Through a new original series, LinkedIn is looking to show how perseverance leads to success. The professional platform has premiered Catalyst, in which business leaders recall the obstacles they had to overcome in order to achieve their career goals.
The first batch of Catalyst episodes will tell the stories of five creators, all of whom are active on LinkedIn. Together, they have encountered a wide variety of hurdles. Some Catalyst subjects, like Soapbox co-founder David Simnick, had to figure out how to turn around failing businesses. Others dealt with personal issues. Fact-checking exec Ken Oliver went to prison before becoming the VP of Checkr.org.
“I had no idea of what life in prison really meant,” Oliver says in the Catalyst trailer. “I knew that I wasn’t going to let the circumstance of what was happening to me define me.”
The first episode of Catalyst focuses on Dr. Sian Proctor,...
The first batch of Catalyst episodes will tell the stories of five creators, all of whom are active on LinkedIn. Together, they have encountered a wide variety of hurdles. Some Catalyst subjects, like Soapbox co-founder David Simnick, had to figure out how to turn around failing businesses. Others dealt with personal issues. Fact-checking exec Ken Oliver went to prison before becoming the VP of Checkr.org.
“I had no idea of what life in prison really meant,” Oliver says in the Catalyst trailer. “I knew that I wasn’t going to let the circumstance of what was happening to me define me.”
The first episode of Catalyst focuses on Dr. Sian Proctor,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Earlier this month, SpaceX was preparing to launch the first all-civilian mission into orbit. Titled “Inspiration4,” the effort stemmed from Shift4 CEO and billionaire Jason Isaacman purchasing four seats in the private space company’s Dragon capsule as a fundraising effort to support child cancer treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He doled out the additional spots to a trio of fellow amateurs, who would join him in orbiting the Earth for three days as they hurtled through the dark void of space at a higher altitude than any astronaut had traveled in over 20 years.
All along, filmmaker Jason Hehir had been documenting the journey for the Netflix limited series “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space,” with new episodes airing once a week in the buildup to the launch. Hehir had gotten to know the future astronaut subjects so well that even he had trouble considering the scariest question of...
All along, filmmaker Jason Hehir had been documenting the journey for the Netflix limited series “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space,” with new episodes airing once a week in the buildup to the launch. Hehir had gotten to know the future astronaut subjects so well that even he had trouble considering the scariest question of...
- 9/30/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
While Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have recently fueled stories about billionaires going on joyrides to space, the next example is a very different endeavor. On Wednesday, Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Isaacman is scheduled to blast off on the SpaceX Dragon mission capsule for the Inspiration4 mission, which will orbit the Earth for three days. The event will mark the first-ever all-civilian mission. Isaacman has donated the remaining Dragon capsule seats to three other first-timers: Child cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux, community college professor and former NASA astronaut finalist Sian Proctor, and data specialist Christopher Sembroski.
While Branson and Bezos traveled into microgravity for a few minutes, the Inspiration4 crew will actually orbit the earth at a distance of 575 kilometers — higher than the International Space Station — for three full days, and cameras will be there to capture the whole ride.
The current Netflix series “Inspiration 4 Mission to Space” has...
While Branson and Bezos traveled into microgravity for a few minutes, the Inspiration4 crew will actually orbit the earth at a distance of 575 kilometers — higher than the International Space Station — for three full days, and cameras will be there to capture the whole ride.
The current Netflix series “Inspiration 4 Mission to Space” has...
- 9/14/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The team behind the blockbuster Michael Jordan docuseries “The Last Dance” are now taking their jam to space. Netflix has picked up “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission To Space,” from producer Connor Schell and director Jason Hehir, which will chronicle this September’s SpaceX Dragon mission Inspiration4, in which four civilians will travel into space on a three-day trip.
Unlike the recent suborbital flights led by billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, Inspiration4 will reach an altitude higher than that of the International Space Station and make history as the first all-civilian mission to orbit. “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space” will have exclusive access to the mission, and will be produced and uploaded to Netflix in five parts leading up to and following the mission. It’s the first Netflix documentary series to cover an event in near real-time.
Schell (through his Words & Pictures shingle), Hehir and their “The Last Dance” team...
Unlike the recent suborbital flights led by billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, Inspiration4 will reach an altitude higher than that of the International Space Station and make history as the first all-civilian mission to orbit. “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space” will have exclusive access to the mission, and will be produced and uploaded to Netflix in five parts leading up to and following the mission. It’s the first Netflix documentary series to cover an event in near real-time.
Schell (through his Words & Pictures shingle), Hehir and their “The Last Dance” team...
- 8/3/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has greenlighted Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space, a near real-time docuseries following the September launch and mission of the first all-civilian flight crew aboard the SpaceX capsule. The docuseries hails from Time Studios, The Last Dance director Jason Hehir, Known and Connor Schell and Chernin Entertainment’s Words & Pictures. Additionally, Netflix will premiere StoryBots Space Adventure, a hybrid live-action animation special for kids and families to watch together before the mission.
The privately chartered space flight funded, led and commanded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, is also intended to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Isaacman, the 38-year-old founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, will be joined by Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude and pediatric cancer survivor; Christopher Sembroski, a former member of the U.S. Air Force who served in Iraq and now works as a Lockheed Martin engineer, and Sian Proctor,...
The privately chartered space flight funded, led and commanded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, is also intended to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Isaacman, the 38-year-old founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, will be joined by Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude and pediatric cancer survivor; Christopher Sembroski, a former member of the U.S. Air Force who served in Iraq and now works as a Lockheed Martin engineer, and Sian Proctor,...
- 8/3/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has ordered a docuseries that will follow the Inspiration4 all-civilian mission to space this September in “near real-time” before and after the mission launch, the streaming service said Tuesday.
“This September, four civilians will launch into space for a three-day trip orbiting Earth and reaching an altitude higher than that of the International Space Station (Iss),” per Netflix’s description for the project. “The SpaceX Dragon mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is the most ambitious step to date in the rapidly-developing age of civilian space exploration, making history as the first all-civilian mission to orbit.”
“Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission To Space,” which hails from “The Last Dance” director Jason Hehir, “will take viewers behind the scenes with the four crew members — from their unconventional selection and intensive months-long commercial astronaut training, through the intimate and emotional moments leading up to liftoff. The final episode, which premieres just days after the mission is completed,...
“This September, four civilians will launch into space for a three-day trip orbiting Earth and reaching an altitude higher than that of the International Space Station (Iss),” per Netflix’s description for the project. “The SpaceX Dragon mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is the most ambitious step to date in the rapidly-developing age of civilian space exploration, making history as the first all-civilian mission to orbit.”
“Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission To Space,” which hails from “The Last Dance” director Jason Hehir, “will take viewers behind the scenes with the four crew members — from their unconventional selection and intensive months-long commercial astronaut training, through the intimate and emotional moments leading up to liftoff. The final episode, which premieres just days after the mission is completed,...
- 8/3/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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