Episode 300: What's at Stake AKA The Most Important Podcast You Will Ever Listen To
Release Date: 09/04/2024
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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This podcast is called what's at stake. AKA the most important podcast you'll ever listen to.
There's that phrase that says that life is not a dress rehearsal.
And for those of you who are in your teens, 20s, 30s, and I'll be even honest, your 40s, I didn't get that then. I didn't.
I didn't get that life is not a dress rehearsal, but this is it. I didn't get that till 51.
It was the end of COVID, and I was sitting on the balcony in our then apartment, and it was a beautiful apartment, it overlooked Marina del Rey and the water. And I realized at that moment. That I was not living up to my full potential in my life, and I had just had a year off as we all did of being isolated, and I don't know maybe that's what it took, a year of slowdown, to have it really sink in that this is it.
There's not going to be another 50 again.
There's not going to be another 49, there's not going to be another 48, there's not going to be another 47 and go all the way down to zero.
There isn't going to be that anymore. That this is it.
And what do I want to do with it? And while I was saying, what do I want to do with it?
What do I want to do with this gift?
Because it seemed to me, at 51, I was not really showing up for what I really wanted. and what I really wanted the second act of my life to be.
And it started out with, I looked I was, I remember the way I was sitting and I looked down at my waist and I went, there's a really healthy body underneath there.
And I started with that, I started with the discipline of, and I'd always exercise because I had a back injury when I was at Guildhall, and I started with that, and I started with that discipline, and I took that discipline into everything, because how we do one thing is how we do all things.
And I want to read you a quote that I think also influenced my decision.
And you know where this homework assignment is going, right?
It's a Jen Sincero quote, and she writes the badass books.
Now, I'm going to be honest with you, I did change one little bit out of this quote for the purposes of this podcast, but I think you'll get why I did that.
“Because this is what I realized. You're gonna have to push past your fears.
Fail over and over again. And make a habit of doing things you're not so comfy doing.
You're gonna have to let go of old limiting beliefs and cling to the decision to create the acting career that you desire like your life depends on it.
Because guess what? Your life does depend on it.”
And that's the truth.
That's the truth, and that's the realization that I got at such a deeper level three years ago.
You're going to have to push past your fears, and you're going to have to fail over and over again.
And you're going to have to make a habit of doing things you're not so comfy doing.
And I talk about with my in my weekly class with actors, if you're interested in that. It is a very affordable class, and we offer a class for free.
I talk with them about how when you're exercising, when it starts to feel uncomfortable, that's when you're building strength.
Not hurt. But when it starts to feel uncomfortable, that's when you're building strength.
Guess what? That's what it's like in life too.
It's doing the uncomfortable things.
So if you are ready to do some uncomfortable things, if you're willing to push past your fears and fail over and over again because the other thing I have learned is that it is in my biggest mistakes, I have my biggest lessons and I have my biggest growth.
Let me repeat that. It's when I have my biggest mistakes that I have my biggest growth.
I have my biggest learning.
And you're gonna have to make a habit of doing things that aren't so comfy, if you are willing to do that. And finally, really and become.
I hope you will honor me and let me honor you. That's actually where I want to go. Let me honor you with a free consultation. Let's talk this out. You're not alone in this journey. You don't have to be alone.