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Meridith Baer

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“I looked it up, and there's paparazzi pictures of the two of you together, red carpet photos. This was at the height of his fame. I mean, well, he continued to be famous, but I mean, Star Trek Next Generation was a massive show. He was a highly recognized person.”
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“Alright, this is just another interesting crazy part of your life because you are writing screenplays, you're interacting with all these celebrities, right? I mean, George Clooney or Taylor Moniel, Sally Field, I think you even dated Michael Crichton, the author, for some time.”
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“All right, so you are again, and we've got this burgeoning career as a writer, and this is what you're doing in life. I mean, you're in your 30s and you probably, I would imagine you're thinking, great, this is, you know, maybe one day I'll win an Academy Award and I'll get recognized for my work, right? That's the aspiration”
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“Right. And I think, I mean, you even made a film that starred George Clooney Unbecoming Age. It's a very obscure George Clooney. Oh my God. Even the early George Clooney.”
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“Bet, and you probably thought okay, I'm well on my way, and you did. I mean, this begins a long period of time where you become a screenwriter and you had some success. You were able to sell screenplays.”
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“That being said, just as an aside, I mean, you're like 33, 34 years old, you've made a million bucks on a script. That's pretty awesome. I mean, equivalent to today's money.”
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“And this was based on this idea that what you were saying was just not that great, and you had experience as a writer, and you thought, hey, I could do this, I could be a screenwrit”
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“Yes. And so, alright, you're having a little bit of success, but doesn't sound like you were really breaking through as an actor.”
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“So wild. All right, so you're in New York, and I guess in the mid 70s you decide to move out to LA, and I have to imagine you go out there thinking, hey, I'm getting some work in commercials. Maybe I can break into TV.”
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“I went down a rabbit hole looking at cigarette ads from the 70s last night looking to see if I could find you, and you must have some of them. Or why did it amazing? The ads are totally nuts. So you can't even imagine a magazine printing them today. They're literally beautiful, glamorous, healthy looking people with a cigarette hanging out of their mouths and the caption would read like, if it weren't for Winston, I wouldn't smoke. Or, you know, like just ridiculous, you know, just the most ridiculous things, just these healthy, vibrant, flourishing people smoking cigarettes in these ads.”
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“Right. So you wanted to be a model, but not a nude model, but you thought I should, maybe I'll do some modeling to make money.”
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“Right, today it probably would not pass muster. There'd probably be a lot of lawsuits, sexual harassment lawsuits. But back then, I guess there was, it was a different time. Okay, so you decide to leave. And Jim Good, who's your mentor editor there, he helps you get an appointment with Eileen Ford. This is the Ford modeling agency. Right.”
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“But your job was Racy was it sexual or was it just like you know regular what was it what were kind of articles were in there”
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“Okay, so this is the early 70s, 70 71. You get to New York and you get a job as an editorial assistant with Penthouse magazine. First of all, I mean, it wasn't even Playboy. It was Penthouse, which was way more explicit. First of all, what's your parents think? You're like, hey, I got a job. It's called Penthouse Magazine. I can't imagine calling my parents when I'm 22 and saying, hey, I'm working at this place called Penthouse Magazine. I mean, because... It's a pornographic magazine. How did people respond?”
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“Right, okay, so you do those ads, and I guess you decide to relocate to New York City not to pursue acting necessarily. You just go to live there, right?”
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“Alright, he was an ad guy, and he was a young guy, and he finds you and he says, hey, you look pretty good. I mean, were you like a, he thought you were cute and got right? I was cute. Yeah.”
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“Right, okay. So I just want to go back to your time in college for a moment because as I understand it, I think right before you graduated, you met a guy named Jerry Bruckheimer who would go on to become obviously like a legendary movie producer, American Jigglo, Top Gun, and Pirates of the Caribbean and tons of other movies. But when you met him, I think he was just starting out. I think he was making TV ads, right?”
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“I can't imagine how traumatic that experience was when you were a young woman, you're pregnant, and your parents demand that you give the child up for adoption. Did you ever reconnect with that person?”
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“And while you're in college, I guess you did a little bit of sort of versions of what your mom was doing, which was not necessarily flipping houses, but I guess you kind of got involved in helping serve people decorate their homes. Tell me a little bit about what you would do for extra money.”
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“And what was that like in the mid sixties? Was it, I mean, I think I'm thinking 65 is the beginning of like the free speech movement at Berkeley and then late 60s it gets crazy, right?”
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“All right, you go to college in the mid 60s because you're going to be like a young woman right at this kind of moment in time when there's all these huge cultural changes in America. And you went to the University of Colorado.”
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“Wow, and I guess you were there until, as you say, until about eighth grade, and then you moved to Iowa because your dad got a bigger job in that state's prison system. Is that right?”
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“So, do you remember, I don't know, just the security measures that had to be taken, just to secure your, I mean, your home, for example, right? Because in case there was like a prison break or somebody escaped, was it, do you remember?”
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“It's incredible, right? Anybody who knows it knows it's right on the water in Marin County. Yes. It's beautiful right on the bay, but of course it's a very scary place. Tell me why were you living and why were you, why did you grow up on the grounds of San Quentin?”
2025-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Today, her company, Meredith Bear Home, is one of the best known staging firms in real estate. But in this episode, we're also going to learn about Meredith's pre-staging years because her life story is a story in itself, almost like a movie. She was a teenage mom who was forced to give up her child. She acted in Pepsi commercials, appeared in cigarette ads. She wrote for Penthouse, she dated Patrick Stewart. The staging work just happened by chance. It wasn't supposed to be a business. But Meredith eventually turned her brand, Meredith Bear Home, into a major force in real estate. Meredith lived the early part of her life in one of the most unusual places in America, a notorious maximum security prison.”
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“Trendy or artful furniture that could show what it would be like to live in that house. And that staged furniture also helped in another way. It tended to increase the sale price, sometimes by hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking. And one of the people who helped transform staging from a clever trick into an entire industry was Meredith Bear. Meredith discovered the idea almost by accident in nineteen ninety eight. She was fifty years old, frustrated with her career as a screenwriter in Hollywood and pouring her energy into a house she was renting. She added art and plants to make the space come alive that when the owner showed the home to a potential buyer, it sold immediately and almost as quickly Meredith realized she might be on to something.”
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“In the late 1990s, something subtle but seismic started to shift in American real estate. For decades, buying a home meant spending your weekends driving from open house to open house, picking up paper flyers, and trying to remember which layout belonged to which address. But suddenly, homes were being listed on the internet, and that changed everything, because for the first time, buyers could tour dozens of homes in a single sitting, scrolling through bedrooms and backyards long before they ever stepped inside. And with that shift came a new challenge, an empty room in an empty house simply didn't sell the dream, and it didn't photograph well, so a new idea, fairly a concept at the time, began to emerge. It was called staging, the art of giving a home just enough life to spark imagination.”
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“Have you ever heard of slip covers? Welcome to How I Built This show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. I'm Guy Ros and on the show today have a frustrated screenwriter brought her storytelling to real estate and built Meredith Bear home, one of the biggest staging companies in the industry.”
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“And when you're ready to launch, you offer code built to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Loans issued by Celtic Bank and serviced by Stripe. All loans subject to credit approval. I find that white sofas only exist in stage homps. I mean, yes, some people have them, but like people have white sofas, A have no small children, or their children are so well behaved, or they always wear latex gloves, or they have no pets, or they don't care about red wine.”
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“You know, one of my favorite parts of traveling is getting a feel for a neighborhood, the way locals do. A few summers ago, I was in Rome and stayed in an apartment I booked on Airbnb. It was tucked in a quiet neighborhood just outside the Roman forum. Every morning I'd walk to the corner cafe, grab an espresso, and just watch the world go by outside. I even managed to chat with the owner about the neighborhood he lived in for nearly forty years. And he got me thinking about my own neighborhood. There are incredible hiking trails and great restaurants and, of course, the beach. And when I'm traveling this summer, listing my own place on Airbnb could be a really smart way to let someone else experience the area the way I do, like a local. Listing your home on Airbnb while you're traveling is a great way to make some extra money. You could put the money toward your next trip. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much”
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