On this week’s episode, Kyle talks with Joseph Mwamba, Writers Assistant on The Afterparty, currently streaming on AppleTV+, and the co-chair of the WGA Virtual Mix, a pre-Writer’s Guild-focused social empowerment organization for writers. We discuss a lot of topics of interest to both up-and-coming writers and those spending every day on the picket line, from the ongoing strike and how pre-WGA writers can (and should) get involved, to fostering a community that can lift you up in times of doubt, how the quickest way to be a successful producer is to become good at peopling, thoughts on overcoming the gap between your level of taste and your level of skill, and…what love’s got to do with it.

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Joseph Mwamba is a first-generation African-American Y.A. writer from Indiana. He's been named a Screenwriter to Watch in 2023, and as a Writers' Assistant wrote an episode for Season 2 of Netflix’s upcoming action anime TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL. He was the Writers’ PA for Season 4 of Netflix's psychological thriller YOU and Season 2 of Apple TV's mystery-comedy THE AFTERPARTY; before that he spent time as a double-desk assistant at UTA. Joe co-runs WGA Virtual Mix, a PreWGA group that holds Q&A panels with WGA writers, the monthly Miracle Mile Mixer, and the #PreWGA Day pickets. In combination with their partnership with Green Envelope Grocery Aid in June, WGA Virtual Mix helped provide over $15,000 in grocery funds to PreWGA writers, support staffers, and lower-level WGA writers.