Posts Tagged ‘actor’
How Did I Book a TEDx Talk?
Stepping into Your Story I am giving a TEDx talk on November 16th at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD) about creativity and its transformational powers. I am not going to tell you here about the contents of the talk, but how it came about. What’s a TEDx? When I tell someone I…
Read MoreFive reasons why you need a holiday, even when you love your work.
Loving your work doesn’t mean holidays aren’t valuable. Here are my thoughts as to why! Work life/ Home life or simply LIFE I love my work and I don’t really have a distinction between life and work. I don’t want one. I have organised my life to support the work I want to do and…
Read MoreMy First Audiobook
Remembering my first audiobook in audiobook month. Summer of 1978 When I was five I went into hospital for the summer, a warm August in 1978. I had been born with a hole in my heart that had left me officially failing to thrive. I was small, sickly and struggled to breathe with a fairly…
Read MoreStorytellers are Emotional Athletes
Athletes need a support team. Being a storyteller Al Pacino said that actors become emotional athletes. I would extend his description to all storytellers, whether writers, film makers, musicians, theatre directors or actors. He describes this as a painful process that caused his personal life to suffer. But does that have to be the case?…
Read MoreRocking Rejection! Xx
Last week I received a message from a friend asking if my positive psychology study could help her with a rejection she had received. I paused for a while and looked out of the window at the surrounding countryside while my new puppy whimpered a bit in the back of the car on his…
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