Recently, I’ve been using a very exciting tool in my business and in my life. It’s called: “How do I want to feel?” and I use it liberally. Like most of you, I always have…
Browsing Category Mindset
Lean into Your WEAKNESSES
I was watching a very cool documentary over the weekend about a famous feature film and there was a whole segment that got me fired up about what a freakin’ great idea this is. It’s…
Getting Ready to Be Ready to Be Ready
Hello beautiful people! Today’s BonBlast is gonna be brief. (If you’re desperately craving more words from me, last week’s book-length post is here for you.) (Oh, and on that, THANK YOU for all the spectacular…
Creating the Hollywood We Want
Hello and welcome to all the new-to-the-Bonnie-Gillespie-experience folks (seems there’s something called “The Ava Effect” and our uptick in numbers (all over social) mirror the timing of getting regrammed by Ava DuVernay over in those…
What Actors Need to Know about Diversity in Casting
Let’s talk about STOPPERS, y’all. In showbiz, there are always stoppers: convenient ways to hand you your NO when the gig is not yours. We’ve heard them forever. “You’re too old,” “You’re not SAG,” “We’re…
Character Study
Hello beautiful people. Have you hugged yourself today? This is a question I ask our members every time we chat because ever since 2020 went sideways, I’m finding we’re not getting nearly enough of the…
Becoming Anti-Racist
GROWTH: Remember, it’s NORMAL to travel among these zones as we’re building the muscles for change. Click for Instagram. Click for PDF. Click for source. This infographic is from Drew Ibrahim (adapted from the one…
Doing the Right Thing When There Is No “Right Thing”
My life’s work is to leave Hollywood better than I found it. To help creatives live the lives of their dreams, telling the stories they were born to tell at the highest possible tier for…
Quarantine Keepers
Hello beautiful people. First things first: If you are not experiencing the totally FREE SMFA Summit, you are missing out. Full stop. I can’t even wrap my brain around all the phenomenal feedback we’re getting…
How to Get the MOST from Your Online Course
Something I had to come to grips with when we first started offering online courses more than a decade ago (yes, really; we were *so* early to the party!!) was that no matter how hard…