We’re looking forward to introducing you to Maria Forsythe. Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Maria, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: Are you walking a path—or wandering?
It depends on the moment of the day you ask me! As I quickly approach my 30s, I am realizing just how much wandering I have actually been doing for entirety of my career – and just how important that wandering was for me to find myself where I am now. The last year has been beautiful in the way that I have finally felt, in momentary glimpses or successful shoot days, like I’m actually walking with purpose towards a goal I have set for myself. I have found clarity in my vision, in what brings me joy, and how my business is carrying me towards that goal. But all the other moments, where maybe in the past it’s felt like floundering, I am realizing has really been the wandering. And that’s kinda the best part.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hello! My name is Maria Forsythe, I am the owner and key videographer at Lucky Horse Productions – a video production company in Austin Texas focused on telling stories, fostering connection, and inspiring action.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
At my core, I’ve always been a horse girl, a performer, an existentialist, and a storyteller. As my career evolves, I love to see how it has taken me closer and closer to those core things I love about myself. As I have stepped further away from what college Maria believed her career would look like, I have found so many better things.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
I would tell myself that many of the things I thought I needed to change, or grow out of, or compartmentalize – those are all the things that will make my life full and my job more than just a paycheck. I would encourage myself to unleash that anger towards an industry that did not have space for women, to use that to fuel my power and create space for myself.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. How do you differentiate between fads and real foundational shifts?
For me, Connection and Community have become my foundational pillars in both life and career. I am constantly shifting and evolving, but in a world currently driven by ease of access and the quickest way to a check, it is helpful to have these pillars for reference as you evolve. AI will change a lot in my industry – but it will not change the core fact that filmmaking is storytelling, and storytelling begins with humans sitting around a fire talking face to face. I try to make decisions and focus my energy towards those connections, because the need for community will never change – even if the world does.
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: What false labels are you still carrying?
Follower, compliant, docile, perfectionist. While perhaps these labels were perhaps true at one point in my life, I know they no longer reflect or serve me now.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://luckyhorseproductions.com
- Instagram: luckyhorse_productions
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariaforsythe/
