The Power of Ripple and Flow in Your Career
Get a perspective and equilibrium in your career by focusing on the immediate tasks at hand, allowing the overarching goal to naturally come into focus. Life's varied and intricate moments, when attended to, build the bigger picture organically. Protect your confidence, understanding that gradual progress, characterized by patience and empathy, often leads to more substantial results than forced efforts. Consider patience like a good friend. Much like gently rocking a car stuck in snow, or patiently nurturing a small flame into a beautiful campfire, your career requires a similar approach. Patience and quality work, traits increasingly rare yet invaluable, are...
Reflecting on Teaching for Half a Century – A shoutout to 13 amazing actors who’s hard work and dedication paid off.
During the month of October, five movies were shot featuring both first and second leads who are recent and current LB actors. I coached many of them for their auditions and also worked on scenes with most of the others before their shoots. I also worked with the guest stars on two series. By any measure, these statistics are impressive. From a marketing standpoint, it would be advantageous to take credit for this; however, on a personal level, it would be opportunistic. Of these actors, 11 out of 13 have trained with me on and off for a minimum...
Stop Beating Yourself Up: A 12-Point Plan to Keeping Afloat
The song “High Water” by Dylan has been floating in and out of my brain ever since the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes were announced. The steady drip of A.I. has become an ocean, and many of us are playing like children in its waves, gleefully unaware that we are in shark-infested waters. As I look around, I see some of us drowning, while others reach out a hand, trying to save those in peril without being pulled under themselves. Still, others are so focused on the receding shoreline and their own survival that they don't dare look back to...
Why the Artist Needs To See Beyond Politics: Lessons Learned from a Visit to Cracker Barrel
If you've ever gone on a road trip through the US of A ("the land of the best and the worst" according to Leonard Cohen), you may have noticed these cathedrals of excessive calories and poor culinary taste in nearly every State. Their orange signs point skyward above the roadside trees as you speed along the interstate. I am talking about the chain of restaurants called Cracker Barrel. These establishments exude an atmosphere of old America. As you approach the door along a covered porch, you pass rocking chairs that gently sway in the breeze, as if inhabited by the...
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