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Podcast: Julie Gammack's Iowa Potluck
Episode: Persistence Paid Off for filmmaker Becky Smith
Description: Join me, founder of the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat, as we welcome Emmy‑nominated filmmaker and UCLA professor Becky Smith for an engaging conversation about what it means to find and nurture your creative voice. Becky begins by recalling her improbable journey from a town of just 350 year‑round residents in Okoboji to earning a scholarship at Stanford after her college professor made a single phone call. She reflects on the impact of reading a jazz memoir in her father’s home library, which opened her eyes to issues of race and broadened her worldview long before she left Iowa.