Build Your Own Table: Jacinth Headlam on Film, Books & InnaStar | Entrepreneurs' Club Podcast

This episode is for creatives, filmmakers, authors, nonprofit founders, and any entrepreneur who is tired of waiting for an invitation and ready to build the table themselves. Jacinth Headlam, founder and CEO of Jacinth Media Productions and Innastar Incorporated, joins me for a real conversation about storytelling, faith, reinvention, and what it takes to turn your story into a book, a film, and a business. From growing up in St. Mary, Jamaica, to Brooklyn, to the Lehigh Valley, Jacinth shares how hitting rock bottom led to her first book, Love After, and how that book opened the door to a documentary and the feature film Love After Holidays on BET+. In this episode, we get into: • From Jamaica to Brooklyn to the Lehigh Valley • Runway modeling, banking, and choosing the arts again • Why producers build the table instead of waiting for a seat • How writing Love After became her "power card" • Taking a story from book to documentary to feature film • Why niching down matters when you want distribution • Helping other authors write, publish, and scale their stories • Why she started Innastar and the Trailblazer Awards • Teaching the arts internationally • "Build across": why your peers matter more than chasing the people who already made it • Protecting and nurturing your relationships • Working alongside the actors she grew up watching • Big vision, small budget, and how to keep going • Burnout, restructuring, and building the right team • Gratitude, presence, and being faithful over the few • Her next project, Until He Speaks, and its anti-bullying mission Connect with Jacinth: • Jacinth Media Productions: https://jacinthmediaproductions.com • Innastar: https://innastar.org Featuring: Jacinth Headlam | Hosted by Carter McKinney STAY CONNECTED: McKinney Media: www.mckinneymedia.co The Entrepreneurs' Club: @theentrepreneursclub.us McKinney School of Media & Marketing: @mckinneyschoolofmediamarketing If this episode gave you something, like, comment, subscribe, and share it with a friend so we can keep doing this. #EntrepreneursClubPodcast #Innastar #LehighValley