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  What if you were given the role of a Lifetime? A character that’s beautiful and dangerous and mysterious and exciting and complicated and messed up and Divinity expressed in tangible form and spectacular and empathetic and scary and . . . well . . . human? I asked an actress this and she said,Read more

  I got asked by an actor the other day, “How do you become more confident?” I thought that was a good question, considering, like many things – we keep searching for the answers outside of us. Confidence comes from the inside. It’s not gained by looking hot or having lots of credits or beingRead more

    Last week I discussed changing our narratives – simply the negative stories we most often tell about ourselves that no longer serve us. When we make an investment in something, we are hoping to receive a benefit at some point in the future. What if we made an investment in telling a newRead more

  I didn’t even know what a narrative was in my 20’s so I think this is an important reminder for all of us. It’s simply one of the predominant stories of your life you most like to tell that threads itself into other stories that thematically become the through-line of your life. But theRead more

  Do you want to know how to have a breakthrough year? In all areas of your life? Just stay open. That’s hard enough to do on a daily basis, as we have lots of ways of keeping ourselves from being just that. We become cynical or jaded or glib. We get rejected so weRead more

  I’ve been known to say from time-to-time that “Things always work out.” A good friend asked me the other day, “Do you mean that as in life – like life in general will work out? Or do you mean ‘Things always work out’ in the entertainment business?” I thought for a second. And thenRead more

  What are we all so scared of? Being seen? Failing? Not measuring up? Being rejected? Vulnerability? Thinking the rest of the world will see how badly we often think of ourselves? All of these qualities are part of being human and being brave enough to step out into the world with something to say.Read more

  A thing experienced is not a thing perceived. We so often are in our heads about what we think something looks like (a choice, an idea, a commitment to something) that instead of committing to that thing and having the experience, we second-guess it based on what we think the casting director is lookingRead more

Breakthroughs in life occur at the feeling level. That’s the beginning and end of it. If we want to evolve, grow, face our fears, reach new heights, become the kind of artist we know we can become, we have to feel our way there. We have to feel things we aren’t accustomed to allowing ourselvesRead more

What do you tell yourself when you don’t get the job? Be honest. Generally it follows something along the 5 stages of Grief. (Sometimes all within the same minute!) 1). Denial. “Ummm . . . What? They definitely don’t know what they’re doing! They’ll figure it out and when no one else does a betterRead more