EXCLUSIVE: Mal Glowenke and Mathilde Jourdan have launched their own digital media company and are kicking it off with a short-form game show set in a U-Haul van.
Glowenke, an LGBTQ+ advocate, and Mathilde Jourdan, who has exec produced documentaries including Just Kids and On The Line: The Richard Williams Story, have established Made It Out Media to tell stories of queer women.
It comes on the back on the pair’s video podcast Made It Out, which was nominated for Best Video Podcast Series at the Webby Awards in 2024. The pair met on a reality show centered around gay women that was subsequently not picked up.
Made It Out Media is launching with a short-form original series, Out for a Drive. The game show, which is hosted by Rachel Samples, is entirely set inside a U-Haul and is a mix of Cash Cab and Carpool Karaoke. It features lesbian and queer guests in each episode including comedian Robby Hoffman, actor Jonica Booth, creators Victoria Paris and Hina, chef and creator Olivia Tiedemann and comedian Irene Tu.
The series, which will be released bi-weekly on YouTube, launches on June 29.
“The media company was always the goal,” said Glowenke. “The podcast has been an amazing jumping-off point, and we are just getting started. Queer people, especially queer women, deserve more spaces where they can be the main character, not the side story. That is the future we are building toward.”
