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Get Your Art In Gear5 Ways to finish March and start April feeling creative, joyful and focused.5 Ways to finish March and start April feeling creative, joyful and focused.I am recording this on Monday the 27th March but you can use these questions any month as the month ends1. What are the one or two things you'd like to get done this week so you can end the month feeling positive and you have achieved some things, 2. What can you start so you feel ready to hit April feeling focused, from starting a new fitness plan to making a call for a meeting on a new project.3. Start...2023-03-2704 min
Get Your Art In GearConstructive Critiscism = Bloodwork, Feedback is just facts Ep 64Constructive Critiscism = Bloodwork, Feedback is just factsSo this week's new podcast 64 is all about getting into a healthy mindset about criticism of yourself as an artist or your art, whether you are a musician, filmmaker or visual artist. So try looking at Constructive Critiscism being Bloodwork, Feedback being just facts.Just like an athlete looks at stats and speed and daily notes on their progress so we can choose to take what is useful in the noves we are given and implement changes in our creative work or practise more. We can also ignore what does...2022-02-2108 min
Get Your Art In GearRewarding your curiosity can really help make you more creative, have more open ideas and make you happier Ep 63Rewarding your curiosity can really help make you more creative, have more open ideas and make you happier.Hence taking a course in something you are interested in, or learning all you can from books, the web on a subject or someone or by developing new skills in a certain area can make you feel fabulous and make you start making connections in new ways.One way to declare someone a genius can be by their unusual ways of making connections on subjects they know a lot about and creative genius can certainly be applied to that...2022-02-1508 min
Get Your Art In GearWhere can you save money and put it instead towards your next creative project? Ep 62 - Love Your Creativity AND Make MoneyWhere can you save money and put it instead towards your next creative project?Last week in the UK we all had to file our taxes and it made me think about all that money we can earn and sometimes wonder where it has all gone. So this week's podcast is about one way I support my own life as a creative is to save money every month in a sinking fund/special bank account so that when I need to pay for research, exhibitions venues, fringe brochures or workshops I already have money saved to pay for it.2022-02-0706 min
Get Your Art In GearHow to use the Nadal, Djokovic & Federer rivalry to become better at your art form Episode 61 - Love Your Creativity AND Make MoneyHow to use the Nadal, Djokovic & Federer rivalry to become better at your art formI was reading about the Nadal, Djokovic & Federer rivalry and how they have all pushed each other to become better players as each of them are just such incredible tennis players.Until Nadal won the Australian Open yesterday the three players had been stuck on all winning 20 Grand Slam titles each, Federer who is 40 has been there since 2018, Nadal (36) in 2021, Djokovic (35) in 2021.What is fascinating is how they have all had to step up and improve their game to be able to c...2022-01-3109 min
Get Your Art In GearNew Years Resolutions Forgotten? Instead Take A Daily Action Step Towards Your Dreams Ep 60 - Love Your Creativity AND Make MoneyBy the 3rd week of January most people have failed on their New Year's resolutions.We all set impossible tasks at a time when many of us are in cold dark January and no Xmas sparkle to entertain ourselves with. Plus we are all in various savages of lockdown so if this is you definitely dont feel guilty.When it comes to being a creative and working on your new show or book , it is equally hard to keep putting off doing the writing or editing work you need to do. Without external deadlines or people asking for your...2022-01-2406 min
The Singing PsychicHungry Like The Wolf By Duran Duran #SongOfTheWeek - The Singing PsychicHungry like the Wolf by Duran Duran is the #songoftheweek by The Singing Psychic in this week’s podcastAt present the Wolf Moon is in the sky - a very big full moon which lasts for 3 days, it is so called as people could hear the wolves howl and thought it was due to hunger in january. However the howling of wolves is now know to be more due to territorial issues.For you the meaning is that someone is lusting after you, and are wondering of they can make a move.Although the lyrics are abo...2022-01-1604 min
Get Your Art In GearSidney Poitier - Lessons From His Autobiography Ep 59 - Love Your Creativity AND Make MoneyI read Sidney Poitier'a autobiography perhaps 15 years ago and there are stories of his youth he tells that I have never forgotten. They illustrate his self respect, his focus and also his humility. His unwillingness to play stereotypical of the time characters and how luck met his focus is fascinating.Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make MoneyThis podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor...2022-01-1610 min
Get Your Art In Gear52. Getting Cannes Film Festival ready - the joy of a hard deadlinePodcast 52 for Love Your Creativity And Make Money. Getting Cannes Film Festival ReadyThere is a real energy and focus you get given when you have a hard external deadline. I am planning to go again to the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, I have been going as an actress for years but there is so much prep to do.I am using it to get scripts ready, finishing work I want done before I leave so I do not need to stress about it, plus even its got me back in the gym.So choosing...2021-06-2405 min
The Singing PsychicMake someone scream your name this week 'Hey Mama' David Guetta #songoftheweek‘Hey Mama’ by David Guetta & Nikki Minaj is the #songoftheweek by The Singing Psychic – this week’s podcastHello my dears. I am The Singing Psychic and a happy day to you today. Yes here I am giving you the #SongOfTheWeek for you to hold in your heart for the next seven days of your life. Yes. This is the song to guide you and to listen to every morning as you get ready for the day. Dance around your bedroom and kitchen singing this tune with your armpit chakras in the air like you don’t care.2021-06-2004 min
Get Your Art In Gear51. Dr Edith Egel Dont think of yourself as a victim but victimisedPodcast 51 for Love Your Creativity And Make Money. I am just reading Dr Edith Egel, she has two books The Gift and the Choice. She is a Holocaust survivor and is now 90, a great grandmother and spent many years as a therapist specialising in treating PTSD and survivors.She talks about how you should never see yourself as a victim but as someone who was victimized. She argues that seeing yourself as a victim means you have lost power and it is very difficult to get strong again. However seeing yourself as victimized by a person...2021-06-1708 min
The Singing PsychicHave patience and open your heart this week as 'Issues' by Julia Michaels is#songoftheweek‘Issues’ by Julia Michaels is the #songoftheweek by The Singing Psychic – this week’s podcastHave patience and open your heart this weekHello my dears. I am The Singing Psychic and a happy day to you today. Yes here I am giving you the #SongOfTheWeek for you to hold in your heart for the next seven days of your life. Yes. This is the song to guide you and to listen to every morning as you get ready for the day. Dance around your bedroom and kitchen singing this tune with your armpit chakras in the a...2021-06-1306 min
Get Your Art In Gear50. Be like an Olympiad - think of Pain as sensationI am back in the gym and listening to lots of fitness podcasts and interviews with Olmpiads and long distance runners. The idea of them reframing ‘pain’ and thinking of it as a sensation instead is appearing a lot. For supremely fit humans they have to hit and go through the pian barrier on a consistent basis.I have been using this idea as it applies to creative pain as well, the pain of keeping going, of struggling to finish, of not being able to make the middle arc work or even the pain of not ‘succeeding as we thi...2021-06-1004 min
The Singing Psychic'I Could Be The One' no you need to make yourself happy firts #songoftheweek Avicii‘I Could Be The One’ by Avicii is #songoftheweek by The Singing Psychic – this week’s podcastHello my dears. I am The Singing Psychic and a happy day to you today. Yes here I am giving you the #SongOfTheWeek for you to hold in your heart for the next seven days of your life. Yes. This is the song to guide you and to listen to every morning as you get ready for the day. Dance around your bedroom and kitchen singing this tune with your armpit chakras in the air like you don’t care.2021-06-0703 min
Get Your Art In Gear49. Did you know breathing out makes you lose fat ;) How small incremental daily changes will transform your lifePodcast 49 for Love Your Creativity And Make Money. Did you know breathing out makes you lose fat ;) How small incremental daily changes will transform your life.I watched a great Tedx talk from Ruben Meerman on how the body actually releases fat from your body when you are on an exercise plan.The chemical formula for fat is C55 H104 06, so 55 carbon atoms, 104 hydrogen and 6 Oxygen. We lose 84% of our weight by breatjing out and 16% by the water we produce. Of course you cant just breathe more to lose fat you have to either exercise...2021-06-0308 min
Get Your Art In Gear48. Tidying up your half finished projects helps motivate and get you going againPodcast 48. Tidying up all your projects and knowing at what stage they each are at really helps you refocus.Productivity research shows that we should do just one project at a time but real life often does not allow that. Certainly as creatives we often have a lot of different projects, often in different art forms, all at different stages. Mnay of mine are stuck in what I call a creative drawer of death.By first writing down a list of all your projects and what stage they are at on a white board or on...2021-05-3104 min
The Singing Psychic'Just Got Paid' Sigala- budget before you spend all your money on post lockdown partying #songoftheweekBudget for entertaining as you come out of lockdown, don't overspend.‘Just Got Paid by Sigala and Meghan Trainer – set yourself an entertainment budget for the next few months so you don’t overspend as we all come out of lockdown#songoftheweek by The Singing Psychic – this week’s podcastHello my dears. I am The Singing Psychic and a happy day to you today. Yes here I am giving you the #SongOfTheWeek for you to hold in your heart for the next seven days of your life. Yes. This is the song to guide y...2021-05-3006 min
The Singing PsychicPerfect Day Lou Reed - focus on the now and who is in it - #songoftheweek‘Perfect Day’ by Lou Reed – focus on what and who are on your life and appreciate this moment #songoftheweek by The Singing PsychicHello my dears. I am The Singing Psychic and a happy day to you today. Yes here I am giving you the #SongOfTheWeek for you to hold in your heart for the next seven days of your life. Yes. This is the song to guide you and to listen to every morning as you get ready for the day and at the end of every day.I want you to imbue this and th...2021-05-2304 min
Get Your Art In Gear47. Motivation as to why focusing on improving by 0.01% today works in all areas of your life and artPodcast 47. Focusing on trying to improve by just 0.01% today will make you over a period of time happier, more successful and a mistress of your craft.1)It takes the pressure off on being brilliant today2)Tiny incremental changes are not noticeable in the short term but over a lifetime or even 5 years will make you brilliant3)Whether you try 0.01% harder at work, at your film editing, or marketing your creative projects soon you will notice a difference and then over time others around you will notice a differenceSo this was my podcast for...2021-05-2105 min
Get Your Art In Gear45. Chose to be Strong & WrongBeing ‘strong and wrong’ or willing to be strong and wrong is such an important part, I think, for all of us as creatives, we have to be willing to be strong enough to say.’I like this idea, I'm going to follow it through’ and we also have to be willing for it to be wrong and not great because when you're making something, well generally in my experience, you only know what the finished product should look like well after It's done and finished or maybe that's just me. Being strong and wrong and choosing to say it's...2021-05-0605 min
The Singing PsychicMake everyone feel special around you; #songoftheweek Millionaire by Digital Farm Animals (ft Nelly) - 04:05:2021, 21.14Hello my dears. I am The Singing Psychic and a happy day to you today. Yes here I am giving you the #SongOfTheWeek for you to hold in your heart for the next seven days of your life.Yes. This is the song to guide you and to listen to every morning as you get ready for the day and at the end of every day.I want you to imbue this and the song is ‘Millionaire’ featuring Nelly by Digital Farm Animals,You know, it ‘I feel like a millionaire whenever she comes around whenev...2021-05-0403 min
Get Your Art In Gear44. There is no hack to creativity44. There is no hack to a creative lifeThis week’s podcast is on how you can’t hack creativity.There's no quick fix to honing a film or a song or a a novel that actually has real value to yourself and to others.This idea that we can hack everything, ‘how to hack becoming famous’ etc. Yes, you could become Instagram fabulous. And if you are brilliant, well done.But actually the creative stuff, it takes time. You need to hone your skills.Even if you have the most amazing idea for Say...2021-04-2904 min
The Singing PsychicBeing 'good bad' v bad bad #SongOfTheWeek Bad by David Guetta + ShowtekHello my dears. I am The Singing Psychic and a happy day to you today. Yes here I am giving you the #SongOfTheWeek for you to hold in your heart for the next seven days of your life.Yes. This is the song to guide you and to listen to every morning as you get ready for the day and at the end of every day.I want you to imbue this and the song is ‘Bad’ by David Guetta + ShowtekWith lyrics like ‘why does it feel so good to be bad’ this song has me t...2021-04-2705 min
Get Your Art In Gear43. Using anger as a positive force to change your life and transform the worldResearch by the Harvard Decision Science Lab shows that anger both encourages people to believe they can control their future and anger also motivates them to take action.This week’s Love Your Creativity And Make Money podcast is about using anger in a positive way, whether it is anger at yourself for not following through or being angry at what is happening in the world around you either in your own environment or in the world at large. I recorded this the day after George Chauvin has been found guilty of the murder of George Fl...2021-04-2212 min
Get Your Art In Gear42. What one daily habit can you transform to reach your goals fasterThis week’s Love Your Creativity And Make Money podcast is about transforming daily habits and behaviours to get to your goals quicker. When you think about what you want in your life, your creative goals, relationships goals, fitness goals, do you also see where you are stopping yourself from achieving them?Make a list of all the habits and behaviours that you think are getting in the way of what you want.Where do you feel you waste time?What do you do instead of working on your creative project?How do you li...2021-04-1504 min
Get Your Art In Gear41. Motivational tip for when it gets difficult - Talk to yourself in the 2nd or 3rd personThis week’s Love Your Creativity And Make Money podcast is a great motivational wonder tip when you are particularly struggling.Try speaking to yourself in the second or third person… no, it is not as bonkers as it sounds (though you might want to try it silently rather than proclaiming it loudly)They have done research with endurance athletes trying to get through a particular hard section, maybe going uphill or at the end of the day when theor bodies feel like they have no more to give. Those athletes that spoke to themselves in the second or t...2021-04-0805 min
Get Your Art In Gear39. Celebrate your daily winsThis week’s podcast is about reminding ourselves about the small wins every day, the daily actions we have taken that move us nearer to our creative goals can really help our hope levels and our mental health.Try each morning asking yourself what did I ‘win at’ yesterday? Often they are little tiny steps towards getting big goals done.It could be did you eat in line with your health and nutrition goals, did you go for a walk or a run, do some practice? Finally get a task that was hanging over your head?2021-03-2506 min
Get Your Art In Gear38. Choosing to enjoy my work vs stressing about my to do list. Mental health is vital.Starting my day this morning with a long list of things to do, I could feel myself getting stressed especially as I realised I had another few projects that I had to get over the line today.However I can choose joy and appreciation in doing my list. I can enjoy the process of the tasks I am doing today as opposed to seeing it as some great austerity or getting super stressed.After I had this realisation of choosing to do all the tasks I have to do with joy and appreciation, to the very...2021-03-1809 min
Get Your Art In Gear35. Investing financially in your creative career using saving potsEvery single month I save some money and invest in myself, my art and my creative career. Whether it is a month when I have loads come in or it’s a lean month I chose to invest in myself even if it is a small amount. I have series of savings pots to financially invest in my creativity and helps with my mindset I am a freelancer so my income is always irregular.As well as investing time in my creative career in terms of the organising, practising my art forms, working with others on their sh...2021-03-0414 min
Get Your Art In Gear34. Born ready? What do you need to hone to really 'be ready'Born Ready. Forget about this, Get Ready! Ask yourself what do you need to do to hone your skills, talents, to be ready to take on an amazing opportunity when they come.This weeks podcast is inspired by the phrase I was born ready and Rege-Jean Paul’s appearance on Saturday Night Live. The actor who has seen a sudden rise to fame after his steamy turn as the Duke Of Hastings in Bridgerton used this once in a lifetime opportunity to show off his comedic skills and also sang.Talk about an ac...2021-02-2508 min
Get Your Art In Gear33. Keep On Trucking & Other Creative Life Lessons on my Singing Psychic AnniversaryFour lessons I need to keep re-remembering on my 6th years anniversary of my first full Singing Psychic show..I may forget these but they are vital to my creative process 1.Keep On Trucking. As the fabulous actor Simon Callow said to me, upon me asking advice on creativity, you have to ‘keep on trucking’. Keep on making the work, then the next project, onwards always.2.Find The Middle Way. This is a Buddhist term referring to balance, nothing too extreme either side of too much or too little focus. Balance acro...2021-02-1824 min
Get Your Art In Gear32. Three Questions inspired by Tom Brady for your long term success & focusThree Questions to ask yourself to help you focused on long term success, focus, consisitent and getting projects finished out and over the line. All inspired by Tom Brady, NFL superhero’s 3 year training plans.It has given me more fire in my creative belly!Q1: Ask yourself what your three year goals are: creativelyWhat projects, goals, finishing things, big dreams??Setting up systems to sell more of existing projectsLook at your life on a 3 year life plan – what do you wantQ2. What do you need to change abou...2021-02-1112 min
The Singing Psychic'Good Feeling" Make Feb your month of (Self) LoveThis week The Singing Psychic asks you to choose February as your month of love: self love, love for your dreams, love for others.The #songoftheweek is Good Feeling Flo RidaDo a gratitude listWhat actions can you take for your goals? If you choose your month of love as February take actions every day to make yourself ‘good’ and happierWe are always happiest when we are working towards a goal.It maybe raining and you may be in lockdown but The Singing Psychic says ‘Learn to love the life that you are li...2021-01-3115 min
Get Your Art In Gear30. Ditch Your Dreams, Become A Doer - Shonda Rhimes“Ditch The Dream & Become A Doer! Dreams happen because of blood, sweat and tears. Hard work is what makes dreams happen”… All of these are quotes by Shonda Rhimes, TV titan, creator, writer and executive producer from Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder and most recently her production company produced ‘Bridgerton’The message for us all is to say yes, to go after our dreams, to become doers not just dreamers.This week’s podcast is inspired by my Singing Psychic podcast last week when I looking at the songs arou...2021-01-2809 min
Get Your Art In Gear29. Faith in your creativity & ownership of your own content as lived by Tyler PerryWhat content are you going to make today, next week?On what platform you choose that works for you, Tiktok, YouTube, Insta – whatever is best for you.2 years ago at #Natpe Miami Beach I listened to Tyler Perry do a lecture on having faith in your own creativity and owning your own content and characters. Twice a week I now make podcasts, one Singing Psychic one (my comedy character) and this Love Your Creativity And Make Money one.Consistent making of content – but it can feel like you are making content into the ether.Keep...2021-01-2113 min
Get Your Art In Gear28. Review a past successful project of yours: why it worked & lessons to take forwardPart of any business success is looking at the areas they are winning in and doing more of that. It works just as well in the business of making art and creativity.So this week’s podcast is an exercise. Pick a creative project that you feel was successful: commercial, creative or other success that you ‘shipped’ and got out the down.This gives you a chance to really drill down and see what worked and what lessons we can carry forward.It will give you a feeling of control back and help with your mental health about...2021-01-1417 min
Get Your Art In Gear27. Exercise on setting master dream goals with timeframes from creative projects to property and financing them all!Making art and gigging in the current environment is feeling impossible, especially with so much political unrest and the coronavirus around us. However we can always control our headspace and look at our own dreams and find ways to make them happen, even if we can’t control scary events, such as happened in DC yesterday.Having a think about some areas of your life and your goals in each area over a time period exercise of current to 20 years and moreGet a piece of paper landscape X axis horizontal write 0 to 1 years, 2 to 5 years, 5 to 10 years, so...2021-01-0713 min
Get Your Art In Gear26. What lessons can you learn about your 2020 to make 2021 fabulous?Happy New Year everyone! Before setting New Years Resolutions start by looking back in a way that can truly make you rocket forward. Understanding what you did that worked vs what did not go well in your own life, a project or even a year like 2020 to better be prepared for the future is a very useful business tool.Reflect on your achievements and disappointments of 2020 to then draw out lessons you can learn to move forward to make 2021 a far better year. This is an exercise I use at the end of each year before I start...2020-12-3110 min
Get Your Art In Gear25. Merry Xmas! & how reflecting on our unique brilliance leads to happiness and creativityMerry Xmas everyone, no matter where you are I just wanted to wish you a peaceful and joyful next few days. I have been reading about how reflecting on one’s own positive unique qualities and values leads to increased dopamine in your system and thus excitement, creativity and motivation. So a fun task especially if you are on your own cos of lockdown is to write down and reflect on your own brilliance ;) Letting others know as well how much you appreciate them and their own special place in your life can make them a lot happier too so ;) 2020-12-2406 min
Get Your Art In Gear24. Creative Drawer Of Death - looking at unfinished projects & take a small actionable stepThis week’s podcast is me thinking about my creative drawer of death: all those projects started and not finished, edited but need another look or indeed those fun ideas that I have simply not moved forward on. 2020 has been so difficult in many ways so I am being compassionate with myself here, please be self-compassionate to yourself. However I am choosing to look at a couple of my creative projects and deciding on small actionable steps to get them moving. My new book and workbook on ;Get Your Art In Gear’ is practically all edited now so t...2020-12-1705 min
Get Your Art In Gear23. Marysia interviews Mister Meredith on PBH's Free Fringe & his life as a performerThis weeks podcast is an interview with my friend and fellow cabaret artiste Luke Meredith, or Mister Meredith as he is better known. Luke is a singer, pianist and cabaret host as well as being the CEO of PBH’s Free Fringe.So the first part of the interview is about how it works and how you can do Edinburgh Fringe as an artiste through PBH’s Free Fringe. Peter Buckley Hill started it 25 years ago.It is a wonderful community who support and work together with each other in their shared venues through the highs and lows...2020-12-1149 min
Get Your Art In Gear22. Eleven questions to get yourself finishing and shipping a project out to the worldIs there a piece of work you can get out now before Xmas or the New Year?How do you overcome what’s stopping you?This podcast is about some questions to ask yourself to get your art ‘shipped’ aka Seth Godin to get your work , your ‘art’ out of the door.. so to get yourself finishing and shipping some of your creative work out to the world. Ideally in the next 3 weeks.I have decided to release my book on how to ‘Get Your Art In Gear’ out the door before Christmas 2020 – 2 plus weeks away. This podcast goe...2020-12-0510 min
Get Your Art In Gear21. Budgeting & logistics thoughts towards creating & live events in 2021This weeks podcast is all my current musings and thoughts on how we all start costing the new logistic issues of putting events, live launches and shows on in 2021.Traditional ways of marketing work has died.Live events – also the logistics and budgets on how do we get started again?One of my Brighton Fringe 2020 venues emailed me about Brighton 2021 for my The Singing Psychic Game Show I like to performing two shows a day as costing it really helps for the budgeting and break evens.I always put spreadsheets together to cost my tours an...2020-11-2611 min
Get Your Art In Gear20. Pick 1 Project to get done by end 2020 - just 6 weeks to goPick one of your goals you set at the beginning of the year and get it finished by the end of 2020. We only have 6 weeks to go today so what is one project you are going to get finished and over the line?You will feel so much better for having got one magnificent thing completed, lets all have a victory of some kind. If you are listening to this in 2021 then pick 6 weeks and go for it.Pick a project where finishing is in your hands as opposed to getting permission or an external YES. 2020...2020-11-1908 min
Get Your Art In Gear19. Dont Forget To Remember‘Don’t forget to remember’ is a useful (to me anyway!) mental tool to keep me on track, to get over the finish line on small tasks and also to get those daily things done.‘Don’t forget to remember’ means not forgetting how good you will feel once you got something done even though it is difficult to start or keep it going on a long term basis.It is super useful for those daily tasks for example tidying up the kitchen before bedtime so it looks great first thing in the morning, and when you have a creat...2020-11-1204 min
Get Your Art In Gear18. Track all your activities for a week and see where your hotspots are.This week’s podcast is an exercise that is painful but gets absolute results. Track all your activities for one week, get up time to when you finally sat down at your desk or practised to time spent cooking, watching series and seeing friends.I did this exercise first in 2013 when I started my first podcast Love Your Creativity and was shocked to find out exactly how much time I spent every day creating amazing dishes for one (and a cat).The suggestion is to just track your one hour time slots via paper, phone notes or an...2020-11-0507 min
Get Your Art In Gear17. Get Back A Feeling Of ControlFeeling lost and having no control is terrible for everyone, mentally, physically and emotionally. The increased stress level is very hard to overcome. However it has been proven that if you can get back of feeling of control then, even though you still have not won, you will feel calmer, less stressed and more able to tackle what’s happening.The best way to take back a feeling of control is to-Make a plan, what steps do you need to take and when you will do them- Even looking an each obstacle ahead and fi...2020-10-2906 min
Get Your Art In Gear16. Self Compassion makes you take more action, be happier & more successfulResearch shows that being self compassionate makes you more successful, happier and decreases anxiety, depression and neurotic perfectionism. It also increased your personal initiative so you get things done. More than self confidence, self compassion is a far better tool to get ahead and be happier.Being self confident means you feel good at trying things, and people around you believe you can achieve the targets so are more likely to give you a chance. You also will earn more on average. However self confidence has major downsides as it can lead to you...2020-10-2209 min
Get Your Art In Gear11. Five exercises to end overwhelm & find your joy again as a creativeExercises to end overwhelm & find your joy again as a creativeThis is the first 5 practical exercises of my four part podcast series.If you have hope in your heart you will have more grit, more persistence, more ability to overcome the challenges of making your work. That hope, that taking a step each day forward is vital at every stage. From the incubation period of ‘ I have this idea’ to research, to the technical decisions such as ‘what is my medium for this, film, novel, song, gallery exhibition’ and so what do I need to learn, produce, budget f...2020-09-1720 min
Get Your Art In Gear10. Game-ify your creative projects. Using game manufacturers psych knowledge to win in making your own workHave you ever wondered what makes playing games so fun and addictive? Why can you spend hours playing a game without thinking, yet cant drag yourself to get working on your next creative project? This week’s podcast episode is about game-ification – using the very psychology and tricks that game manufacturers from Candy Crush to Call of Duty, Gardenscapes to Elder Scrolls to keep you fixated and playing, to game-ify your life and art.Personally I love such games but I have to be careful as I get obsessed. I talk in the podcast about the following few tricks the...2020-09-1016 min
Get Your Art In Gear9. Strategic Quitting- What do you need to quit, so you can get what you want?If you started today and spent one hour a day, you would reach that magic 10,000 hours mark of excellence in 27.4 years , If you spent four hours a day it would only take you 6.8 years to get to that level. We all know how prioritising our goals and working towards them daily, especially when you are a creative is a real key indicator of success. However we all have busy lives worsened at this time when many gigging artists don't have their normal level of income. So a real way to get hope back in your heart and get your projects...2020-09-0209 min
Get Your Art In Gear8. The Power of Acknowledging It's Going To Be Hard - Marysia Trembecka for Love Your Creativity & Make MoneyThis podcast is all about the power of acknowledging there will absolutely be challenges along the way of making every creative project come to life. From that initial exciting idea, to completion of the creative work, to then going out and selling it - be it a novel, a show, a TV script, there are always a myriad of challenges just waiting to trip you up.From finding the time to get the project forward to technical issues in delivery, to financial budget constraints to then working out the creative arcs of a project, working with others and their...2020-08-2717 min
Get Your Art In Gear7. How to be a successful working actor, Marysia interviews Kenneth CollardMarysia interviews Kenneth Collard, a real life successful working actor who has a huge CV from being in Cuckoo to Anna Karenina to many many TV series and commercials. This is a flashback episode, she did the interview in 2013 for her original podcast Love Your Creativity and yet so much of what Ken says about persistence and belief is so important right now.In the interview we discuss auditions, showreels, research and the mental approach necessary to becoming a working actor and earning a living as one.The fact that 95% of actors are not working did not worry...2020-08-2230 min
Get Your Art In Gear6. Junk Or Joy? You Choose. A 100 day challenge to transforming your actions, thoughts and headspace.#JunkOrJoy is my current 100 day challenge to myself where I am looking at my thoughts, habits and actions and deciding in the moment if I choosing to live from a place of negativity or indeed I choose joy. I literally ask myself ' Is this Junk or is this joy' when negative thoughts pop up or I find myself overindulging in too much Netflix as opposed to working on my creative projects. This is my invitation to you to have a go as the aim is to transform your life at this difficult time in our lives during the 2020 summer...2020-08-1513 min
Get Your Art In Gear5. Wise choices & Lockdown mental health & happinessInspired by Gloria Gaynor setting up a TikTok account and singing along to her own 'I Will Survive hit whilst washing her hands, I am looking at the wise choices I can take right now.As most of the world is in lockdown it is so easy to just keep checking the awful news and the mounting data or indeed try to limit it for mental health reasons and catch up on films, series and books we want to. I personally am determined to get some creative goals completed and I am encouraging myself and us all to pick...2020-04-1906 min
Get Your Art In Gear4. What Next? The single most important question you can ask to get any project moving forwardWhat next is the singular most powerful question you can ask to move any project forward. In David Allen's brilliant but full on 'Getting Things Done' productivity book, he argues how vital it is to just to know the next step and then action it. Joss Whedon (Buffy, Marvel Avengers, Firefly) used this question famously to get his 'Much Ado About Nothing' feature film made during a long edit of Marvel Avengers. The black and white Shakespeare movie, which won at Toronto Film Festival, Joss Whedon said in a Fast Company interview, only got made cos of him...2020-04-0706 min
Get Your Art In Gear3. Deadlines Are Lifelines: How I get my creative projects finished and out thereIn this podcast episode I talk about how I have always used deadlines to get creative projects over the line and delivered. Deadlines for me are creative lifelines: and external deadlines are the real key. From promising a publication date to a run of performances of a new character or song, this is the only way I know how to get proactive and moving forward. Artistic projects are never perfect, we all have to decide when to deliver them and creating deadlines is my way to get things done.Welcome to my podcast (there's a blog too!) on...2020-03-2808 min
Get Your Art In Gear1. Family planning, create and produce an creative project involving the whole family as school's out during coronavirusWelcome to my podcast (there's a blog too!) on being creative, from that initial sparkle of the thought ‘I could’ to actually finishing it and getting your ‘art’ out there.This week's episode is a special Coronavirus schools out episode, inspired by a colleague musing on what to do with his son, now home during the COVID-19 pandemic. So I dreamed up an entire project for him and his son and used it as a basis for this. Using your own creative talents or dreams plan a family wide project from the idea creation, the production and even the...2020-03-2413 min
Get Your Art In Gear2. Leading Indicators, what you do today helps predict your futureWhat you do today to move your life forward helps predict your future. Using the idea of 'leading indictators', used often in graph form to help predict future movements from stock markets to business planning, this podcast episode talks about using this for your own creativity. No matter what else is going on in the rest of the world, you can at least keep creating, practising and moving your life forward and spreading joy to others.Welcome to my podcast (there's a blog too!) on being creative, from that initial sparkle of the thought ‘I could’ to actually fini...2020-03-2406 min
Love Your Creativity » Podcast FeedMulti award winning playwright & performer Claire Dowie interview– ‘I just do it. ….when I say I don’t care, I mean I don’t care whether there is an audience, I don’t care whether there is any money, it seems to just turn up, the money and the audience. I have never done anything I don’t want to do… and why not? I think […]2015-06-1500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast Feed12 steps to make your creative dreams come trueDo you ever want the world to stop spinning? Not long enough to kill people with the lack of gravity as you hang on to the ankle of your great aunt to ensure she does not spin off into space as she left the porch door open. But if the world could stop just long […]2015-04-1800 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedSee yourself bigger & ‘Ask Marysia’, any questions?No I am not talking about you after this Easter weekend’s chocolate orgy 😉 How do you see yourself? As a creative who has a day job? A parent who no longer has all the time you used to have to make the art you want? Do you see yourself as an actress or one […]2015-04-0200 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to create a solo theatre show: interview with Colin WatkeysOver the past 30 years, Face to Face Theatre Festival Director Colin Watkeys has specialised in producing and directing solo theatre and writers who perform their own work. He is now part of a world movement that recognises that solo performance possesses a unique quality of vision in theatre. I am performing […]2014-07-0500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedFear & Your Leap of Faith; 100 Days of Being An ActressIt is called a leap of faith for a reason: it’s not a small step or a sideways shuffle, not a little hop skip and then stop to look where you are going. It is a full bound leap over the side with arms flung to the air, not knowing whether you will end up […]2014-06-1300 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast Feed8 lessons I learnt from the Cannes film festival about being a successful creativeI have just returned from 10 days at the Cannes Film Festival and this podcast and blog applies to all creatives as it very much covers some of the ‘rules’ of being a successful creative, whether you are an actress, filmmaker, musician or indeed photographer. (Yes that is me singing in French on the podcast) […]2014-05-3000 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to book auditions: This is who I am, would you like it? Paul Clayton on auditions & making money as an actorI know Paul Clayton (imdb link) not just from his many many TV and film appearances (Ali G Indahouse, Peep Show, Him and Her and he is recently deceased in Hollyoaks) but also he is the Chair of the Actors Centre and in January this year he played my husband in Sunday Dinner With The […]2014-04-2300 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHappy Easter: Dream big and follow throughHappy Easter everyone, hope you all are having a lovely and relaxing time. Just made up an Easter morning song for you all above! So many of my friends and family are spending the day eating lots of chocolate but I am filming again this weekend. However my dad has been told he can leave […]2014-04-2000 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedThree mindset traps that entrepreneurs & creatives fall into & how to fix themThe way you think about yourself affects everything from the jobs you book to how you do your marketing and the work itself. One of the benefits Ryan Lock is noticing about doing so much coaching is he is seeing this so clearly with his clients. These mindset traps stop you having what you want […]2014-03-3100 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast Feed‘Don’t say no to life’ seasoned advice from Lynn Ruth who started stand up at 71Marysia Trembecka with Lynn Ruth Miller podcast interview (press the arrow above to hear the audio or go to my iTunes channel. UPDATE Lynn Ruth is doing her new show ’80’ at The Marlborough Theatre May 8,9,10 and 11 @ 6 p.m for the Brighton Fringe Festival 2014 details here Here are some of the […]2014-03-1700 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedDon’t Just Give Things Up for Lent: Do More of What Works!This is a Marysia Trembecka with Ryan James Lock coaching session. Ryan and I chatted about being 2 months out from our New Years Goals and seeing where in some areas there has been progress and in others a dark failure. I know I am not alone, but being in my gym I can see […]2014-03-0500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedThe space between where you want to go & where you are now, bridge it through actionMarysia with Ryan James Lock Coaching Audio Session 0010 ‘See the space between where you want to go and where you are now. The distance between there and here is through action. Your action that you chose to take. .’ In this 10th coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market […]2013-12-1800 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedDavid Monteith ‘A bad day acting is better than a good day doing anything else.’Podcast 30:David Monteith, award winning podcaster, actor, director and tutor. I did a class with David years ago on podcasting and also used to be in a singing class with his now wife Siobhan. David is an award winning podcaster ‘Geek Syndicate’ who also acts, directs and teaches. He has just been an understudy in […]2013-12-1000 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedKevin Bisbangian, award winning film director ‘You have to work hard’Podcast 29: This is a podcast interview I did with Kevin Bisbangian, award winning film director. I have worked with Kevin as I acted in his short ‘Chain Reaction’ alongside my friend Michael Brazil who had won best Supporting Actor at Madrid, acting in Kevin’s very first drama ‘Broken Wings’. Broken Wings was nominated for […]2013-12-0500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedThe words we use completely depicts our mindset and influences how we feel -CS009In this 9th coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. Here are some of the highlights of his advice for moving forward this week (this is not a full transcript) […]2013-11-1900 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast Feed‘Listen to those who have the results you want’ aka the ‘Waiting for DHL’ episodeIn this Eighth coaching session podcast Ryan Lock continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. This week we look at how to deal with having negative creatives and people around me. Here are some […]2013-11-0400 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to get the right mindset on press reviewsIn this Seventh coaching session podcast Ryan James Lock continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. This week was all about press reviews and how to approach reading and recovering from them. Ryan has […]2013-10-1800 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedLook at the cold hard facts of why you have a great product & noone is buying itRyan Lock/Marysia Podcast coaching session 6 “Look at the cold hard facts of why you have a great product & noone is buying it.Plus stop shoulding all over yourself” In this Sixth coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goal, looking at my […]2013-10-0900 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to deal with ‘free’ work, learning to say NO & taking care of yourself”Ryan Lock/Marysia Podcast coaching session 5: In this Fifth coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goal, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. This week I start the session feeling exhausted and with no energy to move […]2013-09-1500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedGeorgina Sowerby on acting, devising & being an inspirational theatre makerGeorgina Sowerby is a successful actress, having worked at the National, the Royal Court as well as on various TV and film projects and is the co-founder of Dirty Market Theatre. Podcast interview with some highlights below. She is not a trained producer, she learns as the piece demands. However production is very much part […]2013-09-1400 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedWhy you must be yourself for audiences to love you’ Earl Okin interview Pt 2Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director. This is Part Two of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast are noted below. I have posted this in two parts: he has […]2013-09-0200 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedWhy you must get comfortable being uncomfortable – Coaching podcast session 4Marysia/Ryan Lock coaching session 4 ‘Why you must get comfortable being uncomfortable’. In this fourth coaching session podcast Ryan James Lock continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goal, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. He gives me advice and focus […]2013-08-3000 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedThe Seagull podcast: the cast discusses snoring, comedy in Chekhov & finding a stuffed seagullPodcast of our forthcoming production of The Seagull with the cast members. James Mackenzie-Thorpe the director talks through the process of choosing to put on The Seagull whilst the frantic search up and down the country for a stuffed seagull continues with James insisting he does not plan to stuff one. The cast : Jen […]2013-08-2500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedWhy you must be your authentic self & ignore all obstacles & distractions‘Why you must be your authentic self & ignore all obstacles & distractions” In this third coaching session podcast Ryan James Lock continues to coach me on achieving my big goal, looking at my mindset and what is holding me back plus keeping me accountable. He gives me advice and focus on what I, and […]2013-08-2000 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast Feed‘Creating a next steps plan whilst talking Marysia off the ledge’ Podcast with Ryan LockPost 45 of Dream, create and make money in the arts. This is the second of a series of Podcast coaching sessions with Ryan Lock ‘Be Your Own Publicist”. Ryan continues to coach me and give me further advice and tips. Ryan clearly makes the point that his coaching is not about validating my busy-ness […]2013-08-0800 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to start promoting yourself and stop holding yourself backPodcast Coaching Session No 1: Marysia with Ryan James Lock, Post 41 of Dream, create and make money in the arts. Love Your Creativity aims to keep myself and you focused on creativity and this is the first of a series of coaching sessions with Ryan Lock ‘Be Your Own Publicist”. There are many calming […]2013-07-2600 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedEarl Okin: how to charm your audience & to succeed in Edinburgh Pt1Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director This is Part One of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast are noted below. To listen to the podcast just press the arrow […]2013-07-0900 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedThe Greatest Time Management Tool ever & it’s free!I LOVE MY BELLY MORE THAN ANYTHING That’s what I have learnt this week using this management tool, cooking and eating is what I do most after sleeping (and some days that order sadly gets switched round). This is the weekly Love Your Creativity podcast, the podcast goes into more detail but I know myself […]2013-06-1600 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedRichard Thomas ‘Jerry Springer’ & Aletta Collins on creative successThis week’s podcast interview is two brilliant creatives for the price of one as they are currently working on their next project together, a musical version of “Made In Dagenham’. Aletta Collins, choreographer and Richard Thomas, lyricist and composer of such shows as Jerry Springer the Opera consented to be interviewed on Aletta’s terrace 😉 […]2013-06-1000 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast Feed7 Life Lessons from Sookie Stackhouse to live by (no blood required)This week “ Seven Life Lessons from Sookie Stackhouse” plus our weekly creative tracking This is the weekly Love Your Creativity Podcast newsletter to keep myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director. To listen to the podcast just press the arrow above, or go to […]2013-06-0500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedPodcast: Be Your Own Prince. Grab a sword & kiss your project awakePODCAST – This is my Weekly Love Your Creativity Newsletter Podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity. Just click on the right facing arrow above to hear or go here on iTunes This week “Smile, create and carry on”. It’s about persistence with a project. Believing there is a beauty hidden high behind […]2013-05-2000 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedPodcast 10: How To Be Your Own Publicist, Marysia & Ryan James LockIn this Podcast interview Marysia interviews Ryan James Lock. In this podcast I ask Ryan about his ebook ‘Be Your Own Publicist” and get some advice and tips on what creatives can do to promote a show, exhibition or event they are working on as part of the selling of their own work. Here are […]2013-05-1800 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedPodcast 09: There is no room to be a dilettante + newsletter“There is no room for being a dilettante as an actor” Sir Richard Eyre informed me tonight. He wasn’t accusing me, just answering my question regarding his experience of working of some of Britain’s greatest actors of the last thirty plus years. This is the weekly podcast newsletter where we track our creativity but first […]2013-05-1400 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to be a successful working actor: Marysia interviews Ken CollardIn this ‘Love Your Creativity’ podcast Marysia interviews Kenneth Collard, a real life successful working actor who has a huge CV from being in Albert Nobbs, Anna Karenina to many many TV series and commercials. In the interview we discuss auditions, showreels, research and the mental approach necessary to becoming a working actor and earning […]2013-05-0800 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast Feed07 Podcast: Advice on criticism. Be strong and wrongBE STRONG AND WRONG This is my Third Weekly Love Your Creativity Newsletter and podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity. Don’t lay your dreams down because of some peoples negative comments. Some people will NEVER like what you do, so dismiss them and move on. Sure you look at constructive comments and […]2013-05-0700 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedSeven Tips on how to feel great, beautiful & strongSeven Ways to feel good, more beautiful and strong inspired by the DOVE Real Beauty Sketches ad. The podcast has all the full details on but these show notes are for quick reference. Learn how to find yourself irresistible, fall in love with yourself and from there the world will be a better place for […]2013-04-2900 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedPodcast: Pop Up Event: World Book Night in LondonThis is a special mid week “Pop Up Creativity in your Community’ Love Your Creativity Podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity. This is some clips and conversation from an event I was involved in last night for Shakespeare’s Birthday, World Book Night and Brent Libraries drive to celebrate art, literature and music […]2013-04-2400 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedPodcast: Creative Process & how to track productivityThis is my Second Weekly ‘Love Your Creativity’ Podcast Newsletter to keep myself and you focused on creativity. This newsletter sets a 13 minute creative exercise with a full explanation of the weekly tracking where I encourage you to do an end of week think back on what has been done, produced, worked on, booked […]2013-04-2200 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to be a successful artist: Marysia’s Podcast with Liz RankenLiz Ranken is a friend of mine, but yet again when I start to delve into the backstory and processes of my successful creative friends I am always amazed by their focus and achievements but most of all, their unrelenting focus forward on creating no matter what happens. Liz Ranken, RSC/DV8/Shared Experience Movement Director, […]2013-04-2100 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedPodcast on Creative Productivity & Building a File of HappinessHere is my second ever podcast – woohoo 😉 and my first Weekly Newsletter to keep myself and you focused on creativity. This first newsletter sets a 13 minute creative exercise of building a file of happiness and starts the weekly tracking where I encourage you to do an end of week/beginning of next week […]2013-04-1500 minLove Your Creativity » Podcast FeedHow to be a published writer: Marysia’s Podcast with Jason HewittLove Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. In this podcast I interview Jason Hewitt whose novel ‘The Dynamite Room’ is being published by Simon and Schuster in Spring 2014. It is a very inspiring story with lots of tips on how he kept […]2013-04-0600 min