Empowered Actors Podcast

This week has been a big week for me... started with a blue tick, included a meaningful heart-to-heart with my agent, and finished with our final performances of The Importance of Being Earnest UK tour! By all accounts, its been a great week, albeit surprising in places. As always, there is much to take away from it all. Do you have a topic idea for a future Making Our Way segment? Email it over t...

This week I have been slapped around the face by the anniversary of some very big life changes. It has had me reflecting on what it has been like to survive personally and thrive professionally throughout a tough grieving process. If you would like to talk to anyone about anything you are struggling with, please visit checkout Papyrus - a charity for the prevention of young suicide, or Samaritans...

This week I sat down with a very good friend I made earlier this year filming in Morocco - the awesome actress, Kaysha Woollery (she/her). Kaysha is a London-based actor. With over a decade's acting experience, she has worked with a range of notable companies, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, National Theatre Scotland, The Young Vic, The Bush, Lyric Hammersmith, and The Old Vic. She recently starr...

This week I am coming to you from gorgeous Los Angeles, California! However, and perhaps contrary to expectation, I am here purely for pleasure this week visiting friends and taking a well-needed/deserved holiday break from touring The Importance of Being Earnest around the UK. I have made absolutely no business engagements whatsoever for the time I am out here and having already done a lot of the...

This week I sat down with my current co-star of The Importance of Being Earnest and the incredibly multi-talented, Mr Daniel Jacob (he/him), to catch up about how our tour has been going for him so far and more... Daniel Jacob is an Actor and Cabaret Performer who graduated from the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA)  Some of Daniel’s credits include The Importance of Being Ernest,...

Coming at you this week from tour venue #4: The Northern Stage in BEAUTIFUL Newcastle. We're over halfway through the tour now, so I thought it would be a great time to reflect on some survival advice and tips for touring Actors. This week on Making Our Way: when to take advice and who from. Do you have a topic idea for a future Making Our Way segment? Email it over to: itrpod@stepintotheroom.co.u...

Well, well, well, it's been a little while since we last spoke indeed! But I have to say that getting back into recording the podcast again this week has made it feel like absolutely no time has passed whatsoever! In any case, it is my pleasure to introduce the new and improved version of the podcast: In The Room with Adele James (formerly known as Making My Way). There is a lot of heaviness that...

The update on the job I've been auditioning for, for four months is... there is no update. What there are though, are a whole bunch of lessons learned from the experience of auditioning for and grieving this job multiple times over. I am now (hopefully) in the final stage of this process and should be finding out either way ASAP, so in the meantime, I offer to you my main takeaways from living in...

In the last two weeks I have experienced so many twists and turns - from the joy of an awards nomination, to another unexpected update with *that* job I've been auditioning for since December, to the pain of being bedridden with a horrific flu for several days. As I have often said, this life is a rollercoaster! I do feel though, that I am at a point on the ride where I am learning to value and ap...

This week I am pleased to bring you a chat with our second industry guest - the incredibly ambitious and inspiring, Sam Benjamin! Sam is an actor, screenwriter and director known for his roles in Doctor Who, BBC's The War of the Worlds and I Am Vengeance: Retaliation now on Netflix. He's originally from the land of the Beatles in Merseyside, though he describes himself as more of a Prince guy! He'...

This week I climbed out of my own personal mental hole in time for us all to dive headfirst into a week of devastating world events and immense grief within the UK's artistic community. Having said that, it has also been a very enlightening week - full of introspection, gratitude and some epiphanies about living intentionally. If you would like to contribute to the Making OUR Way segment of a futu...

This week my confidence has taken a nose-dive and my anxiety has been raging. The question is, how to move through it? Because somehow, some way, we must... If you would like to contribute to the Making OUR Way segment of a future ep, please email makingmywaypod@gmail.com - I would love to include you!

For this week's episode, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with my former co-star and good friend, Olivia D'Lima. Olivia is an actor and writer, most known for her performance as Fenisha Khatri in BBC's Casualty . She recently died on screen again in Death in Paradise and aims to continue dying (or even living) in more things. We chatted all about our different paths coming off of Casual...

In complete contrast to the last two weeks, the past week has been GREAT career-wise (and sleep-wise - at last!) But this is not the time to take one's foot off of the proverbial pedal. Professional etiquette, self-confidence and survival strategy are all better honed when the going is good. Thank you Lydia for inspiring this week's Making OUR Way topic: trusting our intentions and choices. If you...

It's been a mixed week - packed out with birthdays, a trip to Spain, some unexpected good news, and a lack of motivation towards a writing project. Highs and lows, but above all else, many moments to learn from. Thank you Cara for inspiring this week's Making OUR Way topic: hype vs reality. If you would like to contribute to a future Making OUR Way segment, please email makingmywaypod@gmail.com -...

I've been sent some subtle and some not so subtle reminders all week about the necessity of honouring what I truly want - both personally and professionally. Whew. It's been a very loud week. Thank you Abbie for inspiring this week's Making OUR Way topic: career-life balance. If you would like to contribute to a future Making OUR Way segment, please email makingmywaypod@gmail.com - I would love to...

This week, sleep regression, Daniel Kaluuya and saying "no" have led me to an awakening about the power of choice - a power that I think we are all more than capable of having. Thank you Lottie for inspiring the first ever Making OUR Way topic: second jobs! I would love to hear from YOU if you would like to contribute to a future Making OUR Way segment. Please just email makingmywaypod@gmail.com -...

This week I have been thinking about how little we Actors sometimes actually get to do any acting, and how we can find ways to act more. Plus, reflecting on the benefits that healthy habits and routine have had for me, navigating an unpredictable lifestyle.

What are my main takeaways from getting ready for 2022 over the past week? The benefits of goal setting, being flexible with myself and keeping a close circle.

For the first episode, I thought it was only right to map out and reflect on my entire journey so far in my journal, leading to where you meet me today: with no clue as to what's coming next and learning to find peace within that.