Friends,
When we started building the Positive Media Association, we kept hearing the same thing from members: you don’t need another group to “gather” in, you’re overloaded with too much to do and not enough resources to get it done. You need the hard-won lessons that usually take a whole career to earn and can provide short cuts, prevent shortfalls, and give solutions for problems you didn’t even know you had yet. On Air is that answer. Every guest is an expert and has to clear one bar: send you back to your work with something you can actually use on Monday. 🌍🤝
We’re proud of who’s first in the chair.💛Details are below. Pull up a seat.
With love and radical hope,
Roger Briggs & Amanda Sanders
Positive Media Association 💜➕🎥🎙️🎮📱📰📺🎸💜
On Air (Wednesday)
On Air. The mic is open, starting this week! Live conversations with the makers, thinkers, and builders shaping positive media. Every On Air session is built to be useful, not just interesting. Expect an honest conversation with an expert guest who knows their craft, room for your questions, and a few ideas you can carry straight into your own work on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month.
Our first featured expert is Danette Wolpert Holman, the media entrepreneur behind ILLUMINATE Film Festival. She grew it into the world's premier conscious film festival and expanded its streaming reach to 99 countries. She also created the Conscious Film Convergence to bring conscious film creators, distributors and funders together every year.
Edie Lush and Mike Oreskes host. Edie is an award-winning journalist and event MC whose stages run from Davos to the UN Climate Summits. Mike is a career journalist and author who held senior roles at The New York Times, the Associated Press and NPR. Learn how Danette is leveraging 90 second moments to transform the world. Come with questions.
Episode 01 · Wed, Oct 14th · 8am PT · 11am ET · 3pm GMT · Livestreamed
On Air is a member benefit of the Positive Media Association.
Not a member yet? Membership is the door, not the gate:
And stay for Off Mic as soon as On Air is over. It's open to everyone, so bring a friend.
Know an expert who should be On Air? Reply to this email and tell us who and how to contact them.
Off Mic (Wednesday)
Off Mic is the aftershow to On Air, the Positive Media Association's new livestreaming series. The On Air expert segment is for members. Off Mic is for everyone. Our first guest expert is Danette Wolpert Holman, Founder and President of ILLUMINATE Film Festival, who took conscious cinema to audiences in 99 countries.
Hosts Edie Lush and Mike Oreskes bring the lightning rounds: the favorite tool nobody in the room has heard of, the last book that changed something, the first paid job, a hill she'll die on. Pull up a tea or coffee and join us.
Positive Media Community Update (Tuesday)
Tuesday Oct 13th
9 AM PDT / Noon EDT / 4 PM UTC
time moves with daylight savings for Pacific time zone
Zoom link https://dub.sh/communityupdate
Join us for our next Positive Media Community Update on Tuesday, October 13 at 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern / 5 pm UK. It's a 60-minute gathering held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month — same time, every time, so it's easy to make it part of your rhythm. Get a front row seat to everything that’s happening in the Positive Media Lab, Positive Media Association, and overall positive media community.
Spotlight on new member orgs
We launched the Positive Media Association just less than a month ago. In the dichotomy of time it seems like yesterday and it seems like its been months and months. This moment is to spotlight our newest member organizations that joined the Positive Media Association. Welcome to the family!
When you join the Positive Media Association, you become part of a global collective working to amplify media that informs, inspires, and illuminates. Your membership opens the door to:
A spotlight on your work — seen by fellow creators, distributors, and funders looking for exactly what you make.
A listing in the Association Directory — your place among the makers shaping positive media worldwide, discoverable to collaborators and supporters.
Live webinars with people who've done it — learn directly from experts across every corner of media making and distribution.
First access to the Positive Media Lab — leading-edge insight and research as it's created.
Real collaborators, not just contacts — share resources and join forces to amplify one another's reach.
Media Campfires — open-ended gatherings built for real connection and fresh ideas.
Social Media Workshops — swap the best practices and hard-won tricks that are moving the needle right now.
Distribution channels you couldn't unlock alone — PMA-facilitated relationships with distributors, platforms, and outlets that put your work in front of audiences most makers can't reach on their own.
A real path to funding — education on where the money is, a living database of active funding sources, direct relationships with funders, and pooled-project opportunities that unlock initiatives too big for any one maker to fund alone.
Stronger together, never alike. Imagine what could happen if we all started working together.