Somehow we've forgotten how to talk to each other

Do you remember when people used to visit one another on Sundays? My grandmother loved it. I grew up sitting with adults solving the world's problems on a porch or in a living room, nothing fancy, just people who trusted each other enough to say what they actually thought. In a sense, that's what McCosh Films is all about.

Somewhere along the way, most of us stopped listening to one another and started talking at one another. We lost the patience for a real conversation. It's easier to just keep moving, keep performing, keep pretending the distance between us and the people we lead isn't there.

I have spent my entire career as a journalist, media strategist, and documentary filmmaker before I understood why that Sunday porch mattered so much to me. Every story I ever told, whether it was a two-hour film or a fifteen-minute interview, came down to the same thing. Someone had stopped feeling heard, and something in their life had quietly broken because of it. A marriage. A career. A sense of who they were. A chance to have a real conversation with another person.

That's the same thing I see now, sitting across from founders and CEOs who built something real and somehow ended up alone inside of it. Successful by every measure anyone else can see, and quietly disconnected from the people closest to them, at work and at home. Nobody warns you that leadership can cost you the exact kind of conversation my grandmother gave away for free on a Sunday afternoon.

Media taught me how to realize what people aren't saying. It taught me how to listen with my heart. That skill is the whole foundation of what I do now. Whether I'm behind a camera or sitting with a leader trying to find his way back to his own story, I'm doing the same work. Watching for the gap between what someone says and what they actually mean, and helping them close it. Ultimately, we are in the human being business. Everything else, the media, the advisory work, the conversations, is just the vehicle.

If you long for that place at work or in your life, the place where someone actually hears you, we'd like to help you find your way back to it.

Grateful,

Jason

we still believe people are worth it