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Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 347: Your Mind Is Your WorldIn this solo episode, Peter gets deeply personal about a challenging week—and the powerful mindset shift that came from it. After getting emotionally “twisted,” Peter turned to her most trusted tools: journaling, meditation, and coaching. What started as a spiral led to a breakthrough realization: Your mind is your world. And your world is your mind. When you’re in your fear-based thought system, everything feels like a problem. But when you shift into a more loving, conscious mindset, you begin to see challenges as opportunities. Peter shares how unconscious thinking...
2025-07-3009 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 344: Passion vs. Aptitude in VoiceoverLet’s talk about something most coaches won’t say out loud: Just because you love something doesn’t mean you’re great at it. I know. It stings. But it’s important. In this episode, I’m digging into the uncomfortable (but necessary) gap between interest and aptitude—especially in voiceover. Because if you're frustrated that you're not booking in your dream genre, you might be ignoring the thing you're actually great at. What I Talk About in This Episode: Why passion doesn’t always equal potential How to spot the areas where you n...
2025-07-0911 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 335: Dreams vs. Nightmares: What Are You Really Focused On?Welcome back to the Acting Business Boot Camp podcast! 🎙️ I'm Peter Pamela Rose — casting director and certified life and career coach for actors. My mission? To help you break down the business of acting into clear, actionable steps that move your career forward. In today’s episode, I dive into a powerful concept from Energy Leadership by Bruce D. Schneider — the idea that we are constantly choosing between two mindsets: the dream and the nightmare. 💭 Are you focused on the dream of your acting career? Or are you unconsciously living in the fear-based nightmare...
2025-05-0712 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 334: Burnout Isn’t Failure — It’s a SignalEpisode Summary: In today’s solo episode, Mandy Fisher gets real and raw about something that far too many actors and creatives are experiencing but not talking about enough: burnout. This isn’t your typical “self-care” pep talk. This is a grounded, honest conversation about the soul-deep exhaustion that can hit even the most passionate, high-achieving creatives. Mandy shares her personal experience with burnout — how it feels, why it happens, and what it actually means — and offers a compassionate, human-first way to start recovering. You’ll learn: Why burnout isn’t a failure — it’s...
2025-04-3009 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 333: Trust, Consistency, and Risk: A Voiceover Reality Check🔊 Episode Summary Hey hey! It's Mandy Fisher here, and in this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on something I see way too often in the VO world—over-relying on email templates to do your marketing. Especially the kind that demo producers hand out like candy. If you’ve ever sent one of those plug-and-play emails and heard crickets, this episode is for you. I’m digging into why that approach might be sabotaging your chances—and what to do instead. Because while templates can save you time, they can also strip away the one thing that...
2025-04-2313 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 331: The Actor’s X Factor – Vibration & SynchronicityWhy Your Energy May Be the Missing Link to Booking Work Have you ever looked at another actor and thought, "They’re not more talented than me... so why are they booking and I’m not?" If so, you’re not alone — and you're asking the exact right question. In a recent solo episode of the Acting Business Boot Camp podcast, I (Peter Pamela Rose) dove into what I call the "X Factor" — that invisible yet undeniable energy that seems to magnetize auditions, callbacks, and career opportunities to certain actors... even if they’re not the most...
2025-04-0915 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 330: Are You a Good Actor?🎧 Episode Summary: In this empowering solo episode, voiceover actor and coach Mandy Fisher poses a bold question that every actor must learn to answer with confidence: “Are you a good actor?” We’re taught from day one to expect rejection in this industry—but rarely are we taught to say yes to ourselves first. Mandy breaks down why internal validation is the foundation of success and how your energy, mindset, and self-belief shape every audition, job, and opportunity. 💡 Key Takeaways: Your Confidence Sets the Tone: If you walk into the room unsure if you belong, others will sense it...
2025-04-0209 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 329: Acting Through Fear and UncertaintyHey there, it’s Peter Pamela Rose. In this episode, I’m getting real with you. After what feels like forever since I last recorded (even though I know that might not be true if you’re bingeing episodes!), I’m back to talk about something that’s been coming up a lot in my weekly classes—how to deal with fear, anxiety, and overwhelm when the world feels like too much. Whether you're feeling the pressure of what's going on globally, or you're just tired of asking yourself, “How the hell did I end up back here a...
2025-03-2616 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 325: An Actor's Guide to AI (Part One)AI in Entertainment: Essential Insights for Actors The world of acting is evolving, and one of the most significant changes affecting performers today is the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). From digital likenesses to synthetic voices, AI is reshaping the entertainment industry at an unprecedented pace. If you're an actor, understanding how AI impacts your career is no longer optional—it's essential. In a recent episode of the Acting Business Bootcamp Podcast, hosts Peter Pamela Rose and Mandy Fisher sat down with Erik Passoja, a SAG-AFTRA leader and digital identity advocate, to break down everything acto...
2025-02-2638 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 318: Are You Too Nice As An Actor?Book a Free Consultation with Peter Today is a podcast request. Yes! I take requests. So if you have an idea for a podcast, send me an email. So this is a listener who wanted to talk about the idea of being too nice. So being too nice. She said, how often have you heard, “You're too nice.” I have had a few times and while I appreciate the other person's honesty and transparency, it got me thinking about the undertone behind that phrase, especially when it comes to going after what yo...
2025-01-0817 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 317: Meditation For the New YearBook a Free Consultation with Peter Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful holiday week and let me be one of the first to wish you a very happy new year. Last week it was to close out 2024 and this week it is to welcome 2025. So allow yourself to find a comfortable position and if that means you need to push pause and get settled that's just fine do that now.
2025-01-0115 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 316: Meditation to Close Out the YearBook a Free Consultation with Peter Today I'm going to be doing a meditation to close out the year. And you can feel free to do this meditation as many times as you want. Because you can also think of this meditation as being something to close out your day, or your hour, or your morning, or your month, or your week. But for our purposes today, it will be to close out 2024.
2024-12-2515 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 315: Practice Self Care At This Time of YearBook a Free Consultation with Peter Today I'm going to do a podcast on self care. And the reason why I'm doing it now is that I find that December January time to be in some ways the hardest time. And I just had this idea. I'm recording this a couple weeks before the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays. And I'm like, Peter, you're going to need to really listen to this in a couple of weeks. But yeah, I'm going to be honest. I find December and January to be...
2024-12-1811 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 314: Your Important Morning RoutineToday is going to be a short podcast, but it's going to be a very useful one. I'm going to talk about morning routines. I'm going to be using, I haven't used it in a while, the fabulous Melody Beattie. The Language of Letting Go And this reading that I'm going to be coaching off of is called Morning Cues. Melody says, “There is an important message for us first thing every day. Often, once we get started with the day, we may not listen as closely to ourselves and life as w...
2024-12-1108 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 312: The Hazard of Making ExcusesBook a Free Consultation with Peter Today I'm going to talk to you about the hazard of making excuses as an actor. And I'm going to start with perhaps something that if you were like me, or you are like how I used to be the idea of it's only me. So it's only me and therefore it doesn't count or, I'm tough, I can handle it. One of the things that making excuses as an actor does is it stalls personal growth. And anything that would affect me in...
2024-11-2714 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 311: Interview with Tim PhillipsBook a Free Consultation with Peter About Tim: With more than 60,000 coaching sessions and 40+ years in the business, audition coach and premiere acting teacher Tim Phillips knows what works. Audition For Your Career, Not The Job was written after 30 years of teaching and designed as a practical manual for the working actor. What Phillips is after are moment-by-moment, clear, specific, human truths that make you unavoidable on stage and screen, from character. Tim Phillips ignited the careers of Emmy award-winning Richard Schiff, Golden Globe nominee Wendy Malick, Nancy Travis, the excellent Rober...
2024-11-2036 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 309: Interview with Risa Bramon GarciaBook a Free Consultation with Peter About Risa: For the past 4 decades Risa has worked consistently as a director, producer, casting director, writer, and teacher, and is a founder of The BGB Studio, a training space and artistic home for actors. She’s had the great fortune to have collaborated with some of the most talented, passionate, and groundbreaking artists in the world. She’s continued to move successfully from one arena to another – from theatre to film to television and back. With two feature films in her directorial body of work – the cult classic, 200 CIGARETT...
2024-11-0633 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 308: Don't Quit 5 Minutes Before the MiracleGet a Free Month of The Weekly Adjustment A subject that has come up with private clients of mine and in my weekly group class has been the subject of discussion of quitting. And the phrase that I have been coaching on, is don't quit five minutes before the miracle. Don't quit five minutes before the miracle. And I get it. Especially for those of us in the U. S. who have been struggling with the industry this year. Let's just be blunt. It's a bitch, okay? It's just been awful. I...
2024-10-3012 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 307: Making a Pivot In Your Acting CareerBook a Free Consultation with Peter So today's podcast is going to be about making a pivot in your acting career. The first thing you want to do when you are making a pivot is you want to clarify your new career goal. I understand that the goal may be to be a working actor, but what exactly does that mean to you? And when you've made a goal, asking yourself that follow up question, that empowering question, what does that mean to you? What does that look like? How will it...
2024-10-2313 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 306: Reframing Disappointment as an ActorBook a Free Consultation with Peter Today I'm going to talk about reframing disappointment. One of my favorite quotes. It's from Dr. Wayne Dyer, he says “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” And in reframing disappointment, we need to look at it in a different way. So I'm going to give you a few tips. I'm going to give you some Action steps to do when you face disappointment and hopefully that will help you to move through it because again, another...
2024-10-1617 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 301: Abandonment and the ActorTry out The Weekly Accountability Group Book a Free Consultation with Peter 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 g...
2024-09-1113 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 300: What's at Stake AKA The Most Important Podcast You Will Ever Listen ToTry out The Weekly Accountability Group Book a Free Consultation with Peter 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...
2024-09-0409 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 297: Making MistakesGet the Free Class! 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...
2024-08-1418 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 296: Positive Thinking for the ActorBOOK A CALL WITH PETER 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 wh...
2024-08-0713 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 295: The Two Energies of an ActorI have a very special offer for you. If you are interested in working with me, but you would like to talk to me first, click on the link in the show notes. And we'll get in touch and we'll set something up. BOOK A CALL WITH PETER 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 con...
2024-07-3113 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 293: The Hard DaysTry out The Weekly Accountability Group for FREE! 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 al...
2024-07-1711 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 282: Perfectionism and You!Private Coaching Now I wouldn't say that I would sometimes call myself Peter Pamela Perfectionism Rose, but sometimes I've called myself Peter Pamela Perfectionism Rose. The biggest thing about perfectionism that I want to talk about today is that perfectionism leads to procrastination, leads to paralysis. The other thing that I think is so important about the lesson of perfectionism is to make your ears grow bigger, cunning, baffling, and powerful. I look at all the ways, in fact even this too, recording today's podcast, I was looking for the right t...
2024-05-0112 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 247: Separating From Family IssuesBroaden Your Improv Skills Money Mastery for Actors Commercial Voiceover Workout Sesh Time Management Workshop TV Class with Katie Flahive Family and separating from family issues because when I think of back to life, back to reality, one of the things I think about is getting back to dealing with family issues and either the support or the lack of support or the lack of interest from family members in your acting career. The Language of Letting Go "We can draw a healthy line, a...
2023-08-3018 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 246: Money Mastery- Interview with Rose Marie RupleyLearn More About Money Mastery for Actors About Rose Marie: Official "Auntie Bear," Rose Marie is Peter's right-hand woman at Acting Business Boot Camp. She learned the budget system and used it to completely renew her relationship with money. Moving from the kind of person who checked her bank account with her eyes closed every few months to knowing exactly how she wants to spend her resources to serve her goals. She learned this system from Mama Bear herself, which completely changed her relationship with money, empowering her to help others do the s...
2023-08-2335 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 245: Wisdom & InspirationFree Masterclass Today, I will read you something that a listener sent me, so thank you, Margaret. I absolutely love this, and I'm going to read it just as it was presented to me because I think it's so inspirational about not giving up and also just it's about tenacity. "Hi, Peter. I ran across this post on Twitter and had to share some good points. Didn't know any of this about the film Rocky. In 1975, Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for Rocky. He shopped the script to every producer and studio in...
2023-08-1613 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 240: Scarcity Thinking Around the Strike(s)Peggy's Improv Class I'm just going to talk about scarcity. What is scarcity thinking? It's not enough. There's not enough. There isn't enough work out there. There isn't any work out there. Jealousy is a type of scarcity thinking because it is not acknowledging that there is enough for everyone. And this kind of thinking as an actor really only hurts you. The phrase is, you take the poison and wait for somebody else to die. And, you know, it's the same thing with...
2023-07-1209 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 238: A Message to Drama School GradsOkay, now what? We graduated, and there's a fucking writer's strike, and a pending actors strike. Wait, this is not what I showed up for. I've been a member of SAG AFTRA for over 30 years and a working actress for over 30 years. And let me tell you something, I've been through a lot of strikes, and you know what the greatest thing about them is? They end. There is a lot you can do right now, and that's getting ready. The number one thing I recommend to actors getting out of drama s...
2023-06-2815 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 232: Interview with Commercial Master David CadyDavid's Advanced Commercial Class About David: DAVID CADY is currently a professor of commercial and musical theatre performance at AMDA, NYU, and Pace University. Prior, he was a casting director for Donna DeSeta Casting for close to 30 years. In addition to countless commercials, his casting credits include the original Dirty Dancing, Disney's Enchanted, Michael John LaChiusa's The Petrified Prince for the Public Theater, and the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's Whistle Down the Wind, directed by Harold Prince. He was an original cast member of Stephen Sondheim and ...
2023-05-1748 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 230: The StrikeSo now what? "Few situations, no matter how greatly they appear to demand it, can be bettered by going berserk." It's important to put all of this into perspective. This is survivable. It's going to be survivable. Is it tough? Is it a pain in the neck? Does it potentially throw off some of our career plans? Does it maybe stop some stuff that we hoped would go forward and now isn't because of the strike? Absolutely. Is it survivable? Is it manageable? The answer is yes, it is.
2023-05-0508 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 229: Aging and the ActorKen Rea’s Outstanding Actor Workshop Well, this week, I turn another year older. In the 30-plus years, I've been in this industry, I've watched it change dramatically. Age is wisdom Age is an advantage Aging is beautiful Aging is a privilege “The walls of your comfort zone are lovingly decorated with your lifelong collection of favorite excuses.” -Jen Sincero I was using age as an excuse. When you see what you're weak at, you don't want to shy away from it. Yo...
2023-05-0314 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 228: Control and the ActorKen Rea’s Outstanding Actor Workshop Wendy Alnutt Class Last week I talked about the potential writer's strike, and I also talked about control. This is a business of practicing self-control. But what I think is far healthier is really learning how to keep the focus on ourselves. The Language of Letting Go “Control. Many of us have been trying to keep the whole world in orbit with sheer and forceful application of mental energy. What happens if we let go? If we stop trying to keep the w...
2023-04-2611 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 227: The Potential Writer's Strike & What You Can ControlKen Rea’s Outstanding Actor Class So people have been asking me about the writer's strike. Keep the focus on yourself. But what can you do? Use this opportunity to let go of drama. There's a great Michael Jordan quote, “Why would I worry about a shot that I haven't even taken yet?” Everybody is worried about something that hasn't even happened yet. Now let's talk about how that affects us as a human being. We're going to talk about that in a moment. But I just...
2023-04-1915 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 226: Guildhall's Ken Rea Returns Part TwoKen Rea's Outstanding Actor Workshop Ken's Theater Troupe So we wanted to do something that challenged that, that could excite and inspire young audiences and people, people who didn't go to the theater. There was such an amazing optimism, upbeat, warm energy. And we just got on and did it. Is it possible to have that attitude again in the world as it is now? I'm not looking to change the world anymore, but if I can help someone else change themselves, they will then be able to help c...
2023-04-1237 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 225: Guildhall's Ken Rea ReturnsKen Rea's Outstanding Actor Masterclass About Ken: Professor Ken Rea is a theatre director, internationally acclaimed acting teacher, and author of the bestselling book, The Outstanding Actor, Seven Keys to Success Starting out in New Zealand, he worked with the country’s leading theatres and in television drama. In 1973 he formed the Living Theatre Troupe, one of New Zealand’s most important experimental companies. He went on to study theatre in China, Japan, and India, then moved to Europe, where he studied with leading European teachers. As Professor of Theatre at the re...
2023-04-0553 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 224: Is This Good Enough? The Self Tape SagaMoney Mastery for Actors We have a problem because we are looking outside of ourselves to get validation. The only validation that counts is getting validation from the hardest person on the planet to get it from, which is ourselves. What do you need? And it's the same for our self-tapes, and it's the same for auditions. I also need to say, from a casting point of view, from a casting director's point of view, if I see somebody posting something and asking if it is good enough on...
2023-03-2917 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 223: How to Set a Boundary Money Mastery for Actors Ken Rea Katie Flahive Setting Boundaries The Language of Letting Go "Boundaries. Sometimes life and people. And the business seemed to push and push. But because we are used to so much 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. There is nothing wrong with us. Life is pushing and hurting to actually get our attention. Sometimes the pain and the pushing...
2023-03-2214 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 222: Realizing Your Full PotentialChiropractor for the Mind Money Mastery for Actors The longevity of the work. You helped me to see how strong I could be and how secure and how confident, and how you have to teach people how to treat you. And from that advice, I have continued to use it when negotiating clients and contracts and, you know, dating, you can't assume people are going to treat you right, and you have to stand up for yourself and ask for what you deserve. You just gave me the right...
2023-03-1552 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 221: When You Hear "We're Passing..."Money Mastery for Actors Guide to Booking Commercial Voiceover Ken Rea Class Katie Flahive Classes Introduction to Commercial Voiceovers Advanced Commercial Workshop What to do when they “pass.” Leslie Jones/ Chris Rock Story: “You’re not ready.” Basically what she said is, what the fuck does that mean? But, she kept following him. She kept, you know, making sure he saw her work, and then one day he basically got her an audition for SNL. And sometimes a pass means just that by that one p...
2023-03-0817 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 220: Resisting NegativityToday I'm going to talk about resisting negativity. I want to talk about preserving in you a spark. No matter how many times you get beaten down. That is never extinguished. The Language of Letting Go “Some people are carriers of negativity. They are storehouses of pent-up anger and volatile emotions. Some remain trapped in the victim role and act in ways that further their victimization. And others are still caught in the cycle of addictive or compulsive behavior. Negative energy can have a powerful pull on us, especially if we are struggling to...
2023-03-0116 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 219: Financial Fear of the ActorMoney Mastery for Actors Ken Rea On Camera with Katie Flahive Business of Voiceover The Language of Letting Go. “I sat in the car looking at a sign on the door of the food shelf office. Closed until Friday. It was Wednesday. I had two hungry children and myself. I had no money. I laid my head on the steering wheel. I couldn't take it anymore. I had been so strong, so brave, so trusting for so long. I was a single parent with two children, recently divorced. I ha...
2023-02-2223 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 218: Love YourselfMoney Mastery for Actors Guide to Booking Commercial VO Workshop Time Management Replay Ken Rea Class The Language of Letting Go “Love yourself into health and a good life of your own. Love yourself into relationships that work for you and the other person. Love yourself into peace, happiness, joy, success, and contentment. Love yourself into all that you always wanted.” I love the idea of loving myself into health. And I think the first relationship that I always need to love myself into is, again...
2023-02-1513 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 217: Money and the ActorTime Management Replay Money Mastery for Actors Today we're going to talk about money and we're going to talk about our emotional connection to money. And our faith and money, meaning faith that the money will come. I am still working on my thought patterns around money. The Language of Letting Go “Sometimes there is not enough money to make ends meet, much less afford any luxuries. People may tell us we need to do a budget and we chuckle. The expenses we need to pay for survival surpass th...
2023-02-0819 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 216: Interview with Working Actor Lev Gorn (The Americans, For All Man Kind)Katie Flahive On Camera Class Time Management Replay About Lev: Lev is a celebrated actor, photographer, fine artist, and award-winning filmmaker. He is currently recurring on Apple TV's FOR ALL MANKIND, and Starz' RAISING KANAN. Lev's acting career covers over 50 films and TV series. He is widely recognized for his role as Arkady Ivonovich on FX's EMMY WINNING THE AMERICANS, and as the character of Eton on the HBO series THE WIRE. In film, he has worked with WOODY ALLEN, SUSAN SARANDON, ROBERT DENIRO, and many others...
2023-02-0150 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 215: Setting Our Own Course in Life & CareerKatie Flahive Class "Setting our own course. We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what they want, what they expect, or what they want us to do or be." Keep the focus on yourself. What other people think of me is none of my business. Taking care of myself pays enormous dividends. Take care of yourself first, and the rest will follow. Put on your bubble suit. When you go into difficult situations with people who push your buttons, probably because they i...
2023-01-2515 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 214: Self Care During Stressful TimesTime Management Workshop Do the next right thing. The Language of Letting Go "Rest when you're tired. Take a drink of cold water when you're thirsty. Call a friend when you're lonely. Ask the universe to help when you feel overwhelmed." Yeah, I was in a very challenging, difficult place, along with millions of other people. But I'm here. I survived. I handled it. And out of that came self-esteem, more self-esteem that I'm capable of and will never, ever be given more than I can handle. I will n...
2023-01-1812 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 213: When Things Go WrongTime Management Workshop Everything is fixable.
2023-01-1102 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 212: New Years GoalsTime Management Workshop Ask Me Anything I always find December to be actually the hardest time of the year. I feel like there are more demands put on me in all areas of my life. I will allow myself just to be where I'm at. So if you feel like you're starting the new year exhausted. I just wanted to say I hear you. I'm kind of there myself, but it's all right. Find the pockets of time when you can take care of yourself. The Language o...
2023-01-0413 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 211: A Message to Send You Into 2023I’m really grateful for this year. I want you to think of a few things that you are grateful for. What's number one? Fill in the blank. What's the number two? Fill in the blank. And what's the third thing you're grateful for this year, in 2022? Fill in the blank. Also, start to look forward to 2023. Are you looking to this year coming up with anticipation and excitement? Dread? Worry? Fill in the blank. What are the three emotions you are looking at 2023 with? Feelings aren't facts. Take your emotions out...
2022-12-2810 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 210: Interview with Bull Series Regular Geneva CarrTime Management Workshop About Geneva: GENEVA CARR is best known for her portrayal of Marissa Morgan on 6 seasons of the CBS television series BULL. Additional TV credits include Law & Order: SVU and Criminal Intent, Rescue Me, Younger, The Mysteries of Laura, Royal Pains, Elementary, The Good Wife, and Sex and the City. Film credits include Wonder Wheel, Love and Other Drugs, Ava’s possessions, It’s Complicated, College Road Trip, and the upcoming Asian Persuasion. Geneva earned a 2015 Tony Nomination for Lead Actress in a Play for her performance as ‘Margery’ in Broad...
2022-12-2148 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 209: What to get Industry Folks for the Holidays Ask Me Anything Time Management Class What to get Casting Directors, Managers, and Agents over the holidays. This year I’m suggesting one of two things: a thoughtful gift card or a charity donation. So a thoughtful gift card would be that you contact someone else in the casting office or agency and ask what their fellow employees like. “Hey, are they a Starbucks person, or are they a Costco person? Are they a McDonald's person or a Dunkin Donuts person?”
2022-12-1408 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 208: Interview with Andi MathenyTime Management Workshop About Andi: Andi Matheny is a 25-year veteran of Hollywood who started the Andi Matheny Acting Studios in 2010 and has coached hundreds of actors to book their first roles in TV and film. Andi has had a recurring role on The Resident as Dr. Kelly Whitley, starred opposite Sara Rue in The Hallmark Channel Movie True Love Blooms, opposite Kelsey Grammer in the film High Expectations, opposite Phylicia Rashad in the Oprah Winfrey production David Makes Man and opposite Ryan Phillippe and Patrick Duffy in the...
2022-12-0737 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 207: The Power of Serving as an ActorAsk Me Anything Marianne Williamson “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were bo...
2022-11-3021 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 206: Family Buttons Around the HolidaysAsk Me Anything “I was 35 years old the first time I spoke up to my mother and refused to buy into her games and manipulation. I was terribly frightened and almost couldn't believe I was doing this. I found I didn't have to be mean. I didn't have to start an argument. But I could say what I wanted and needed to say to take care of myself. I learned I could love and honor myself and still care about my mother the way I wanted to, not the way she wanted me to.” Take a ste...
2022-11-2316 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 205: Control vs. Trust as an ActorAsk Me Anything Control versus trust. “There was a time in my life when I felt so afraid of and overwhelmed by the very act of living. That I actually wanted to make out a schedule for each day of my life for the next five years. I wanted to include all the chores I had to do when I would do them, even when I would schedule relaxation. I wanted to get some order into what felt so incredibly overwhelming. I wanted to feel like I was in control.” How many times have...
2022-11-1612 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 204: Have Some Fun as an Actor!Ask Me Anything! Have some fun. How important that is, for your instrument as an actor, but also for you as a human being. “So have some fun. Loosen up a bit, enjoy life. We do not have to be so somber and serious. We do not have to be so reflective, so critical, so bound up within ourselves and the rigid parameters others and often ourselves have placed around us.” One of the things when I was starting out as a young actress, I would always be quite somber and seri...
2022-11-0917 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 203: Letting Go of Timing as an ActorAsk Me Anything Letting go of timing Be humble to the moment “Time thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me untie.” That nagging feeling of like, “why isn't it moving faster?” That's what this is all about. The Language of Letting Go “When the time is right. How often have we heard those words from a friend? From the universe. From anyone. We sometimes want things so badly: that job, that check, a relationship, a possession. We want our life t...
2022-11-0209 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 202: Interview with Michael KostroffAbout Michael: Michael Kostroff is an established TV and stage actor best known for his role as unscrupulous gang attorney Maury Levy on HBO's legendary series, The Wire. In addition to his many television gigs, he's toured with The Producers and Les Misérables, appeared on regional stages all across the country, served as an advice columnist for Backstage, created the popular workshop "Audition Psych 101" (which focuses on the psychological side of auditioning), and written four books, including his recently published manual, The Stage Actor's Handbook: Traditions, Protocols, and Etiquette for the Working and Aspiring Professional. The gospel o...
2022-10-2641 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 201: Interview with Christin BakerAbout Christin Baker: Christin Baker (A Baker Production) is an award-winning director and Emmy-nominated producer. She has been playing with video producing and storytelling since she was 13 after her family got their first VHS camcorder. She started out directing music videos, and SNL parodies with the neighborhood kids and moved on to start her own digital distribution and production company, tellofilms.com. She is the co-founder of Tello Films, which focuses on stories for the lesbian/queer community. Tello is the first lesbian/queer network to receive an Emmy Nomination. The series Secs & EXECS has received...
2022-10-1943 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 200: The Art of Self ApprovalAsk Me Anything! Being the Alpha Class for SAG-AFTRA "Most of us want to be liked. We want other people to think of us as nice, friendly, kind, and loving. Most of us want the approval of others." What I started to learn was that people not liking me was survivable. That not everybody had to like Peter. Not everybody had to approve of Peter. But the number one person who did need to approve of Peter, who did need to like Peter. Who did need to love Peter was Peter.
2022-10-1214 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 199: Gaining Perspective as an ActorOn Camera with Katie Flahive "Too often, we try to gain a clear perspective before it is time. That will make us crazy. We don't always know why things are happening the way they are. We don't always know how a particular relationship will work out. We don't always understand the source of our feelings why we've been led down a particular path. What is being worked out in us? What we are learning. Why do we need to recycle? Why we had to wait? Why we needed to go through a time of discipline, or why a...
2022-10-0519 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 198: Making Peace with Your Acting PastTime Management Workshop The Language of Letting Go "The more I cling to my past, the more I'm wasting my energy." When you have a computer, and you have a program minimized, understand that that program is still using battery life on your computer. "Not even God can change the past." "Holding on to the past, either through guilt, longing, denial, or resentment, is a waste of valuable energy. Energy that can be used to transform today and tomorrow." I want to transcend my past so that I...
2022-09-2822 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 197: Interview with Jeremy RedleafTime Management Workshop About Jeremy: Jeremy Redleaf is an Emmy and Streamy award-winning artist and entrepreneur. He tells stories and creates experiences through his Brackets Creative shingle, including "Odd Jobs," the Streamy Winning web series, "3rd Street Blackout," a feature film (Available on Peacock), and the SYFY special "Who Won the Year?" He's the co-founder of Caveday, a global community built around having a healthier relationship to work. Follow him at @jeremyredleaf on all the platforms! The ultimate multi-hyphenate. "Every time I was waiting for the phone, he was going out t...
2022-09-2151 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 196: The Victim TrapMonologue Class with Andrew Time Management Class The victim trap. Being a victim is just a way for me not to take responsibility for my life and when I am, quite frankly, scared. The Language of Letting Go "The victim trap. The belief that life has to be hard and difficult is the belief that makes us a martyr. We can change our negative beliefs about life and whether we have the power to stop our pain and take care of ourselves." Assignment: Ask yourself Do I...
2022-09-1416 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 195: Letting Go of ChaosTime Management Workshop Letting go of chaos. Language of Letting Go, Melodie Beatty What causes chaos? Well, what causes chaos is control. "No good work comes from unrest." And what I have learned about that is how true that is. Because if I don't rest, if I don't fuel up, I cannot be of service to other people around me. Wake up in the morning and say "Good morning, universe. This is Peter, Pamela Rose, and I am showing up for duty." And I know that kind...
2022-09-0716 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 194: Interview with ABBC Life Coach Molly NoerenbergTime Management Workshop About Molly: Molly Noerenberg is a life and embodiment coach for performing artists. As a coach, Molly helps people make transformational changes in the way they connect to themselves, their bodies, and their unique nervous systems so that they can bring their most authentic selves into the world. Working with Molly means you will have someone on your team with unwavering belief in what is possible for you. As a coach, Molly has an incredible passion for helping performers connect to their truest essence and finding ways to express themselves that make them...
2022-08-3144 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 193: Surviving Slumps as an Actor Making The Most Of Casting Director Workshops Two Week Monologue Slam Three-Week Commercial Workshop Time Management Workshop Surviving Slumps I'm talking about not only slumps in your career but also emotional slumps.
2022-08-2423 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 192: Interview with Rick PasqualoneKatie’s Interest List David Cady Commercial Class Andrew Dolan's Monologue Slam About Rick: Rick first started acting in 1990 when he was cast as Tony in the long-running Off-Broadway hit Tony N' Tina's Wedding. He later made his Broadway debut in the Neil Simon comedy Proposals. His first film role was in the 1996 short film The Dutch Master, which also starred a young Mira Sorvino. He recently appeared in Mank, directed by David Fincher. In addition to numerous TV roles, including Friends, NCIS, and General Hospital. Rick also does voic...
2022-08-1735 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 191: Give Up the Past, Live In the Present, Don't Project Into the FutureMake The Most Of Casting Director Workshops Two Week Monologue Slam With Andrew Dolan Three-Week Commercial Workshop "If there is anything I've learned with the astounding amount of core work I've done, it's these three things: Give up living in the past. Be in the present. And don't allow yourself to project into the future." It's so freaking simple, right? And yet I find it so hard. "Not even God can change the past." The mistakes I've made and my regrets, in some ways, informed th...
2022-08-1025 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 190: People Pleasing and the Actor Upcoming Classes: Jason Sasportas Andrew Dolan David Cady Katie Flahive The Language of Letting Go: "Have you ever been around people pleasers? They tend to be displeasing. Being around someone who is turning themselves inside out to please another is often irritating and anxiety producing." "If you spot it, you got it." So notice that if someone's irritating you, ask yourself, "what is it about that person that is irritating me? And is that also something that I do?" "People pleasing is a behavior we may have adapted to su...
2022-08-0320 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 189: The Art of Humility as an ActorGet the Free MP3 Humility and being humble Where is that balance between showing off, which is what some of the best Actors do, but then in the promotion or acknowledging success, finding humbleness? That emotion of humiliation: I've been at this so long, and how come I'm not making a living? Or How come things aren't working for me? I feel so humiliated. "Humility was a tough concept for me to comprehend. Taught from childhood to place the wants and needs of others always above my own. I equated humility w...
2022-07-2714 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 188: Negotiating Conflict as an ActorNegotiating conflict in your career and in your life. Get the free PDF Guide- Owning Your Power as an Actor Melodie Betty's Beyond Codependency “Core work is about more than walking away. Sometimes it means learning to stay and deal. It's about building and maintaining relationships that work.” Core work is about more than walking away. And there's a great quote from Richard Bok that says, “The best way out is always through.” We're not responsible for our first thought, but we are responsible for our second. My f...
2022-07-2025 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 187: Anger at the BusinessWhat is holding you back? Anger towards the Industry. When you have felt like: Well, maybe this isn't for me It seems to be a club that I can't get into. Or it feels like everybody who has any power hates me. And how can I want something so badly but not be accepted into that club? What is wrong with me? Am I defective? Am I not good enough? And all of that can sometimes lead to a tremendous amount of anger. And there's nothing wrong with anger. Anger is just an em...
2022-07-1317 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 186: Patience and the ActorEmail assistant@actingbusinessbootcamp.com for Katie's FREE Class July 19th. The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beatty. “How sick and tired we may have become of people telling us to be patient or learn patience. How frustrating it can be to want to finally have something or to move forward and then not have that happen. How irritating to have someone tell us to wait while our needs have not been met. And we're in the midst of anxiety, frustration, and inaction.” Anxiety is always about fear of the future. And in t...
2022-07-0617 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 185: Dealing with OverwhelmKatie Flahive's Free Demo Class I just don't have time to get sick! How I deal with overwhelm. Get grateful Ask, is that something that I actually want in my life? Remember, "No is a complete sentence." Another way I deal with overwhelm is excellent time management. So the first thing about overwhelm is this. Again, if you're overwhelmed, look at what you're overwhelmed with. So I've got two choices. One, I can choose to eliminate something I really want to, or I can fucking deal. Take your emotions ou...
2022-06-2816 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 184: Career Coaching with David CadyAbout David: DAVID CADY is currently a professor of commercial and musical theatre performance at AMDA, NYU, and Pace University. Prior, he was a casting director for Donna DeSeta Casting for close to 30 years. In addition to countless commercials, his casting credits include the original Dirty Dancing, Disney’s Enchanted, Michael John LaChiusa’s The Petrified Prince for the Public Theater, and the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the Wind, directed by Harold Prince. He was an original cast member of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Rol...
2022-06-2239 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 183: Procrastination and the ActorThe first tool when dealing with procrastination-- awareness. Using your mind to govern your brain. And I'm going to put a challenge to you. Whatever day you're listening to this podcast, I want you to see if you can separate yourself just a little bit from your procrastination. Put your hand directly on your face. You can't see; you cannot be aware. But then, when you remove your hand from your face about a foot, well, you're in a place to observe your hand. You can see the lines. You can see the veins...
2022-06-1523 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 182: Interview with Back to the Future's Don Fullilove About Don: Don Fullilove is an American screen live-action and animated voice-over actor who has had roles in numerous projects over the course of his fifty-year-plus career in both films and television. He portrayed Hill Valley Mayor Goldie Wilson in the first Back to the Future film, as well as Goldie's grandson, hovermobile salesman Goldie Wilson III in Back to the Future II. Donald, who graduated from Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles in 1976, currently resides in Burbank, California. “Maintain the cockiness. Don't be an asshole because the cockiness is your st...
2022-06-0836 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 181: How to Deal with Unsupportive People Sign up for Time Management Workshop Melody Beattie and her book, Language of Letting Go. Spokes on a wheel metaphor When you want to up your game, everybody else around you wants to keep the status quo. Often, the people you love most and are the closest to you are the ones who are the least supportive and accepting of you wanting to achieve a whole new level. The Bubble Suit: going into difficult work situations friendship situations situations when it's not totally comfortable saying, but y...
2022-06-0125 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 180: TV Auditions, Callbacks & the Job with Master Teacher Katie FlahiveTime Management for Actors May 21st and 28th 7-10 pm EST Learn more HERE Two Day TV Script Analysis Workshop w/ Katie Flahive Saturday & Sunday June 4 & 5 3-6PM $199 8-10 students Sign up HERE This class will be a 2 day intensive that helps the actor develop the understanding of how to break down acts/character/plot points/tone/tempo in a network and streaming platform pilot. Day 1: Elements will include: the table read, the breakdowns from casti...
2022-05-2543 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 179: Vulnerability, Your Greatest Asset and LiabilityVulnerability is an actor's greatest asset in their work, but it's also the greatest liability outside of their work and in their business. My own journey with vulnerability. I felt that as an actor, I wore my heart on my sleeve. And although that really helped me in my work, I found it to be a real problem was when wasn’t getting a callback or I wasn't getting the job, and that it made it very, very difficult for me to live my own life. The emotions must live in the work, an...
2022-05-1815 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 178: Series Regular on Paramount’s 1883 Eric Nelsen is BackAbout Eric: Eric Nelsen is a 4x Emmy Award & Tony Award-winning actor and producer. He is currently starring on the Paramount+ hit tv series, 1883 alongside Sam Elliott and Tim McGraw. He has been seen on the big screen in NIGHTMARE CINEMA, opposite Academy Award Nominee Mickey Rourke, in RAVAGE opposite Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern, A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES opposite Academy Award Nominee Liam Neeson, and COMING THROUGH THE RYE opposite Academy Award winner, Chis Cooper. Some of his favorite tv roles include a series regular in Hulu’s revival of ALL MY CHILDREN, a recurring ro...
2022-05-1142 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 177: Interview with my Mom and Why You are Never Too OldWe are dropping this podcast in honor of Mother’s Day but also on the actual day she gave birth to me! Food, Drink, and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch (American Palate) Her Latest Cookbook Advice: “When I’m stuck in a story, I talk to someone else.” Keep doing what you’re doing and enjoy it! Learn more at peterrose.com
2022-05-0450 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 176: The Emotional Journey of Getting Your Headshots TakenWork hard to keep your brain tight so your nasty messages in your brain don’t have power. Having a relationship with their highest wisdom, that will help you solve all your problems. “Hell no! I am not under any circumstances going to let this happen.” Is this real or is this my ego? “It is coming, it is baffling, it is powerful” Take care of yourself and do what you set out to accomplish. Managing Emotions
2022-04-2731 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 175: Interview with Working Actor Amelia CampbellAbout Amelia: Amelia Campell was most recently in the Lucille Lortel nominated Coal Country at The Cherry Lane Theater. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her first Broadway play Our Country’s Good in 1991. Additional select theater: Broadway: A Small Family Business; Translations; The Herbal Bed; Waiting in the Wings; A Streetcar Named Desire. Off B’way: Middle of the Night(Keen Company); Taking Care of Baby(MTC); The Exonerated(Culture Project); The Fall to Earth(59E59); Philip Roth in Khartoum(LAByrinth); The Misanthrope(NYTW); Tryst(Promenade); Love, Janis(Village Theater). Regional: A Midsummer Ni...
2022-04-2050 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 174: The Emotional Trap of Social Media for ActorsSign up for Adrienne Stern Monologues with Andrew Dolan Katie Flahive Classes Feeling triggered by other people’s posts. “Sometimes I feel social media affects my confidence or self-esteem, even though I know it's primarily used as a highlight reel. Some actors post every single audition they go on to Facebook or Instagram. Others post throwback photos from past shoots or opportunities that they've had. And it can trick us into thinking, Well, why am I not there yet? A good example for me is there was of another actor same age...
2022-04-1316 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 173: The Art of Monologues with Andrew DolanAbout Andrew: Andrew Dolan’s credits include American Daughter (Broadway), Strictly Dishonorable (Vineyard), Pink, Ted Kaczynski (SPF), What Then (Clubbed Thumb), Tree House (NY Stage & Film), Measure for Measure (Target Margin) UK: Edmond (National Theatre). The Woods (National Studio), Boy from the Book (English Touring Theatre). Regional: Mamba's Daughters (Spoleto Festival), Burn This, Marco Millions, Cyrano, 12th Night, Hapgood (ACT), Substance of Fire. Savage/Love (Magic Theatre), Loot, Amadeus (Arizona Theatre Co.), Road to Nirvana, Down the Road, Boy’s Life, Coming Attractions (Encore Theatre). TV/Film: House of Cards, Your Honor, Chicago Med, Bl...
2022-04-0644 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 172: A Peek Into My Weekly Coaching Group“By working on your acting training, you become more qualified for better acting jobs.” Core work--> so you can clean out the gunk that stands in the way of receiving opportunities that you have previously prevented yourself from receiving. Matt Corboy Interview: “Don’t put me into the role; put the role into me.” The chunk of ice metaphor. Talent is undeniable. Use your mind to govern your brain. One baby step by one baby step. How do I counteract that negative voice inside of me?
2022-03-3040 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 171: Interview with Working Actor Matt CorboyAbout Matt: Matt Corboy is a journeyman actor who has appeared in over 100 television shows and movies as well as over 125 national commercials. Most notably, he was Cousin Ralph in the Academy Award-winning movie, The Descendants, alongside George Clooney; Officer Ray Carlson on Emmy Award-winning television series The Shield; and most recently, four episodes as Matt Dickson on This Is Us that aired this February on NBC. When you're new, it's OK to be new, and you don't have to pretend that you're not. That goes back to like being your authentic self. Nobody expe...
2022-03-2339 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 170: A Deeper Dive into the Courage to Be YourselfSIGN UP FOR KEN REA'S MASTERCLASS The Language of Letting Go: “When I meet people or get in a new relationship, I start putting all these repressive restrictions on myself. I can't have my feelings, can't have my wants and needs, can't have my history, can't do the things I want, feel the feelings I'm feeling, or say what I need to say. I turn into this repressed, perfectionist robot instead of being who I am. Me.” In auditions in the past, I would put restrictions, repressive restrictions on myself. Don't laugh too h...
2022-03-1621 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 169: The Courage to Be YourselfThis is the miracle of Core Work: you can discover a new level of confidence, on a whole other level of self-assuredness, in a whole other level of the courage to be yourself. The courage to be “Peter Pamela Rose,” and show the world who that is, and be totally delighted whether the reaction is, “oh, I love her” or “oh no, thank you.” That feeling of being alive and that feeling of utter gratitude for my love, for my life and for what I have, and for my future. And it's an incredible, incredible place to be.
2022-03-0930 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 168: Interview with Award Winning Director Annie TippeAbout Annie: Annie Tippe is a director and creator of new work, film, and music theater. Recent: Premiere of Dave Malloy's OCTET at the Signature Theatre (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Direction, SDC Callaway Award Finalist) and GHOST QUARTET (Premiere, The Bushwick Starr, etc...), Leslye Headland's CULT OF LOVE (Premiere, IAMA Theatre Company), Bess Wohl's CONTINUITY (Goodman Theatre), Molly Beach Murphy + Jeanna Phillips’ COWBOY BOB (Village Theatre; New York Stage + Film), James + Jerome’s INK (w. Rachel Chavkin, Under the Radar/Met Museum) and THE CONVERSATIONALISTS (Bushwick Starr). Former Ars Nova Director-in-Residence, Drama League Directing Fellow, Williamstown Directing Corps. ...
2022-03-0229 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 167: Protecting Yourself from Energy VampiresEnergy Vampires= people who take away valuable energy you need to push past the things that are standing in the way of your dreams. Level 10 energy Who to watch out for: People who zap your energy. How do we protect ourselves? Put on an imaginary bubble suit. Their stuff does not need to affect you. You have the opportunity to arrive late and leave early. Other kinds of Vampires Other Actors on set. No is a complete sentence. People preying on the actors in the Industry. Family who is not...
2022-02-2318 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 166: Interview with Broad City Co-EP Ryan CunninghamAbout Ryan: RYAN ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM (she/her) is a queer writer/director and Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer who recently launched the development company Running Woman with the goal of telling stories that haven’t been heard before. She represented the TV projects THE FUGITIVE GAME (2018), TRANSMANIA (2019), and MARY (2020) in the IFP (now The Gotham) Project Forum. Ryan is very passionate about promoting equality, women’s issues, LGBTQ+ stories, and neurodiversity in her work. She's EP/Director on the standup special ILANA GLAZER: THE PLANET IS BURNING (Amazon), the docuseries EXPECTING AMY (HBO Max), and an up...
2022-02-1647 minActing Business Boot CampEpisode 164: Interview w/ Single Drunk Female Producer Colleen LabellaSend your picture and resume to me: peter@actingbusinessbootcamp.com About Colleen: Colleen Labella is the Director of Development for Leslye Headland's company, Shoot to Midnight. She is a producer on the new Freeform hit series SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE. Colleen worked on Fox's ALMOST FAMILY and Showtime's BLACK MONDAY, and she currently has a number of projects in development under Shoot to Midnight with 20th Century Fox. Colleen also directs theatre in the greater Los Angeles area. Credits include: fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life at the University of San Diego, Canyon for Center...
2022-02-0236 min
Acting Business Boot CampEpisode 155: Rep Gifts & The Challenge of the HolidaysSend your picture and resume to peter@actingbusinessbootcamp.com What to get your reps for the holidays: $25 gift is fine Avoid food and alcohol Who to give to: Casting Director who you’ve booked a few jobs through over the years Agent and/or Manager Casting Director Agent or Manager who you’ve gotten a lot of stuff through get something a little more expensive What to get: Movie Tickets Amazon Gift Card Find out if they like something Favorite restaurant Donate to a charity Flowers Hol...
2021-12-0119 min