I fired off an email to my awesome mailing list last week and mentioned something that had happened in my mastermind group meeting that day. That got me wondering whether actors know how powerful masterminding…
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Get Down with Self-Taping
So, two weeks ago, we talked about being Room Ready, and last week, we talked about Getting Into the Room. To round this series out, today we’re gonna get into that “other” way IN: Self-Taping….
How to Get into the Room
So, last week was all about being “room ready” and this week we’ll tackle the follow-up question that I knew would come from many readers (and it did), “Yeah. I’m ready. But I can’t even…
The Work: Ep. 0316 — Get Down with the Pursuit
Thank you for joining us for Episode 0316 of The Work. Download Here! Get Down With the Pursuit: You’re gonna be pursuing work a lot more than you’ll be engaged in the storytelling process, so…
David Harper: A Scientific Approach to Success in Hollywood
David Harper, a recent transplant to Los Angeles, has a fabulous, sardonic sense of humor. But he’s also very smart. He knows that often, what stands in our way as we claim we want to…
International Actors in the States
You may recall that a couple of weeks ago Gabrielle Mazza wrote in requesting an article devoted to the issues facing international actors in the States. She also asked about setting up Google Alerts (something…
Lies You Tell Yourself
Many times, we get into the habit of believing the stories we repeat in our brains — and to one another. I saw a fabulous tweet from Naomi Campbell that summed it up pretty well:…
Refinements to Interviewing Your Bookings
So, last week’s column on Interviewing Your Bookings was one that generated a lot of gratitude (you’re welcome) and a lot of follow-up questions (here come the answers). Rather than pulling any of the specific…
Studying Success
I’m writing this week’s column while on a break from a very surreal experience: a four-day Tony Robbins seminar called “Unleash the Power Within.” Most days are 16 hours of jumping up and down, hootin’…