“Make it your own: trust your instinct, trust your intuition and take a chance that they may cringe.”

Today’s episode is a rare straight-to-video solo rant, unlike our normal “ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community zooms”. Matt shares a tape he made exclusively for one of his private clients about how to approach your audition with truth, honesty and your own unique interpretation of the material.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

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Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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“Can you deal with it? You should talk to that person and confront that person, but was it too much of a breach of your trust that now you feel like you can’t do your work with that person anymore because now you feel like, ‘do they have an ulterior motive?’.”

Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, in this shorter than usual episode, we get into the minutiae of one of our member’s recent experience with an acting coach who may have shattered his trust to the point of no return. We ask ourselves, and you, how much are you willing to put up with before you need to make a change in the people you hire to help you?

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

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Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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“How can we take these things that are in our head that we want to do , not beat ourselves up for not being there yet, but just meet ourselves right where we are and say, ‘hey, it would be really cool if, in a year from now, you’ve done this thing.’?”

Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we look back to our first zoom from January 2024, just as we were coming out of the historic and brutal dual strikes of 2023, figuring out where we wanted to go and how we were going to get there. In preparation of the coming New Year, we figured we’d help you start to gear up for it with some of the tactics discussed.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

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Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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“I had to start asking myself how could I get more intentional about where I show up, where I give my energy? And now, let me restructure how this is going to go, moving forward in my life.”

Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community monthly VIP zooms with industry insider, Ali Levine. Ali brings her experience as a certified breath coach and celebrity stylist to our group to discuss the importance of slowing down, breathing and realigning with our highest self.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

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Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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“Making strong choices never means doing something just to be memorable or just to stand out. It just means grounded in reality. It always has to be something that you’re finding truth in the scene for yourself.”

Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community monthly VIP zooms with industry insider, Casting Director Stephanie Holbrook. Stephanie has joined us before, but today we get to hear her answer specific questions from our members, many of whom are actors just like you, looking for real-world answers from a major casting director who is still in the game.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

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Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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“And that’s a little bit of our conundrum: Acting is our number one thing, but that’s very up and down. So how much do you just wait and put everything into Acting? And how much are you doing things with the down time? And can those be the same thing?”

Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we get into the common internal battle than many actors face: what is the best way to spend my time while searching for my next gig while also providing for myself and my family? We talk about the price of greatness, the need for focus and doing everything possible to align your goals so that all of your energy is going in the same direction.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

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Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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“There’s nothing better: you negotiate the deal and you start thinking and planning your life… and about two weeks before I was meant to go, I get the call: the European studio backed out, they’re scrapping the entire project, it’s over.”

Today’s special episode is a sit down with my old friend and colleague (from Wind River and Teen Wolf), Ian Bohen. You may know him as Ryan from Yellowstone, but as you’ll hear, he’s been kicking around for a long, long time (in fact, he played a young Kevin Costner as a 15 year old in Wyatt Earp all the way back in 1994). His years on the road, hearing plenty of NOs along with all of the YES’s has brought him hard-earned wisdom, which he dispenses with ease for actors, and anyone in a competitive field, to learn from.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

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Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we discuss the stoic philosophy of keeping death in mind so that we live each day to its fullest and avoid being surprised when death comes our way. But we also talk about the fact that good things can come our way too, citing examples of people in Hollywood who had careers that took sharp turns toward success. Matt poses the question, “if good surprises happen to people every day, why can’t they happen for you?”

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

So, if you’re an actor, writer or filmmaker and you like what you hear in the snippets from our Insiders Acting Community zooms enough to want to be a part of it, CLICK HERE.

Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, Matt shares some of the inspiration he received from a podcast that he has become obsessed with: Founders. Drawing from stories of great filmmakers, entrepreneurs and athletes, Matt discusses the parallels between the attributes of those who have achieved greatness in other fields with the attributes required for success as an actor, writer or filmmaker. Success leaves clues. Ultimately, it comes down to what you want: to forge your own path and attempt to create your own destiny or follow a beaten path, that requires less responsibility in comparison, by working for someone else.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

So, if you’re an actor, writer or filmmaker and you like what you hear in the snippets from our Insiders Acting Community zooms enough to want to be a part of it, CLICK HERE.

Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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10,000 NOs: THE BOOK

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Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community monthly VIP zooms with an industry insider. Casting Director Stephanie Holbrook (Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, John Wick Chapter 3), who has been featured in other episodes of the show, asked Matt about how he wraps his head around playing unlikeable characters, like the one she cast him in Long Bright River.

10,000 NOs is here to inspire you and help you realize you are not alone if you’re battling to overcome rejection in your career or life.

So, if you’re an actor, writer or filmmaker and you like what you hear in the snippets from our Insiders Acting Community zooms enough to want to be a part of it, CLICK HERE.

Remember, “failure” is just opportunity in disguise, and you can flip the script to make your setbacks serve you.

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