Acting Business Boot Camp

De: Peter Pamela Rose
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  • Hi I’m Peter Pamela Rose, Casting Director and certified Life and Career Coach for the Entertainment Industry. My goal is to break down the business of being a working actor into a simple, actionable, step by step Roadmap.
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  • Episode 304: Nepotism & Keeping The Focus on Yourself

    Episode 304: Nepotism & Keeping The Focus on Yourself
    Oct 2 2024
    Kick Your Acting Career in Gear Okay, so today's podcast is motivated by someone writing to me, wanting to me to talk a little bit about nepo babies, nepotism. Of course, I'm going to say that nepotism and keeping the focus on yourself is the key. The focus because there's nothing you can do about somebody else is, birthrights or relatives, but you can do something about keeping the focus on yourself because that is your birthright. So my wonderful listener gave me this topic and she asked what my take on nepo babies and their advantages and disadvantages are in booking roles or projects. Again, what I would say is this is not something that you can control. And I talk about this in terms of the serenity prayer. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Courage to change the things I can. And wisdom to know the difference. And what that means for me is to grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Means I cannot change. Make your ears grow bigger. Or control other people, places, things, or situations. So whether I'm going up for a role where there is someone's famous relative going up for the role, As well, that is not something I can change or control. Courage to change the things I can. I can only change, manage, or handle myself, my attitudes, my thoughts, and my actions. My focus on that audition, regardless of who else is up for it. And wisdom to know the difference. Wisdom, my favorite word in the American language. Wisdom to know the difference. And that wisdom is the ability to know what I cannot control, which is other people, places, and things. And I can't change that either. And what I can change, manage, handle, which is myself, my attitudes, my thoughts, and my actions. So the ability to differentiate that. So my take on NEPO babies and their advantages and disadvantages in booking roles and projects, it's none of my damn business. My business is to stay focused on my work and what I can do for my life. This listener goes on to say, “What chance do I have, if I even have the opportunity to compete with one?” Again, none of my damn business. It doesn't matter who else is up for the role. It matters that I am up for the role. And that I take advantage of every opportunity that I have. And I need to do that by being good at my job, by being good at the business. But most of all, by knowing me, by being emotionally self-sufficient, I can get myself over these mental and emotional hurdles, so that I can do my job. I want to see, there was one more thing she said that I really liked. She mentions this, and then kind of goes with this, but I want to add it in because I think it's so good and you may relate to this. “I had just said to a friend, I feel like I'm always coming in second.” This is what I would say: Second best is only one step behind the first. Second is one step behind first. And last week I talked about tenacity and I talked about doubling down. If you feel that you're always coming in second or third or you're getting the avail but you're not getting the job or you're getting put on hold and you're not getting the job, my joke is all the different ways we can, we we can term that avail check, pinned, first refusal. If you find that's where you're at, it is time to listen to that Podcast episode, the one before this, right after you finish listening to this one and doubling down on your commitment. I also want to just give you a few tips on keeping the focus on yourself because I always like to be at the cause of my life and not at the effect of it. And if you think about the theme of this particular podcast it's right in there. The first one is this, and I said it before, but avoid comparison and despair. It's a wonderful little phrase. Compare and despair. Focus on your own journey and progress rather than mention than measuring yourself against others. Rather than measuring yourself against others. Another great one is watch measuring someone else's. Stop putting your self worth on and depending on other people's outsides by judging on your insides. It's just not comparable. The other thing is to prioritize self care. Make sure that you're taking good care of you. So that you don't abandon yourself. I did a great podcast a little while ago that got more listens than just about any other podcast I did about abandoning the self. Regularly engage in activities that nourish your physical, mental, and emotional being, and I talked about last podcast allowing me to be your mentor, allowing me to be that positive voice in your life, listen to these podcasts while you're doing the dishes, you're doing the laundry, you're doing the mundane. Because one of the things that I did while I was really starting this work, is on my cassette tapes, I would listen to, that's how long ago it was, I would listen to positive messages. So no matter what I was doing, I had positive messages going in, not ...
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  • Episode 303: Staying Tenacious as an Actor

    Episode 303: Staying Tenacious as an Actor
    Sep 25 2024
    Kick Your Acting Career in Gear Okay, so let's talk about being tenacious. The number one thing about being tenacious is actually embracing it. And I talk about this in terms of my own experience, which is that my biggest mistakes have been my best teachers. My biggest mistakes have been my best teachers. And really understanding, when you make a mistake or you have a roadblock, you don't get a role that you really thought you were going to, is looking at the situation and asking yourself, what can I learn from this? And if what you can learn from it is what my mom always told me when I was a little kid, which is you pick yourself up, you dust yourself off, and you start all over again. And sometimes the hardest parts of this business, I was going to get emotional about this, has really shown me how incredibly strong I am. How incredibly strong and resilient I am. And what that teaches me is self confidence, and self esteem. Persistence comes from resistance. Diamonds are made under pressure. The other thing I want to talk about in terms of tenacity is maintaining focus. I think that is another huge lesson, one of the things I find when I start to get scattered is I tell myself to double down on my focus, double down on what it is I want to do to achieve. And just like I can look at my setbacks and write down what I've learned from that. What I can ask myself in maintaining focus is what do I need to do to double down? What do I need to bet stronger on me and on this goal that I have, keeping in mind my long term vision and not letting distractions or setbacks derail me from making progress towards my dream. The other slogan I love in this is progress, not perfection. Because remember, perfectionism is something that derails me and it derails me because with perfectionism, I get procrastination. And with procrastination I get paralysis. And that is the absolute opposite of what I need in staying tenacious in my acting career. The third thing I want to talk about is breaking it down. Now if you know anything about me, I am a big one on baby stepping. Because sometimes I'm either too frightened, or too intimidated, or too tired, or too scattered to focus on something big. I need to break it down into bite sized pieces. Now, not that I advocate eating elephants, but anyone can eat an elephant one bite at a time. Setting small, achievable milestones to make the pursuit of my goal less overwhelming and more manageable is key. And also I think what's important is what am I going to do to celebrate? What am I going to do to celebrate my win for today? I'm watching a television show that I'm really enjoying. Because I say to myself at the end of the day, I'm going to make dinner and I'm going to organize myself for the next day. And then I'm just going to, I'm really going to enjoy watching this show because I've put in a good day's work. The other thing about that is something that a friend of mine told me at the very beginning of doing this work, which is I'm only responsible for today. I'm only responsible for putting my head forward. I'm going to be talking about the importance of being on the pillow tonight. That's all I'm responsible for from now until then. And this one, this next one is huge. Cultivating self discipline. Consistently pushing myself to work hard even when motivation is low or progress feels slow. Now, one of the biggest self-disciplines that I have is my physical fitness. It was something that I started at the end of the pandemic. And it was something that I applied using one of the tools that I talked about before, which is I doubled down. I decided I was really going to push myself. Because how I do one thing is how I do all things. So if you can get disciplined in one area of your life, it's going to help you to get disciplined in other areas of your life. Remember how you do one thing, that is how you do all things. The other thing, and this is my last little tip, is surrounding yourself with positivity. Now sometimes that's difficult because either the people you live with or your family or maybe even some of your closest friends may not be able to support you. But you can support you. You can listen to me. This podcast, have it going on in your ears as you walk down the street, as you drive in your car, as you do your dishes, as you do your laundry, as you do the mundane. Have positive messages like these core work sessions or maybe one of the interviews from the past. We have over 200 podcasts here. Let me be your positive mentor. Let me help you. Let me be there for you. Because we want to be seeking out those positive messages, those positive mentors, peers, and environments that encourage your ambition and your growth. And that's why I always say, I also think watching shows or movies that get you, and that can even be a silly action film that gets you going, that get you psyched. Another thing that I ...
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  • Episode 302: Gossip and the Acting Community

    Episode 302: Gossip and the Acting Community
    Sep 18 2024
    This week we're going to talk about gossip. Oh my god, I used to love gossip. I used to love to talk about other people, what they were doing. Ugh, it was so amazing. Can you tell I was a teenager in the 80s? But today I'm going to talk about why gossip is actually not that great. And I have really been the target of gossip as well, and maybe I had to burn through some karma there. It's really hurtful, so hurtful when you are the one being gossiped about and you find out that somebody else is saying something about you, whether it's good or bad. If it's good, it's nice, but if it's not so nice, it's not great. And I think we probably have all been on both sides of it. If not, you're probably not human. But I want to talk about why it's not great as an actor. And it's something that I have really honed in on. It's been a long time now, but yeah, it's just something that I've really tried to curb. Because it's not nice. Gossip isn't nice. And I know this is not this might be one of those podcasts where you're like, I don't want to listen to this one. Let's listen to another one. But if you're feeling that way, make your ears grow bigger. So here's the thing about gossip. Number one. I have five points about this. It erodes trust. Yeah. It's very hard for me to trust someone who's talking shit about somebody else. Basically, what it does is gossip, it undermines. It undermines trust. It really undermines, and I also, there was once I had an acting teacher at Guildhall who said, if you don't want to be judged, don't judge. Because it really undermines trust, and especially if you're in a production of some sort, whether that be film, television, theater, commercial, it doesn't matter, it really erodes trust. It also creates an environment, and you create your own environment in this industry of suspicion. And it breeds insecurity. Oh my god, let's talk about acting class. I want my acting class where I need to be free, to be free of gossip and bad talk. And the thing is that people then if there's an environment of that, you become wary. You become wary of sharing personal information that really might be helpful for the work. And isn't that what we're trying to do? To become better actors. They may feel or someone may feel or I may feel that information that I shared while trying to find truth in a character might be misused or spread or might damage a relationship. So this idea that, gossip at the moment sometimes it feels so good, and let's talk about why it feels so good. It feels so good because it gets the focus off of ourselves. I have to tell you, I just had this feeling come over me, which was like, yuck. And that's the whole thing. Gossip is really yuck. Because what it is doing is It brings me back to this phrase, winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners. And that's why gossip is so harmful to us, but also to others. But I wanted to do a podcast about this because I feel this is not a subject that is brought up enough around in the acting community. And it needs to be because we are a creative community. The other thing is, and this is, it's very painful is that it really can damage people's reputations. There's two sides to every story, and maybe we don't know the whole story. And also, why is it our business? I find I, in the past, I've tried to make something that isn't my business, because I didn't want to focus on my life and take responsibility for what is going on with me. And damaging somebody else's reputation is so unfair. It's so unfair. The thing is that when we keep the focus on our own lives and our own creativity and on our acting training and on our business and on our core work, when we do that, man, we don't have freaking time to gossip or to focus on somebody else. And also, I was teaching this in my private class and actually in the weekly class as well, this thing about assumptions. We assume things about people. Or we assume that somebody means something when they don't. Watch assuming that somebody means the same thing that you do. We always want to get clarity. Are you saying, just so we're clear, nobody ever is upset about getting clarification. I once heard that assumptions are the mother fucker of all fuck ups, and that is such a great phrase. So I don't want to assume something about somebody else, just because somebody else had said it about them. And this is a biggie. This is a biggie. You know what gossip also does? It increases stress and anxiety. And I don't know about you guys. I don't know about you. I don't need any more stress. I don't need any more anxiety. And this is the thing, it also can make you feel very isolated. You think that you're connecting with somebody about how bad somebody else is or what somebody else did. But ultimately, it's going to lead to some kind of anxiety and possibly even some kind of depression, depending on which way of the spectrum you like to go. I ...
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An amazing and inspirational podcast

Peter always has just the right words and motivation for the moment. She knows exactly what life as a professional performer entails, and is a great help in getting you through the roller coaster of triumphs and disappointments that come with it. I highly recommend this podcast.

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