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….
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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…
A Childhood in Two Parts
This is a favorite photo of mine. I’m 6, hard at work on something brilliant. Unlikely homework. Far more likely I’m rewriting a list of characters for a play I’m creating. 🤓 ⠀ That actually…
Free Actor Training from Bonnie Gillespie
Y’all. Bookmark this list. 20 years ago, I started in on a journey that would lead to this moment. Me, showing up in your life, sharing a list of all the free training we’ve done…
It’s Time to Hit the Gym
Hello you beautiful people! Let’s talk about working out. I *regularly* talk about our work in the world of Self-Management for Actors and Enoughness from the perspective of a workout. We’re building muscles. We’re getting…
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…
Outsourcing Enoughness
As I write this, we are driving back from “my other office,” an oasis in the desert just north of Palm Springs that’s been a getaway for almost 12 years. We’ve concluded our 6th (and…
A Letter to Our First Member
I’m going through some pretty heavy-duty upper-limit problems, impostor syndrome, and enoughness fluctuations as we expand Brand Bonnie Gillespie beyond its comfy showbiz niche. What does that mean to you? Well… nothing unless you also…
888 Days Sober
I remember Googling. I Googled a lot. It was always something like, “How to drink in moderation,” “How to moderate drinking,” and even, “How to negotiate sobriety.” Wow. A whole lot of scrolling, reading, searching……
RTT (Rapid Transformation Therapy) Healed My Relationship with Pain
Healing is personal. Whether it’s healing from a physical wound, an emotional trauma, a long-held belief that isn’t serving you, or anything else, it’s PERSONAL. 🧘🏽♀️💫🦋 Last week, I underwent hypnosis for a few hours…