Meet The Team
Jessica Zemple
Founder, Author, Keynote Speaker
Jessica Zemple is a transformational coach, storyteller, speaker, filmmaker, and badass mother shucker that has touched thousands of people with her pearls of wisdom.
Shucking is her metaphor for life coaching – and life. We are all magnificent pearls created through the grit of our life. We have shells around our pearls that we close in times of fear. At some point, the shell becomes restricting and needs to be shucked open, with love, so your pearl can shine!
She has overcome A LOT of grit in her life from growing up in an abusive home due to a parent experiencing schizophrenia, helicoptered off of the mountains of Nepal due to a traumatic brain injury, and caring 24/7 for a loved one through a healing journey from stage 4 cancer. Each of these challenging, life changing experiences has made her stronger, more compassionate, more loving, and helped her pearl sparkle even more through years of healing. She used modalities such as yoga, meditation, silent retreats, the Hoffman Process, and even earned a masters in Spiritual Psychology.
Jessica founded Life Shucker to help individuals and organizations find their deeper purpose and translate that into authentic success through transformative coaching, love based leadership programs, workshops, and retreats. Jessica is also a keynote speaker and has written for Huffington Post, Inc., and Thrive Global. Jessica’s life coaching philosophies and techniques have been featured in Entrepreneur, Forbes, Huffington Post, and Inc. Her book, Shuck This Way, reached #1 on Amazon.
Her newest way to shuck is through her short documentary, Cracked, that will be released on November 11, 2024 on her YouTube channel. It is her personal story of finding love and acceptance of her father after the trauma induced by his experience with schizophrenia. Her mission is to crack people’s hearts open by showing love for all is possible no matter what.
This is what she wants to do for YOU too – help you transform your grit in to a pearl to shine even more! You can find a lot of free exercises on her website or e-mail her to set up some 1:1 time at jessica@lifeshucker.com.
Kiwi Callahan
Cinematographer, Editor, and Animator
Currently Kiwi Callahan is a filmmaker, a dog mom, a lover of wine, and a seriously heavy sleeper. But it wasn’t always that way.
Kiwi found her way into filmmaking after being a professional musical theater actress for 10 years. As she grew older, she found herself becoming more confident in her beliefs, less sure that she knew everything, and drawn to a different kind of story. After much consideration (read: ice cream consumption), she decided to change directions and pursue a career in documentary filmmaking. As Head of Production for Delphi, she has helped clients ranging from solopreneurs to nationally recognized brands create compelling, documentary-style video content for use in a wide range of campaigns. When she’s not working with her corporate clients, you can find her somewhere on planet Earth filming a documentary about something she’s fascinated by. (It’s probably about the environment, women’s rights, social justice, or something science-y.)
Naomi McDougall Jones
Director
Naomi McDougall Jones is a storyteller and changemaker. She has written, acted in, and produced two award-winning feature films. The first, Imagine I’m Beautiful (2014), collected 12 awards on the film festival circuit before receiving a theatrical and digital distribution deal and is now available on AmazonPrime. Her second feature, Bite Me (2019), was released via a paradigm-shifting 3 month, 51 screening, 40 city Joyful Vampire Tour of America that took the country by storm, and is now available on iTunes, GooglePlay, and Amazon.
She is currently at work on her next two feature films: Hammond Castle, an adult fairytale for which she received the honor of being the first artist in residence at the final home of Ernest Hemingway in Sun Valley, Idaho, and The Control Room, a psycho-sexual thriller co-written with Christian Coulson.
Naomi is an advocate and thought leader for bringing gender parity to cinema. Her writing on this has appeared in The Atlantic, Ms. Magazine, and Salon.com, and she gave a virally sensational TEDTalk, What it’s Like to Be a Woman in Hollywood, which has now been viewed over 1 million times and can be seen on TED.com.
Naomi’s first book, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood, debuted as a #1 Amazon bestseller and received an electric critical response, with The Christian Science Monitor calling it, “…an outpouring of passion that will change the ways in which movies are seen,” and is now available wherever books are sold. Naomi has been a guest speaker at NYU, Columbia, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities and her book is on the curriculum at colleges and universities around the globe.
Naomi is currently at work on her second book, American Selkie, a metaphysical memoir about one woman’s search for herself.
Naomi is a Founder of The 51 Fund, a private equity fund dedicated to financing films by women. Their films Cusp and Shayda both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award respectively. Shayda is Australia’s official entry for the 2024 Best International Feature Film Academy Award.
Naomi is now the Head of reGEN films, which develops, incubates, and grows regenerative business models for the funding, creation, distribution, and marketing/impact of independent films in service of an emerging ecosystem through which the full range of available voices can transform audiences.
She also currently serves as the Executive/Artistic Director of The Liberty Theatre Company in Hailey, Idaho, where she is in hog heaven returning to her first love, live theater.