Something I regularly clarify is the title of my most popular book: Self-Management for Actors. No, no, no, it’s not that everyone gets the title WRONG or something… it’s that the emphasis is on managing…
Posts tagged gratitude
The Part of Your Brain That Is Panicking Is NOT WRONG
The other day, when the hubs and I were walking around our little beach ‘hood here in Santa Monica, I said something that actually punched me in the gut as I said it. Like, I…
Everything We’re Feeling Is Correct
Okay. One of the things I’m most grateful for right now is the *intentional* curating of a friendgroup made of fellow ladybiz besties that I’ve done since choosing sobriety in 2016. Past me was very…
Future Tripping and Enoughness
Today the hubs and I went in for our annual money talk with Ray the CPA. This is the meeting we have every December to review our revenue, move around where money lives so it…
Gratitude, Then Goals
’tis the season… for talking about setting GOALS for the next year, right? I have a somewhat unique approach to goal-setting, and it starts with gratitude for exactly where we are RIGHT NOW. I call…
Why You Pretty Much HAVE TO Be a Leader
Recently, an actor tweeted me to ask how to stay focused on her goals and dreams when every day it seems as though another person she has admired in this industry is revealed as being…
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….
Celebrating 20 Years
It was 1999. I was an actor in Los Angeles. Having been burned by “golden handcuffs” earlier that decade when I first moved to Hollywood, I knew this time out, I’d only ever cobble together…
Reclaiming Our Inner Artists
If I wanted to do the math on how many SMFA ninjas typing exercises I’ve led over the years, I’m sure the number of actors involved would be up around 2000. Heck, if we count…
Gratitude First. Then Grind.
I was journaling about perfectionism, enoughness, and how over time — when we’re solution-focused people — we walk into every situation observing problems. Because we’re so focused on solutions. 🤷🏽♀️ So on its surface, it…