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Okay, so let's talk about being tenacious. 

The number one thing about being tenacious is actually embracing it. 

And I talk about this in terms of my own experience, which is that my biggest mistakes have been my best teachers. 

My biggest mistakes have been my best teachers. 

And really understanding, when you make a mistake or you have a roadblock, you don't get a role that you really thought you were going to, is looking at the situation and asking yourself, what can I learn from this?

And if what you can learn from it is what my mom always told me when I was a little kid, which is you pick yourself up, you dust yourself off, and you start all over again. 

And sometimes the hardest parts of this business, I was going to get emotional about this, has really shown me how incredibly strong I am.

How incredibly strong and resilient I am. 

And what that teaches me is self confidence, and self esteem. 

Persistence comes from resistance. 

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This week we're going to talk about gossip.

Oh my god, I used to love gossip. 

I used to love to talk about other people, what they were doing. Ugh, it was so amazing. Can you tell I was a teenager in the 80s? 

But today I'm going to talk about why gossip is actually not that great. 

And I have really been the target of gossip as well, and maybe I had to burn through some karma there. 

It's really hurtful, so hurtful when you are the one being gossiped about and you find out that somebody else is saying something about you, whether it's good or bad. 

If it's good, it's nice, but if it's not so nice, it's not great. And I think we probably have all been on both sides of it.

If not, you're probably not human. 

But I want to talk about why it's not great as an actor. 

And it's something that I have really honed in on. 

It's been a long time now, but yeah, it's just something that I've really tried to curb. Because it's not nice. Gossip isn't nice.

And I know this is not this...

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Today I'm going to talk about the abandoned actor and this is something that I have been really delving into on a deeper level in my private work, the private work I do with clients, but also in my weekly classes.

And it's the idea of when we audition, or when we go to a set, or anything, maybe it could even be in your personal life when some kind of pressurized situation happens. We abandon ourselves. 

And I'm gonna start talking about I, just to make this easier to explain. 

I would abandon myself. Meaning, I would abdicate my feelings, my point of view, my talent to everybody else but myself, and that's what I mean by abandonment. 

One of my weekly classes is in my sister coaching company called Chiropractor for the Mind. And what I teach is emotional self sufficiency. 

And it's emotional self sufficiency, by teaching you emotional intelligence and teaching you to raise your intelligence emotionall...

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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, the...

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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, ...

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Today I'm going to talk about something that I have found to be extremely helpful. 

And that word is being decisive. 

Now, sometimes when I'm decisive, I make mistakes.

But this is the thing. Everything is fixable. 

And mistakes are how we grow. 

But in my being decisive, what happens is that things get put in order, into motion. 

And the thing is that if I keep doing what I've always done, which can be being wishy-washy about something or procrastinating with something because I just don't know what to do.

By the way, this is why I'm recommending these free consultations with me so we can get you out of that kind of mess. 

What happens is that when I set myself a clear path and I get decisive about things start to happen, big things start to happen. 

And I find that making a decision, and then following through with that decision is sometimes the most valuable thing I do in a day.

So today I'm going to talk, I have five points about decisiveness...

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Today, I'm going to talk about mistakes. 

Something that I'm going to be honest, I am not very excited about. Meaning that like I don't even want to admit to you, let alone myself, I'm not perfect.

Because my name is Peter Pamela Perfection Rose. 

And just like things to be all neat and buttoned up and look good. 

And here's the thing, when I started this podcast, I remember the first few actually the first episode I did, it took me two hours to do it. 

And then I finally said to myself, there is no way I will ever do this, or keep this up if this is how long it's going to take me. 

Because I was trying to get it perfect and I was trying to say, oh, I'm going to do one thing and it's going to be like this, to only find out that maybe that wasn't the best way. 

And so what I decided was, is that in this weekly podcast, come what may, no matter what, I was going to do one every week.

And sometimes I batch them. I do a few in advance. 

But I never really d...

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Today, I'm going to talk about positive energy and energy and the actor and why it is so intensely important. 

I have found positive energy and positive thinking to be one of the most important things for a happy life and a happy career.

So I'm going to start with a quote, which is Gandhi, which is “be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Anais Nin, “We do not see the world as it is. We see it as we are.”

And so what I want to see the world is, especially in such tumultuous times, is I want to see the good in the world. 

Not the bad, because the more I see good in my world, the more good is reflected back to me. 

And because we see it as we are, that is why we want to have as much positive energy going through us as possible. 

And when I talk about positive energy, I talk about anabolic energy. 

I'm talking about that anabolic energy and that anabolic energy is growing, building, healing energy. 

And it is who I Truly am and that's truth with a ...

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We're going to talk about the two energies of the actor. 

We're going to be talking about anabolic energy and catabolic energy. 

But first, what we're going to be talking about Is the term consciousness. So what is the term consciousness? The term consciousness is your awareness of who you really are, as opposed to the you that you believe you are, and we're taught that you are.

Now, here's the thing. Who you really are is pure anabolic energy.

Who you think you are or believe you are, or were taught that you are, or all of the above, has a bit of catabolic energy in it, which means it's energy that works against you. 

So what we're gonna be talking about today is these two energies and how you can stay more in your catabolic energy than your anabol...

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Creating effective change as an actor. 

I'm going to be talking about real coaching principles.

Change can be scary and many people see a benefit in it. In not making change because the payoff is that they don't have to take action and they don't need to face the unknown.

And that is a concept that I'm really going to be drilling into in this podcast, which is what is the payoff? 

What I want you to do is I want you to write down 

What am I not doing in my acting career right now? 

So what should you be doing that you're not doing? 

Now usually I don't want you to should, but for this exercise I want you to because I want you to then write it out for me. 

And then ask yourself, what is the payoff? 

What's the payoff for you not doing it? 

And a lot of the time, the payoff is then I don't have to do anything.

Meaning you don't have to take responsibility. 

And also, you don't have to face the unknown. You don't have to face the rejection. 

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