Mismo with Mick Torres & Ashley Argota Torres

Black Widow and Captain America take the mic for a Halloween Fit Happens! 🕷️🛡️ Preschool has us sick every three weeks, so we’re talking about staying fit (and sane) through sick season. That covers Mick’s 10-day workout drought and why movement is about mental health first, and his overhead press goal with two months left. Ashley’s check-in includes kettlebells, a Barry’s class with Create, and l...

We pulled questions out of the Bali High hat again, and the first one was a big one: how do you separate your worth from your work? We get into it from the start: - what we'd tell our younger selves - the boundaries that protect our family time - Mick retiring after nine years as Emcee of Burroughs on Broadway - the worst career advice we ever got - the comparison trap Mick finally climbed out...

Big dreams, a two-year-old, and a whole lot of no's. We get honest about the friendships this season is costing us, the theater and improv we've let go of, and the lifers who get it anyway. Plus a dislocated kneecap during Le Dindon, a zero-rehearsal Stranger Things put-in that led to a best friendship with Mathenee Treco, and our new HERNEST table.

We're trying something new this week — a Q&A episode pulled straight from the hat. Residuals and SAG-AFTRA pensions, protecting couple time as business partners and parents, audition habits that used to work against us, roles we've turned down, comedy vs. drama prep, and how we decide what gets our time. Plus a recap of our 5-year anniversary trip to Yosemite. Send us your questions for next t...

Cortez burned his fleet so retreat wasn't an option. Michael Jordan packed one suit to Game 6. This week we'rasking whether "burn the ships" — the ultimate no-plan-B business philosophy — actually holds up for actors, parents, or anyone trying to build something with real stakes attached. We talk audition psychology, the 12-month rule, the year Ashley "scorched earth"-ed her way into a string of b...

This week's fit check gets honest — Ashley on falling out of motivation (and the psychology of why it happens), the story behind her wood-anniversary golf clubs, Michael's accidental takeover of the family's golf habit, and Mick's dislocated pinky toe, Hyrox sign-up, and overhead press PR chase. 💛 Full episode available on YouTube!

LA production is down almost 50% since 2022 — but this isn't another stats episode. It's about what happens when the job isn't down the street anymore. Ashley and Mick talk through the real, hypothetical logistics of booking a pilot out of town: preschool, training clients, local hire rules, per diem, and the actual math of deciding if a job is worth the distance. Plus: what filming Ba...

New studio, new chapter. Mick and Ashley take the podcast into their living room for the first time — literally — with a full multi-cam setup, a couch upgrade courtesy of HERNEST, and our first Mismo guest of this version of the pod. :) With new listeners joining all the time, they take this episode to properly reintroduce themselves: how they met, how Mismo Productions came to be, and where their...

Are acting classes actually worth it? Mick thinks yes. Ashley thinks… it’s complicated. Two working actors, one honest conversation about how to keep growing when the jobs aren’t there — and what Bali High taught them that no classroom ever could.

For five seasons, Mick's take was: skip school, get your headshots, get on set. Now, with more distance from USC's School of Theater - and a clearer view of what longevity in this industry actually requires - he's not so sure. In this episode, Mick and Ashley revisit the theater school debate: what it gave him, what it didn't, and why the tools for the long game often look useless...

Full episode on YouTube! Back in February, we told you 2026 was our year. This week, the honest update: it's been slow. Really slow. We get into what a slowdown actually looks like for two working actors who are also raising a kid, finishing a feature film, running a production company, and working day jobs. The existential "is it me or is it the industry?" question, Ashley's spi...

Sleep experiment, six weeks in: the receipts are wild. Mick went from 5.5 hours a night to 7+, and his bench is now five pounds off his lifetime PR — at 35. Ashley hit a 270 lb glute drive PR after Mick spent a year strategically bluffing her about what was possible (sorry babe). Nobody touched their nutrition. Apparently you can just… sleep more and get stronger. Also in this one: the bailed 170...

Watch the full episode here! A lot of you saw yourselves in the People Magazine article. This episode is for you. Mick and Ashley talk about what it took to write The Kindness of Strangers, what it was like to see Ashley's story in print, and what motherhood has felt like for Ashley as someone who didn't grow up with the kind of mom she's trying to be. Happy Mother's Day to all of...

Full episode available here! We are coming up on our 5 year wedding anniversary this summer, and 9 years of knowing each other. So wild. We wanted to touch on some of the ways we've seen each other grow. This episode is sappy. We're really proud of each other. You've been warned. :)Enjoy!xa&m

Watch the full episode here! Been doing a lot of solo parenting lately on both of our ends. Of course there are challenges, but we've gotten more and more confident along the way and have tried to shift our perspective. We feel so lucky that both Mick and Ashley will eventually come back from whatever work they're doing, and that we have an amazing tribe of family and friends who can help...

Watch the full episode here! Ashley had a work trip to Nashville and the last time she was there... well, there was a tornado, daylight savings time, and a full on pandemic. This trip was much more chill, but not without it's own chaos-- and we left Michael in California with Nana and Papa! Enjoy listening to the parenting logistics of taking a work trip and also how it felt for Mom and Dad to...

WATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Checking in a surprisingly active fitness check in episode! We love a good demonstration LOL. Hear how we've been doing fitness-wise since our last talk and hear what sleep looks like for these two working parents with a 20 month old.

WATCH THE FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE! We all know the struggle between paying bills and fulfilling our creative dreams. In an ideal scenario, we get both. For a lot of us, we have to choose. Since we discussed that in an earlier episode of this season of Mismo, we've been hard at work trying to find a good balance between the two. While we aren't in a position to be all "Year of Yes&quot...

FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/cNKkwAR0AZY It's almost Valentines Day and we're talking about what it's really like to work with each other. Do we have disagreements? Of course! But at the end of the day, our marriage will always come first. And who doesn't want someone who has your back in a room full of people you don't know very well?!

WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/aMHjQdQckDM Happy New Year! Yes, we're still saying it two weeks into the year. We are back talking about our holiday break, or maybe lack thereof! Did anyone else work during the holidays?! We hope you had a good one and we're excited to be back with more Mismo. xM&A

FULL YOUTUBE VIDEO HERE! HAPPY 100TH EPISODE OF MISMO!! Tune in to listen to us talk about what we've learned over the last few years. We feel like sometimes our honesty can lend itself to pessimism or fear, so we wanted to touch on some good and positive moments we've had in our careers too. We are so excited to have reached this incredible milestone. We never imagined that we'd be re...

FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/111xCAPLOQw Did we leave a party to go home and watch the finale of Stranger Things? We absolutely did. Networking is hard. And weird. As two people who love to make genuine connections and hate the bullshit of small talk, we often struggle with going to Hollywood parties and enjoying ourselves. Here's a real look at what a night out looked like for us...

FULL YOUTUBE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/fy0FutL0_BM Ashley's postpartum fitness journey has been full of ups and downs. Here's a transparent look at where Ashley started, how Mick helped to get her where she is now, and her fitness goals going forward.

FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: ⁠https://youtu.be/dX1v4W_sk50⁠ Side hustles. So many of us have them. We give an update on how we've been balancing our side hustles, career(s), and raising Michael. If you're in your own trenches of trying to balance it all, we see you and we believe in you!!

FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/dX1v4W_sk50 Hello? Is this thing on? After 3 long awaited years, we are back with Season 6 of Mismo. A lot has changed since our last episode-- we've made a movie, travelled a lot... oh, and we also had a kid. But there's a lot that has stayed... well, Mismo. We're still going after our dreams, and we feel like now more than ever we are dealing...