Soulful Ambition

Creator of Meisner in Music, Jillian Paige, shares how the Meisner technique can be applied to singing and life.

In this episode:

- How training programs can be product focused on the product rather that process and manifest as physical tension, trauma, etc.

- How MiM can help signal safety to our brains and bodies

- Tangible, practice life + acting tools to manage performance nerves and anxiety

- How to practice

- How to honor whatever is arising in us and using it in our performance, audition or rehearsal

- Permission to use our human experiences to enrich our art, rather than resist anything that's unpleasant and uncomfortable

-How cultivating awareness enhances our acting skills AND our lives

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A Balancing Act is a podcast for actors, singers, storytellers and creatives designed to be a place to rest, replenish, recharge and remember who you really are and why you're daring to dream so big.

Another solo episode with Analisa - it's story time!

She shares two stories from her own path:

One is about thinking you know what's meant for you only to find out it is something else.

The other is about following your intuition and making a choice that goes against what we "should" do.

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Today's episode is with Elizabeth Porter, licensed mental health therapist and entertainment industry life coach.

• Elizabeth shares her journey from studying music in college to opening Entertainment Health Services in Nashville.
• Her view on entertainers as culture makers and the importance of their mental health
• The difference between coaching + therapy
• Artists and their identity with their work
• Healthy + Unhealthy Stress (Hope vs Despair)
• Focusing on strategy rather than the outcome
• How to manage the "Shoulds"
• Rejection Therapy Ted Talk
• Understanding you can take your brain to the gym
• Looking for where you've been brave
• What she sees as the most common traits in thriving artists
• Suffering = Pain x Resistance
• Grounding Practice: to move out of future predictions

Elizabeth Porter is the Founder and President of Entertainment Health Services, specializing in mental health and coaching services for individuals working within the entertainment industry. As a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, Certified Entertainment Industry Life Coach, 10+ years in leadership/management, and a background in the music industry; Elizabeth brings a unique blend of experience and skills to those served in the industry.

She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Kent State University and her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University. Over the years, Elizabeth's experience in the mental health field included working as a coordinator for residential programs and community based services, program manager for school-based therapists, emergency services clinician, and interventionist.

A short, solo episode with your host, Analisa Leaming.

Discussing a NEW way - one foot in auditions, agents and ambition and the other firmly planted in Soul.

Coming at you with more realness and rawness around HOW I've navigated the performing arts industry:

I'm more open than ever about the role spirituality has played in my career's sustainability.

I share the prayer and intention I've used since college (and how it's evolved over the years.)

I offer ways to make this accessible regardless of your beliefs and relationship to spirituality and religion.

I discuss how I'm currently working with artists to do this work and how you can work with me too!

www.analisaleaming.com

A short, solo episode with your host, Analisa Leaming.

Discussing a NEW way - one foot in auditions, agents and ambition and the other firmly planted in Soul.

Coming at you with more realness and rawness around HOW I've navigated the performing arts industry:

I'm more open than ever about the role spirituality has played in my career's sustainability.

I share the prayer and intention I've used since college (and how it's evolved over the years.)

I offer ways to make this accessible regardless of your beliefs and relationship to spirituality and religion.

I discuss how I'm currently working with artists to do this work and how you can work with me too!

www.analisaleaming.com

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In this episode:

• Lauren shares her journey from the performing arts to becoming a sex educator
• negative dressing room culture
• Returning to your fullness, reclaiming your wild way and power in the world
• the current framework around sexuality
• many practices to return to your body and to begin to awaken a connection with your creative life force/sexual energy
• how performers have been taught to shut off their own body wisdom
• the connection between creativity and sexuality

Lauren Elise Rogers is a Certified Sexuality Educator (ISEE) with an extensive background in the performing arts, Lauren Elise Rogers provides holistic sexuality education as well as personal and professional development coaching. Specializing in helping individuals integrate their sexuality, heal from burnout, and overcome sex-negative beliefs, Lauren believes that all humans deserve pleasurable lives, relationships, and careers. Having studied the lasting effects of trauma, culture, and spirituality Lauren understands that unlearning and expanding thought patterns can be challenging and vulnerable. Her passion for gentle and transformative education allows students to sit safely in discomfort while developing the tools necessary to support a pleasurable existence. To learn more visit: www.sexedforyou.com

After a 3 year hiatus, A Balancing Act is back.

Analisa didn't know if there ever would be another season, but a couple months ago gentle whispers began within and she knew it was time.

She has A LOT to share and in this first episode back she picks right up where she left off, on the national tour of Hello, Dolly! three years ago.

She's shares her journey which includes:

-Doing the tour for 6 more months while pregnant

-Having a baby during the pandemic

-Turning down a Broadway show

-Making the decision to leave NYC

-The work she's doing now

Visit www.analisaleaming.com to sign up for the mailing list, receive a free audition meditation and inquire about working with Analisa.

It's the final episode of the season and I am so excited for you to hear this conversation! After having Thomas Jones on the show two other times this season I really feel that this is the perfect way to wrap up what we have been chatting about. We take a deep dive into getting out of your own way and giving yourself permission to reinvent yourself. You are not the person you were in the past. We discuss facts versus thoughts and how YOU are the creator of your own reality.

Ready, Set, Action:

Think about the last time you were fulfilled and joyful. Close your eyes and remember the last time you were in absolute bliss and everything was going your way. Let it fill you with possibility, joy, and happiness. Do this 5 minutes a day for 5 days in a row. See how it affects you. Build positive possibilities. Live into it.

A big thank you to this season's sponsor The Paradox Process!

To set up a discounted first session contact [email protected]!

Music by: Joel Waggoner - Unlikely Warrior

I am so excited to welcome back Sierra Boggess to the podcast this week! She is a light in our industry and I absolutely love chatting with her. She shares some awesome stories from her recent experience at the Hollywood Bowl. We talk about anxiety and what being present in the moment really means. We talk about her belief that we should strive to take more responsibility and how ultimately that leads to more power. Check out Sierra's Light Lessons!

Ready, Set, Action:

Before your next audition or performance:

Give yourself an extra few minutes and put on a song you absolutely love. Dance around, sing in your hairbrush, let go. Tap into your inner child and invite them out to play. Now allow the creative juices to keep flowing into your audition or show!

Today's episode is sponsored by the Paradox Process and in this episode you get to hear how the Paradox Process has helped Sierra personally! The Paradox Process brings the conscious mind to present by eliminating negative emotions from the past, and clearing anxieties and worries about the future. Contact [email protected] to set up a discounted first session! Join the Monday Night Paradox Process Group meets at 8pm in person or live stream! Learn more at ParadoxProcess.org

Music by: Joel Wagonner - Unlikely Warrior

Today's episode is with my dear friend Kemper Florin. We met while we were both studying at the Eastman School of Music. We chat about her shift away from full time performing to arts administration. She speaks about having a family and how that has had an effect on her mindset. We talk about self-esteem and how to fight the limiting stories we tell ourselves. Join us as we challenge the conventional definition of success!

Ready, Set, Action:

Carve out time for silence this week. Listen and find those small inner voices. These quiet moments can cause something wonderful to bubble up within you ... only if you give it the proper space.

This episode is sponsored by Thomas Jones of the Paradox Process! Does your anxiety and fear about auditioning prevent you from doing your best? Have you ever wondered why some seem fearless to audition and perform? The Paradox Process is a technique to identify, communicate and change negative feelings and perceptions. Hear what a session with Thomas is like from an earlier episode this season where he has a live therapy session with Brittany Bohn. Contact [email protected] to schedule a discounted introductory session and join the Monday Night Paradox Process Group!

Music by: Joel Waggoner - Unlikely Warrior