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I am talking about all things voiceover and creative entrepreneurialism. Hope you are having a fantastic Wednesday.  Let's jump right into today's topic, which is branding.  And I want to sort of unpack the essence of what branding is because we are drawn in to people who do this for a living.  People who create brands for actors. And I just want to get it out into the open. That if you don't have...

My co coach over here at Acting Business Bootcamp, VO expert extraordinaire, Mandy Fisher will now be joining the podcast as my co host.  Today for her first episode ever on the Acting Business Bootcamp podcast, she is going to be talking about specificity, being clear about who you are and what you offer. And also about who you are reaching out to building a business includes growing it and build...

I hope you had A safe week. I am actually recording this podcast from New York. However, I do live in Los Angeles and I own a house there.  And, like so many, all of us Angelenos, it's been a terrifying week, and I'm saying it's been a terrifying week, and I haven't even been there.  But I've been watching the fire creep closer to my house, and at the moment I am recording this, thankfully, I am o...

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 thin...

Book 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.

Book 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.

Book 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 yea...

Today 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 ge...

About Matthew: Matthew Corozine is a multi-hyphenated creative artist. Not only an actor, director, producer, and teacher, Matthew is also the founding artistic director and creator of Matthew Corozine Studio (MCS), which just celebrated its 24th anniversary. He is now one of New York City's leading Meisner-based acting coaches, teaching and creating opportunities for students to "get outta your h...

Book 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 pers...

Book 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 trut...

Try out the weekly class Today I'm going to talk about what I find a sad subject, and it is about unsupportive friends and unsupportive family members. And I'm gonna give you a few points and things to think about. So that you can have the support, at least from me, and I'll talk about getting more support in a moment, that helps you when you're dealing with this.  Now, the first thing, and I know...

Book 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...

Get 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...

Book 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 empoweri...

Book 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...

The Working Actor Road Map Connect with Jocelyn on Instagram Today I am talking with Jocelyn Sandstrom about quantum manifestation.  About Jocelyn: Growing up in Hawaii, Jocelyn has lived and worked in 12 different countries. This experience has allowed her to realize that even though we may speak different languages or have different traditions, at our core, we are all the same. She has used this...

Kick Your Acting Career in Gear Okay, so today's podcast is motivated by someone writing to me, wanting to me to talk a little bit about nepo babies, nepotism.  Of course, I'm going to say that nepotism and keeping the focus on yourself is the key.  The focus because there's nothing you can do about somebody else is, birthrights or relatives, but you can do something about keeping the focus on you...

Kick Your Acting Career in Gear Okay, so let's talk about being tenacious.  The number one thing about being tenacious is actually embracing it.  And I talk about this in terms of my own experience, which is that my biggest mistakes have been my best teachers.  My biggest mistakes have been my best teachers.  And really understanding, when you make a mistake or you have a roadblock, you don't get...

This week we're going to talk about gossip. Oh my god, I used to love gossip.  I used to love to talk about other people, what they were doing. Ugh, it was so amazing. Can you tell I was a teenager in the 80s?  But today I'm going to talk about why gossip is actually not that great.  And I have really been the target of gossip as well, and maybe I had to burn through some karma there.  It's really...

Try 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 per...

Try 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...

Try out The Weekly Accountability Group for Free We are going to be talking about the importance of fun. So I'm going to be really honest with you, this is a topic that I have had so much trouble with.  Yeah, I have had trouble having fun.  I thought that, I don't know, life was to be endured. And even though I had a positive, natural positive attitude, I didn't know how to have fun. I had no idea...

Book a free consultation! Today I'm going to talk about something that I have found to be extremely helpful.  And that word is being decisive.  Now, sometimes when I'm decisive, I make mistakes. But this is the thing. Everything is fixable.  And mistakes are how we grow.  But in my being decisive, what happens is that things get put in order, into motion.  And the thing is that if I keep doing wha...

Get 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 th...