Summer sounds like beach days, ice cream, and lazy mornings — until production schedules a 5 p.m. meeting and your kids are suddenly home full-time.
In this Gold Room episode, I’m talking honestly about working in production while parenting through the summer: expensive camps, weekend work, missed beach days, guilt from every direction, and the very real difference between ambition and burnout.
This is not an episode about perfect balance, because I’m not sure that exists. It’s about finding a rhythm, setting realistic boundaries, protecting small family rituals, and finding tiny resets when the job and life are both asking for all of you.
For set decorators, production designers, art department crew, working parents, and anyone trying to build a creative life without fully losing their mind.