Here’s my lazy-ass #Top9 of 2021. Click to see on Instagram. Y’all like my words, my sobriety, and my occasional passalong meme. 🦋 That’s about right. ✔ Bye, 2021. I slept more this year than…
Posts tagged embracing change
The Reward for Boundaries
I’ve been making changes in my business recently. I’ve created more boundaries, changed my availability, increased my NO budget. I hadn’t noticed how anxious and obsessed and dark I had gotten, continuing to do such…
AFGO (Another Effin’ Growth Opportunity)
Most of the folks I get the privilege to work with every day identify as creatives. We’re storytellers. Mostly actors. Many writers. Some directors and showrunners and even a few non-showbiz creatives too! We take…
We Had a Good Run
Hello beautiful people of Expansive Capacity! It’s time once again for Superpower Sunday! 🙂 As always, this is all about how we can implement wee changes that may turbocharge our *existing* superpowers so that we…
Choosing Sobriety = Choosing to Be Present
On October 16, 2016, I woke up in a hotel room in Manhattan, no recollection of how I got there, and I texted the hubs the words: “I’m done.” I had said those words a…
Help! My Actor Brand Has Shifted!
Okay. So you know your brand is the umbrella under which all the types you can play live, right? [If the whole actor brand thing is a mystery to you, I have free training for…
About That “High Road”
In one of our membership Zooms last week, as we were discussing SHOULDS, the convo turned toward “taking the high road.” If this phrase isn’t familiar to you, it’s a should — usually uttered when…
Set the World on Fire
This stylish fella on the left is my grandfather, Edd. He’s the one I’m talking about when I mention “The Ducktown 8.” 💥 My grandfather blew up power lines and took part in other (sometimes…
Extinction Bursts: A Sign We’re Healing
There’s a pattern I’ve noticed — in my life and in the lives of those brilliant creative storytellers I surround myself with. And it goes like this: ~ have a recurring hiccup in a particular…
Everything Will Be Okay
In March of 2020, I found this “Everything Will Be Okay” printable out there on the internet, printed it (on the back of a page from a screenplay; we’re all about reusing the paper we…