The Acting Business Boot Camp Podcast

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Intimacy Coordinators:

• Act as an advocate and a liaison between actors and other parties, directors producers.
• Help co create choreography within the boundaries of all parties involved in a scene
• Is safe and repeatable.

Actors are trained to say yes, and consent is not engrained. Our job is to be a cocreator, a colleague and peer.

Clarification is not accusation.

The mitigation of power dynamics.

• what makes it hard to ask clarifying questions?
• Regulating the nervous system
• Intimacy Coordinators take the pressure off the actor by being their advocate

Somatic Regulation: How your nervous system talks to you. How we regulate or disregulate and how we engage in behaviors, reactions, responses based on past traumas, overwhelm, stress, or sleep.

The reactions are often from a disregulated nervous system and coming back into regulation and body can be very powerful.

How Amy helps get actors...

I AM FEAR by Lou Tice

I am Fear. I am the menace that lurks in the paths of 
Life, never visible to the eye but sharply felt in the heart. 
I am the father of despair, the brother of procrastination,
The enemy of progress, the tool of tyranny.

Born of ignorance and nursed in misguided thought,
I have darkened more hopes, stifled more ambitions, 
Shattered more ideals and prevented more 
Accomplishments than history could record.

Like the changing chameleon, I assume many disguises.
I masquerade as caution. I am sometimes known as
Doubt or worry. But whatever I am called, I am still 
Fear, the obstacle of achievement.

I know no master but one; is name is Understanding.
I have no power but what the human mind gives me,
And I vanish completely when the light of understanding
Reveals facts as they really are, for 
I am really nothing.

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Awareness, acceptance, and action.

Where do you feel fear?

When do I use fear for healthy reasons, and when do I...

“How you do one thing, is how you do all things”

We want to start making the uncomfortable, comfortable.

The Three As

• Awareness
• Acceptance
• Action

Used as a tool to change so you can fulfill your life’s and career’s potentials.

Awareness: In order to change we must become aware of what needs to be changed

Acceptance: Once we are aware, we need to accept where we are at with it.

Action: You can’t take action without the first two.

Definitions:

An intention: the message you give yourself about what you are planning on doing. It is how much and what type of energy you have to put towards it.

Consciousness: You awareness of who you really are as opposed to the “you” that you believe you are or were taught that you are

3 Circles Intersecting that make up your Consciousness

1. Who you are—Your Awareness
2. What you do— The Acceptance
3. How you do it— The Action

How do you describe yourself?

How do you move beyond them?

Ask These...

The Power of Affirmations

Principle: Energy attracts like energy.

Gandhi, "Be the change you wish to see in the world."

"Be the change you wish to see in your acting career."

We attract and create our world.

Focus on what can be.

We do this through affirmations and self-talk.

Create a healthy, productive, and friendly neighborhood in your actor brain.

Living an abundant life begins with believing in and focusing on an abundant world.

Assignment: Practice gratitude in your acting career.

Creating a gratitude list with at least 5 things on it

If we focus on lack, that's what grows.

Truth: the world is an abundant place and there are enough resources for all.

"Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners."

Truth exists regardless of belief or consensus.

• Truth vs. truth
• truth: ego’s truth
• Truth: Universal Truth

Empowering Question: Sit down, set a timer, focus on this question for 15 minutes.

If I did _______________, for my acting career, what would be possible for me?

Values: What Motivates you to Pursue your Goals in 2021?

They make you tick or drive you

Fear Based Values vs Conscious Based Values

Fear Based

• Take action to avoid
• Half Truths, I have to do this, I have to do that

Conscious Based

• Allow you to take positive actions
• Want or need to choose
• Comes out of wanting to fulfill that goal

Are you choosing from your passion or choosing from your fear?

Empowering questions to ask:

My objective: Help you to be more true to your conscious values

1. Think about a time in your acting career when things were really good. Ask yourself, “what value was being expressed or honored at that time?”
2. Think about a time in your acting career when you were really upset. Ask yourself, “what value was being challenged at that time?”

What is really important to you? Why are you doing this?

When do you compromise your values and why?

What stops you from doing your best?

What will it take to get you off your goal?

Let’s look at the...

The Truth is: The point of Power is in the present moment. 

Staying in the moment in acting is the same way in life and humanity.

1. You can handle this when your anxiety shows up.
2. Ask the question: What do I think I can not handle in this moment?

Anxiety is about not wanting to take responsibility in the moment, and not accepting the reality in the moment, and feeling a lack of control.

Once I ask myself what am I not accepting? What is it that I’m trying to control but can’t?

Then things have the space to shift.

 The fact of the matter is we are going to have these feelings and these situations are going to come up, so the only thing we are left with in a productive way is, “How can we best deal with it?”

3. “I will never be given more than I can handle, but I will be given more than I can control.”

4. What do I think I can not handle in this moment?

Live life on life’s terms.

3 Energy Levels

• Victim
• Anger
• Responsibility

The...

“There is no glory in thinking of yourself as less than.”

Core Work:

“It’s about who doesn’t blink.”

The Power you can harness from your own Strength Story.

“To keep our faces toward change and behave like free-spirited in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”— Helen Keller

Brain Cell A, Brain Cell B Synapses. Changing the “I am not enough,” to “I am enough.”

Affirmation- I LOVE MYSELF AND I APPROVE OF MYSELF.

There is no glory in thinking of yourself as less than.

Stop continuing to play small.

Affirmation- I AM ENOUGH. I AM SUCCESSFUL AT COMMERCIAL AUDITIONS.

Enjoy being you!