An Interview With Melissa Llarena

Punam Kumar Gill is a self-taught, award-winning independent documentary filmmaker, actor, model, and TV host. Today, she joins me on the show to talk about reframing how you think about courage and how she is working to grow the genre of healing journalism. Plus, she shares about her pivot to a documentary career and how she featured her father in her first film. She also leaves us with thoughtful advice, in these times of isolation, pick up the phone and ask your loved ones some of your most burning questions. You might be surprised by what can happen when you lead with your nose and your heart. This conversation with Punam is what we need right now.  Since we can’t go outside, we can go inside (of ourselves) to and expand and grow. In Punam’s debut film, THE LESSON, she turned her Dad’s life story into an award-winning documentary, earning critical acclaim and garnering numerous awards and official selections at film festivals throughout North America and India. The story centered on her father, a monk-lik