In my travels along the Internet, I bumped into this lovely concept called ikigai (your purpose, essentially) and of course shared it at our Facebook group. It was a big hit there. So… let’s take…
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Washing My Car: How My Dad Taught Me Improv
My father taught me sarcasm. This upset my mother greatly because I’m already a lot like my dad, and then you pile on the quick-wit of sarcastic quips in just the right moment and, well,…
Fancy Folks Ain’t All That Fancy
I had noticed a pattern. I was sending emails and texts to my closest friends and I was saying things that I don’t normally say. Stuff about how hard things have been. Stuff about the…
iCloud Stole My Data: A Lesson in Starting Over
Lesson number one: Never trust the cloud. Now, I already knew this. I don’t *do* cloud computing. I do not use Google Docs, I only grab something from Dropbox if someone requires me to do…
Actors and Social Media: The New STOPPER
It’s no secret that a few casting directors have gone on record stating that an actor’s social media following can influence casting decisions. While opportunistic marketing gurus have found a way to use those few…
My Success Sketch
So, here’s a story I’ve never told. A couple o’ years ago, I was helping someone launch her business of drawing “success sketches” for people. The concept was that you’d fill out this questionnaire about…
Get in Gear: So, Tonight on Twitter…
So, tonight on Twitter, I decided to drop in on a few early-to-the-party Get in Gear for the New Year participants to check out those juicy "about me" blurbs at Twitter to see who's ninja…
It’s Not about Hustle; It’s about Aligned Hustle
A theme has been emerging in my Self-Management for Actors mastermind groups lately. Doesn’t matter if it’s an actor, a writer, a producer, a director, a fellow casting director, or a creative entrepreneur in the…
Fear of Success Is Actually Fear of Change
While I was in New York last month, I conducted a master class with SMFA alumni. It was like a mini-SMFA Escape. It was epic. Laughter, tears, breakthroughs, tier-jumps, epiphanies. Awesome stuff! One of the…
Less Judgment; More Appreciation!
I keep a journal. I have since the age of 8. I’m not consistent with it. It’s taken on many forms in all these years. But I always have some notebook in which I’m writing…