The Opperman Report' Ellie Leonard - My Findings on Sascha Riley (1)
Feb 14, 2026
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Contributing Editor @ Blue Amp Media, child-wrangler, sometimes-filmmaker, Missoulian dropped on my head in NYC. Wandering Agent-lessly Signal: @redpencilscript.10 (She/Her)
Panicked Writer: Rejected op-eds, personal musings, and my adventures as a middle-class mole dropped on my head in New York City, maneuvering the wild and incestuous world of film, publishing and journalism.
Ellie Leonard is an author and owner of Red Pencil Transcripts, a small company that works with podcasts, documentary films, popular shows, other authors, PhD-level research projects, and journalists at several major newspapers including the New York and Los Angeles Times. She has also worked as an editor for over a decade, including a small stint in publishing in Seattle, WA.
Outside of her work-life Ellie is a mom to four wild kids, a member of a railroad family, a classical history major, a bibliophile, and a closeted classically-trained pianist. She hopes to write for the independent film industry someday.
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Panicked Writer: Rejected op-eds, personal musings, and my adventures as a middle-class mole dropped on my head in New York City, maneuvering the wild and incestuous world of film, publishing and journalism.
Ellie Leonard is an author and owner of Red Pencil Transcripts, a small company that works with podcasts, documentary films, popular shows, other authors, PhD-level research projects, and journalists at several major newspapers including the New York and Los Angeles Times. She has also worked as an editor for over a decade, including a small stint in publishing in Seattle, WA.
Outside of her work-life Ellie is a mom to four wild kids, a member of a railroad family, a classical history major, a bibliophile, and a closeted classically-trained pianist. She hopes to write for the independent film industry someday.
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.