About our Guest:

• Obie award winning and Adelco nominated Harlem based artist who has served as director of Theatre Arts at Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre since 2012.  He's also directed numerous productions including Dead and Breathing, HandsUp, Hope Speaks, Blacken The Bubble. He was awarded the Emerging Producer Award by the National Black Theatre Festival and Winston Salem North Carolina and the Torchbearer Award by Theatrical Legend Woody King Jr. He is a founding member of the collaborative producing organization Harlem 9, Next Generation National Network and The Movement Theatre Company. He sits on the National Advisory Committee for Black Theatre Commons and How Round. Was a member of the original cohort for Art Equity and is a proud emerge N.Y.C. Alumni A Washington D.C. native, and he attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in New York University,Tisch School of the Arts.

Episode Summary

Jonathan shares secrets of his journey of going from actor to behind the scenes to becoming the director of theater at the National Black Theater at 25. He shares his mission of helping other creatives and secrets to make sure that his work is growing.

Insight from this episode:

• Secrets to meaningful connections

3 tips to survive as artist in the city

1.  “Find your tribe, find the people who can share space with you and hold you down in love and in light and help you to lean into the discomfort in love and light” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

3 self care rituals that you use

1. Meditation

Quotes from the show:

“Don’t Get Goal Jacked” - Jonathan McCrory Episode #107

“I like joy, I love to smile, it was a gift given to me by mother and grandmother and my dad and all of those lineages coming together really helpled to cultivate a space where i got to learn black boy joy” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“when you lead after voicing it with an intentionality of manifesting the resources from the universe provide it” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“The algorithim to success: you have to uplift from the muck to become the diamond” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“What you do not know is something you have to be generous in starting to know” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“Your POV is limited because of the beautiful live you have been able to live” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“The quest for greatness and purpose and for being energized is to dismantle those blind spots to a space where your pov has a 360 reality to it and then you start to become awakened to humanity” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“The more specificity you have the more universal you will become” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“If we are to be our ancestors wildest dreams…inside of that conversation is we are the vessels to manifest unfinished works” - - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“Whatever’s not serving me I send it back to the sender” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“I strive for excellence and excellence is a moving target” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“When I think I know excellence, there is another realm of excellence” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

“I will spend the entirety of my life trying to achieve with joy, curiosity and anticipation” - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

Resources Mentioned:

• Inside Timer App-Apple

Favorite Book:

The Alchemist

Favorite Quote:

• “I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams.”-Unknown

3 keys to Create Your Best Life:

1. Understand that this walk might physically be lonely by you’re never spiritually alone. - Jonathan McCrory episode #107

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