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Int'l Business Times
7 days ago
- Business
- Int'l Business Times
Why Marina Mogilko's 'Silicon Valley Girl' Podcast Is Exactly What the Innovation Economy Needs Right Now
Marina Mogilko In a media ecosystem oversaturated with founder bios and five-minute thought leadership clips, Marina Mogilko is opting for something else: depth. The entrepreneur and digital creator, best known for building a multi-million-dollar language platform and cultivating a massive YouTube presence, has announced the expansion of her flagship interview series, Silicon Valley Girl, as a weekly podcast, available on all major podcast platforms starting June 4th. But this isn't just a content pivot, it's a strategic expansion rooted in a broader trend: the demand for more honest, globally attuned conversations in tech and business. "The goal has always been to decode success," Mogilko says. "But more than that, I want to explore the human cost of growth, what people aren't saying on stages or in press releases." And in that mission lies the heart of Silicon Valley Girl 2.0. Mogilko's rise wasn't forged in the typical startup circuit. She moved to the U.S. from St. Petersburg, Russia, taught herself the intricacies of visa applications, and turned her experience into a business: LinguaTrip, an online education and study-abroad platform that now serves users across multiple continents. Her first traction came not from seed funding or accelerator buzz, but from YouTube, where her clarity, relatability, and transparent business breakdowns made her a standout in both the edtech and creator communities. Today, she has over 17 million followers across her digital channels and a reputation for demystifying complicated systems, whether it's immigration paperwork or venture term sheets. That hybrid expertise, part educator, part operator, part media strategist, is what makes her voice resonate in an era where audiences are increasingly skeptical of polished narratives and growth-at-all-costs messaging. The Silicon Valley Girl podcast debuts with a high-caliber lineup that spans industries and ideologies; Coco Rocha, on modeling, mentorship, and modern entrepreneurship, Reid Hoffman, discussing AI, ethics, and the future of intelligent systems, Jenny Lei, unpacking burnout and money culture in Gen Z-led startups, Blake Scholl, reflecting on aerospace innovation and the long runway to disruption. What Mogilko is building isn't just a guest-driven show, it's a platform where long-form dialogue is used to examine how innovation collides with identity, morality, and mental health. And that framing matters. While most business media continues to chase performance metrics and trend cycles, Silicon Valley Girl chooses a different metric: insight density. "Listeners want substance," Mogilko says. "They're tired of recycled headlines. They want to understand how leaders think, how they fail, how What Mogilko understands better than most is that her audience isn't just U.S.-based. Her influence spans Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and India, regions increasingly producing the next generation of digital professionals, many of whom don't see themselves reflected in traditional media coverage of tech. This international credibility gives her a unique vantage point: a founder who's both inside and outside Silicon Valley's core, translating industry-speak into something more grounded, and more globally relevant. Her growing focus on angel investing, especially in women- and immigrant-led startups, further signals her long-term commitment to the ecosystem she's documenting. In many ways, Silicon Valley Girl isn't just a show about innovation, it's a node in the network Mogilko continues to build, support, and invest in. Looking ahead, Mogilko hopes to expand the podcast's reach by featuring underrepresented founders, cross-border investors, and creatives who are monetizing influence without conforming to tech-industry norms. She's interested in what she calls "builders with a conscience", people making meaningful decisions, not just profitable ones. And in a media landscape still learning how to cover complexity, that's a differentiator. Where many business podcasts summarize ideas, Silicon Valley Girl interrogates them. It opens space for vulnerability, uncertainty, and nuance, traits often excluded from pitch decks but essential to the future of responsible innovation. Silicon Valley Girl will be available on major podcast platforms starting June 4th. New episodes will be released weekly. Learn more at or follow Marina Mogilko on YouTube .
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ageless 80s Icon, 63, Reenacts Famous Valley Girl Scene
Ageless 80s Icon, 63, Reenacts Famous Valley Girl Scene originally appeared on Parade. Actress E.G. Daily isn't forgetting where it all started. The Valley Girl star is getting back to her '80s roots by reenacting a famous scene from the hit teen movie, which also starred Nicolas Cage (as the unlikely heartthrob Randy) and Deborah Foreman (as the conflicted popular girl Julie Richman).Daily, who has since built an incredibly successful career in voiceover work for animated shows and movies like Rugrats and The Powerpuff Girls, played Julie's wild-child best friend, Loryn. While Foreman and Cage delivered plenty of totally tubular lines — like Foreman's classic, 'Yeah, but Tommy can be such a dork, ya know? Like he's got the bod, but his brains are bad news' — it's the movie's iconic sleepover scene that remains one of the most memorable moments of the cult classic. Now 63 (and barely looking a day older than her Valley Girl character), Daily reenacted the famous sleepover dance scene in a recent TikTok video, set to the movie's irresistible opening credits song: 'Girls Like Me' by Bonnie Hayes & The Wild Combo. Fans loved E.G.'s trip back to 1983. One commented, 'Valley Girl is highly underrated.' Agreed. Another wrote, 'Nobody will understand how we felt when we saw that movie.' Totally hearing that iconic theme song brings back rad memories of Saturdays at the mall and endless calls on the family rotary phone. Thanks for the throwback, E.G.! 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Ageless 80s Icon, 63, Reenacts Famous Valley Girl Scene first appeared on Parade on May 30, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on May 30, 2025, where it first appeared.
The Herald Scotland
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
What are Nicolas Cage's best movies? 10 worth your time
Cage's style has always been flamboyant, showy, some might say over the top. He is not a quiet actor. The late David Lynch once described him as 'the jazz musician of American acting'. But what are his best tunes? Here's 10 that are worth your time. Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge, 1983) Nicolas Cage in Valley-Girls (Image: unknown) 'What a hunk.' Cage as romantic lead? It's maybe hard to remember now given all the gore and violence that was to follow, but that was one of his early calling cards. In this 1983 comedy he plays a punk from Hollywood who falls for the valley girl of the title (Deborah Foreman). Cage was a teenager when the movie was shot and as he has said himself didn't have a method at the time. But the result is a performance that's restrained and sweet, if a bit sweary. The American film critic Roger Ebert loved Valley Girl at the time: 'This movie is a little treasure.' Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola, 1986) The first time you get a sense of Cage's 'difference' as an actor. Coppola's time-travelling romance sends Kathleen Turner back to her school days and her first meeting with the man she would marry. Cage's performance as the bouffant-haired, lemon V-necked future husband can feel like it should be in another movie at times, but it was a marker of where he was heading. Raising Arizona (The Coen Brothers, 1987) The Coen Brothers' live-action version of a Warner Brothers cartoon delights in Cage's rubbery, long-limbed, bounciness. At times he looks like he's been drawn by Chuck Jones. Raising Arizona is the second Coen Brothers movie and one of their most joyous; a giddy plot involving a stolen child, escaped felons, a biker from hell and some top-notch yodelling. It's a show-off movie full of amphetamine-fuelled tracking shots and big performances. As a result, Cage fits right in. Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987) Norman Jewison's romantic comedy is a self-consciously operatic movie that's primed for excess in both its language - John Patrick Shanley's endlessly quotable script is ripe cheese; pungent and tart - and its expression. And there is no one more expressive than Cage. As the one-armed baker Ronny Cammareri he turns the amp up to 11 from the very first time we see him. My favourite Cage performance. And Cage and Cher make a great couple. Wild At Heart (David Lynch, 1990) By the time he appeared in Lynch's Wild at Heart the 'Nicolas Cageness' of Cage was already established. Eating live cockroaches on camera for the movie Vampire's Kiss probably helped. As Sailor in Lynch's road movie, he channels Elvis and beats a guy's brains out (literally). At times it feels like the director is parodying himself. But there is a charge between Cage and Laura Dern. And the car crash sequence is prime Lynch; strange and sad and chilling all at the same time. Con Air (Simon Jenkins, 1997) The 1990s were weird for Cage. He turned up in neo-noirs (Red Rock West), erotic thrillers (Zandalee), the unjustly neglected crime drama Kiss of Death and the highly-regarded yet rather problematic Mike Figgis drama Leaving Las Vegas in which Cage won an Oscar playing a writer determined to drink himself to death. Then there was the unnecessary Hollywood remake of Wings of Desire - renamed City of Angels - and the deeply unpleasant 8mm. Nicolas Cage in Con Air (Image: unknown) And, of course, there were the blockbusters. The Rock, opposite Sean Connery, and Face/Off opposite John Travolta, a favourite of many, directed by Hong Kong's king of action movies John Woo. But I'd opt for Simon West's Con AIr, in which Cage plays the wrongly imprisoned Cameron Poe just wanting to get home to his wife and kid, but stuck on a plane full of psychopaths and murderers led by Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich's best cartoon villain performance). It's either a smart movie playing dumb or a dumb movie pretending to be smart. Or maybe it's both at the same time. It's certainly a big, blowsy entertainment and Cage looks great with long hair. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese, 1999) Nicolas Cage in Bringing Out the Dead (Image: unknown) This 1999 Scorsese movie - with a script from Paul Schrader - is rather overlooked. Maybe because at the time it was seen as a film too much in Taxi Driver's shadow. But this story of a New York paramedic played by Cage is a fever dream of a film; dark, painful, terrifying, hallucinogenic. It offers one of Cage's quieter performances (up to a point), but that's because his character is carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. It's a difficult, dark movie but it has a power to it. And you will laugh at the I Be Banging scene. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002) And then we're into the 21st century and, oh boy, a lot of bad movies (mostly reduced to 'Cage Rage' memes). And yet the century started so well. This was director Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman's follow-up to Being John Malkovich and it has a similar meta vibe to it. It's the story of Charlie Kaufman trying to adapt New Yorker writer Susan Orelan's book The Orchid Thief. Cage plays Kaufman and Kaufman's brother Donald. He got nominated for an Oscar for the double role but lost out to Adrien Brody. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018) Safe to say, not for everyone. Panos Cosmatos's bloody revenge movie is over the top of over the top. Chainsaw fights? Check. Big axe called The Beast? Check. So, it's tailor-made for Cageian excess (and it gets it). By now Cage has cast off even the slightest notion of naturalism in his performances. Cosmatos gives him a film that is as unhinged as he is. If death metal were a movie … Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Image: unknown) The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022) Not a great film to end on but one at least aware of Cage's reputation of late and having fun playing with it, albeit heavy-handedly. In it Cage plays Nick Cage, a past-it actor whose career and financial situation is foundering. So much so that he agrees to appear at the birthday party of a billionaire superfan played by Pedro Pascal who may also be head of a cartel. The humour is broad and isn't really ready to stick the knife in, but Cage is having fun playing this version of himself.
The Guardian
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Post your questions for Nicolas Cage
There aren't many actors who transcend the roles they play in quite the unique way as Nicolas Cage. Born Nicolas Coppola (his uncle is Francis Ford), Cage rebranded to avoid nepotism. He started acting because he wanted to be like James Dean. Cage's early roles include 1982 coming-of-age movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High and 1983 romantic comedy Valley Girl. He then went on to period drama Racing With the Moon with Sean Penn, and musical crime drama The Cotton Club and Peggy Sue Got Married, both directed by Uncle Francis. By the time he'd done the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona in 1987, and won the best actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas in 1995, he had entered the big league. And what a career it has been. It's been slightly off the wall, yes, but that's what Cage does best. No doubt you'll have a favourite Cage moment. It might be swapping faces with John Travolta in Face/Off (and, apparently, the rest of his body; although Cage and Travolta do a fine impression of each other). Or breaking into Alcatraz in The Rock (surely prison doors lock from the outside, so why doesn't he just use a key?) If you prefer your Cage teamed with fast cars and Angelina Jolie, you'll like Gone in 60 Seconds. If you favour Cage plus motorbikes and Eva Mendes, try Ghost Rider. For prisoners on planes with terrible mullet haircuts: Con Air. Then there's the Indiana Jones Cage in the National Treasure films, and comic book superhero dad Cage in Kick-Ass 1 and 2. For dramatic Cage, try Matchstick Men where he plays a con artist. For Fantasy Cage, try City of Angels, where he plays an angel. If you prefer to only peek at him from behind a cushion, horror-style, check out The Wicker Man or 2018's Mandy. Cage hasn't slowed on his output. If anything, his films in the 2020s have been even weirder and more wonderful. He is 'unusually restrained' as a truffle forager in 2021's Pig. He plays Dracula in the 'truly resplendent' 2023 film Renfield. We've even had Nicolas Cage playing Nicolas Cage in the 'endearing' 2022 film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. For his portrayal of a professor who, for no apparent reason, starts appearing in everyone's dreams in the 2023 movie Dream Scenario Cage received his fifth Golden Globe nomination. Next he stars as Surfer Cage in psychological thriller The Surfer out this May – and the reason we are here. So, what to ask the great man? How about the Cage that never was? Cage nearly played Superman in an aborted 90s Tim Burton reboot, and was almost cast over Johnny Depp by Burton as Willy Wonka in 2005's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The hardest to imagine is Cage delivering the immortal lines: 'You know, Lloyd, just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this ... and totally redeem yourself!' as apparently he was first choice over Jeff Daniels to star with Jim Carrey in 1994's Dumb & Dumber. In other trivia, Cage famously outbid Leonardo DiCaprio to win a $300,000 Mongolian dinosaur skull at auction that he had to give back when it transpired it had been stolen. Then there was the time he had to publicly quash a conspiracy theory that he's a vampire. Apparently, Cage now lives in a small village in Somerset (or at least, he has a house there). Imagine bumping into Nicolas Cage at your local Spar! And let's not forget when he made the greatest chatshow entrance of all time (somersault, leather jacket, hair flying) in 1990 on Wogan to promote Wild at Heart. He was also quite funny that time on Saturday Night Live. Please get your questions in by 6pm BST on Monday 28 April and we'll print his answers in Film&Music on Friday 9 May. The Surfer is in UK cinemas from 9 May.
