This post is a caution to my beloved New York-based Self-Management for Actors Ninjas and their friends. And a call-to-action for the leaders among workshop facility owners there. As y’all know, the casting director workshop…
Working on My New Book by Working in the Kitchen
So, y’all already know I don’t cook. Hell, I burn water. Or at least that’s the story I’ve always told. Because if I’m not immediately ridiculously successful at something, I might as well call myself…
What Shingles Are Teaching Me About Stress Management
It started Friday, June 3rd. Welp, it may have started before then, as I was finding myself quite fatigued in the last days of May. I was sleeping a lot — sometimes 10, 12, even…
“This Is Between God and Me.”
My first ever 100-day challenge was a very private and awesome one. I — without telling ANYONE — made my plan to move (back) to Los Angeles working backwards from the end of 1998. 100…
I Want You to Meet My Friend Bree
This is powerful. And personal. (And, yes, woo-woo.) In 2011, I was going through some stuff. I was evolving my beloved business after having built up our LA-based classes to three times per week (three…
Two Questions About Feelings
I’ve noticed a trend in my life lately. I’m entering into my favorite establishments (Juice Served Here, Burke Williams, etc.) and explaining how I want to feel, first and foremost. I’m not making a list…
One Line Fever
Back when I was an actor… …a million years ago… a casting director in a workshop I hit used the phrase “one line fever.” I was curious. Seeing as I was new to the LA…
Celebrating the Wrong
This post is gonna have a lot of awesome family photos. Well… one specific photo, recreated in some form or fashion every year. Click any thumbnail to enbiggen. My glorious stepson Quinn has been doing…
Unplugging 101
Recently at our Self-Management for Actors Facebook group, I mentioned going more and more off the grid. I was quickly asked to elaborate, as it seems quite a few folks fantasize about being less attached…
Tony Robbins’ 6 Human Needs
In March of 2013 — fresh off my life’s first major surgery — I sat in the speakers’ lounge at SXSW and checked my email. One of my Self-Management for Actors students offered me tuition…