The Working Actor Road Map Connect with Jocelyn on Instagram Today I am talking with Jocelyn Sandstrom about quantum manifestation.  About Jocelyn: Growing up in Hawaii, Jocelyn has lived and worked in 12 different countries. This experience has allowed her to realize that even though we may speak different languages or have different traditions, at our core, we are all the same. She has used this knowledge to help and support clients around the world in creating next-level success not just in their careers but in their personal lives as well.  Since 2010, she has been providing Quan ..read more

Free Month of Coaching You Can Heal Your Life The Power of Intention An actor shared that they had turned down an opportunity because, ultimately, they felt that they didn't deserve it. And, I think that is an incredibly painful place, especially when she realized afterward what had been done and why they had done it. It brings up the question, how many times have I turned something down or walked away from a potential opportunity because I felt I didn't deserve it? And that programming that we have in our, as I put it, motherboard, in our belief system is so deep within us because that is wha ..read more

Kick Your Acting Career in Gear Okay, so today's podcast is motivated by someone writing to me, wanting to me to talk a little bit about nepo babies, nepotism.  Of course, I'm going to say that nepotism and keeping the focus on yourself is the key.  The focus because there's nothing you can do about somebody else is, birthrights or relatives, but you can do something about keeping the focus on yourself because that is your birthright. So my wonderful listener gave me this topic and she asked what my take on nepo babies and their advantages and disadvantages are in booking roles or pr ..read more

Kick Your Acting Career in Gear Okay, so let's talk about being tenacious.  The number one thing about being tenacious is actually embracing it.  And I talk about this in terms of my own experience, which is that my biggest mistakes have been my best teachers.  My biggest mistakes have been my best teachers.  And really understanding, when you make a mistake or you have a roadblock, you don't get a role that you really thought you were going to, is looking at the situation and asking yourself, what can I learn from this? And if what you can learn from it is what my mom alwa ..read more

This week we're going to talk about gossip. Oh my god, I used to love gossip.  I used to love to talk about other people, what they were doing. Ugh, it was so amazing. Can you tell I was a teenager in the 80s?  But today I'm going to talk about why gossip is actually not that great.  And I have really been the target of gossip as well, and maybe I had to burn through some karma there.  It's really hurtful, so hurtful when you are the one being gossiped about and you find out that somebody else is saying something about you, whether it's good or bad.  If it's good, it's ..read more

Try out The Weekly Accountability Group Book a Free Consultation with Peter Today I'm going to talk about the abandoned actor and this is something that I have been really delving into on a deeper level in my private work, the private work I do with clients, but also in my weekly classes. And it's the idea of when we audition, or when we go to a set, or anything, maybe it could even be in your personal life when some kind of pressurized situation happens. We abandon ourselves.  And I'm gonna start talking about I, just to make this easier to explain.  I would abandon myself. Meaning ..read more

Try out The Weekly Accountability Group Book a Free Consultation with Peter This podcast is called what's at stake. AKA the most important podcast you'll ever listen to.  There's that phrase that says that life is not a dress rehearsal.  And for those of you who are in your teens, 20s, 30s, and I'll be even honest, your 40s, I didn't get that then. I didn't.  I didn't get that life is not a dress rehearsal, but this is it. I didn't get that till 51. It was the end of COVID, and I was sitting on the balcony in our then apartment, and it was a beautiful apartment, it overlooked Ma ..read more

Improv Class I have a choice. I can get involved with the turmoil and, you know, continue to make it more miserable for others and for myself. Or I can stand for peace and reason and strength within myself. It's really about keeping the focus on yourself during the chaotic times, especially when there's so much chaos around us right now. The Language of Letting Go "Letting go of chaos. No good work comes from unrest. Unrest, fear, anger, or sadness may motivate us. These feelings are sometimes intended to compel action. But our best work emerges after these feelings have been replaced by peace ..read more

Try out The Weekly Accountability Group for Free We are going to be talking about the importance of fun. So I'm going to be really honest with you, this is a topic that I have had so much trouble with.  Yeah, I have had trouble having fun.  I thought that, I don't know, life was to be endured. And even though I had a positive, natural positive attitude, I didn't know how to have fun. I had no idea how to have fun. And you know what that hurt? That hurt my acting career and that hurt my ability to act because I wasn't experiencing all emotions, especially the really good ones.  B ..read more

Book a free consultation! Today I'm going to talk about something that I have found to be extremely helpful.  And that word is being decisive.  Now, sometimes when I'm decisive, I make mistakes. But this is the thing. Everything is fixable.  And mistakes are how we grow.  But in my being decisive, what happens is that things get put in order, into motion.  And the thing is that if I keep doing what I've always done, which can be being wishy-washy about something or procrastinating with something because I just don't know what to do. By the way, this is why I'm recommen ..read more