a production finance hire.
We also get into imposter syndrome as a non-traditional candidate, the sunk cost fallacy, what her week actually looks like (cash flow, payroll, cost reports, tax credits, compliance), and why controlling your narrative—and saying what you want out loud—matters so much.
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Lynn Hilden spent 15 years chasing the traditional path in TV production — until she was finally offered the promotion she’d wanted for over a decade, and realized she had to turn it down. In this episode, we talk about the pivot she made instead, the year of imposter syndrome that followed, and why the sunk cost fallacy keeps so many talented people stuck longer than they need to be.
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