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  At the best of times, the Academy Awards inspire something within us that reminds us career breakthroughs are possible. That something magical can happen to all of us and that the real reason we got into this business was to create something meaningful and powerful that could be shared with the world. I thinkRead more

First, communicate with them. It’s pilot season. Everyone’s stressed. You’re one of many clients on someone’s roster. Remember that they are working hard to get all of their clients jobs and it’s important to have faith that they know what they’re doing and they’re invested in helping you get work. If they weren’t they wouldn’tRead more

  Pilot season. How do you survive it? What do you do when you test for multiple roles but don’t end up getting any of them? What do you do when you see your friends going out for weekly auditions and you haven’t heard from your reps in weeks? What do you do when youRead more

  Stop getting caught up in how you think things are supposed to look. Feelings. Love. Careers. Connection. Possibility. When you give up the form in which you think these things must appear, you’re instead open to the miracle of them showing up all around you all the time in ways that are a lotRead more

  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