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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Last week I talked about accountability and discipline.

Today, I want to talk about hard days.

I did not have a good night last night.

I didn't sleep well. I'm going through some physical discomfort. Nothing serious, but just physical discomfort. And I just got down. And one of the things I've learned is hungry, angry, lonely, tired, halt. 

If you get too hungry or you get too angry or you get too lonely or you get too tired , and I also will add hormonal in there, I find that is when my negativity, my catabolic energy comes up.

And the thing is I woke up and I was like, “okay, I didn't have a great night's sleep. I'm not feeling that great about me at the moment. And I'm just having one of those days. I'm having a hard day.” 

So every morning I make a cup of tea. And I go out to our garden, and I sit, and I talk with the Universe, and this morning, I was resenting the Universe.

I was like, “I'm not...

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I'm going to talk about something that has truly changed my life. There are two things. One is discipline and the second one is accountability.

So the first one is accountability. When I started this work nearly 30 years ago, I can't even believe it's been that long.

I really cannot believe it. It sometimes feels like it's so much longer than that, and sometimes it feels like it's, I don't know, like yesterday. 

But when I started this work out, I had to be accountable. And I was accountable to my coach and I was accountable to a group. 

And this group I was accountable to them every week. So I worked with my coach privately, and I worked with my coach in a group setting. 

And it taught me a lot. And basically what it taught me was, is the number one person who I needed to be accountable to was me.

That if I said that I wanted to be a working actor, that I had to put my money where my mouth was, where I had to put my energy where my mouth...

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Today I'm going to be talking about boundaries.

The Language of Letting Go

One of the things that comes up for actors quite often is setting boundaries with the representation, with a director of a play or a student film or a feature film, or even, what happened to me on a commercial set, where I was almost physically abused.

So boundaries are something that is very valuable for us to know in our work as an actor, but also, of course, in our personal life. 

“Sometimes life and people seem to push and push.Because we sometimes may have been so used to pain, we may tell ourselves that it doesn't hurt. Because we are so used to people controlling and manipulating us, we may tell ourselves that there is something wrong with us.”

So the first part of that is something that I used to do is go “it's just me, so it doesn't matter.”

The second part is, we may tell ourselves that there is something wrong with us. 

Now,...