{"podcast":{"title":"The TrailBLAZER Pod","slug":"the-trailblazer-pod-7056782","podcast_index_feed_id":7056782,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/550717/rss","website_url":"https://thetrailblazerpod.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/e/9/c/7e9cb5e744eb6431e55e3c100dce7605/Libsyn.png","author":"Faye Lax - Rosenberg","episode_count":75,"summary":"Jewish women entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders share their stories every week on The TrailBLAZER Pod. Host Faye Lax-Rosenberg sits down with Jewish women who built businesses, broke barriers, and refused to shrink, and asks them to share it honestly. The wins, the pivots, the moments they almost turned back. Jewish mentorship at your fingertips.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-23T18:18:30.879899+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-trailblazer-pod-7056782"},"episode":{"title":"On Learning to Take Up Space | Melissa Weisz","slug":"on-learning-to-take-up-space-melissa-weisz","published_at":"2026-05-12T10:13:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-trailblazer-pod-7056782/on-learning-to-take-up-space-melissa-weisz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-trailblazer-pod-7056782","url":"https://thetrailblazerpod.com/on-learning-to-take-up-space-melissa-weisz","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/c34db25d-d2d6-4b06-859e-e2705b0f1f44/final_final_M_audio.mp3?dest-id=4752972","summary":"What does it look like to use the tools of acting to live a fuller life? Melissa Weisz, actor, writer, producer, and facilitator, joins Faye for a personal and powerful conversation around identity and taking up space. Melissa opens up about stumbling into acting through a Yiddish-language Romeo and Juliet, discovering on her first scene that her messy emotions finally had a place to go, and how she now teaches women to use acting techniques as life tools, to feel their own feelings, take up space in a room, and stop performing the polite version of themselves. This episode goes deep on the difference between feeling and acting on a feeling, why anger was the hardest emotion to access, the most important real estate in a person's life (the moment between trigger and response), and what it means as a Jewish woman to refuse to perform a smaller version of yourself. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one. Connect with Melissa: Website: www.melissamalkyweisz.com Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/melissaweisz/ Connect with Faye: Website: https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ IG: @thetrailblazerpod Substack: https://trailblazerpod.substack.com/","meta_description":"What does it look like to use the tools of acting to live a fuller life? Melissa Weisz, actor, writer, producer, and facilitator, joins Faye for a persona…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2755,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-trailblazer-pod-7056782/episodes/on-learning-to-take-up-space-melissa-weisz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-trailblazer-pod-7056782/on-learning-to-take-up-space-melissa-weisz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}