 In August 2017, TED announced Baldoni would be a speaker at the annual TEDWomen Conference.Baldoni directed and produced CBS Films' "Five Feet Apart", starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson, and based on an original script by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis.The film was released on March 15, 2019, and chronicles the lives of two teenagers living with cystic fibrosis.