In 2002, I nervously entered Du-par’s to meet the legendary author of Acting Is Everything, Judy Kerr. She had reached out to tell me she was a fan of my weekly column in Backstage. I…
How to Survive Mercury Retrograde
Hello you beautiful people and happy solar eclipse! Happy double Cancer! And buckle up, because here comes Mercury retrograde. (Want a fun way to keep up with Mercury retrograde dates? Here’s your link.) Now, y’all…
Mind-Body Healing Resources
I recently wrote up a list of resources for a client who is similarly in chronic pain that seems to have no physical cause. Decided to plop it all in this blog post so others…
Pushing Through Upper-Limit Problems
Today was hard. Not all of it, but parts of it. Tensions with the hubs as we talk through tech upgrades. Miscommunication with the extended team. Vendors showing up with too little too late. ⠀…
A Breakthrough About Our Enoughness Project
Ahh… I feel like I can exhale. 🕊 I’ve been facing mad resistance as I build the enoughness curriculum. Not because I don’t know what I want to teach, but because there’s so. much. of….
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…
Montessori, Music, and Expectations
Hello beautiful people of Expansive Capacity! It’s Superpower Sunday! 🙂 This is all about how we can implement wee changes that can turbocharge our *existing* superpowers so that we don’t dim our own lights due…
Closeness Is Not a Requirement for Loving Someone
I called my 85-year-old daddy today because I’m a good girl and I call my daddy on Father’s Day. ✔️ ⠀ That was true even in those years that we weren’t speaking. Or rather, when…
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…