Education

Rhode Island College

B.A., Theatre Performance and Secondary Ed. English

2002

New York University

M.A., Educational Theatre

2006

Podcasts

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827: What It’s Like to Be a Broadway Producer With Michael Roderick, Small Pond Enterprises [Main T4C Episode]

Michael Roderick is the founder and CEO of Small Pond Enterprises and is the co-host of The Access to Anyone Podcast. Small Pond coaches people on their professional relationships to help them develop a larger network and more business opportunities. Michael began his professional life as a High School English..

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“I sort of looked at my teaching through the lens of my directing. And I realized that like, as a director, I was very strict. And like I managed time properly. I sort of made sure that the show goes off the ground, but in my classroom, I was not doing that. So I came back in the second year and I created a massive amount of structure around what I taught and what I did, and my discipline problems sort of went away.”

Best Career Advice

“You cannot underestimate the significance of making other people feel significant. So if you’re having a conversation with somebody and you take the time to basically be like, ‘how much can I understand about them?’ And if you really dig in, then they are going to feel so much more connected.”

Career Challenge

“I remember going to sign this contract and them telling me I can’t sign this contract because my money’s gone.

And I remember having to come home to my then girlfriend … and saying, I am screwed. We do not have this money. We do not have a sort of any way to start to make this, make this work … So I have this moment where I wrote an email to probably close to a hundred people that I’d met … And I remember sending that email and basically being like, wow, everybody’s going to sink. I am such a loser.”

Skills

Teaching, Directing, Consulting, Networking

Professional Interests

Theater, Literature, Writing, Production

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