Hello you beautiful people! Here’s hoping your 2019 is off to a spectacular start! I’ve spent this young year so far meeting with my team members, meeting with mentors, meeting with experts who are advising…
Posts tagged your brand
Executing a Brand Pivot: Crutch vs. Cred
One of the things that’s been interesting about my career recently is that it’s been branching more and more away from my niche. As one of my mentors recently said, “You’re hitting your edges again.”…
Casting Targeting: Tier, Type, and Vibe
Hello beautiful people! And welcome, new BonBlast subscribers! 🙂 Ooh, how I *love* Get in Gear for the New Year season for all the fun folks it brings into our orbit. Hooray! (Not signed up…
Your Actor Logline
One of the coolest moves I’ve ever seen comes from an actor who’d been training in Self-Management for Actors with us… who then got an audition from us… after submitting on a breakdown in which…
Actors… Adjust Your Focus!
Hello you beautiful creatives! Today’s BonBlast comes with a visual. Be sure to marvel at my artistic prowess. First up, the typical actor POV. “I’m over here, smiling. I see that casting director over there….
You’re Not a Commercial Type
Saturday was our day-long intensive called the SMFA Retreat here at the beach in Santa Monica. (I don’t mean to play favorites, but holy shitballs what a spectacular group of creatives gathered to bring more…
Bonnie Gillespie’s New Headshots
Hello you beautiful people and first off let me THANK YOU for helping me choose my new headshot. In five days, a total of 864 votes were cast in the Google survey I put up,…
Help Me Choose My New Headshot
Oh hai! 🙂 I’m back from Toronto, back from New York, back from Chicago… what a month! Back at the beach, back to a packed coaching calendar (I missed y’all too, LA-based lovelies), and back…
Remembering Your First
As I write this, it is two hours before a speaking engagement I have in Hollywood and I’m seated by the window in the 101 Coffee Shop. The first time I sat here (possibly in…
ACTORS! Your Type and Brand: REVEALED!
One of the number-one most popular functions of our badass Self-Management for Actors Facebook group is the crowdsourcing that comes so freakin’ easily when you’ve got an audience of 13,000+ people who’ve gathered with the…