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Episode 413: The Addiction to Almost
Episode 413: The Addiction to Almost
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Our goal is to break down the business of becoming a working actor into a simple, actionable, step by step roadmap.
We'll cover everything from creative entrepreneurialism and mastering what we call the language of the agents and casting directors, to the importance of top notch training and tools for boosting your confidence in self tapes and on the set. Ready to take your acting career to the next level? Let's get started.
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- Episode 413: The Addiction to Almost · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 313Have you been pinned? Have you gotten your avail check? Are you down to the final two and still waiting? You get told things like this. They loved you. You were absolutely down…
- Episode 412: 5 Tips for Content Creation · 18 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 312One of my students came to me with a question I think a lot of you are sitting with. They want to make commentary content. Real opinions under their real name. Maybe short form…
- Episode 411: The Exhaustion of Shape Shifting · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 311Many actors believe that if they can just become what people want, they will finally book. And what happens is that shape-shifting becomes exhaustion. Full-on exhaustion. Actors…
- Episode 410: LinkedIn Wake up Call · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 310How to Actually Use LinkedIn to Grow Your Voiceover Business I know. I can already hear you groaning. Mandy, I am an actor, not a business person in a blazer who posts about…
- Episode 409: Why Fear Gets Louder · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 309Why Fear Gets Louder Right Before Growth Fear often gets louder right before growth. And sometimes it is not just loud. Sometimes it is a full-on horror movie. Because when I am…
- Episode 408: The Numbers Game of 100 Touches · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 308The Number Nobody Tells You About Voiceover Marketing I need to have a real conversation with you. Not a comfortable one. Not a motivational poster kind of conversation. A lot of…
- Episode 407: Feel the Fear and Audition Anyway · 10 minFeel the Fear and Audition Anyway Working actors are not fearless actors. They have just learned how to move when they are afraid. This morning I woke up with what I can only…
- Episode 406: Greed Is Making You a Terrible Actor · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 306Nobody in this industry ever says this out loud, so I am going to. Greed is making you a terrible actor. Not greed in the cartoon villain sense. I am not talking about people…
- Episode 405: The Energetics of Allowing · 18 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 305I want to start this episode with someone I lost recently. A dear colleague of mine, Riff Hutton, passed away a couple of weeks ago from a brain tumor. I am opening with him…
- Episode 404: The Social Post That Made My Student Feel Like a Failure · 10 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 304A student of mine forwarded me an email she got from a voiceover guru. One of those here is the truth nobody tells you posts. And after reading it, she asked me, very sincerely…
- Episode 403: Energy Vampires! · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 303Energy Vampires in the Acting Industry Not everyone around you wants you to be emotionally healthy. That is not paranoia. That is a pattern worth recognizing. Because some people…
- Episode 402: The SEO Fixes You Can Do Today · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 302Here is the scenario I want you to picture. A casting director, an agent, a direct marketing client lands on your page. They have 17 seconds and zero obligation to stay. In those…
- Episode 401: The Emotional Toll of Self Tapes · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 301Let me ask you something. When an audition lands in your inbox, what is your first reaction? Is it excitement? Or is it, oh no. Not another self-tape. If it is the second one, we…
- Episode 400: SMART Goals · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 300I'm going to say something a little unpopular. Most SMART goals don't work. Not because the framework is bad. Not because I don't believe in it. I make SMART goals every quarter…
- Episode 399: Stages Every Actor Goes Through · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 299The Career Stages Every Actor Goes Through There is a coaching phrase I keep coming back to. It gets better, it gets worse, it gets different, it gets real. And then it starts…
- Episode 398: Make Your Own Content · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 298"Make Your Own Content" Is Incomplete Advice. Here Is What It Actually Means. I was scrolling TikTok, as one does, and I came across an actor who was fired up. She said the…
- Episode 397: Don't Burn Out Before You Break Through · 14 minOne of the hardest parts of an acting career is actually not the rejection. I know. That surprises people. But as a young actor, the hardest part for me was the emotional roller…
- Episode 396: The Buyout Conversation Nobody Prepares You For · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 296Let me walk you through a scenario. A voice actor gets an offer. Major food delivery brand. Session fee is $500. Buyout is $10,000. Usage is worldwide, all media, in perpetuity…
- Episode 395: Auditions Are Not The Job · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 295I want to reframe something for you. Because if auditioning feels heavy, like a test, like a judgment, like a moment that could determine your entire future, I get it. I have…
- Episode 394: An In-Demand Niche No One Is Talking About · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 294Quick question. What's the voice you hear describing what's happening on screen during a movie or a TV show for blind and low vision viewers? That's audio description. And…
- Episode 393: What CD's Notice in the First 10 Seconds · 18 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 293What Casting Directors Notice in the First 10 Seconds Most actors believe the audition starts when they begin the scene. It doesn't. The audition starts the moment casting sees…
- Episode 392: Avoidable Errors In Your Auditions · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 292I want to tell you about a little experiment I ran. I was helping a director find and cast actors for some ADR for a film. I reached out to my network and posted in a very…
- Episode 391: The Myth of Getting Lucky · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 291Somebody books a big role and everybody says the same thing. They got lucky. They just got lucky. And yes. Of course luck plays a role in this industry. It can be the luck of…
- Episode 390: Why Your Cold Outreach Isn't Working (And It's Not the List) · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 290Let me start with a number. 400. That's approximately how many cold emails I used to send per month at one point in my career. 400 a month. Roughly 13 emails a day, every day, to…
- Episode 389: The Actors' Time Management Problem · 16 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 189After 30 years of coaching, I can tell you the number one thing that determines whether you're going to work in this industry or not work in this industry. It's not talent. It's…
- Episode 388: Actor Tools of the Trade · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 288The Business Tools That Actually Keep Your VO Career Running One of the biggest misconceptions in voiceover is that success comes from talent plus a good booth. And yes…
- Episode 387: Why Talented Actors Stay Invisible · 21 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 287There are so many incredibly talented actors out there. And so many of them do not get seen. Meanwhile there are actors with less training booking roles more regularly. And if…
- Episode 386: Micro Habits To Keep You a Professional Voiceover Actor · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 285The Stuff Nobody Puts in Their Instagram Carousel Everybody wants to talk about the big wins in voiceover. The national spot. The animation series. The dream agent. The viral…
- Episode 385: The Art of Consistency · 9 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 285There's a version of an acting career that looks like a highlight reel. Big auditions. Exciting callbacks. The moment everything clicks. Most working actors don't live there…
- Episode 284: Practice Builds Familiarity and That's Your Superpower · 13 minHere's a myth that floats around the voiceover world. Once you have a demo, a decent mic, and a couple bookings, you can kind of coast. I want to dismantle that right now. Voice…
- Episode 383: How To Motivate Yourself To Change Your Behavior · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 283I came across a Ted Talk by cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot about how to motivate yourself to change your behavior. And then I did what I always do. I took it, ran with it…
- Episode 382: Professionally vs Personally · 16 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 282There's a scene in You've Got Mail where Tom Hanks tells Meg Ryan not to take something personally. It's just business. And she stops him cold. The business is her life. Of…
- Episode 381: Future Self Work For A Powerful Career · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 281Close your eyes for a second. It's December 2026. The year is almost over. And there's a version of you standing there, the actor you've been working toward all year. How are…
- Episode 280: Redefine Success Before The Industry Does It For You · 16 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 280Stop Letting the Industry Define Your Success (Before It's Too Late) I was 16 years old. I walked out of an audition without a callback. And I cried. Not because the audition…
- Episode 379: The Art of Subtle Intrusion Influence Without Interrupting · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 279You walk into a networking event. You hover. You don't want to bother anyone. Or you send a follow-up email that says "just checking in." Or you audition without really framing…
- Episode 378: You Missed the Call And That Was the Job · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 278The Thing Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud I get ghosted. A lot. Free consults, strategy calls, portfolio reviews. People who asked, people who booked, people who confirmed. And…
- Episode 377: The Spiritual Side Of An Acting Career · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 277There's a version of career advice that's all hustle. Post more. Submit more. Network harder. And look, that stuff matters. But there's something most acting coaches don't talk…
- Episode 376: You're Not Unmotivated. You're Avoiding Grief · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 276If you've been telling yourself you're unmotivated or burnt out or lazy or somehow broken, I want you to pause for a second. Because there's a good chance that none of that is…
- Episode 375: Refresh Your Actor Tool Kit · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 275Things are heating up in the Weekly Accountability Time Management Class, and this episode is all about one of the most important topics for any working actor: how to refresh…
- Episode 374: Stop Lying To Yourself · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 274Self-Perception and the Stories We Call "Logic" Most actors don't think they're afraid. They think they're being responsible. They say things like: • It's not the right time •…
- Episode 373: Interview with James Robbins · 37 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 273In this episode of the Acting Business Bootcamp Podcast, I sit down with James Robbins to talk about listening to your inner voice, building resilience, and what happens when you…
- Episode 372: Underestimation, Overestimation, and Grounded Confidence · 9 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 272Self-Perception and Where We Decide We Belong I want to talk about something we reference a lot in acting, but usually only vaguely. Self-perception. It sits at the center of…
- Episode 371: "There is Nothing Going on in My Career" · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 271I hear actors say this phrase all the time: "There's nothing going on in my career." And I want to be very clear, that idea is almost never true. In this episode of the Acting…
- Episode 370: You Can't Call Yourself a Professional Actor If Your Business Is Running Like a Hobby · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 270The Part of the Business We Avoid I don't know many actors who got into this work because they love paperwork. Money. Invoices. Contracts. Admin. I avoid this side of the…
- Episode 369: How Actors Actually Change Their Year · 18 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 269Actors often think a new year will change things. New calendar, new energy, new motivation. But real change doesn't come from dates. It comes from how you structure your choices…
- Episode 368: Two Tabs, One Artist- Keeping Your Spicy Work Separate (and Safe) · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 168The Art of Keeping Things Separate This topic comes up more than people admit. Usually in a whisper. Or an email that starts with, "This might be a weird question…" It's not…
- Episode 367: Utilize Invisible Guidance · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 267Listening to Invisible Guidance I've been thinking a lot about how guidance shows up. Not in big dramatic flashes, but in the tiny whispers. The quiet nudges you feel before…
- Episode 366: The Power of Yes · 10 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 266The Word That Changes Everything I've been rereading Larry Moss's The Intent to Live, and there's a line that stopped me. He calls "yes" the most important word in acting. It…
- Episode 365: How to Handle Difficult Family Members Over the Holidays · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 265Family gatherings can be beautiful. They can also feel like emotional landmines, especially when you're an actor. One minute you're passing the mashed potatoes. The next you're…
- Episode 364: Choice, Habit, Love: How Actors Build Real Momentum · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 264Actors often wait for motivation. We hope a burst of inspiration will get us moving, keep us consistent, or push us to the next level. But real growth rarely starts with…
