Recently, an actor tweeted me to ask how to stay focused on her goals and dreams when every day it seems as though another person she has admired in this industry is revealed as being…
Browsing Category Mindset
Don’t Invite Suits to the Writers Room
Hello you beautiful people! One of the major players in our month of free Self-Management for Actors training we called “SMF-mAy” was the concept of your true north. If you don’t know what I’m talking…
Mixed Messages
Ever have that feeling that something’s blocking you from your potential? You say you want to succeed at something but find you always fall short somehow? We’ve all been there and frankly it sucks. So…
Shutting Down Anxiety
If you’re following my stories over at Instagram, you know that the hubs and I are at a friend’s place on Point Dume, slumming it in “the Iron Man house” out here on the tip…
The Energy Has to Go Somewhere
Within hours of my writing this, the hubs and I are flying to Salt Lake City. The SLC airport is where we first met in person nearly 18 years ago. We had started an online…
I Hope This Sucks!
That’s hyperbole. I don’t hope that anything I write sucks, of course. However, it’s illustrative of a point I made to a client last week that we agreed would be worth sharing with you here….
The Balloon That Got Away 🎈
Spoiler alert: In show business, sometimes we don’t get what we want. (Hell, in *life* sometimes we don’t get what we want.) And sometimes that feels like poop. Especially if it was something that was…
Are You a Catastrophizer?
A few hours ago, I had a very odd elevator ride. Well, maybe not so odd, actually. An older woman was really not wanting to ride the elevator, but she couldn’t find stairs. She made…
This Time of Year
This is me 18 years ago. Like, almost to the day. Just before I took this photo, I’d journaled that it wouldn’t be much longer before mom would be done with this world. We’d discontinued…