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Chiropractor 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...

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...

Today 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 oth...

Money 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...

Money 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 lovin...

Time 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 tel...

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...

Katie 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. W...

Time 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, ...

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Time 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 c...

I'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...

Time 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...

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 pe...

Time 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...

Ask 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 enlig...

Ask 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 abou...

Ask 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 overwh...

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 st...

Ask 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: tha...

About 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 "Au...

About 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 compan...

Ask 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 Pe...

On 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 learnin...

Time 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. En...