There’s this theory that there are three components to any project: price, speed, and quality. You get to pick excellence in TWO of those, but never all three. So, you can hit McDonald’s drivethru and…
Posts Published by Bonnie Gillespie
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Gameshow Booking on an Acting Resume
Bon, I have limited on-camera work on my resume but I recently did a game show (and won!) and wondered if I could put that on my resume. It’s on there right now because I…
The Actor Wage Gap
This isn’t news to anyone who’s been at this acting thing for more than a minute: There’s great disparity between the “copy, credit, meals” stage of one’s career and the level at which celebs land…
Feedback on How to Deal with Criticism
I read in your “How to Deal with Criticism” article where you had three responses to haters and I was concerned. You stated: “There are THREE THINGS I really don’t care about: you, what you…
Strength, Flexibility, and Grace
So, I was Periscoping a quick hello from the studio before pole class (I know, there’s already so much HUH?!? in this sentence) and I mentioned that one of my first pole instructors, years ago,…
The Sum of All Years: 44
“I belong here” overcame all the bits of life that are too much. Masterminding, Get in Gear, Ontraport, Periscope, team changes, 10th anniversary, new tattoo, pole breakthroughs, New York, Atlanta, AIPA, BW, CTG, RUP, JFDI,…
Summer Insomnia
There’s something that happens to me this time of year. Keith had to remind me today that it does in fact happen *every* year and that made me wonder WHY. But then I remembered that…
Gift of Fear
My email address is on my IMDb profile and occasionally I’ll get “fan mail.” What is my responsibility to answer when maybe they’re not just fans but possibly pervs? There’s an older man who has…
Let Them Say It
One of the things I see creatives get obsessed with is how to craft and then use a logline, a pitch, even a proper age range. It’s not that the branding process is so difficult;…
Allie Costa: How to Be Yourself While Pretending to Be Someone Else
I was reminded recently that now and then it’s good to get back to basics. Sometimes we get so narrowly focused on specific goals or on targeted benchmarks that we forget the big picture. We…