Think Bigger Actors Podcast with DaJuan Johnson

Today's podcast guest is another one of my working actor friends: Jasmin Savoy Brown.

She, stays, booking. From the new Scream, The Leftovers on HBO, Stitchers, Will -- she was on location shooting YellowJackets when we recorded this. I'm just in awe of her career. She also shares one experience that not many of us can say we've been through -- booking during pilots season as a recast. That's one story you definitely want to make sure you hear.

As always, stick around after the podcast for the D-12 shot. Where I get to bring it all together. Oh...and if you're new to the podcast -- the D-12 shot is just my way of bringing my transformational coaching to the podcast. Sometimes we hear something amazing or see something inspiring, but we don't stop to figure out how to take it to the next level, the next step -- application. My hope with the D-12 shot is to do just that. Reflect and give you space to move forward.

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Today's podcast guest is my friend and working actor Angel Parker - and I mean WORKING ACTOR. Lab Rats, American Crime Story: People vs OJ, The Strain, LaBrea which was my favorite pilot last pilot season, to a new pilot this season called National Parks.

This is a long one yall -- I couldn't figure out where to cut it because Angel just kept dropping nugget after nugget.

This episode should truly be titled an actor's ROAD TO SERIES REGULAR. The nuggets that Angel drops on her journey to FINALLY getting the coveted Series Regular role are priceless. From starting a family and not having the confidence to ask to be bumped up to a regular on Lab Rats, to getting to a point in her career when things seemed like they weren't panning out so she almost quit, to being up on an Emmy stage for American Crime Story: People vs OJ and still not being able to level up immediately to the agent she wanted and almost...almost booking Sterling K Brown's wife in THIS IS US -- these stories yall.

This is another actor's journey on mindset and truly being that it's all about timing and that it's all going to work out okay.

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Today's podcast is super freaking special - I'm doing a double header. My first guest is Angela Cohen who is an actor, producer, writer and I just think you should know so much more about here. Not just because she created her own project and went super freaking big and got her mentor to be a part of xxxx from the Handmaids Tale, but also because she got some pretty awesome advice from Al freaking Pacino that I think you should hear.

I've also got the guys who created the Actor Blue Print - Mike Dolphy and Roman Maldonado. I virtually met these guys on clubhouse where they were hosting two rooms a day for Actors. And you know anyone uplifting actors like that I had to meet.

As always, stick around after the podcast for the D-12 shot.

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Brain Patacca is this weeks guest on the podcast. And we are talking about his beautiful desire to help actors get the agent of their dreams. Agents, Agents, Agents -- every actor has worked with one or will work with one. Getting one -- Brian's way is pretty freaking great. From why actors need to stop reducing themselves to JUST THEIR CREDITS when reaching out to reps is so good. But, his candid talk on how actors can shift the "I don't want to brag" when reaching out to agents to -- let me help you see how amazing you are...and how THIS is a run on the ladder towards connection --- oooooooh -- mindblowing. Mind. Blowing.

As always, stick around after the podcast for the D-12 shot. Where I get to bring it all together.

Other highlights in this episode:

How to ask questions about your career from a full tank

Spiritual practitioner

Freedom job -- investment job

You don't have to suffer to be creative. That's a myth.

The song that every actor needs to learn before the send an email to a casting director or agent.

How Happiness begets Risk

How he started to get into a bad mood when he would get audition

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Today's podcast guest is one of the executive producers from BOSCH, she was a co-showrunner on Netfli's Self-Made, a bad ass writer and now just added Author to her resume. Elle Johnson. This is one of those talks that you want to go slow and really listen to because she dives into what producers, writer, showrunners are looking for in actors. We talk about my role on BOSCH and how it expanded...what made the producers sit around and think -- we want to see more of DaJuan. This was a packed talk that you don't want to miss out on!

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Today's podcast guest is Casting Director Caroline Liem who is ALL ABOUT MINDSET and what a better place to talk about it than on the Think Bigger Actors Podcast. We talk about her work with a Shaman, How a casting director threw a shoe at the door and in those next couple of moments how she knew she wanted...rather needed to be a different kind of casting director. Of course we talk about Self-Tapes because I have a casting director here and I want to make sure you're getting the up to date information on your tapes. And more.

And we really stop and breakdown CLUBHOUSE...and why I think actors -- yes, my people -- are using it the absolute wrong way. Yup, shots were fired...gauntlets thrown on this episode.

As always, stick around after the podcast for the D-12 shot. Where I get to bring it all together.

Watch the video podcast on Youtube + Subscribe: DaJuan Johnson - Think Bigger Coaching for Actors www.thinkbiggercoaching.com

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Today's podcast guest is Raymond Lee. Maaaaaan, this guy right here. This is an actors ACTOR talk. This guy works all the freaking time. All the time. The new Top Gun, Here and Now, Kevin can go F himself and so much more….

Get ready for this deep dive conversation.

We talk about how he feels he did NOT skip a step getting to where he is now in his career,

What happens when you eliminate the "shoulds."

What he does consistently that he didn't before,

What is it really like being at CAA? Does he feel lost there or not…

How he's been with about 8 agencies...he's changed agents every year or every other year

Why we share the same thought on almost getting made when we get a callback.

** I'm going to say this because I love you...if you miss his How do you prepare for a role? From the Audition to booking it and how it's different when he books the role. That's on you. Oof! **

As always, stick around after the podcast for the D-12 shot. Where I get to bring it all together.

Watch the video podcast on Youtube + Subscribe: DaJuan Johnson - Think Bigger Coaching for Actors www.thinkbiggercoaching.com

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This episodes guest is Casting Director - Alexis Allen Winter. I sat down with her and it was only fitting that we talked ALL THINGS SELF TAPES. Because I am committed to helping you uplevel your self-tapes and get you BOOKED & BUSY! It's refreshing to speak with a CD that is really dropping golden nuggets about the self tape process, what she wants actors to know about it, why SELF TAPES are truly here to stay…

And why she supports my thoughts that actors need to STOP ROMANTICIZING the room! In fact we dive all the way into why the casting room is outdated and feels like Something that started in the 50's, but we've never changed it. So. True.

Also, in this episode we also chat about:

• Casting in different markets besides L.A.
• Diversity In Casting -- what's been done now
• State of the Union regarding casting -- when are we getting back into the rooms
• Memorized
• The most important thing for an actor

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In this episode, I get to talk with Kirby Howell-Babtiste. If consistently working actor were a meme -- she'd be on it. It's been inspiring watching her career sky rocket from the moment I met her at a studio I was teaching at, to working together in the ABC SHOWCASE together -- then working on set together on a pilot -- to watching breakdown come across my desk with "Kirby Howell-Baptise" attached to this project. Mind blowing to see her go from submitting on actors access to being repped by CAA, the biggest agency in our industry.

Phew! In this episode we break it all down:

• • From Submitting on LA Casting to CAA.

  • "Business Mondays" - How setting aside time every Monday for the business side of Acting set a solid foundation

  • How she genuinely doesn't believe she's ever lost out on one role

  • How writing has brought her great empowerment.

  • How the things that you've actually lived through are so interesting and so unique, so varied in what we want to see.The stories you have to tell are way more interesting than half the things than some writers are imagining.

  • Why not being teachers pets is a WIN!

  • Why she's never thought about quitting acting before.

Watch the video podcast on Youtube + Subscribe: DaJuan Johnson - Think Bigger Coaching for Actors www.thinkbiggercoaching.com

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Back for Season 2 of the Think Bigger Actors Podcast and couldn't be more excited!

So much has changed since we left each other at the end of last season. A Think Bigger Summit, Masterclasses of Self Tapes That Book -- but none more life changing than ending 7 seasons on BOSCH. Yup, the show I was a regular on for seven seasons has come to an end. This episode is all about the top ten things I learned on the show.

From how to negotiate money, asking for what you want, being addicted to notes on set and so much more.

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