Remember just how much you’ve already accomplished in your life. We forget that. Especially when we face constant rejection and hear endless “no’s” and begin personalizing and believing the negation means there’s something wrong with us or we’re untalented or flawed in some way. We start believing the illusion that this business is harder thanRead more
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Whenever I’m in NY teaching at our school there, I’m reminded of how much humanity is about . . . well . . . just being human. Maybe because LA is shaped by a car culture, it’s so easy to remove ourselves from life (from connection, from vulnerability, from having to confront life head-onRead more
Why are we doing this? It’s important to ask ourselves this question. For whom? Do you ever stop and ask yourself why you want to act? Or Create? Or live your life as an artist? Sometimes we lose connection to – or allow the business to contaminate – the original reasons why we wanted toRead more
Throughout your life and your career, you’re going to have to give yourself the green light. Again and again. No one else is ever going to give it to you. It doesn’t matter what level of success you achieve. How many people know you or your work. How many previous projects you’ve done or ifRead more
Last week I discussed not letting our reptilian vagus nerve get the better of us in stressful situations (like auditioning or asking Heidi Klum out on a date or parachuting at 10,000 feet) and thereby shutting us down from the potential of expressing empowered, authentic feeling that these experiences may evoke. But just likeRead more
In his book, The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz mentions four principles we might want to follow to live a more present, joyous and drama-free life. 1). Be impeccable with your word. 2). Always do your best. 3). Don’t take anything personally. 4). Don’t make assumptions. Ahhhhh . . . yes. Assumptions. We assumeRead more
A student of mine said recently that while she’s driving around town she often asks herself, “What am I doing with my life?” We can all relate. But when we ask ourselves that question, we often do it out of panic and undermine how much we’ve actually accomplished. We beat ourselves up for where weRead more
Why do we run away from who we are? Well, it seems pretty obvious. We feel we lack his charm, her looks. His intelligence, her sexiness. We erroneously think that the qualities we possess are inadequate and unlikable. And we judge them. But something you might have discovered about life is that no matter howRead more
I was asked to be a presenter at this year’s Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment (GATE) Conference this past weekend. Some of the other speakers included Jim Carrey, comedian Louie Anderson, filmmaker Tom Shadyac, and many other inspiring artists. I wasn’t prepared. That can be a very sobering realization when you’re about to speakRead more
We live in three different realities. Or another way to think of it is that we allow three different narratives to run our lives. What if we became more mindful of which narrative we spent the most time? The first reality is simply the nature of the 3-dimensional reality we’re all living in. It’s ourRead more