Career Change From TV Actress to Retreat Leader with Zina Wilde

About this episode

Amy Stone interviews Zina Wilde about her transition from a TV actress to a wellness retreat leader, exploring themes of purpose and personal growth.

If you love the show and you'd like to support it directly you can tip the host here https://imperfect-adulting.captivate.fm/support In this episode of The Art of Imperfect Adulting, Amy Stone speaks with Zina Wilde about navigating radical career change, rediscovering purpose after success, and the healing power of travel and community. Zina is currently based in Los Angeles. Listeners will learn about Zina’s journey from TV actress (best known for her recurring role on "Billions") to wellness retreat founder, her immigration challenges, and the transformative magic she found in connecting to nature and somatic work. Zina Wilde is an actor, filmmaker and entrepreneur. As an actor she worked on the SHOWTIME series Billions for 7 seasons. Films like 80 for Brady with Jane Fonda, Lilly Tomlin and Sally Field, The Climb which received the audience award from Cannes and Chuck with Liev Schriver and Naomi Watts among others. As an entrepreneur she created a travel/ retreat company that started in Greece where she is from and has expanded in multiple locations like Italy, France, the US and Mexico in a very short amount of time. Her retreat business was recently featured on Vogue…

People in this episode

Host: Amy Stone

Guest: Zina Wilde

Topics covered

• career change
• personal growth
• wellness retreats
• immigration challenges
• nature connection
• somatic work

Keywords

• career change
• wellness retreats
• Zina Wilde
• personal growth
• nature connection
• TV actress
• Billions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vogue Greece, Chicago Tribune

Books & works: Billions, 80 for Brady, The Climb, Chuck

Places: Los Angeles, Greece, Italy, France, US, Mexico

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