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Marisa Corcoran

Sep 13, 2026

5:13
Help our listeners understand who you are, how you got to be what you're doing, and what you're doing today.
5:18
So I was an actor and I got my MFA in acting from the American Repertory Theater at Harvard.
5:23
And when I went back to New York, I had an agent.
5:26
Now I had a manager and I was like, all right, you know, this, it's going to happen for me.
5:29
And I had a bunch of side jobs, right? As anybody who is an actor, I was a nanny.
5:33
I worked at a chiropractor's office.
5:35
Like I was running around the city.

18 MINS LATER

23:58
I'm calling Ghostbusters.
1:24
Maybe just give them, like, the, the 60 second of what a summit is.
1:28
Yeah.
1:28
So a summit is a free online multi-day event.
1:32
The way that we do ours is it's over five days.
1:35
You pre-record all the interviews, but then they go live during a given week, and people can, you know, sign up with their email and listen in on the interviews.
1:44
And they're usually around a specific topic, like mine is around copy.
1:47
It's called The Copy Chat.
2:11
And so you can grow your own email list even further.
5:21
Help our listeners understand who you are, how you got to be what you're doing, and what you're doing today.
5:25
So I was an actor and I got my MFA in acting from the American Repertory Theater at Harvard.
5:31
And when I went back to New York, I had an agent.
5:33
Now I had a manager and I was like, all right, you know, this, it's going to happen for me.
5:37
And I had a bunch of side jobs, right? As anybody who is an actor, I was a nanny.
5:41
I worked at a chiropractor's office.
5:42
Like I was running around the city.

18 MINS LATER

24:05
I'm calling Ghostbusters.
1:45
Dive right into what the heck is a word closet, my friend.
1:48
Awesome.
1:48
Well, first off, thank you so much for having me.
1:50
I really appreciate it.
1:53
This is fun.
1:53
Yeah, so your word closet.
1:55
So just if you were going to do a photo shoot, If you were going to go do a photo shoot, it's likely that the photographer or whoever you're working with would say, okay, Mariana, we need to go and look.

30 MINS LATER

31:44
So that last question for you, what are you seeing that's different this year than previous years in the almonds?

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