F*ck Your Comfort Zone with Margie Haber

CHARLES F. PORTER Actor/Producer/Author/Personal Coach   Charles and Margie discuss their longtime friendship and his many achievements from football star at Duke University to actor, model, producer, author, personal coach/trainer and his most important role in becoming a father of two adorable children.  Charles shares his incredible journey as a cancer survivor (or cancer destroyer as he calls...

Actress/Writer Director Born in Jamaica, Kimberly and her family immigrated to Canada when she was 5.  All of a sudden, she was an outsider.  She struggled to find her voice, then claimed it by insisting on being called Kimberly instead of Kim.  She fell in love with the French language, which led her to Paris and a modeling career.  After a couple of years, she decided to f*ck her comfort zone, q...

Chris Boudreaux is well-acquainted with life outside of his comfort zone.  While homeless and living out of his car, Chris garnered a Division 1 full-ride scholarship to the Nevada Wolfpack and won a D1 Conference Championship with Colin Kaepernick as his QB.  He was picked up by the SF 49ers in 2012 after setting a bench press record that year.  Two years later, after “finding himself,” Chris was...

Tiffany Haddish is an actress, comedian and producer best known for Girls Trip, Night School and Like a Boss.  She is also the author of the new children’s book, Layla, the Last Black Unicorn.  Here Margie and Tiffany talk nails and her audition for Girls Trip , which Margie helped her with.  Tiffany also discusses working with Billy Crystal on Here Today and becoming a Bat Mitzvah.  It’s a conver...

David Sweeney and Margie share a lot in common.  David and Margie both come from Long Island.  They are both married [David, to his husband; Margie, to her wife.]  They both have sons.  And David manages Brandon Scott, who happens to be Margie’s fabulous student and who has also done this podcast.  David graduated NYU and moved to LA to be an agent trainee at the then powerhouse agency Triad Artis...

Alice lives between London, Rome and Los Angeles. She graduated from The Paolo Grassi Drama Academy in Milan in 2007 and toured theatrically in Italy and Europe with established directors Alvis Hermanis, Massimo Castri, Romeo Castellucci and Franca Valeri amongts others. Her tv credits include the American-Canadian tv series Ransom3, and as lead in the Italian period drama The Ladies’ Paradise , s...

R.D. Robb is best known for his role as Schwartz in the classic, A Christmas Story .  Other credits include roles in Matilda, The Brady Bunch Movie , and The Goldbergs .  R.D. performed in the Original Broadway cast of Les Miserables .  He wrote and directed Don’s Plum starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire and produced the tv series, Siren .  Robb talks candidly with Margie about being a ch...

Dakota has appeared in such shows as TEEN WOLF, CRIMINAL MINDS, and recently HOW I MET YOUR FATHER.  She is a triple threat - a writer, actor and director. Dakota shares her experience creating, writing, casting and directing her Amazon Prime film, ALL ABOUT SEX and writing the Netflix movie, AFTERMATH. Margie talks with Dakota about growing up with actors as parents and how that affected her chil...

Nick Jandl is best known for his role on NASHVILLE and has appeared on over a dozen TV series including CHICAGO FIRE, LUCIFER, NCIS, and CODE BLACK, most recently recurring on the Netflix series ON THE VERGE. Nick wrote, produced, and starred in THE CHASE, which won Best US Short at the 2020 Indy Film Fest. Currently, Nick is executive producing TODO POR AMOR, a dramatic series with CBS Studios an...

British theatre, film and TV actress, Gina Bramhill, who trained at RADA, talks about her childhood dream of becoming Ally McBeal.  Though she was terribly shy as a child, she loved living in her imagination and found so much of herself in the world of acting.  Margie and Gina talk about her wonderful series, Us , starring Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves, whose character Gina played as her younger...

Elyse Resch  is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, with almost 40 years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, intuitive eating, and health at every size. She is the co-author of Intuitive Eating , now in its 4th edition, The Intuitive Eating Workbook , and The Intuitive Eating Card Deck - 50 bite sized ways to make peace with food.   She also authored The In...

Actor | Writer | Producer Rell Battle is a writer, stand-up comedian who was featured in Conan’s TEAM COCO House nationwide tour and Will Smith’s upcoming This Joka for Roku. As an actor, he was a series regular on CBS’ Superior Donuts, guested on ABC’s Black-ish, NBC’s Good Girls, and recurred on ABC’s The Good Doctor. Rell recently sold a half-hour multi-cam comedy to NBC with Bradley Gardner at...

Jai and Margie had an opportunity to catch up on their lives. Jai is an English actor raised in Hong Kong. Over the past 15 years he has split his time between LA and Asia, working in Theatre, Film, TV, Animation, VO, and Stunts. He has performed alongside mainstays of Hong Kong cinema such as Donnie Yen, Andy Lau and Jackie Chan as well as acclaimed directors Rennie Harlin, Herman Yau and Wong Ji...

Series regular actor and humanitarian, Marque Richardson, shares his beginnings as a child actor and stories about his character Reggie on “Dear White People” from the film to the current tv series.  Margie and Marque discuss racism and what we can do to be better.  He also gives great tips on the zoom world of auditioning.  Marque’s  credits include series regular on “True Blood,” “The Middle,” “...

Margie talks with Cameroon-born singer and songwriter, Andy Allo, an artist who is truly paving her own path with a sound and vibe that is uniquely her own. They discuss being a “professional human” and the importance of living your life fully.  Andy currently stars as the female lead, “Nora,” in Amazon Prime’s critically acclaimed series, “Upload,” and has written and directed her first short fil...

Massachusetts native, Georgetown University graduate, and former consultant, Johnno Wilson has been acting and doing comedy in LA for 10 years.  He has studied with Margie Haber and was a member of The Groundlings Sunday Company.  He has had two network tests for Saturday Night Live on the famed Studio 8H stage, had a recurring role on Disney’s “Raven’s Home,” wrote/created/starred in a sketch com...

Margie chats with one of her favorites, character actor, Tim Bagley, with whom she has worked over a decade.  They discuss how Tim got into comedy, his love for “creating" and the empowering notion of “Why not me?"  Tim has appeared in numerous films and tv shows.  He had recurring roles on the TV series Hope & Gloria, Strip Mall, Will & Grace, According to Jim, The King of Queen...

A classically trained actor based in Los Angeles, Lisa Carswell recent credits include a recurring co-star on an upcoming Freeform series.  She is a transplant from the Pacific Northwest where she appeared on Grimm, ZNation and several independent films.  Lisa has appeared on many Seattle stages over the years including the Seattle Rep and ACT.  During all this she somehow found the time to raise...

Actor James Trevena from New Zealand chased dreams of playing professional Ice Hockey since he was a kid.  Once he returned home from the sport in 2010, he decided to try acting.  James is known for NZ shows “The Blue Rose” and “The Shannara Chronicles.”  Since 2016, he has worked in the US on films such as “Charlie Says” opposite Matt Smith and now stars alongside Paula Patton in the series, “Sac...

Margie is fortunate to welcome German Fashion Model, Actress and Humanitarian, Toni Garrn to her podcast.  Toni is an example of someone who continuously reinvents herself - from her modeling career at a very early age for Calvin Klein, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Victoria Secret to her burgeoning acting career. Toni shares her secret of success as always saying, “YES to life.”  She talks about h...

Actor and former football player, James Roch talks to Margie about his football years at Stanford University and playing for the Oakland Raiders and his transition into becoming an actor.  He booked the TV show, “The Night Shift” as a series regular during his first audition.  James shares how learning the Haber Phrasing helped him book both an HBO pilot, “Painkiller” and the feature film, “Grey E...

Margie chats with beautiful Rochelle Aytes, who started out as a dancer and model, about her role as April in “Mistresses" with Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim, and Jes Macallan.  She has had series regular/reoccuring roles in "Hawaii Five-O," "The Purge," “ S.W.A.T,”  “The Forgotten," "Detroit 1-8-7,”  "Desperate Housewives,” "The Lost Boys," "Crim...

Be a fly on the wall as you listen to Margie talk with director, Elissa Down about her personal story, which was the impetus for writing/directing the award winning film, "The Black Balloon" with Toni Collette, Luke Ford and Rhys Wakefield.  Elissa is an "actor’s director" who helps actors find their way through creating characters. Here she shares Luke Ford’s audition and how...

Seasoned film and television actor, Richard Gunn, shares the journey of his successful career with Margie and gives advice  both professionally and personally.  Richard is known for James Cameron’s 'Dark Angel’ for which he won a People’s Choice Award for creating the life of “Sketchy” from 2001-2003, his iconic hero Chief of Police, John Sanders in ' Granite Flats' with Christopher...

Margie reconnects with her beloved former teacher and Broadway theatre actor, Darryl Semira, in a riveting conversation about theatre vs film and tv acting, finding your personal power and discovering your passion. Darryl shares his theatre experiences as an actor, director and teacher. He reveals his personal journey of moving to Buffalo with his husband and returning to school after 20 years for...