Ep17 SHAWN LEVY | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | New York Times Best Selling Author Shares His Newest Book: CLINT - The Man & the Movies, & More Hollywood Stories

Ep12 DANNY FEHSENFELD | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | Oscar, Emmy & Golden Globe Winning Actor Danny Fehsenfeld keeps Creating

Oscar and Emmy Award winning, and 2x SOVA nominated actor Danny Fehsenfeld has several noteworthy industry insights to share with our Upgraders.  From the streets of Rome to the rainbows of Kauai, join us in the studio as we deep dive into the creative world of acting, singing and creating characters in Hollywood for Netflix, HBO and more. From his recent experience performing on Hacks, to voicing for the #1 ranked animated film on Netflix, Danny shares some of his amazing moments of discovery and good energy.  His unconventional upbringing on the road to discovering Hollywood gave him a wealth of creative inspiration to pull from while he's creating characters, and he's not slowing down now.  Find out his dream role, a couple of the actors he has learned techniques from, and some of his upcoming films and shows, then we share some deep thoughts and philosophy on life.  Thank you, Danny!  A worthwhile and thought provoking listen.

Ep19 DJ MANO | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | Mixing House Music, Working Events & The Camera

Your favorite House party DJ is in the Upgraded House today! My buddy DJ Mano joins us to share some absolutely iconic stories on Def Poetry Jam, The Fringe Festival, MTV days!!!, big movie sets, House Party Dj sets, music favorites, and travel inspirations.  And, guess who’s serving as your favorite new sizzling voiceover announcer? Listen in here for my performance as part of his hot vibing drop. Let’s goooooo! Tune in to DJ Mano’s shows and channels for a lot more: Socials: @DJMANO_COM Facebook: Mano Bennett His mixes are on: Podomatic.com/djmano and Mixcloud: DJMANONYC And here’s a more on me, your host: www.deirdrelorenz.com Acting Representation: UGA Talent/Charlie Wright Management: charlie@wrighttalent.com ELITE Model Management: https://www.elitemodels.com/new-york/classic/8482-deirdre-lorenz Acting Demo Reel: https://youtu.be/Gcnwidae6wA?si=yjCv4Plbc3-x7nEm imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1255825/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deirdrelorenz  facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deirdre.lorenz.the.original youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVRz_8UjTkHzf3jERZq6Tg tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deirdrelorenz upgraded with deirdre -- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upgradedwithdeirdre/?hl=en linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/deirdrelorenz

Ep18 CAROLINA VENGOECHEA | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | USA Dragon Boat Athlete & New Biz

Join me in the studio as I hang out with a longtime friend of mine who is making her own dreams come true! Carolina Vengoechea is a Miami-based entrepreneur, award-winning fashion designer, master colorist, and Team USA dragon boat athlete. After two decades in the beauty industry, she combined her love for innovation, design, and technology to build solutions that empower both beauty professionals and consumers. She bootstrapped her own startup doing hair from her Beaubar van, a mobile salon solution that started during covid and sparked the creation of the Beaubar app, a beauty marketplace where users earn rewards and Haircolor Drop, an AI based next-generation at-home hair-color kit crafted by professional colorists and delivered ready to apply. Her mission is to push the beauty industry forward by blending technology, artistry, and real-world experience while inspiring women to pursue their fullest potential through creativity, self-growth, and discipline. You'll love this feel good energy! Links for Carolina: Beaubar: https://www.beaubar.com Beaubar Us: https://www.beaubar.app Haircolor Drop: https://www.haircolordrop.com Links for your host, Deirdre:  Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1255825/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deirdrelorenz  Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deirdrelorenz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deirdre.lorenz.the.original Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/deirdrelorenz

Ep17 SHAWN LEVY | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | New York Times Best Selling Author Shares His Newest Book: CLINT - The Man & the Movies, & More Hollywood Stories

If you love Hollywood legends, this is for you! What a deep dive that this tremendously insightful and, at times, wildly surprising conversation turned out to be. Multiple New York Times Best Selling author and former film critic for The Oregonian and KGW (the NBC affiliate in Portland) Shawn Levy joins me to discuss his newest masterpiece, an extensive book titled CLINT, The Man and the Movies.  This conversation covers many notable points on Academy Award winning actor and director Clint Eastwood, and many of the revelations that surprised both of us from his life and career. The conversation moves to another of Shawn's books that I feverishly read and soaked up, The Castle on Sunset, which is an astounding biography on the hidden, yet famous (and some would say, infamous), Hollywood gem, The Chateau Marmont. We then discuss Shawn's storytelling podcast Glitter & Might, The Lou Wasserman Story.  This man is one of the reasons Hollywood is Hollywood, but nobody knows his name! Oh, and I'm not sorry to say that we have a total Oregon love fest at the end. Yes, we both have Oregon family pioneer stories. We laughed, we cried and so much more.  This episode is an adventure movie in itself!

Ep16 DAVID LEE | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | Movie Set Still Photographer David Lee Shares How the Camera is His Storytelling Paintbrush

We are back in the virtual Upgraded Podcast studio with my friend, the talented and renowned still photographer and visual storyteller David Charles Lee. We share our fun memories meeting on a couple of his brother, filmmaker Spike Lee’s, sets. Then, we discuss David’s travel dreams, current projects, his more than 100 film and show credits (and missing his credits on projects including The Wire!!), and the challenges of organizing a vast and growing collection of photo archives. David shares about his family, the value and love of creativity in his family, and how he loves storytelling from all angles. We packed in too many gems to count in this reunion conversation. This is a must listen. Thank you, David!