10,000 NOs

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that, while we all (hopefully) aim to do our best work all the time, sometimes just showing up is your best that day. If we allow ourselves to skip training sessions, or anything in our life that we've prioritized, it can be a slippery slope. Sometimes just the act of not being c...

In this excerpt from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss those occasional walls that you hit in life where you feel tired and exhausted with everything. Accepting those dips for what they are isn’t necessarily a bad thing. When former 10,000 NOs guest, Navy SEAL Jason Redman, took the time to publicly share about the need for people to ask for help...

In this excerpt from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community , we discuss the idea of being present and how there is simply nowhere else to be. The past is gone; the future is our imagination; the only thing we have is right now. Many of us enjoy activities like surfing or riding rollercoasters, not realizing that the real thrill is that they force us to be present...

In this excerpt from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the idea of taking matters into your own hands and giving yourself the right energy to build your own career. We realize that it's not about waiting for approval or following the crowd – you can create opportunities of your own and be in control of your destiny. For example, since joining...

In this excerpt, from one of our monthly VIP Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, with Best-selling Author/Speaker/Mountaineer Alison Levine, Alison shares with us that climbing Mount Everest includes a lot of climbing down Mount Everest. In order for climbers to get used to the altitude to which they'll be ascending, they take several trips to camps at various heights on th...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the value of speaking your ideas out loud so that others can build upon them with you and help you create something even better. Despite most people's fears that their ideas are going to be stolen and they're going to be cut out of the mix, the truth is that the idea is nothing withou...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we talk about that thing that hangs most people up: procrastination. Rather than talking about doing something, just do it and you'll find that anxiety goes down and, magically, the thing that you're doing becomes more enjoyable. This discussion is ultimately about reminding yourself that activi...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we continue the eternal debate of how much to expose on social media. Questions arise about how much vulnerability is the right amount and how many of our wins can we appropriately share without alienating our audience as a braggart. What we come to, among other things, is that sharing some of our own w...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss how to approach big decisions in life that will have a larger impact on your career than you may realize when you first set out to chase your dream job. Primarily, we discuss logistics. For actors, this list includes decisions as seemingly simple as which city, how big of a market, which teac...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that our biggest competition is not those that we are "up against". Whether you're an actor or in any other field, the most important competition you face is within yourself. Are you doing the things that need to be done to make you the best version of yourself? That'...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that it's so easy to get knocked off course by haters and slingers of cyber mud who make you feel self-conscious about whatever path you're on. But the fact is that, particularly if you're in a public position, someone is likely saying less than charitable things about yo...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we highlight one of our VIPs, Shane Savage , an actor, coach, producer, director and all-around creative dynamo in Vancouver, BC. Shane discusses the importance of discipline and the specifics of designing your life, and each day, to achieve your goals rather than just talking about a wish-list of where...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that, despite the popular opinion that obsessing is a terrible thing, it can also be used for good. As long as the obsession is not tied to results that are out of our control, it can be a way to constantly hone our craft and continue to progress. The trick is to use it to bring more...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that, even though you may have made a big decision to "follow your passion", things will not be smooth right away. If you fail to give yourself enough time for the new dream/goal to incubate, you will kill your dream before it gets a chance to lift off the ground. Monday Mors...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that, while everyone loves to talk about the end results (red carpets, accolades, etc) you can only reach those milestones if you create boundaries for yourself long before anyone else can fathom the dream within your head as being a reality. People that surround you, even ones that...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, I addressed one of the young actors who was in a groove, explaining that when you are in a groove, you don't need a ton of instruction... instinct carries the day and almost anything you do will turn to gold. But when you hit those inevitable walls that we all hit, you need to do what our tech advis...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the elusive nature of success in a field like acting along with the structure we can impose on our career through discipline. We also delve into the myth of certainty and acceptance of what IS. Monday Morsels are the short-form companion to our Friday Interviews of 10,000 NOs... brief riffs o...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the yin and yang of both progress and our strategies of approach. Different people have different preferences and rhythms and what may work for your friend may not work for you. Monday Morsels are the short-form companion to our Friday Interviews of 10,000 NOs... brief riffs on the show's...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that, regardless of what is going on around us, we can choose to always be learning. Whether it is finding a new book to read, song to listen to, or film to watch, our search for knowledge is never-ending, even if it means rereading a book we read twenty years ago and seeing how it h...

Gratitude for those who have given their lives for our freedom on this Memorial Day episode, led to the question of what we are giving of ourselves on a daily basis. Are you doing more than you're being paid to do? Needing something isn't enough to get it. If we were farming, we'd need to plant a seed, give it water and sunlight consistently and wait for a period of time before we see...

Are you feeling more swamped than groovy? Do you ever feel like the tail is wagging the dog (or like you're a dog chasing your tail... one of those dog metaphors)? With a lot on my plate, I've been feeling that way. With plans for new ways to serve people, especially young actors, with all of the existing 10,000 NOs content, I've decided to scale back on the podcast for the Summer by p...

Elisa Donovan has been a part of the pop culture zeitgeist for over two decades, starting with her work in the film Clueless, following that up with Beverly Hills, 90210 and the TV adaptation of Clueless, Sabrina the Teenage Witch... the list goes on. And while she's done that and so much more as an actor, along the way she realized that her real passion has lied in finding her voice through w...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss the fact that, despite most people's appetite for comfort and ease, many of the people we look up to in society are people with jobs or callings that require them to deal with conflict. It's not that these VIPs have less conflict than the rest of us, it's that they've learned...

Patrick J. Adams hit it big with his role as dropout turned unlicensed lawyer Mike Ross in USA Network's TV series Suits, garnering a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Despite his thrust into fame in his late 20's, he recounts the lean years and the hard knocks that preceded Suits vividly in this overtly honest...

In this excerpt, from one of our weekly Live Zoom calls with the 10,000 NOs Insiders Community, we discuss how everything from macro life decisions to acting in a scene, writing, filmmaking all require extreme presence. If we focus too much on what's coming down the pipeline we may very well miss out on the gold of the present moment. Actors, at this time of year, know this better than anyone:...