Episode 300: What's at Stake AKA The Most Important Podcast You Will Ever Listen To

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This podcast is called what's at stake. AKA the most important podcast you'll ever listen to.

There's that phrase that says that life is not a dress rehearsal.

And for those of you who are in your teens, 20s, 30s, and I'll be even honest, your 40s, I didn't get that then. I didn't.

I didn't get that life is not a dress rehearsal, but this is it. I didn't get that till 51.

It was the end of COVID, and I was sitting on the balcony in our then apartment, and it was a beautiful apartment, it overlooked Marina del Rey and the water. And I realized at that moment. That I was not living up to my full potential in my life, and I had just had a year off as we all did of being isolated, and I don't know maybe that's what it took, a year of slowdown, to have it really sink in that this is it.

There's not going to be another 50 again.

There's not going to be another 49, there's not going to be another 48, there's not going to be another 47 and go all the way down to zero.

There isn't going to be that anymore. That this is it.

And what do I want to do with it? And while I was saying, what do I want to do with it?

What do I want to do with this gift?

Because it seemed to me, at 51, I was not really showing up for what I really wanted. and what I really wanted the second act of my life to be.

And it started out with, I looked I was, I remember the way I was sitting and I looked down at my waist and I went, there's a really healthy body underneath there.

And I started with that, I started with the discipline of, and I'd always exercise because I had a back injury when I was at Guildhall, and I started with that, and I started with that discipline, and I took that discipline into everything, because how we do one thing is how we do all things.

And I want to read you a quote that I think also influenced my decision.

And you know where this homework assignment is going, right?

It's a Jen Sincero quote, and she writes the badass books.

Now, I'm going to be honest with you, I did change one little bit out of this quote for the purposes of this podcast, but I think you'll get why I did that.

“Because this is what I realized. You're gonna have to push past your fears.

Fail over and over again. And make a habit of doing things you're not so comfy doing.

You're gonna have to let go of old limiting beliefs and cling to the decision to create the acting career that you desire like your life depends on it.

Because guess what? Your life does depend on it.”

And that's the truth.

That's the truth, and that's the realization that I got at such a deeper level three years ago.

You're going to have to push past your fears, and you're going to have to fail over and over again.

And you're going to have to make a habit of doing things you're not so comfy doing.

And I talk about with my in my weekly class with actors, if you're interested in that. It is a very affordable class, and we offer a class for free.

I talk with them about how when you're exercising, when it starts to feel uncomfortable, that's when you're building strength.

Not hurt. But when it starts to feel uncomfortable, that's when you're building strength.

Guess what? That's what it's like in life too.

It's doing the uncomfortable things.

So if you are ready to do some uncomfortable things, if you're willing to push past your fears and fail over and over again because the other thing I have learned is that it is in my biggest mistakes, I have my biggest lessons and I have my biggest growth.

Let me repeat that. It's when I have my biggest mistakes that I have my biggest growth.

I have my biggest learning.

And you're gonna have to make a habit of doing things that aren't so comfy, if you are willing to do that. And finally, really and become.

I hope you will honor me and let me honor you. That's actually where I want to go. Let me honor you with a free consultation. Let's talk this out. You're not alone in this journey. You don't have to be alone.