Tonya Mosley

She has a juice business.

How did watching her navigate all these different chapters shape or help you think about your own career?

You know, I've been wondering, your mom says to you, the world is your oyster, but yet you didn't grow up with a lot of money.

Your mom went into a lot of debt to send you to these really great schools.

And so there are these two things that exist together, like follow your dreams, but there wasn't like just this clear road to success.

So how did you hold those two things together as a young person?

When she worked at 30 Rock, did you ever visit or have a chance to visit?

Nia DaCosta, this has been such a pleasure to talk with you.

Thank you so much.

Nia DaCosta's new film is called Hedda.

It's in theaters and also streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

After a short break, jazz critic Martin Johnson reviews the new album from Linda Mae Han Oh.

This is Fresh Air.

Bassist and composer Linda Mae Han Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, quickly emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer.

But on her latest recording, Strange Heavens, she's inviting listeners to look back at her early work.

Strange Heavens features an unusual trio, bass, drums, and trumpet, just like her debut recording in 2009.

Jazz critic Martin Johnson says that there's significant insight in the comparison.

Jazz critic Martin Johnson writes for The Wall Street Journal and Downbeat.

He reviewed Strange Heavens, the new album by bassist and composer Linda Mae Han Oh.

Tomorrow on Fresh Air, we talk about the man behind President Trump's dismantling of the federal bureaucracy and expansion of executive power, Russell Vogt, the director of the Office of Management and Budget.