During last week’s livestream on the joy of fitting out, I was asked about “the end of the co-star level role” in light of new health and safety requirements on set, as production (and everything)…
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Should Actors Submit to Agents Right Now?
We had our free quarterly SMFA Tune-Up call on Saturday. We’ve been doing these free calls since early 2014 when the 4th edition of Self-Management for Actors was fresh from the printer and my goal…
Moving to LA? Keep This List Bookmarked. You’re Welcome.
First, download my SMFA Hot Sheet (PDF) on the LA Reconnaissance Mission. You’ll love it. (For way more SMFA Hot Sheets — all free — head over here.) The best thing you can have going…
When Habit Becomes Identity
This is gonna be a quickie. It’s super basic, but big. There comes a point at which our habits become our identity. Meaning, we do certain things so much, habitually, that we go from being…
Freebies from Bonnie Gillespie
Hello you glorious creature. 🙂 Last week I asked you to share some specifics with me about what it would take for you to be your best self for 2020. I showed you the results…
What Do YOU Most Need to Be Best You in 2020?
A few weeks back, I surveyed the fine folks in our Self-Management for Actors Facebook group about some free training I’d like to create. Obviously, “How to Stop Wasting Time in Your Creative Career” won…
When to Move to LA
Look, we’re NEVER sure the time is right. Let me just go ahead and state for the record that no one outside of you can know when the time is right for you to move…
5 Reasons to Say Yes
What makes a project, an offering, ANYTHING worth saying YES to, in your business? Story time. I’ve shared my obsession with Profit Clarity before. This is an annual tradition I adapted after I first tried…
Why Saying NO Is a Great Business Decision
One of the last things we want to do when we’re hungry to work, eager to showcase our talent, hoping to build relationships and get OUT into the world doing what it is we came…
Actors, Artists, Writers, Creatives Are Leaders, Like It Or Not
One of the things I teach in our outstandingly badass 100-day membership program is that we — artists, creatives — are leaders. Look. I know “leader” is a word that makes some people cringe. Especially…