The Aligned Actor

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindset coach. This is the podcast were I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. Actor Life is a roller coaster full of ups, downs, twist, turns, and sometimes full on loop-de-loops and the only way we will survive in this profession long-term is if we...

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindset coach. This is the podcast were I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. Actor Life is a roller coaster full of ups, downs, twist, turns, and sometimes full on loop-de-loops and the only way we will survive in this profession long-term is if we...

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindset coach. This is the podcast were I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. Actor Life is a roller coaster full of ups, downs, twist, turns, and sometimes full on loop-de-loops and the only way we will survive in this profession long-term is if we...

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindset coach. This is the podcast were I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. Actor Life is a roller coaster full of ups, downs, twist, turns, and sometimes full on loop-de-loops and the only way we will survive this profession long-term is if we ta...

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindset coach. This is the podcast were I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. Actor Life is a roller coaster full of ups, downs, twist, turns, and sometimes full on loop-de-loops and the only way we will survive this profession long-term is if we ta...

It’s the final clip from my conversation with Brian Zane! Cue: Sad Trombone Sound! In this clip we discuss the physical energy that it takes to be an actor playing a character and how we can care for ourselves within our work. We talk about what do do with the extra energy of the post show high and the idea of “casting off” the character so that we don’t continue to carry their emotions with us. I...

We’re back with even more from my conversation with Brian Zane! In this clip we discuss the ways we get in our own way as actors. Brian references an episode of his podcast where he talked about how self-consciousness can come up while we’re acting , and I share a trick I’ve been using to stay focused in auditions. We also talk about how powerful self-acknowledgement can be for actors, and why it’...

More Brian Zane awesomeness coming at ya this week! In this clip we talk about the energy of the thoughts we think as actors. Some thoughts drain our energy, while others make us feel more energized. Toward the end of the clip I guide Brian through a Neuro-Linguistic Programming exercise to help him release one of his most exhausting thoughts. If you want to experience our full conversation ( and...

Today I want to introduce you to Brian Zane. Brian is an actor, an acting teacher and the host of The Actor’s Nervous System , which is an amazing podcast you can get wherever you like to get your podcasts. Brian and I sat down for an interview on his podcast and he was generous enough to share the footage of that discussion with me so that I could share it on The Aligned Actor Podcast. Over the n...

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach. This is the podcast where I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. Actor Life is a stressful, relentless roller coaster full of ups, downs, twists, turns, and sometimes full on loop-de-loops. There’s uncertainty, rejectio...

NOTE: The written portion of this article is a lightly edited and abridged transcript, so it may seem more informal than usual. Hello and welcome to The Aligned Actor podcast. I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach. And this is the podcast where I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. I am doing a...

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach. This is the podcast where I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help us all thrive in our full actor lives. I want you to stay aligned with who you are, what you want, and why you choose to be an actor, so that you can make it in an industry that will test you o...

NOTE: This episode was recorded while I was on a walk with my dogs so you will hear “neighborhood noise” — planes, cars, poop bags, etc. The written portion of this article is a lightly edited transcript, so it may seem more informal than usual. Hello, and welcome back to The Aligned Actor Podcast. I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach. And this is the podc...

NOTE: This episode was recorded while I was on a walk with my dogs so you will hear “neighborhood noise” — planes, cars, poop bags, etc. The written portion of this article is a lightly edited transcript, so it may seem more informal than usual. Hello, and welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast. I'm Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach and this is the podcast wh...

NOTE: This episode was recorded while I was on a walk with my dogs so you will hear “neighborhood noise” — planes, cars, poop bags, etc. The written portion of this article is a lightly edited transcript, so it may seem more informal than usual. Alright. Hello and welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast. I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach. And this is the p...

In this episode we’re once again going to practice mindfulness of breathing and apply the important phone call metaphor we talked about in a previous episode. The basic overview for this practice is simple: * Start a conversation with your breath. * As distractions try to interrupt that conversation, acknowledge them and stay with your breath, “Hey, I’m having an important conversation, let’s talk...

In this episode I’m going to share a story-based metaphor for formal mindfulness meditation practice. As actors, we love stories, and humans in general tend to understand and remember ideas more easily when associated with story because stories help us relate to things. If mindfulness meditation is something that’s new for you, maybe you’re having trouble relating to it and there’s still parts of...

In this episode we’re going to practice mindfulness of breathing. As the name suggests, we’re going to pay very close attention to our experience of breathing and I’m going to guide you in noticing different things about that sensation. This is one of the most basic, formal mindfulness practices and it often serves as the starting point or foundation for other mindfulness practices, which we will...

In this episode we’re going to really break down what’s happening in a formal mindfulness session so that you can see how simple the process actually is. Hopefully this demystifies mindfulness meditation for you and makes it feel even more accessible. In simplest terms, mindfulness is about focusing and noticing. We practice formal mindfulness meditation by focusing on the sensation of our breathi...

In this episode, we’re once again practicing mindfulness and in keeping with what we talked about in the episode about mindfulness misconceptions, I’m going to introduce you to a practice where your mind will definitely not be clear (we’re going to intentionally give it some very specific thoughts to think) and we’re only going to practice for less than 1 minute at a time. We’re actively dispellin...

In this episode we’re going to talk about Mindfulness Misconceptions. Because unfortunately there are some ways that mass media and pop culture talk about mindfulness that are not helpful for beginners and can lead to a lot of unnecessary frustration as you’re starting a practice. When I first tried meditation I would get super frustrated with myself because I would try to stay focused on my breat...

In this episode we’re going to practice what we learned in the previous episode — paying attention to the present moment with kind curiosity — which is the definition of mindfulness. So just listen and follow along as I help you pay attention to your current present moment. If you want to close your eyes, and it’s safe for you to do so, you can, but you certainly don’t have to. Practicing mindfuln...

It is my firm belief that mindfulness is a tool that can be like a balm for so many of the things that challenge us the most as actors, and one of my goals with my work is to demystify mindfulness and make it as simple and accessible as possible for you. To that end, we are starting a series on The Aligned Actor Podcast! In this series we’re going to do a deep dive on mindfulness. Mindfulness has...

Welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast! I’m Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach helping us all thrive in our full actor lives. This is the podcast were I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts to help you handle the roller coaster ride of being an actor, all the ups, downs, twist, turns, and sometimes full on loop-de-loops so that you can actually...

Raise your hand if you wish you could wave a magic wand and never feel nervous for an audition or a performance again. Well, you’re in luck because today on The Aligned Actor Podcast we’re talking about nerves — stage fright, audition nerves, performance anxiety — and I’m going to help you reframe your mindset around nerves and offer you a few simple techniques to calm your body and mind quickly....