Episode 319: The LA Fires & Dealing with Stress
Acting Business Boot Camp
I hope you had A safe week. I am actually recording this podcast from New York. However, I do live in Los Angeles and I own a house there. And, like so many, all of us Angelenos, it's been a terrifying week, and I'm saying it's been a terrifying week, and I haven't even been there. But I've been watching the fire creep closer to my house, and at the moment I am recording this, thankfully, I am out of immediate danger. My family is out of immediate danger. My house is out of immediate danger. I want to talk today. Briefly, this will be a shorter podcast about stress. Because...
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Episode 318: Are You Too Nice As An Actor?
Acting Business Boot Camp
Today is a podcast request. Yes! I take requests. So if you have an idea for a podcast, . So this is a listener who wanted to talk about the idea of being too nice. So being too nice. She said, how often have you heard, “You're too nice.” I have had a few times and while I appreciate the other person's honesty and transparency, it got me thinking about the undertone behind that phrase, especially when it comes to going after what you want as an actor, performer or artist. In pop culture, actors can get a general reputation for being, dare I say it, self centered or...
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Episode 317: Meditation For the New Year
Acting Business Boot Camp
Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful holiday week and let me be one of the first to wish you a very happy new year. Last week it was to close out 2024 and this week it is to welcome 2025. So allow yourself to find a comfortable position and if that means you need to push pause and get settled that's just fine do that now.
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Episode 316: Meditation to Close Out the Year
Acting Business Boot Camp
Today I'm going to be doing a meditation to close out the year. And you can feel free to do this meditation as many times as you want. Because you can also think of this meditation as being something to close out your day, or your hour, or your morning, or your month, or your week. But for our purposes today, it will be to close out 2024.
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Episode 315: Practice Self Care At This Time of Year
Acting Business Boot Camp
Today I'm going to do a podcast on self care. And the reason why I'm doing it now is that I find that December January time to be in some ways the hardest time. And I just had this idea. I'm recording this a couple weeks before the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays. And I'm like, Peter, you're going to need to really listen to this in a couple of weeks. But yeah, I'm going to be honest. I find December and January to be tough. December, because there's so much going on. And January, because even if I'm in California, it's cold. Sometimes it's really rainy. And I...
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Episode 314: Your Important Morning Routine
Acting Business Boot Camp
Today is going to be a short podcast, but it's going to be a very useful one. I'm going to talk about morning routines. I'm going to be using, I haven't used it in a while, the fabulous Melody Beattie. And this reading that I'm going to be coaching off of is called Morning Cues. Melody says, “There is an important message for us first thing every day. Often, once we get started with the day, we may not listen as closely to ourselves and life as we do in those still moments when we first awaken. An ideal time to listen to ourselves is when we are laying quietly, our defenses are...
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Episode 313: Interview with Matthew Corozine
Acting Business Boot Camp
About Matthew: Matthew Corozine is a multi-hyphenated creative artist. Not only an actor, director, producer, and teacher, Matthew is also the founding artistic director and creator of Matthew Corozine Studio (MCS), which just celebrated its 24th anniversary. He is now one of New York City’s leading Meisner-based acting coaches, teaching and creating opportunities for students to “get outta your head” in order to build a meaningful life with art. Already with an established student base in New York City, Washington DC and internationally (via online coaching), MCS has expanded to...
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Episode 312: The Hazard of Making Excuses
Acting Business Boot Camp
Today I'm going to talk to you about the hazard of making excuses as an actor. And I'm going to start with perhaps something that if you were like me, or you are like how I used to be the idea of it's only me. So it's only me and therefore it doesn't count or, I'm tough, I can handle it. One of the things that making excuses as an actor does is it stalls personal growth. And anything that would affect me in a negative way, I used to be like, “Hey, I'm young. I can take it. Hey, no worries. I can overcome it.” Until I couldn't. And so the first thing I'm going...
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Episode 311: Interview with Tim Phillips
Acting Business Boot Camp
About Tim: With more than 60,000 coaching sessions and 40+ years in the business, audition coach and premiere acting teacher Tim Phillips knows what works. was written after 30 years of teaching and designed as a practical manual for the working actor. What Phillips is after are moment-by-moment, clear, specific, human truths that make you unavoidable on stage and screen, from character. Tim Phillips ignited the careers of Emmy award-winning Richard Schiff, Golden Globe nominee Wendy Malick, Nancy Travis, the excellent Robert Wisdom, James DuMont, Bruce...
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Episode 310: Unsupportive Family & Friends
Acting Business Boot Camp
Today I'm going to talk about what I find a sad subject, and it is about unsupportive friends and unsupportive family members. And I'm gonna give you a few points and things to think about. So that you can have the support, at least from me, and I'll talk about getting more support in a moment, that helps you when you're dealing with this. Now, the first thing, and I know because, man, I hated this word when I first learned it, was boundaries. Learning to set boundaries, clearly communicate your goals and values to others, and establish boundaries when necessary. This helps you to...
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We are going to be talking about the importance of fun.
So I'm going to be really honest with you, this is a topic that I have had so much trouble with.
Yeah, I have had trouble having fun.
I thought that, I don't know, life was to be endured. And even though I had a positive, natural positive attitude, I didn't know how to have fun. I had no idea how to have fun.
And you know what that hurt? That hurt my acting career and that hurt my ability to act because I wasn't experiencing all emotions, especially the really good ones.
But the thing is that when we as casting directors, agents, managers are meeting with you, we want to be with people who are Professional, but also are fun to be around people that we want to work with, that we want to be on a set with day in and day out now.
Okay, that might not apply for the casting director or the agent or the manager, but I am going to be working with you a decent amount.
So yes, it does apply to that, but it really applies in your auditions.
Are you having fun? Do you know how to have fun?
And if you don't, that's okay.
You can have fun learning, and you may make mistakes while having fun.
I've certainly done that.
I thought something was going to be fun, and then it really wasn't.
In fact, I hated it.
Anyway, so I'm going to read a little thing out of Melody Beattie's Language of Letting Go.
“Have some fun with life, with the day. Find the good things in the day. Find the fun things in the day. Life is not a drudgery. That is an old belief.”
And as I said, truly an old belief of mine.
“We can let go of it. We are on an adventure. And this adventure is life. It is a journey. Events will come to pass that we cannot even fathom.”
I think that's one of the gifts of being deaf. Age is that with age, you begin to appreciate life more. You begin to appreciate the day more.
And lately I've had podcasts and podcasts that will come up about being decisive, making mistakes.
You can have fun with all of this.
The big thing is we want to create the best life and career and experience with this one amazing shot we have on this planet.
“We want to try and replace our heaviness and weariness of spirit with joy. Surround yourself with people and things that bring lightness of spirit as opposed to that heaviness.
Become sensitive to happiness, to lightness, to the incredible wonder of life.
The journey, it really can be an exciting adventure. Let yourself be. Enjoy it.”
One of the mantras that I gave myself recently, creating amazing experiences in my life is fun for me.
Creating amazing experiences in my life. is fun for me.
Again, fun. It's so important. You want to be around people who are fun.
Why would that stop in a casting office? Why would that stop in an agent's office? Why would that stop at a manager's office? Why would that stop in auditioning?
Have fun. This business can be fun.
It can be exciting.
Yes, it can also be trying. But let's have fun on the adventure.