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Private Coaching Today, I want to talk about self-love because it's Valentine's Day.  And the thing about self-love that I have found in doing this work for almost 30 years is that self-love takes on a lot of different forms. Yes, it is ensuring that I bathe, brush my teeth, get adequate sleep, eat well, and exercise. But it's also about taking care of the things I think and the things I do.  A bi...

The Voiceover Actor Road Map About Emma: Emma O'Neill is a multi-award-winning voice actor specializing in radio and TV commercials, TV narration, TV promo, and corporate training videos. Outside the booth, she's a fitness and wellness enthusiast, and has been a certified yoga instructor for more than 25 years. About Mike: Mike Tobin is an accomplished, Montreal-born, award-nominated voice actor,...

Private Coaching Changing your career direction by asking Empowering Questions.  I'm going to start with a quote from Anthony Robbins, "quality questions create a quality life."   Successful people ask better questions. And as a result, they get better answers.   And this is how I work as a coach. I ask you quality questions so that you can create a quality career.  Because I do believe that succe...

On-Camera Class Costar Class I'm going to talk about illusion and illusion in your acting career in two different ways. The first way is I'm going to talk about how we have the idea that an acting career will go one way, but actually, that's just an illusion, and that's just me trying to control the outcome.  So when I'm doing that, it is an illusion.  And I remember this actually in terms of mone...

New Voiceover Masterclass! About Spencer:   Spencer Robinson  is a literary and talent manager at  Art/Work Entertainment  who's been in the industry for over 20 years. He represents writers, actors, producers, and also a full book publishing company.  Spencer's writer clients have been on the writing staff of shows for Netflix, Amazon, Max, HBO, Comedy Central, and many more.  He's also sold clie...

What's Standing in the Way of Your Voiceover Career? Masterclass About Mandy Fisher: Mandy Fisher is a NYC-based full-time voiceover actor with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She has worked with brands like Crayola, Disney, Peloton, Coke, Walmart, and Kohls to name a few. Her passion for voiceover and genuine love of helping people inspire her to work with actors of all stages of the...

Managing Anxiety for the New Year. Sometimes when I have something really large looming in front of me, like an entire year, I get anxious. I think, "How am I going to do this? How am I going to handle this? This seems like too big of a thing to tackle." And there's that wonderful phrase that says, "Anyone can eat an elephant one bite at a time." And that's what I like to help actors with, not onl...

So today, we are going to talk about goals for the first quarter of 2024. January through March 31st is the first quarter of the year. We are setting 3 to 5 goals for the first quarter of 2024. Now, the other thing is that if you do the full yearly goals, you could break that down a little bit, baby-stepping into that first quarter. But what I want you to be thinking of is the first of the year th...

Special Rate Life Coaching This is one of my favorite episodes of the year. Why? Because I recap the entire year, and it's like a play-by-play of all the podcast episodes.  So, over 52 episodes, you can get a quick little like burst of what it's about and write it down and say, "Oh, I wanna listen to episode 210."  What's so incredible is that we have over 160 episodes for you to listen to all fre...

What do you get your reps for the holidays, especially this year? Because it is this year, the year of two strikes, after, let's see, a global pandemic, and a heck of a lot of other things going on in the world, I think we can be assured that it doesn't have to be some momentous gift. So let's say you had a Killer year, maybe in theatrical at the beginning of the year, or you had a killer print ye...

Radio Imaging Class with Mandy  About Mandy Fisher: Mandy Fisher is a NYC-based full-time voiceover actor with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She has worked with brands like Crayola, Disney, Peloton, Coke, Walmart, and Kohls to name a few. Her passion for voiceover and genuine love of helping people inspire her to work with actors of all stages of their career.  With a theater backgr...

Free Month of Coaching Heidi's YouTube Channel About Heidi Dean: Heidi Dean is known as the industry's top social media strategist for actors and the creator of Marketing4actors.com. She's a social media writer for Backstage Magazine and a frequent speaker at film festivals, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, conferences, podcasts and universities across the country. Her clients include Emmy Award-winners, Broadway...

Free Masterclass About Maribeth Fox: Maribeth Fox has worked with Laura Rosenthal Casting for fifteen years and has had the privilege of working alongside major talents like Todd Haynes, Paolo Sorrentino, Oren Moverman, Joachim Trier, Ed Burns, Mindy Kaling, Anton Corbijn, and Lisa Cholodenko as well as up and coming feature directors, Guy Nattiv, Olivia Newman , & Paul Downs Colaizzo . Favorite c...

Private Coaching Today, I am going to talk about what is honestly sometimes a very painful thing to talk about, which is going home for the holidays.  Because actually going home for the holidays for me is a joyous thing now.  But when I was younger, it was harder. And it wasn't necessarily because of my parents, but it was things that triggered me, like the cold, like it being darker. And those k...

Free Month of Coaching You Can Heal Your Life The Power of Intention An actor shared that they had turned down an opportunity because, ultimately, they felt that they didn't deserve it. And, I think that is an incredibly painful place, especially when she realized afterward what had been done and why they had done it. It brings up the question, how many times have I turned something down or walked...

Katie Flahive Film and TV Class $30 Classes Energy attracts like energy.  "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi Like attracts like, and we attract and create our world. If I am not treating myself well, that is what I am giving out to the world, and I will end up attracting people who don't treat me very well.  By focusing not on what was but on only what can be, we create the world...

David Cady's Commercial Gym Work with Jason   About Jason Figgis: Jason Figgis is an award-winning IFTA-nominated film and TV director who has had feature work commissioned or acquired by major broadcasters that include  Sky One, Sky Arts, Channel Four, Hulu, RTE, Apple+, iTunes, KSM, SVT, Cinedigm, Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime,  and  Lionsgate Studios .  This work has been placed in territorie...

About Joshua Lastine: Joshua Lastine, Esq., Entertainment Business and Transactional Attorney is the Founder and Managing Partner at Lastine Entertainment Law.  A strategic negotiator, fierce advocate for talent, and a practical problem solver, Lastine strengthens his counsel with an ineffable passion for show business, its players, and creators.  As a former  Lionsgate  and  ViacomCBS  attorney,...

Private Coaching Fear and Courage. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway "If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life, yet so many are out there doing it despite fear, then we must conclude that fear is not the problem." Fear is not the problem. It's our attitude and our actions. One of the things I coach with people is I look at their goal, and then I look at their thoughts ar...

TV and Film Class Private Coaching Fear and Bravery One way to look at fear is that it is just a fact of life. And I remember when I had so much anxiety as a child. And I used to think to myself, I'd be like, "If could just get rid of this. I just wish somebody could remove anxiety from me." But remember that anxiety and fear were given to us for a specific reason: the sabertoothed tiger. Because...

Co-Star Workout Commercial Workout Voiceover Workout Katie Flahive On Camera Class Today, I am going to be talking about wisdom and choice.   A quote from William Jennings Bryan.  "Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved."  In life, we always have a choice, even when we don't feel we do.  When I forget that I hav...

About Mandy Fisher: Mandy Fisher  is a NYC-based full-time voiceover actor with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She has worked with brands like  Crayola, Disney, Peloton, Coke, Walmart,  and  Kohls  to name a few. Her passion for voiceover and genuine love of helping people inspire her to work with actors of all stages of their career.  With a theater background, she brings her traini...

Private Coaching So, Rosh Hashanah, Happy New Year. I am married to a wonderful Jewish man, and this is the Jewish New Year. You can restart your day at any point. And I thought, you know what, it's Jewish New Year, and we could all use a bit of a restart. I also love that it's coming up right after Labor Day; I think of it being, as I mentioned before, summertime is over, and it's, the school yea...

Eight Tips Not to Get Ripped Off as an Actor and the Three Pillars to a Successful Acting Career Today, I'm going to talk about clear thinking in unclear times. And I think that could apply to so many things. It could apply to our industry, it could apply to AI, and what's going to happen, it could apply to strikes, it could apply just to the state of the world. So, let's take a second to talk abo...

Broaden 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 membe...