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In doing so, she hopes she can introduce more artists to the idea of parallel careers and set them on a quest to find one of their own.

If, after you’ve listened, this sounds like something you would like to explore further, Lili is offering a workshop called “Doing It Also” for artists who want a fulfilling parallel career that utilises their unique skills. You can find the details at lilitorre.com

Find and follow Lili online:
website | instagram: @lili_torre @thedreadedquestion

Links and show notes from this episode:

• TDQ: Succeeding Out of Sheer Panic with Ally Bonino
• TDQ: Finding the Positive with Ryan Everett Wood
• Jen Waldman Studio
• Town Stages Creative Fellowship
• Robin Sokoloff, Founder of Town Stages

Visit the show notes and read the episode transcript here.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this episode. Drop me a line [email protected]

I post regular thoughts to help you design a career that sustains you creatively, emotionally and financially. You can read the posts and subscribe here.

Thanks for listening!

As she says on her website, in July of 2019, with one Audible credit, Carly listened to [the book] Reach Out by Molly Beck. After finishing it in two days, she challenged herself to do exactly what Molly did and Reach Out every weekday for one whole year.

I created Studio Time for Carly and artists like her. Her story hits all the points in the introduction I repeat in every episode. By taking a series of very small steps she is creating a big impact for herself and others.

She has taken an unconventional approach to building her network and furthering her career, which has created new opportunities for her as an actor, and has blossomed into a business that supports her while she is building a better world for her fellow creatives.

As of the time of recording, the next session of Carly Valancy’s Reach Out Party begins May 17, 2020. For details about this and future sessions you can go to valenceandco.com/upcoming. To represent the global nature of the Reach Out community, there will be two sessions daily to cater to whatever timezone you’re in.

Find and follow Carly online:
website | instagram

Links and show notes from this episode:

• Reach Out by Molly Beck
• This is Marketing by Seth Godin
• Carly has been a guest on The Dreaded Question Podcast with Lili Torre twice! 
• Register for Carly Valancy's Reach Out Party

Visit the show notes and read the episode transcript here.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this episode. Drop me a line [email protected]

I post regular thoughts to help you design a career that sustains you creatively, emotionally and financially. You can read the posts and subscribe here.

Thanks for listening!

With a stage and screen career that spans four decades, Thom’s experience has afforded him insight and wisdom that he shares generously in this conversation. Proud of his Basque-American and Japanese heritage, Thom is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in every field of his profession. 

He made his Broadway debut in the original production of La Cage Aux Folles and since then Thom has managed to spend most of his life in rehearsal studios, on stages large and small, and in front of cameras on tv and film sets around the United States. His work has ranged from classical theatre to splashy musical comedies, from police procedurals and hospital dramas to soap operas and sitcoms.

There’s an old idiom that says “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.” In Thom’s case, you should understand that just one mile in his shoes is nothing. He and his wife Penny have travelled the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the 500 mile journey across Northern Spain…twice. I was grateful to learn some of what he discovered along the way.

Find and follow Thom online:
website | instagram

Links and show notes from this episode:

• A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino de Santiago - John Brierley
• The Way - film about the Camino starring Martin Sheen
• The Brothers Karamazov -  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Rebirth - Kamil Ravikant
• Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this episode. Email [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

Known as the Sultan of Spontaneity, the Impresario of improvisation and the Kween of Komedy, Jenny is the author of the book Funny Mummy, the creator and star of the web series How Me Parent Good and the host of two podcasts, Funny Mummies and Let’s Talk.

Jenny and I talk about how COVID 19 has infected her with a new love for comedy and get creative about the many ways she can spread that comedy with others in the age of Social Distancing.

We discuss things to consider when setting up a Patreon account and how to invite your biggest fans to support you in whatever ways they can.

Find and follow Jenny online:
website | facebook | instagram

read the book: Funny Mummy
join facebook group: Funny Mummies
watch the web series: How Me Parent Good
show your support: Patreon account

listen to the podcasts: Funny Mummies | Let’s Talk 

Links and show notes from this episode:

• read Jenny's blog post "Dear people who love the arts but are overwhelmed right now"

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this episode. Email [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

Based just outside of Sligo in the North West of Ireland, pianist, composer, arranger, director and writer Kieran Quinn is making music that everyone in town is talking about.

This interview was recorded toward the end of last year. We get to talk about his new album and how he has created a tradition of musical Theme Nights that are a major feature of the musical landscape in Sligo.

In light of all that has changed since we spoke, Kieran will host Theme Night 26, ‘Ireland in Song’, online for the first time  so you don’t have to be in Ireland to attend. Details are here on Kieran's facebook page. Tune out for the livestream on Thu April 23 at 8pm Dublin time (3pm NYC, Fri Apr 24 5am Sydney).

Find and follow Kieran online:

website | blog | instagram | youtube

Find A Year of Wednesdays on Spotify and Apple Music
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Bonus: Barb Jungr (from Studio Time ep 10) has just released a new song In My Troubled Days, which can be found on Spotify and Apple Music

Up until a few years ago, Brian was a professional magician who spent 10 years travelling the world as a corporate and high-end events entertainer.

Today, he is in demand as a speaker. His TedX presentation “How To Magically Talk to Anyone” has been viewed over 3.2 million times on YouTube.

He is the author of the book “Three New People: Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities” and Brian just launched Season 3 of his fantastic podcast “Beyond Networking.” 

I’m thrilled to share this episode with you. Brian touches on many ideas that are relevant to our work as artists and to our lives as humans. Connection is a really important theme for me, and it’s at the heart of everything I do. My reason for creating Studio Time was to provide a vehicle or a platform to connect you with your fellow artists and their ideas.

In this episode

• Brian explains what a successful career looks like for a magician
• We talk about the concept of getting your reps in as an artist
• How the art and science of Human Connection changed his life and career
• We discuss what you should think about the next time you hand someone your flyer or business card 
• Brian introduces the idea of “perspective taking” and explains why magicians are so good at it

Find out more about Brian, his book, podcast and video content at human connection.blog

Links and show notes from this episode:

• TedX presentation: “How To Magically Talk to Anyone”
• Book: “Three New People: Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities”
• Podcast: “Beyond Networking”
• YouTube Channel
• Brian’s interview with Seth Godin “Where You Are and What You Do”
• Brian recommends you check out the incredible magician Nate Staniforth
• “Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want” by Nicholas Epley
• “Talking To Strangers” by Malcolm Gladwell

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this episode. You can reach me (Matthew) here.

Thanks for listening!

With Word Glue, Louise shows us how to create names that stick. She unlocks the  principles and processes to show you how to find a name that matters to the people you care about. 

In this episode Louise explains when she first got interested in names and we talk about artists who have changed their names and in doing so, changed their stories. Louise tells me what a trademark is and explains why you might want one, pointing out why today’s attention economy makes it essential to have a name that is remarkable.

Louise shares some great principles to consider when naming your next show, album, business or even baby (for instance which name is more trustworthy - one that begins with the letter B or the letter C?) and discover the right way to get feedback on your name ideas so that you end up with a name that gets noticed, talked about, and remembered.

Find out more about Louise, her book and her work at wordglue.co

Links and show notes from this episode:

• Ken Segall - Former Apple Creative Director and author of Think Simple & Insanely Simple
• Bruno Mars
• Judy Garland
• The benefits and protections of trade marking the names you use and why you should consider trade marking your name 
• Prince
• Why the attention economy makes it essential to have a name that is remarkable
• Alvin Tofler-coined the term infobesity
• How having a name that stands out can help you compete against CocaCola’s $2B marketing budget - maybe closer to $6B?
• Be brave not blah
• Choose a name worthy of discussion
  • Ladies Who Shoot Their Lunch - Australian wine to match with game meat 
  • Hand Job Nail Salon & Spa - San Francisco
• “Do you like this name?” isn’t the right question to ask. Don’t ask people for their opinion. Opinion doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is “Does this get noticed (by those you seek to serve)?”
• Tips on how you can get helpful feedback on your naming ideas
• The process the brain takes when it hears a new name:
  • An attentional cue is fired…Do I notice this?
  • A feeling happens…What do I feel?
  • We make meaning of it…What do I think?
• Rent a Head - creativity idea promoted by Todd Sampson to get you unstuck. Imagine you are your favourite expert in the field where you need advice/support - what would they do in this situation?
• What is your relationship with your name?
• Why Louise stays out of the baby naming game - Abbisiddy, anyone?
• A name is an evolving thing
• Our names evolve over the course of our lifetimes, as does what we want that name to represent and communicate 
• Stage names and nom de plumes
• Le Gateau Chocolat
• Meow Meow
• Freedom to act differently, behave differently , be braver 
• Robert Zimmerman > Robert Allen > Elston Gunn > Bob Dylan 
• The power of 3 syllables 
• Is a name that starts with B more trustworthy than one that starts with C?
• We want names that stick. Names worthy of being talked about
• Ken Davenport - The Producer’s Perspective Blog

With the perfect balance of East and West, Priya’s parents moved to America from India and while she honours that heritage she’s also just a girl from Jersey.

Her love of rap, classic rock and pop music led her to studying Entertainment Business. She worked in the music department of the major talent agency ICM Partners before leaving to follow her heart into the world of acting and theatre.

Since then Priya has been on a very intentional path to build the career she wants and develop a platform where she can help everyone feel like they can belong in the theatre, whether they are making the work or experiencing it.

With Kevin Schuering and a team of collaborators, Priya filmed a sequence of numbers from the musical "The Last 5 Years" to plant the seeds of possibility and open people’s eyes (including mine) to broadening the scope of who can tell the stories of the pieces we already know and love.

Just like her blog Sunday Night Sonder, this episode with Priya gives you a chance to get to know the person behind the work. Learn about what drives her, what she believes in and what she hopes to achieve.

Find and follow Priya online:

website | subscribe to Sunday Night Sonder

Links and show notes from this episode:

• Demons vs Daemons from Priya’s Blog
• Let’s rethink the casting of existing theatre pieces. Why aren’t there a greater variety of actors playing these roles. Is it because the script says they must be played by an able bodied white actor, or is that just the only way it’s been done until now? How might we broaden the scope of who can tell these stories?
• We discuss The Last 5 Years Project that Priya filmed with fellow actor Kevin Schuering, directed by another Studio Time guest, Billy Bustamante
• Finding a team of collaborators who are possibility driven
• Why Priya and Kevin wanted to share The Last 5 Years through the medium of video
• Using the constraints they were given in terms of budget and time to their advantage
• How to think about “when you are ready”
• Planting seeds of possibility about what could happen and what things could look like
• Knowing who your work is for and not for can turn negative feedback into fuel
• Priya’s artistic home, the Jen Waldman Studio
• Discovering My WHY Changed Everything - Studio Time ep 4 featuring Jen Waldman
• The power of building a community around the ideas you believe in
• An unconventional path to becoming a theatre-maker
• Running Towards the Bang - Studio Time ep 16 featuring Peter Shepherd
• What Priya learned from working in Entertainment Business about gatekeepers
• Cultivating and nurturing your audience
• GIving the audience a chance to see themselves represented, not just in the way they look but by what they believe in and what they fight for
• Sunday Night Sonder - inviting people to get to know the artist behind the work
• Being intentional about Building Your Career (listen to Priya on The Dreaded Question Podcast with Lili Torre)
• The difference between a platform and a career
• Why sonder can be difficult to practise with the people closest to us
• How might we seek opportunities to challenge our conscious and unconscious expectations and biases?

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this episode. You can reach me (Matthew) here.

Thanks for listening!

Shereen has been on a wild journey, from making her Broadway debut in the ensemble of My Fair Lady, understudying Laura Benanti in the New York production before stepping into the spotlight to star as Eliza on the national tour. The girl who fell in love with Audrey Hepburn in the My Fair Lady film at age 12, is now introducing Eliza to a new generation and doing it in her own way.

In this episode Shereen talks about her unconventional path to becoming a leading lady of the stage, the solidarity she has always felt with the character of Eliza, her dance (or should we say aggressive movement) with imposter syndrome, being faced with the  challenge to conform growing up as a middle eastern woman in post 9/11 America and the opportunity and responsibility she finds herself with as she travels the nation representing the Middle Eastern identity.

Breaking the 'Historical Mold' of Eliza Doolittle - by Shereen Ahmed for The Ensemblist

Find and follow Shereen online:
website | instagram

Links from this episode:
Imposter Syndrome

Jen Waldman - Ep #4 Discovering My WHY Changed Everything
Peter Shepherd - Ep #16 Running Towards the Bang
Bart Sher - Director
Laura Benanti

Through her work on stage as a performer, as an inclusion consultant for theatres and as the co-producer of ABLE: a series which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Alie B. is lovingly showing the entertainment industry what's going right when it comes to 360 degree disability inclusion (for artists and audiences) and where there is room for improvement.

In the spirit of inclusion, I have included a transcript of this episode for the benefit of anyone who might not be able to listen to this podcast. If you know anyone who would like to read this episode, please point them towards studiotimepodcast.com/blog/alieb

Side note: In our conversation, we talk about ABLE, the docu-series which highlights the powerful artistic contributions being made by people with disabilities. At the beginning of October 2019, ABLE: a series is available to watch in the United States. If you live in other regions, you'll need to search your local Amazon Prime platform. It's not accessible on the Australian site right now, but hopefully it will be before long. I do recommend you check the show's website to find out the most current information whenever you listen to this episode.

Find and follow Alie B. online:

aliebgorrie.com & alie b.'s instagram | ableaseries.com & able: a series instagram

Links from this episode:

Red Mountain Theatre Company's Human Rights New Works Festival

Alie B.'s blog A Cockeyed Optimist

Transcendence Theatre Company

Peter Shepherd - Ep #16 Running Towards the Bang

Jen Waldman - Ep #4 Discovering My WHY Changed Everything

Seth Godin - Linchpin

Sam's Room

Able: A Series' co-creator Kallen Blair 

Alie B. on The Dreaded Question Podcast with Lili Torre

LEAD Conference - Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability

Brene Brown

Peg Leg Bates - wikipedia and youtube