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https://loveyourcreativity.com From the initial spark of a creative idea to getting your projects finished & out there! Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:26:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/e82cdf867f3dcf128ce9504af3a51b96.png?s=48 https://loveyourcreativity.com Copyright © LoveYourCreativity.com 2013 marysia13@googlemail.com (Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows) marysia13@googlemail.com (Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows) Creativity 1440 http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q698/M013/LYCPodcastpic_zps3e343740.png https://loveyourcreativity.com 144 144 Podcasts by Marysia Trembecka of LoveYourCreativity.com to make you smile & motivate you to create & put your art out there whether you are an artist or an actor. Interviews & advice with creatives from directors to authors + Marysia[...] Love Your Creativity.com. Interviews with creatives with their advice on keeping motivated & moving forward, whether you are a actor, painter or a musician. Plus Marysia's fun weekly newsletter & 13 minute task of the day to keep you creating. Blog is at www.loveyourcreativity.com. Twitter @MarysiaT http://www.facebook.com/Loveyourcreativity. G+ & LinkedIn Marysia Trembecka creativity, marketing, author, musician, actor, novelist, positive, thinking, interviews, tips, advice Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows marysia13@googlemail.com no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/17/advice-on-marketing-my-webseries-by-filmtrooper/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/17/advice-on-marketing-my-webseries-by-filmtrooper/#respond Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:24:01 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3476 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/17/advice-on-marketing-my-webseries-by-filmtrooper/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:24:05 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3469 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/feed/ 1 0:27:58 – ‘I just do it. ….when I say I don’t care, I mean I don’t care whether there is an audience, I don’t care whether there is any money,  it seems to just turn up, the money and the audience. I have never done anyt[...] – ‘I just do it. ….when I say I don’t care, I mean I don’t care whether there is an audience, I don’t care whether there is any money,  it seems to just turn up, the money and the audience. I have never done anything I don’t want to do… and why not? I think if you are true to yourself then it will be alright, if you are trying to be like somebody else, or trying to do like somebody else then it’s not going to work.’ Claire Dowie is a multi award winning playwright, actress, director, performer and oftentimes comic. Her plays have been translated into many different languages and her first novel Creating Chaos was published last year. Her two most famous plays ADULT CHILD DEAD CHILD is on the A level Drama British curriculum and WHY IS JOHN LENNON WEARING A SKIRT on the A level English Literature British curriculum. She is performing them alongside three other of her plays at the Festival of Solo Festival: Best Of The Fest festival from June 30th to July 12th. Colin Watkeys has directed her for over 30 years and is a well known solo theatre director and he interjects throughout the interview. Claire and I are doing a double header with her play ‘Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt?’ and my ‘The Singing Psychic’ show on July 3rd and the 8th at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington, London both plays directed by Colin. Thursday 2nd July  at 7.30pm  and Wednesday 8th July  at 7.30pmFor more details on the Face to face: festival of solo theatre and for bookings please go to http://www.solotheatrefestival.co.uk/ Hit the play in popup to play the podcast or go to the Love Your Creativity iTunes podcast In this podcast interview we cover how Claire feels about making the work, how she feels she is not an actress and how the characters dictate the plays to her. Inevitably given Adult Child Dead Child is about expectations and the John Lennon play about women growing up amid low expectations feminism, being a female comic or performer in still a very full on man’s world and how to create and work on a character. Highlights include How she feels she just sits down and reads the paper and her characters write the plays for her. This is however after she has spent a lot of time with the character, seeing how they react in certain situations How Claire feels when plays on feminism and women having a voice are still relevant according to the feedback she has been getting from the ‘younger generation’ How male reviewers assume automatically that men are funny and male playwrights are good and  yet when it comes to women, she has seen far too many men walk to the bar when a female comic comes on stage What it feels like to have other people perform your work How she always manages to write, make, produce and tour the shows: she feels the characters make her do so. How she doesn’t care about other people’s opinions when she is writing, that you must trust your own instincts and not listen to what you think other people want to hear, when you are writing a play The inspiration behind her Bob Dylan tarot cards Her advice to us all is just to get out and do it And a lot of laughter If you enjoyed this you may also like my podcast interview with Colin Watkeys about developing your own solo theatre show https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/ Both Claire and I are also taking shows to the Camden Fringe 2015,www.SingingPsychic.tv to book tickets for my Camden Fringe show of The Singing Psychic, Aug 17th to the 22nd 2015 at 9.15pm each night go to http://tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-singing-psychic–camden-fringe-2015 or http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=321 http://www.clairedowie.co.uk For Claire and Martin Stewart’s show http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=179     Directors, Inspiration, Motivation, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/04/17/12-steps-to-make-your-creative-dreams-come-true/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/04/17/12-steps-to-make-your-creative-dreams-come-true/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:11:50 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3436 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/04/17/12-steps-to-make-your-creative-dreams-come-true/feed/ 0 0:08:54 Do you ever want the world to stop spinning? Not long enough to kill people with the lack of gravity as you hang on to the ankle of your great aunt to ensure she does not spin off into space as she left the porch door open. But if the world could st[...] Do you ever want the world to stop spinning? Not long enough to kill people with the lack of gravity as you hang on to the ankle of your great aunt to ensure she does not spin off into space as she left the porch door open. But if the world could stop just long enough to settle my thoughts down, I’d have time to track, plan and finish all the wonderful ideas my creative brain keeps coming up with! I am sure you identify.   ‘I am a creative, I have a thousand ideas and I don’t know how to stop hopscotching from one to another in order to get one finished, marketed and out the door’ La Croisette, Cannes, MIP 2015 Yes I know that is you too. The double edged wonder and curse of being a creative and freelance entrepreneur full of possibilities.   I keep having wild flights of fantasy of wonderful possibilities from YouTube Channels, self published novels, albums, a death showreel, getting a new acting agent, doing podcasts in Polish, French and English, doing marketing for my The Singing Psychic show. Every talk at MIP TV has me so inspired though Luze Vlogs (a 5 million YouTube Subscriber blogger) saying he uploaded 15 videos a week on a quiet week did terrify me! Everywhere I turn or read something my overly active brain throws more fun ideas. Please tell me I am not alone! Actually I know I am not. I do know what to do. I am just overindulging in the possibilities and the dramatic potential of not having enough time rather than what I do know I need to do. Then I want to have another dramatic showdown because the man I care about is not giving me the attention he has promised/I think I deserve.. before going back to the ‘I could write an album/screenplay/Pinterest board about how annoying he is and how much I want him.’ And hence I waste more time. The following is what every successful producer of work does including the below pictured International Emmys Awards (Digital @MIP) nominees and winners! They might not think of it in these words but trust some version of this happens. International Digital Emmys, MIP 2015 The 100% reliable Cure – 12 steps to getting those creative ideas up and out in the world! Turn off the tap. Plan. Focus on one project. Ask ‘What’s next?’ See what I can batch. Don’t look at anything else til you have finished that action(s). Go back to the same project. Ask ‘What’s next?’ again. Complete that necessary action Repeat the previous two steps til the project is finished and ready to ship. Market that project. Market some more. Rinse and repeat with project 2, 3, 4…..   1. Turn off the tap – no more listening to any podcasts, reading blogs on marketing or YouTube, emails focused down only to the 2 email inboxes that bring my acting work in. No more out the box discussions about what could be, no matter how brilliant the advice is. Sure you might have to go to work – in my case it’s being yummy mummy Indesit model three days a week – yes I am making fridges look good – but the project is the focus of my non model time. Indesit dishwasher Indesit hob 2. Plan – I use a weird combination of Evernote and David Allen’s Getting Things Done. However I have not done a weekly review in months so I have spent some time wresting some order back in but not going to get it all cleared as need to get to the next step. However I am determined to get back to this planning step every week, so I can whittle it down that way. 3. Focus on one project – pick one, any one unless one has picked itself with a deadline looming I have booked in with my fabulous Director of Photography Martine Woolf to shoot the first few episodes of ‘SONGS OF SOHO – The Singing Psychic’ webseries this Saturday. So this is the one project staring me in the face as it is just three days away. 4. Ask what’s next – I ordered a portable light for the camera and now[...] #AskMarysia, Directors, Filmmakers, Inspiration, Motivation, Musicians, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/04/02/see-yourself-bigger-ask-marysia-any-questions/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/04/02/see-yourself-bigger-ask-marysia-any-questions/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:01:03 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3424 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/04/02/see-yourself-bigger-ask-marysia-any-questions/feed/ 0 0:05:26 No I am not talking about you after this Easter weekend’s chocolate orgy How do you see yourself? As a creative who has a day job? A parent who no longer has all the time you used to have to make the art you want? Do you see yourself as an ac[...] No I am not talking about you after this Easter weekend’s chocolate orgy How do you see yourself? As a creative who has a day job? A parent who no longer has all the time you used to have to make the art you want? Do you see yourself as an actress or one who creates and produces as well? A filmmaker who has managed to get 3 shorts into festivals? A writer who has written in many mediums from stage to prose to film? I know that the way we see ourselves dictates many of our actions. What we think we are, we make the priority to do. See yourself as someone who produces and markets new art (in whatever form that may come be in songs, videos or books) and you are more likely to actually find the time in the corners of your life to make it happen. See yourself as someone who is too busy to create and I can guarantee that your creative dreams remain just that dreams. I have just added the hashtag filmmaker to my Twitter bio. It seems a little insane to do so but it is actually correct. In the last month I have created, shot, edited and produced 3 standalone Singing Psychic sketches and then done all the posting online etc. Once I had broken my huge inner resistance of the making and posting of the first one (including the going to bed on the Saturday night before posting worrying my dramatic acting career was about to be destroyed ;)). Each one since has become easier as I have accepted that making The Singing Psychic videos is fundamental to me developing her as a character, as a brand and also building an audience. I have to fill a West End theatre for six nights in August so I am starting now Plus I am loving doing it!! Lessons I have learnt in the last four weeks of being a filmmaker (well a very short film but still!) Each short film (we are talking 2-3 mins) has got better, the editing the cuts, the lighting. Each film I make I get braver – this one had outdoor shots and 3 locations in total. Each film I learnt something new, video 1 I stressed about exporting it so it didn’t look weird with audio/video on YouTube, this recent one I was stressing about how to put my new The Singing Psychic logo onto the video as a watermark at the end. My logo was created by my fabulously brilliant art director/graphic designer extraordinaire Martin Butterworth. Each film I have got quicker at making and editing. I have now starting detaching the audio, playing with positioning it against imported images  and not being afraid I will make it look weird and not be able to put it right! Each film I have learnt something new about social media reach. This new one I posted onto Facebook directly via their upload function as opposed to posting on YouTube then posting the Youtube link onto Facebook. I got 300 Facebook views in 20 hours and 75 on YouTube – my audience is largely on Facebook – I have over a thousand followers, 99% I know well. I need to learn more! It is important to learn what you need to know as a Just In Time process – I have been listening to podcasts on the way to my current three days a week modelling job and from that I learnt re the native Facebook video importance. I am clueless about ‘seeding’ – that’s when you let friends and possible influences know about your blog or video, so I am focusing on listening to podcasts on that subject. I would like people to see my work I mean I stayed in all Saturday and said no to dates so I could make it #AskMarysia I am also going to start shooting  a series of weekly short podcasts and videos on the various questions I keep getting on twitter, via my blog and also in person as friends and followers see how my career progressing nicely forward. So if you have any questions you want me to tackle let me know via any of my social media links including Twitter @MarysiaT and via this blog contact form. #AskMarysia   Whilst I am not an Oscar winning actress (yet ;))) I am a working actress, as in it’s pay[...] #AskMarysia, Actors, Filmmakers, Gratitude, Inspiration, Motivation, Musicians, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/03/11/make-the-art-you-love-go-out-turn-people-on-to-it/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/03/11/make-the-art-you-love-go-out-turn-people-on-to-it/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:00:28 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3404 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/03/11/make-the-art-you-love-go-out-turn-people-on-to-it/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/03/04/artists-need-big-egos-to-make-thoughts-into-things/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/03/04/artists-need-big-egos-to-make-thoughts-into-things/#respond Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:45:13 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3399 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/03/04/artists-need-big-egos-to-make-thoughts-into-things/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:00:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3388 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:23:08 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3370 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/11/13/tell-the-story-you-want-to-in-the-way-you-dream-of-doing/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/11/13/tell-the-story-you-want-to-in-the-way-you-dream-of-doing/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:37:41 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3347 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/11/13/tell-the-story-you-want-to-in-the-way-you-dream-of-doing/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/07/16-tips-on-writing-a-press-release-bios/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/07/16-tips-on-writing-a-press-release-bios/#respond Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:00:22 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3300 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/07/16-tips-on-writing-a-press-release-bios/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/09/10/8-reasons-why-you-cant-afford-the-luxury-of-not-doing-social-media/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/09/10/8-reasons-why-you-cant-afford-the-luxury-of-not-doing-social-media/#respond Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:16:40 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3257 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/09/10/8-reasons-why-you-cant-afford-the-luxury-of-not-doing-social-media/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/#respond Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:33:38 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3195 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/feed/ 0 0:12:11 Over  the  past  30  years,  Face  to  Face  Theatre  Festival  Director  Colin  Watkeys  has   specialised  in  producing  and  directing  solo  theatre  and  writers  who  perform  their  own   work.  He  is  now  part  of  a  world  movement  tha[...] Over  the  past  30  years,  Face  to  Face  Theatre  Festival  Director  Colin  Watkeys  has   specialised  in  producing  and  directing  solo  theatre  and  writers  who  perform  their  own   work.  He  is  now  part  of  a  world  movement  that  recognises  that  solo  performance   possesses  a  unique  quality  of  vision  in  theatre.  I am performing part of my next solo theatre show The Singing Psychic at the Lost Theatre on July 8th so I took the opportunity to interview Colin Here are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript of the podcast interview, to listen to it press the arrow above.) I asked Colin for one piece of advice to anyone who wants to write and develop a show and he said ‘Character. Character and narrative. Narrative is the character and the character is the narrative. Don’t try to manipulate anything, don’t try to put words into their mouths. Get to know the character and their narrative and it writes itself. Claire Dowie famously said she does not remember writing any of her work. From her point of view the character does write it. The guy she plays, she taps in that person’s life, she calls it getting away with telling lies’ (her wiki) Like Picasso ‘The lies we tell to tell the truth’, but if you take on someone else’s history you become a different character, it can affect the way you move. One play that Claire did she played 4 characters in, 2 male, and a middle aged woman and an older woman, all played by herself. Someone asked afterwards, as there was a short blackout ‘I was very surprised when you put lipstick on in the blackout’ but she had not actually done so. Colin did wonder how you can act lipstick but the audience had the impression that for a middle aged, middle class woman she always had lipstick on. Thats a challenge ‘act lipstick’ but the point is when you really see all the characters in your story yourself, the audience does too. When you imagine the richness of the scenes, how you felt, where you were the audience recreates that directly themselves in a far more kaleidoscopic world than in a film. He is always fascinated with solo theatre and performers. For a while he ran the Finborough for stand ups as he was interested in their relationships with the audience. He wants theatre to be like jazz so that people get up and it just happens, not with a set, not with a script. He does like scripts as well but he likes everything to be created in the audience’s imagination and no tacky sets or effects. It is what he likes, from working with stand up comedians but then it got boring as he then was coaching them for auditions for TV pilots, most of whom have got TV series now. He enjoyed most working up with Claire Dowie who used to do what she called ‘Stand Up Theatre’ and Ken Campbell, director, writer, actor including A Fish Called Wanda imdb link here) and comic who loved creating it there and then, he called it ‘real acting’ Ken Campbell used to say ‘The script’s there for a bad day when the geezer is not there, but when the geezer is actually there you just let go, you just do it’ Ken Campbell’s obituary That is what Claire, Ken and Colin have in common, he knows it is not for everyone but when he sees a play he just wants to hone down to the one performer who has an interesting relationship with the audience, he thinks they could just do all of it. That’s what he loves. I asked about retelling Shakespeare from a solo performer perspective and I mention Patrick Stewart’s one man ‘A Christmas Carol’ where he told the whole story himself and Colin mentioned the Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ with the different perspectives of Hamlet and each other. I ask what Colin thinks he brings to our work as a performer. He has no idea what he brings, he just knows that it will not be better with more people, nor with a set, he is interested in the relationship between the performer and the audience. People have said what he is talking about is ju[...] Actors, Directors, Inspiration, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/24/if-only-we-could-know-100-days-of-being-an-actress/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/24/if-only-we-could-know-100-days-of-being-an-actress/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:16:52 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3180 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/24/if-only-we-could-know-100-days-of-being-an-actress/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/13/fear-100-days-of-being-an-actress/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/13/fear-100-days-of-being-an-actress/#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:13:00 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3146 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/13/fear-100-days-of-being-an-actress/feed/ 0 0:20:59 It is called a leap of faith for a reason: it’s not a small step or a sideways shuffle, not a little hop skip and then stop to look where you are going. It is a full bound leap over the side with arms flung to the air, not knowing whether you will e[...] It is called a leap of faith for a reason: it’s not a small step or a sideways shuffle, not a little hop skip and then stop to look where you are going. It is a full bound leap over the side with arms flung to the air, not knowing whether you will end up swimming in a river of crocodiles or resting on Harvey Weinstein’s yacht with a glass of Krug. Every creative project always has a moment when you have to leap off and trust that the end result will be better for having leapt, be it a success or  a ‘failure’ than some once half dreamed project that you never really got moving on or properly finished piece of work that never actually sees the light of day. (You can listen to the podcast version by just pressing the arrow or here are the main points below) There is also the fear of your life choices: I am happy with the choices I have made to be a professional creative. Occasionally though the instability, the insecurity of the next job, the fact as a freelance actress and performer my career and income is always uncertain, the fear may creep in. My father may never get over the fact that if I had not left my bond dealer career at 26 (I used to work in the City – the London equivalent of Wall Street) along with my Manolo’s and large pay packet I would be very wealthy now and probably have a serious London apartment paid for.  However I may have to move out of the wonderful place I live in  two months time and the mere thought of London flat hunting with it’s ever rising rents and the fact I don’t want to get a ‘proper job’ with a guaranteed income means there is more uncertainty than ever. In rational moments I know I have made the right choices, that this is where I need to be for my career and my heart space  but late at night fear creeps in! The fear gets worse also as I contemplate my next projects, especially the film I want to make based on my new solo theatre show that I am workshopping next month at the Lost Theatre in London.  It may be terrible: terribly filmed, acted, conceived, written.. I could go on with all the negatives.   However as outlined in Five Regrets of The Dying, a book from a nurse in palliative care, the number one regret of those at the end of their life is I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.   I am ‘lucky’ that  my life tends to support itself, the projects  I have done and the network of people around me always gives me fresh hope and impetus to go on. This happened again today as I have had two screenings of films I am in over the last 24 hours: Pearl which premiered in Forest Hill which was a lovely short I did last year directed and written by Nick Barrett. Trailer below. (It is to have its big screen premiere in a couple months at Crouch End Arts Cinema) Pearl trailer from CORPOREAL Films on Vimeo. Closer To Home (kickstarter details here)  should have premiered at the BFI directed by Bhavithrah Satkunarasa & produced by James Lyndon today along with the other graduation projects of UAL, however the sound was not ready so the film had to be pulled at the last minute. I had already organized to go to the BFI and was meeting a friend who wanted some creative coaching and inspiration advice beforehand so I went to watch the other films despite not getting to watch the film I was in. It was wonderful to see so many young female directors, producers and writers all graduating. After the  BFI screening I got chatting to Thomas Stoppel who was brilliant  in one of the films ‘Things I Do For You’ However not only is he an actor, he also has produced, written and directed short films and feature films.  I asked him how he got into making films given he really is such a great actor and has a great look as well, enough of a combination that many in such a position would rest on their laurels and wait for work to come to them. His website link here ‘I made my own TV Cookery series when  I was 18[...] Actors, Directors, Filmmakers, Inspiration, Motivation, Musicians, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/06/100-days-of-being-an-actress-singing-live-on-radio-2mrw-community-builder/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/06/100-days-of-being-an-actress-singing-live-on-radio-2mrw-community-builder/#respond Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:22:06 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3125 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/06/100-days-of-being-an-actress-singing-live-on-radio-2mrw-community-builder/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/04/100-days-of-being-an-actress-the-power-of-a-true-story/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/04/100-days-of-being-an-actress-the-power-of-a-true-story/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:02:43 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3110 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/04/100-days-of-being-an-actress-the-power-of-a-true-story/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/31/100-days-of-being-an-actress-recovery/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/31/100-days-of-being-an-actress-recovery/#respond Sat, 31 May 2014 21:20:08 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3087 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/31/100-days-of-being-an-actress-recovery/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/30/8-lessons-i-learnt-from-the-cannes-film-festival-about-being-a-successful-creative/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/30/8-lessons-i-learnt-from-the-cannes-film-festival-about-being-a-successful-creative/#respond Fri, 30 May 2014 14:00:37 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3070 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/30/8-lessons-i-learnt-from-the-cannes-film-festival-about-being-a-successful-creative/feed/ 0 0:33:58 I have just returned from 10 days at the Cannes Film Festival and this podcast and blog applies to all creatives as it very much covers some of the ‘rules’ of being a successful creative, whether you are an actress, filmmaker, musician or indeed pho[...] I have just returned from 10 days at the Cannes Film Festival and this podcast and blog applies to all creatives as it very much covers some of the ‘rules’ of being a successful creative, whether you are an actress, filmmaker, musician or indeed photographer. (Yes that is me singing in French on the podcast) The lessons: It’s a business – the fashion, the mystique, distributor, sales agent to the short filmmaker Surrounding yourself with people who dream & take big action makes you dream bigger No room for perfectionism – be like Picasso You have to do the work or someone else will grab the opportunity / from script to pre sales to press Some live to party, others live to dream. some go to work. Blagging  can be an artform but it’s your choice on how you want to use your energy  Would you rather be at the Vanity Fair party as a success or as a ligger? Someone out there will love your work Get your elevator pitch updated It’s reconnection, not desperately shoving business cards in peoples faces. Here are some of the highlights  of the podcast (this is not a full transcript) Lesson 1 It’s a business, it is the business of making movies from producers, sales agents, distributor, the circus of the red carpet, the mystique of the business, the press, to how the public perceive This creative thing we do I have to understand myself as a cog in the wheel, as a  brand. We have a responsibility to understand the workings of the business, the main players and how we can circumvent the gatekeepers if necessary by making our own work and where we can display it for maximum effect. You need to know the rules to break them Question for you: What area of your business do you need to know more about. Licensing? Press? The Legalities of contracts. On the red carpet Cannes 2014 Marysia Trembecka   Lesson 2 Surrounding yourself with people who dream & take big action makes you dream bigger when you are with people who don’t just talk about their dreams but they make them and then they go out to the marketplace and sell their art. Plus while they are in the marketplace selling their current film or art they are already talking about collaborating for the next work. I went to Cannes as an actress but I left with knowing I will start producing films of projects. I am already working on my next solo theatre show but I now looking at making it as a short film at least. Deepak Verma, from Pukkanasha Films said to me, ‘You should be a producer’ and I went from initial horror to a short film and now I am thinking feature length! Question for you:-Who inspires you to re-size yourself, to see yourself as bigger. at the Ken Loach premiere of Jimmy’s Hall   Lesson 3 No room for perfectionism – Picasso I had a short but valuable conversation about production with  director/writer/producer James Hacking  The Website. When he first started he made 4 or 5 shorts and then finally made his first feature and has moved forward since. He said he now knows he should have been making a short film every week and that all that fiddling round with the editing, the extra 100 hours to make 0.00001% difference is a waste of time and energy. He said that ‘Picasso had the right idea, he made 35,000 works of art in his life’ We all are prone to hanging on to the perfectionism of our art. (Added Note James Hacking actually got back to me after I wrote this post and said As a matter of interest looked up his number of artworks ( I  have a habit of talking out of you know where…) His output estimated at… 13,500 paintings 100,000 graphic prints or engravings 34,000 book illustrations 300 sculptures and ceramics But doubt even that is accurate, point is, be free to make mistakes…. His film Love’s Kitchen has a serious cast in it, I have just discovered: Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani, Simon Callow to name a few ‘Art is never finished, only abandoned’ Blog post Lesson 4 You have to do [...] Actors, Casting, Directors, Filmmakers, Inspiration, Musicians, Networking, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/26/100-days-of-being-an-actress-never-forget-a-name-or-a-face/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/26/100-days-of-being-an-actress-never-forget-a-name-or-a-face/#respond Mon, 26 May 2014 12:40:37 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3062 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/26/100-days-of-being-an-actress-never-forget-a-name-or-a-face/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/22/100-days-of-being-an-actress-the-magic-of-movies-at-cannes/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/22/100-days-of-being-an-actress-the-magic-of-movies-at-cannes/#respond Thu, 22 May 2014 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May 2014 23:32:13 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2939 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/04/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-2-self-taper-movie-editor/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/03/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-one-bookkeeper/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/03/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-one-bookkeeper/#comments Sat, 03 May 2014 18:57:24 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2925 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/03/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-one-bookkeeper/feed/ 4 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/29/who-is-going-to-save-this-world-we-artists-are/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/29/who-is-going-to-save-this-world-we-artists-are/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:00:54 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2915 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/29/who-is-going-to-save-this-world-we-artists-are/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/23/how-to-book-auditions-this-is-who-i-am-would-you-like-it-paul-clayton-on-auditions-making-money-as-an-actor/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/23/how-to-book-auditions-this-is-who-i-am-would-you-like-it-paul-clayton-on-auditions-making-money-as-an-actor/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:30:53 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2888 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/23/how-to-book-auditions-this-is-who-i-am-would-you-like-it-paul-clayton-on-auditions-making-money-as-an-actor/feed/ 1 0:36:49 I know Paul Clayton (imdb link) not just from his many many TV and film appearances (Ali G Indahouse, Peep Show, Him and Her and he is recently deceased in Hollyoaks) but also he is the Chair of the Actors Centre and in January this year he played m[...] I know Paul Clayton (imdb link) not just from his many many TV and film appearances (Ali G Indahouse, Peep Show, Him and Her and he is recently deceased in Hollyoaks) but also he is the Chair of the Actors Centre and in January this year he played my husband in Sunday Dinner With The Morgans He has a lifetime of knowledge about the acting industry and at a time when he found his work was slacking of he set up his own company doing corporate work as an actor and wrote a great book about it. Here are some of the highlights  of my interview (this is not a full transcript) The one thing I have picked up myself is that acting is a business. From Paul’s book ‘Actors often have little choice in their career,  they often have to wait at the will of others for decisions to be made that will affect their future.”   I asked Paul what the best way for actors to feel they have control of their career given we can get to the last two and then not book the role, or have long periods of not working. Paul in his very first job was told by a lovely actress Dilys Hamlet, on the first day of the rehearsal and said ‘You read that beautifully, you know that when you’re forty you will never stop’. This was when he was 21. The 19 years in between he did some good work but she was right he got into his own weight. At 40 and 50 he has seen big surges in his career. Paul  settling down in a relationship at the age of 40 and that coincided with knowing himself as a person. As a young actor he would walk into a room feeling confident but giving it ‘what would you like me to be’ However he doesn’t think that works. I think you have to go in saying ‘This is what I am, would you like it?’ He is the best Paul Clayton there is, some people may be breathing a sigh of relief that there is only one. Obviously there are some parts he would love to do but he is not right for, it is not that he isn’t good, just that he isn’t right for it. He was pencilled for a very big voice-over last week and then his agent said ‘Oh they went the other way.’ They have gone the other way because of something they heard in that other person’s voice. What wins people over is you the person, that is what we bring to acting. Some people confuse this with typecasting but what we bring is our own uniqueness and a lot of our life is about finding out who we are and when we settle into that we know what we are selling as it were. I mention how now I know I play yummy mummies very well and crazy strong women. Occasionally they merge as with the film I did with Paul where I played a coke snorting yummy mummy. The work for me has improved since I  have fallen or rather grown into these categories. A good friend said to his partner that ‘the thing about Paul is that he has made a career from being either stern or camp’. Paul  is sure he has done the two together. He always jokes he has made a career about being posh or Northern and on a really good day he plays a posh Northerner. There is truth that the more you single it down the more people know what they are looking at. He knows that when he did Peep Show 7 years ago that that just opened up a whole new area as it was brilliant writing and the audience could identify a type and then to know what to send Paul up for in casting. From that he went up for lots of dads in sitcoms and grumpy dads. It gets you through the door and that was interesting. I ask how much have you pro-actively opened doors? He had a great tutor at drama school called John McGregor and he taught the best class ‘Presentation  Technique’ but he said Every day do one thing that may result in work and then get on with being who you are, because who you are will result in you getting the work’ Paul directed a lot of rep in his 30s and thus did a lot of casting; you can see the desperation in some actors. You have the job until you open the door. and then when you step in the room, most of what you do is taking you aw[...] Actors, Auditions, Casting, Directors, Filmmakers, Inspiration, Motivation, Networking, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/20/happy-easter-dream-big-and-follow-through/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/20/happy-easter-dream-big-and-follow-through/#respond Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:21:43 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2867 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/20/happy-easter-dream-big-and-follow-through/feed/ 0 0:01:17 Happy Easter everyone, hope you all are having a lovely and relaxing time. Just made up an Easter morning song for you all above! So many of my friends and family are spending the day eating lots of chocolate but I am filming again this weekend. How[...] Happy Easter everyone, hope you all are having a lovely and relaxing time. Just made up an Easter morning song for you all above! So many of my friends and family are spending the day eating lots of chocolate but I am filming again this weekend. However my dad has been told he can leave hospital today as he had an operation on Thursday that went much better than expected so I am feeling very grateful for that Whatever you do this weekend, it would be great for you to try and take a little time to dream about your next creative project for the next 2 months and if you have a bank holiday tomorrow maybe carve out some time around family and friends to plan your next steps to get your project moving forward. The starting is always so scary but it has to happen or our little art ‘babies’ – our poems, novels, films, exhibitions stay just dreams and that is sad not just for you but the rest of us. The world needs more art spoken from the heart. I am writing this on set over Easter weekend, in a truly bonkers (but couture so I guess that makes it acceptable) all white outfit and full 1950s makeup & hair. I went out after filming and that make-up and hair was not easily coming off so I just changed and off I went to celebrate life! (Maria Beketova did the hair and makeup on set)   I did the Sci-Fi 48 hour film challenge last weekend and had a blast as it is such a collaborative effort. Of course all filmmaking is but the sheer focus of set build, script writing, filming, editing, music and colour grading all to deliver a finished sub 5 minute film in 48 hours really means everyone has to pull their weight absolutely and get it right first time. There is no time for tantrums, second guessing or self doubt from anyone.Challenge The idea is that all entrants get a line of dialogue and a prop they have to incorporate into the film and a theme, although Sci-Fi is obviously the main theme. I have always wanted to do this but knew I needed to work with a professional crew and cast who could deal with the insane time pressure and inevitable complications without cracking. I have done enough student films to know that some people get very rude under pressure or incompetent and quite frankly I didn’t need to deal with that when I was doing effectively a free project. I was lucky as everyone was fantastic, calm and brilliant from fellow actors, to make-up to the two camera crew. I arrived Saturday on set at 3pm, we got the quickly written script at 6pm and started shooting at 7pm. We wrapped the shoot Sunday at about 7pm and I left knowing that the long overnight job of editing, music, and colour grading had to go on. Somehow the film got in in time at 1pm Monday and we have been promised an all singing, dancing 8 minute version as they had to cut a lot to make it a 4.45 minute version. I would worry I have been left languishing on the cutting room floor but as I was the one who said the all important dialogue line I figured that’d be in if nothing else! It did clarify though that being left on the cutting room floor is just about the narrative through-line, the edit has to best fit the story as the director wants to tell it. It is not about you the actor but the storyline as the director and editor feel best to tell it. It is interesting though this idea of logic and narrative as I also tried the first 8 minutes of my new solo show this week. (Yes I have been super-creative!) The director/workshop leader Colin Watkeys who runs the Solo Theatre Festival kept focusing on our need to realise what our chosen narrative is and that thus we may have to personally cut favourite lines or characters if they don’t sit in with the logic of our show. I know from all the previous solo work I have done that the critics often focus on this through-line (previous blog post here) but it is a lesson always worth reminding myself of as I now take the next steps in developing this solo show idea. Yes I got[...] Actors, Casting, Filmmakers, Gratitude, Inspiration, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/31/three-mindset-traps-that-entrepreneurs-creatives-fall-into-how-to-fix-them/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/31/three-mindset-traps-that-entrepreneurs-creatives-fall-into-how-to-fix-them/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:00:16 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2829 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/31/three-mindset-traps-that-entrepreneurs-creatives-fall-into-how-to-fix-them/feed/ 3 0:29:28 The way you think about yourself affects everything from the jobs you book to how you do your marketing and the work itself. One of the benefits Ryan Lock is noticing about doing so much coaching is he is seeing this so clearly with his clients.  Th[...] The way you think about yourself affects everything from the jobs you book to how you do your marketing and the work itself. One of the benefits Ryan Lock is noticing about doing so much coaching is he is seeing this so clearly with his clients.  These mindset traps stop you having what you want as you get in your own way. This is Marysia Trembecka’s with Ryan James Lock twelfth coaching session podcast, just press the arrow above or  below are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript) Three mindset traps Mindset Trap 1        The fear of what other people think of you if you put yourself out there or take action. Mindset Trap 2       Who The Hell Am I Syndrome? Mindset trap 3          Delusion – Thinking about it and expecting it to happen. Mindset Trap One  – The fear of what other people think of you if you put yourself out there or take action. Often the first real block of getting more clients is people worry about what others will think if they indeed step up and do a Youtube video, a blog or work towards goals. You will come up against people in whatever field you are in. As Marysia is an actress she has got used to being rejected as you don’t always fit the brief or have the right coloring for the family unit. Rejection is not always personal. You can get pencilled (so you have to block out the time in your diary) before you are penned and then still be rejected. Ryan suggests thinking of yourself as a brand, it makes it less personal. If you are worried what people think, really do acknowledge  that it is not personal, there is often a bigger picture we can’t see. You can worry about what people think, or you can take action on your goals, you can’t do both Allowing what other people think of you to stop you taking action is a real trap. Often as an entrepreneur or creative your family and friends often don’t get your dreams. Marysia listens to lots of other peoples’ podcasts in the gym for inspiration, for encouragement, she finds it’s like being in a mastermind group and helps block the other negative voices out. (There are some great podcast suggestions at the end of this post.) Ryan has recently coached someone into getting published on a front page of a website who was worried about her ‘real writer’ friends and what they would think to see her as that is not her real focus. Ryan has suggested that if her friends got weird she needs to change her friends. Having a coach or a mastermind group is important to support your dreams and remind you that you are not alone. Marysia was in a ‘mastermind’ group with other actors but they were all very different casting. She still passes on jobs for others  although if it was a casting for her type I would not. However having people in very different or similar but different  fields can be super useful to brainstorm, inspire Collaborate not competet post here Mindset Trap 2       Who The Hell Am I Syndrome? Every one suffers from lack of confidence, it can be very subtle. I won’t go that for that as I probably won’t get it I won’t go to that audition as it is out of my reach I won’t keep in touch with that contact  because they are out of my league. So it manifests itself as not believing you deserve what you want. It is very erosive, even if you want something if you have this tape playing in your head of ‘who the hell am I?’  or a la the Spice Girls ‘Who (oooh ooh) Do You Think You Are?‘ you just won’t take action for what you want. The Kardashians, reality TV stars earming $25 million for eating lunch, as they so into self promotion. Ryan had a client critiscising Madonna’s hard self promotion and Ryan said actually that is an amazing thing. So how to overcome this? Look at areas in your life where you suffering Are you not going for that promotion, talk, seminar, audition? Look at what you are not doing and own the fact that the only reason you are staying stuck is because of that belief. From there things will[...] Actors, Casting, Directors, Filmmakers, Inspiration, Marketing, Motivation, Musicians, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/28/make-the-art-you-want-to-make/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/28/make-the-art-you-want-to-make/#respond Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:30:15 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2813 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/28/make-the-art-you-want-to-make/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/25/how-to-be-a-creative-rolling-stone/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/25/how-to-be-a-creative-rolling-stone/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:55:17 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2801 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/25/how-to-be-a-creative-rolling-stone/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/20/how-to-be-a-great-artist-use-the-details/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/20/how-to-be-a-great-artist-use-the-details/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:02:12 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2796 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/20/how-to-be-a-great-artist-use-the-details/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/17/dont-say-no-to-life-seasoned-advice-from-lynn-ruth-who-started-stand-up-at-71/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/17/dont-say-no-to-life-seasoned-advice-from-lynn-ruth-who-started-stand-up-at-71/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:30:54 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2772 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/17/dont-say-no-to-life-seasoned-advice-from-lynn-ruth-who-started-stand-up-at-71/feed/ 0 0:33:11 Marysia Trembecka with Lynn Ruth Miller podcast interview (press the arrow above to hear the audio or go to my iTunes channel. UPDATE Lynn Ruth is doing her new show ’80’  at The Marlborough Theatre May 8,9,10 and 11 @ 6 p.m for the Brig[...] Marysia Trembecka with Lynn Ruth Miller podcast interview (press the arrow above to hear the audio or go to my iTunes channel. UPDATE Lynn Ruth is doing her new show ’80’  at The Marlborough Theatre May 8,9,10 and 11 @ 6 p.m for the Brighton Fringe Festival 2014 details here Here are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript) ‘My mantra is that I am no  different than anyone else, I just don’t say no to life. I don’t have a special talent, Any talent that I have developed. it didn’t start off as a talent, it  started out as an interest, and I just kept doing it until it became an ability’ The reason she pursued this career in cabaret and stand up comedy at 71 is because she took a class in stand up and she was cheered by the audience, she had never seen love like that in her entire life, she thought that this is the most beautiful kind of love there is, (She was 71) You don’t have to cook them dinner, you don’t have to change the sheets Lynn Ruth started doing stand up at 71 and cabaret at 73. She is now 80 years of age and last year won the TOAST (Time Out And Soho Theatre) award at Edinburgh, the prize being that a two week stint at the gorgeous cabaret lounge downstairs at the Soho Theatre, March 11th to March 22nd 2014. Details here I first met Lynn Ruth in 2007 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where I was doing my own cabaret/comedy show as well as hosting and producing the Midnight Carousel cabaret each night for C Venues. I would sing cabaret, chat and have six guests on a night and Lynn Ruth was my very favorite guest, she called her show then granny cabaret. I also saw her in Brighton Festival 2010 where Lynn Ruth was doing her show ‘Alzheimers, Alzheimers’ and I was with my great friend and colleague Elizabeth Mee as we were doing our show ‘Cooking And Cabaret’. She is based in San Francisco and comes every summer for the last 7 years. She also did Britain’s Got Talent, an agent found her that way. Simon Cowell’s criticism was absolutely spot on as her humour is about being old and you can predict where it is going. She picked the most predictable stuff and it is a big audience so she chose material that didnt make the audience think too much. ‘I am 80 and I am on my third car because I can’t remember where I parked the other two” Lynn Ruth was a teacher and has several degrees in teaching, she believes you can spot very creative children as they don’t really get the rules, they are not so much naughty as they don’t understand the rules. Lynn  Ruth has always seen a different answer, creative people seem to have a different version of reality. Her parents were Jewish and their goal in life was to blend in to society when they came to America. She never blended very well. Her heritage has no interest for her, she is always interested where life can take her. She has always written and when you write you redefine the world in your own terms. She started writing at six and had a poem published at nine years of age. She was always surprised when people thought her writing was special. Her creativity was always words, not science. Always through school she came up with a different conclusion, not the accepted one which was viewed as a bad thing for her family and her society. She never had a conformist mind and yet thought she was normal but then years later her sister, who was very good at confirming, called and asked her to come to a party if ‘you don’t do what you do’ Lynn Ruth didn’t know what that was. (I can relate to this!) Lynn Ruth has such freedom in her, and I love seeing that as a creative. Lynn Ruth always questions the right or wrong of art for example the role of directing. She is terrible at collaborative work but her current show is written with her pianist Robert Pettigrew as they have the same goal. She is loving having a real live pianist who follows her and makes her a better performer. Lynn Ruth believes in the importance of the arts, that that is where the t[...] Auditions, Directors, Fun, Gratitude, Inspiration, Motivation, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/11/youve-got-to-win-youve-got-to-risk-everything/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/11/youve-got-to-win-youve-got-to-risk-everything/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:05:18 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2765 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/11/youve-got-to-win-youve-got-to-risk-everything/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/08/the-courage-to-try-the-impossible-make-the-world-free/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/08/the-courage-to-try-the-impossible-make-the-world-free/#respond Sat, 08 Mar 2014 14:00:13 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2749 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/08/the-courage-to-try-the-impossible-make-the-world-free/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/26/the-wonder-of-costume/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/26/the-wonder-of-costume/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:00:27 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2702 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/26/the-wonder-of-costume/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/20/respecting-your-own-instincts-as-an-actor/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/20/respecting-your-own-instincts-as-an-actor/#comments Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:01:32 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2682 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/20/respecting-your-own-instincts-as-an-actor/feed/ 3 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/10/how-to-live-an-inspirational-life-collaborate/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/10/how-to-live-an-inspirational-life-collaborate/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:00:42 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2652 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/10/how-to-live-an-inspirational-life-collaborate/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/08/chicken-documentary-that-i-narrated-has-been-nominated-for-an-award/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/08/chicken-documentary-that-i-narrated-has-been-nominated-for-an-award/#respond Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:00:19 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2644 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/08/chicken-documentary-that-i-narrated-has-been-nominated-for-an-award/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/06/how-to-avoid-artistically-starving-to-death-market-yourself-hard/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/06/how-to-avoid-artistically-starving-to-death-market-yourself-hard/#comments Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:00:10 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2631 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/06/how-to-avoid-artistically-starving-to-death-market-yourself-hard/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/04/why-you-must-stop-wasting-energy-on-reviews-go-write-your-next-play/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/04/why-you-must-stop-wasting-energy-on-reviews-go-write-your-next-play/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:00:07 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2616 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/04/why-you-must-stop-wasting-energy-on-reviews-go-write-your-next-play/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/21/why-acting-in-short-films-is-useful/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/21/why-acting-in-short-films-is-useful/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:18:08 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2561 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/21/why-acting-in-short-films-is-useful/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/18/guillermo-del-toro-on-embracing-failure-me-on-constricting-oneself-as-an-artist/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/18/guillermo-del-toro-on-embracing-failure-me-on-constricting-oneself-as-an-artist/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:51:37 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2543 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/18/guillermo-del-toro-on-embracing-failure-me-on-constricting-oneself-as-an-artist/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/16/sir-derek-jacobis-answer-to-me-on-reviews/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/16/sir-derek-jacobis-answer-to-me-on-reviews/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:00:37 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2527 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/01/16/sir-derek-jacobis-answer-to-me-on-reviews/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/18/the-space-between-where-you-want-to-go-where-you-are-now-bridge-it-through-action/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/18/the-space-between-where-you-want-to-go-where-you-are-now-bridge-it-through-action/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:19:37 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2380 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/18/the-space-between-where-you-want-to-go-where-you-are-now-bridge-it-through-action/feed/ 0 0:34:53 Marysia with Ryan James Lock Coaching Audio Session 0010 ‘See the space between where you want to go and where you are now.  The distance between there and here is through action. Your action that you chose to take. .’  In this 10th coaching session[...] Marysia with Ryan James Lock Coaching Audio Session 0010 ‘See the space between where you want to go and where you are now.  The distance between there and here is through action. Your action that you chose to take. .’  In this 10th coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. Ryan coached me over coffee in London a few weeks ago and by the end of the second coffee I had decided to do my first online workshop and webinar and write an ebook!  My first webinar was ‘5 ways to blast through creative blocks and get your project done” You can listen to the replay and this week’s free workshop here This podcast covered Moving forward and making big drastic steps, really stepping up. Most people know what they need to step up to the next level but there are often mental blocks to the doing. You know what to do but you are not doing it. ‘The strategies you have used to get you to where you are now, are not the same strategies that you need to take you to the next level.’ I did my normal last minute.com chaos to do my book and webinar recently.  ‘Little and often’ does not really work unless I have had to implement it eg voice and singing practice every day. My ebook and webinar I kept putting off actually doing until the deadline got too near to ignore. Four days from the deadline I had to work out the technology of a webinar or a ebook shop plus assemble the ebook and write the webinar. In my setting a date then I again HAVE to produce so I was up til 3 am most mornings and go to that uber focused place. Ryan says you must congratulate yourself in getting on and stepping up to the next stage of your life. Ryan’s procrastination list exercise Write out a list of everything you are putting off doing that you know you should be. Where are you playing too small? What steps could you take for your business or creativity? Then write against each one a step you can take. In writing my ebook  I then knew I wanted a dip in/dip out book rather than a progression from start to finish. It was only on starting to compile this I realised that was what this book needed. ‘The worse thing you can do is nothing’ I am struggling though with doing my showreel, editing it and getting it out there. As actors or creatives we are always waiting for clips or production stills to then send out. We have to collate pieces of showreel for work and yet I have been refusing to watch myself. How else can people know I can act on screen if they can’t see my work? I need showreel to move forward to do film and TV work. I really focused on getting the webinar and ebook out the door last week and not on the actual marketing of myself. Do you have a portfolio of work that you are happy to show people? I also have not been marketing my Londontown, track you hear at the beginning and end of the podcasts. The universe is reflecting back my hesitation. The universe seems to have stopped just as I have stopped myself from moving forward by refusing to do the work I need to do next; producing and putting my showreel and also getting my Londontown single out there. I am refusing to watch myself on screen, then put in an edit and let the world see it, what happens if the world thinks I am a bad actress? If the work is not out there the world can’t think I am bad or it is terrible. If I don’t do that then noone can see me and judge it. Ryan says ‘If you don’t move forward nothing can.’ Ryan says that I have raised the bar for myself, the space between where you are and where you could be, that space manifests itself as anxiety, worry, hesitation. Ryan encourages me to look at the fact I have done well. Look at where I am now and how I have moved forward. I am more self aware and developed a progressive mentality. I mention my F*** Guilt blog post Have developed my blogging and podcasts and I lo[...] Actors, Auditions, Fun, Gratitude, Marketing, Networking, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/free-workshop-on-surviving-xmas-detroit-creativity/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/free-workshop-on-surviving-xmas-detroit-creativity/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:00:07 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2328 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/free-workshop-on-surviving-xmas-detroit-creativity/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/music-theatre-art-really-can-change-the-world/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/music-theatre-art-really-can-change-the-world/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:13:42 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2304 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/music-theatre-art-really-can-change-the-world/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/15/free-ebook-get-your-creative-project-done/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/15/free-ebook-get-your-creative-project-done/#respond Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:43:48 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2288 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/15/free-ebook-get-your-creative-project-done/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/12/swimming-towards-the-new-year-with-joy/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/12/swimming-towards-the-new-year-with-joy/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:34:17 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2276 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/12/swimming-towards-the-new-year-with-joy/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/11/60-ways-to-get-your-art-in-gear-the-ebook/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/11/60-ways-to-get-your-art-in-gear-the-ebook/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:21:27 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2212 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/11/60-ways-to-get-your-art-in-gear-the-ebook/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/winning-the-fight-vs-technology-to-bring-you-a-free-workshop/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/winning-the-fight-vs-technology-to-bring-you-a-free-workshop/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:26:33 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2209 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/winning-the-fight-vs-technology-to-bring-you-a-free-workshop/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/david-monteith-a-bad-day-acting-is-better-than-a-good-day-doing-anything-else/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/david-monteith-a-bad-day-acting-is-better-than-a-good-day-doing-anything-else/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:00:03 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2149 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/david-monteith-a-bad-day-acting-is-better-than-a-good-day-doing-anything-else/feed/ 0 0:32:38 Podcast 30:David Monteith, award winning podcaster, actor, director and tutor. I did a class with David years ago on podcasting and also used to be in a singing class with his now wife Siobhan. David is an award winning podcaster ‘Geek Syndicate’ wh[...] Podcast 30:David Monteith, award winning podcaster, actor, director and tutor. I did a class with David years ago on podcasting and also used to be in a singing class with his now wife Siobhan. David is an award winning podcaster ‘Geek Syndicate’ who also acts, directs and teaches. He has just been an understudy in the West End play ‘Fences’ and directed Monteverdi Orfeo for Isleworth Baroque to great acclaim (‘best production they’ve done in 10 years’ was his favourite review).. He was on the committee for the British Comic Awards (as in comic books) and hosted the award ceremony. He also interviewed the ex Dr’s Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Peter Davison and current writer/producer Steven Moffat at the Dr Who 50th celebration last weekend. ‘Best way to network is to be really good and be really easy to work with’. ‘If you make space and open it up to the universe, then take that step of faith, If you don’t make the space, what is going to come along to fill it as it is already filled with whatever nonsense is there to buy food.’ Before we get into our conversation I am doing a free workshop on ‘Five Ways To Blast Through Creative Blocks And Get Your Project Done’ this Thursday, details here. David started podcasting 8 years  ago, him and his friend recorded the first one whilst drunk on very expensive whiskey, within 3 to 4 years they has 2000 downloads a week. It has taken him places he would have never have been otherwise. There is a podcast network of ten to eleven under the umbrella of Geek Syndicate, back in the early days first people would ask about the name and then they would ask ‘what is a podcast?’, that was where they were when it started, noone then knew. They got nominated many times for the podcast awards but kept being competed against a Harry Potter podcast. They did win eventually in a different category David has been understudying in Fences, a West End play which Lenny Henry stars. He teaches twitter, podcast and acting classes of various levels.. He was in Jamaica for a year in 1999 and was thinking he wanted to be an actor. He returned to London and was drinking with a friend in Soho, saying ‘I want to act but I think I’ve left it too late’ This drunk guy who was standing next to them went ‘F*** Off, I am 40 years old and I am doing a part time acting evening course at the City Lit’, so David went off to that and now he teaches that very course 13 years later. 5 years later after the evening class he left to act, ‘the scariest thing I had ever done, I had a job and no idea what would happen after’ ‘Stuff is waiting to happen but you can’t see it if you are too busy getting in with normal life,’ I said as as an actor you can create drama in life as opposed to be on stage, be unnecessarily dramatic in relationships, when you clear the rubbish out, then drama gets back to where it belongs on the stage. David thinks he is there again, he is teaching so much that he needs to make space for his acting again. ‘Feed yourself as well as others.’ Siobhan, his wife is a fantastic classical singer so she and a friend asked David to oversee/direct a project. He was very ignorant on the world of opera and he thought they were all fuddy duddies but realised he was wrong having met Siobhan. They asked him to direct them and he wasn’t sure he liked opera anyway. However they asked ‘can you bring a sense of theatre to it?’, and off they went. He now teaches bringing a sense of acting to the performance, He often finds people are singing words they do not understand without any idea of what they mean. If you ask a writer for advice ‘just write something, the act of writing invokes something else, and gives ideas. Sometimes you just have to do stuff’ I talk about my jazz album from years ago and now one of the songs Londontown has a dance remix, and we are planning to release a dance single. Weird how creativity can evolve. Talking about Fences by a black Amer[...] Actors, Directors, Fun, Gratitude, Marketing, Networking, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/06/beautiful-mutants-how-to-recognize-your-extraordinary-gifts-and-abilities/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/06/beautiful-mutants-how-to-recognize-your-extraordinary-gifts-and-abilities/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:27:29 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2170 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/06/beautiful-mutants-how-to-recognize-your-extraordinary-gifts-and-abilities/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/05/29-kevin-bisbangian-award-winning-film-director-you-have-to-work-hard/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/05/29-kevin-bisbangian-award-winning-film-director-you-have-to-work-hard/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:00:03 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2139 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/05/29-kevin-bisbangian-award-winning-film-director-you-have-to-work-hard/feed/ 5 0:24:51 Podcast 29: This is a podcast interview I did with Kevin Bisbangian, award winning film director. I have worked with Kevin as I acted in his short ‘Chain Reaction’ alongside my friend Michael Brazil who had won best Supporting Actor at Madrid, actin[...] Podcast 29: This is a podcast interview I did with Kevin Bisbangian, award winning film director. I have worked with Kevin as I acted in his short ‘Chain Reaction’ alongside my friend Michael Brazil who had won best Supporting Actor at Madrid, acting in Kevin’s very first drama ‘Broken Wings’. Broken Wings was nominated for six awards at Madrid International Film Festival 2012. The nominations were Best script, producer, director, actor, supporting actor and best actress. He has subsequently won best short documentary award at St Tropez for ‘Poetic Emotions’ Q:Any advice for budding filmmakers or writers? Kevin doesn’t feel he is at a level to give anyone advice but working hard is really important. He has very talented filmmakers who make one film every couple years and then think about next one for two more years. ‘If you really like something you have to work hard at it. It is not good enough to make one film every three or four years. I understand if it is not ready but if you can afford it ,it is better to work hard and even with different people.’ He is working with 3 different groups of people and it works for him as well as produce other directors work in the future. Either listen to the podcast by pressing the button above or there is a loose transcript below. Kevin went to China for three weeks and made his first ever film, a documentary, which he loved for the editing. He then made an ad with a friend of his and ‘Broken Wings’ was the third film he made, and the first drama he had made. He knew most of the actors anyway, he had done a Method Acting course so he handpicked the best actors. I asked about self-doubt and why he felt it was good enough to send off to festivals. ‘You never know but I am generally good at identifying if something is rubbish and I am honest with myself.’ The ‘Poetic Emotion’ documentary he made he had the thought that if it was rubbish he would forget about it, and that was the plan and they (himself and Juliet the star) both agreed. ‘After editing you know if it is any good,’ St Tropez Film Festival ‘Poetic Emotion’ won the best short documentary award in 2013. He has been making films for 4 years, he maintains the awards are a fluke. He feels that he has been very lucky and worked with professional people, that helps you get nominations and thus work with better people. After ‘Broken Wings’ he made ‘Studio’ which was about making ‘Poetic Emotion’, ‘Last Letter’ a 3 minute film, and also ‘Chain Reaction’ that I (Marysia) am in. I got to hold the very heavy St Tropez international Winner Award Q: Does he think he is particularly good at giving judges of festivals what they want? ‘You can never afford to submit your film to every festival, but you have to decide where to send your film to give it a better chance i.e St Tropez because the documentary being about a French artist it would have a better chance. Broken Wings as there was a scene he was in that he had to speak in Spanish and Japanese, as was the actress speaking Spanish in it so he thought he would send it to Madrid as give it better chance’ Having been to a screening of ‘Broken Wings’ I thought the bleeding in from shots, the visuals, the more early Almadovar breaking the frame was more why he would have been nominated but of course neither of us know. Kevin has recently finished Salome, a psychological thriller and he was lucky to have twenty very professional people to work with. He started planning a year ago last summer to do rehearsals, costumes, makeups, to decide about every little detail. ‘ In the last few days before shooting we lost a location and without a location the pressure really escalates and makes me depressed but we managed to get an even better location.’ He is hoping to submit it to a few festivals, there is no deadline you can submit your film within the next 3 years anyway. ‘As long as the result is good, the pressure just happens during the shoot.” The Studio from Kevin Bisbangian on Vimeo. Q: Wh[...] Actors, Casting, Directors, Networking, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/25/how-to-improve-dialogue-in-screenplays-the-success-of-your-work/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/25/how-to-improve-dialogue-in-screenplays-the-success-of-your-work/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:58:09 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2082 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/25/how-to-improve-dialogue-in-screenplays-the-success-of-your-work/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/24/10-great-video-clips-about-the-creative-process/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/24/10-great-video-clips-about-the-creative-process/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:33:43 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=624 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/24/10-great-video-clips-about-the-creative-process/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/23/what-it-takes-developing-multiple-revenue-streams-as-an-artist/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/23/what-it-takes-developing-multiple-revenue-streams-as-an-artist/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:41:04 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2074 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/23/what-it-takes-developing-multiple-revenue-streams-as-an-artist/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/21/30-reasons-craig-davids-instagram-is-the-best-thing-on-the-internet-buzzfeed/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/21/30-reasons-craig-davids-instagram-is-the-best-thing-on-the-internet-buzzfeed/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:37:32 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2069 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/21/30-reasons-craig-davids-instagram-is-the-best-thing-on-the-internet-buzzfeed/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/08/you-must-be-strong-and-wrong-what-you-have-to-decide-about-working-for-free/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/08/you-must-be-strong-and-wrong-what-you-have-to-decide-about-working-for-free/#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:36:41 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1983 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/08/you-must-be-strong-and-wrong-what-you-have-to-decide-about-working-for-free/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/03/how-to-get-casting-directors-to-find-you-backstage-day-3-nanowrimo/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/03/how-to-get-casting-directors-to-find-you-backstage-day-3-nanowrimo/#respond Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:02:41 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1881 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/03/how-to-get-casting-directors-to-find-you-backstage-day-3-nanowrimo/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/18/how-to-get-the-right-mindset-on-press-reviews/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/18/how-to-get-the-right-mindset-on-press-reviews/#comments Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:20:04 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1878 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/18/how-to-get-the-right-mindset-on-press-reviews/feed/ 2 0:39:20 In this Seventh coaching session podcast Ryan James Lock continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. This week was all about pr[...] In this Seventh coaching session podcast Ryan James Lock continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. This week was all about press reviews and how to approach reading  and recovering from them. Ryan has a PR background, having had his own business and then moving into celebrity and brand consultancy on how to get a strategy to get into the media and also Ryan himself features regularly across the world. I wanted to ask him about press and reading reviews. I am in a play at the moment  and we are getting the press reviews coming through. I have a firm no reading of reviews policy as I do not find it helps me do my job as an actor. Part of the reason I don’t read reviews is my experience in Edinburgh Festivals where you have students reviewing who have no idea of the process nor the craft. I now want constructive criticism only from my director and the writer. Bad reviews don’t help you get on stage and do a great show, yes one is always learning and there are technical issues but the press can even get this wrong, I remembered an example of a Times reviewer saying a certain pop singer was pitchy and me overhearing my very famous and brilliant singing teacher call her management and say ‘she was perfectly in tune’, I’d trust my old singing teacher more than a reviewer on this I currently have an interesting time with the reviews as I understand we need them for promotion, and I know we are getting as actors great reviews even if they don’t love the play, which people are loving or hating. All artists remember the negative reviews and dismiss the positive ones. Ryan’s response is that a review is just one person’s opinion. What is very dangerous to people who are their own brand,, when you step up on stage and you sing or act, not only are you but you are also the brand, hence you are vulnerable. He knows many people don’t read reviews and it is sensible to ignore them especially if the reviewer is a student who has no real understanding. He has done a YouTube video on dealing with bad press, if you have indeed read the reviews: 1)Be objective in what can I learn from this 2)Look at the person writing it, do they embody of what you want. He quotes  from the film ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ ‘Don’t listen to people who don’t have what you want’, if you want riches don’t listen to those who are always poor 3)To really understand that it is just an opinion. Ryan asks when I say I don’t read them is that because I worry something will hurt or that it just makes me less focused? I mention Steven Berkoff, the director/writer recently on Facebook saying how he doesn’t read reviews as he has so much bad criticism over the years but he had to post an intelligent review as they are so rare. I am very aware how a good review can really help, indeed we have had great reviews  and theatres already talking about the show transferring so I am not bitter and twisted on this. However I know great reviews can help the brand, me, sales of tickets etc. So there is an argument to get someone else to read them to see if we use them to promote. Ryan said find either a publicist, a friend, someone who is objective. We all have a sense of insecurity and it is a bad cycle to get into to be allowed to be swayed by negative comments. Wise people aren’t swayed, it is psychological well-being, you should not feel validated if people say you are great and invalidated if they don’t like you. I gave an example of hearing a tune ‘October Arrival’ by Steve Waterman, an amazing jazz trumpeter and asked if I could write some lyrics to it. I then, 6 weeks later, was asked to perform it in front of the 30 piece orchestra with my own lyrics. I was so terrified I couldn’t breathe. We started with me coming in an octave lower than I had meant to. All the way through I was shaking, I came to the middle ten (not 8, it is a jazz tune[...] Actors, Marketing, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/14/why-you-must-define-who-you-are-then-find-people-to-challenge-you-respectfully-dan-horrigan-playwright-director/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/14/why-you-must-define-who-you-are-then-find-people-to-challenge-you-respectfully-dan-horrigan-playwright-director/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:00:54 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1858 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/14/why-you-must-define-who-you-are-then-find-people-to-challenge-you-respectfully-dan-horrigan-playwright-director/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/12/creativity-is-a-habit-the-best-creativity-is-a-result-of-good-work-habits/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/12/creativity-is-a-habit-the-best-creativity-is-a-result-of-good-work-habits/#respond Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:00:58 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1851 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/12/creativity-is-a-habit-the-best-creativity-is-a-result-of-good-work-habits/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/08/look-at-the-cold-hard-facts-of-why-you-have-a-great-product-noone-is-buying-it/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/08/look-at-the-cold-hard-facts-of-why-you-have-a-great-product-noone-is-buying-it/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2013 22:24:18 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1819 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/08/look-at-the-cold-hard-facts-of-why-you-have-a-great-product-noone-is-buying-it/feed/ 0 0:40:06 Ryan Lock/Marysia Podcast coaching session 6 “Look at the cold hard facts of why you have a great product & noone is buying it.Plus stop shoulding all over yourself” In this Sixth coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how [...] Ryan Lock/Marysia Podcast coaching session 6 “Look at the cold hard facts of why you have a great product & noone is buying it.Plus stop shoulding all over yourself” In this Sixth coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goal, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. Here are some of the highlights of his advice for moving forward this week (this is not a full transcript) We talk about the beginning of autumn and back to school. This is a great time to set big goals as we all are ready to ‘get back to school’, we have had summer to rest and have fun. Ask what do you need to learn now to forward your creative careers? What do you need to learn to help you get there? Set up goals and how best to set up your daily work ethic. The more we can schedule self care, exercise and time to create, then we can really move things. Also focus People can be very busy doing things that do not get them jobs or income. Look at your schedule, are you actively got time to write X letters per week to get work, to meet casting directors, networking. The definition of networking ‘ who knows who you are and what you do’ It is easy to talk about how busy you are but Ryan asks what are the end results. If none of the things you are doing are not bringing in work or results. Busy-ness is not necessarily productive. You can be busy writing your book but not doing any marketing to sell the last one Freelancers should be spending 25% of their time looking for their next job, this is something I got from a FEU workshop. I need to either do a day a week working on the marketing or 25% of each day. Ryan says ‘you market now to get results in 6 months, you can’t expect instant results’ Ryan says a lot of his clients say ‘I have done this amazing thing but not many people are looking at it” . It is very important to make marketing a priority, the first strategy is make promotion a priority. In the coaching world people will read your material for 3-6 months before buying material. If you are stuck and not getting the results you want, look at black and white cold hard facts and ask ‘How much are you actually marketing?’ Working smarter not harder and study really helps there, we need often new techniques or to get better. I am realising how I need to keep moving in a mental space. I am having new projects moving in, I need to rest and yet I have stopped working on my Londontown track. I now feel I have a stone that is no longer rolling, it is easier to push one that is moving, I am not pushing that creative project and I need to minimise my sense of guilt. Ryan says in an ideal world I would be able to focus 100%, and work 24 hours a day but it is not possible and very important to replace a sense of guilt with an awareness that my song is still applicable to market and sell, nothing had disappeared. I have been clearer with saying no to some people, although I have yet to say to people ‘sorry I cant help as I need some me time!’ On self care I am back down the gym, taking my script onto the treadmill. So I use the focused time without Facebooking to learn my script whilst doing cardio. I have also stopped blogging and podcasting late at night and getting off the internet at a reasonable time. What does the word ‘should’ mean – Ryan has a module ‘Stop shoulding all over yourself’ He says the word ‘should’ makes you or another creative wrong, a quote by Louise Hay – she gets you to make a should list and replace it with either ‘I choose to’ or ‘I could chose to do it if I want to’ If you are going to do affirmations, it is really important for you to use words that your brain recognises, so not alien language or terms. Ryan says he never has heard the word ‘should; used in a positive sense. I quote Georgina Sowerby who says if you have the word ‘should’ in a sentence, it means you need to find another way of doing it. 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Podcast interview with some highlights below. She is not a trained pro[...] Georgina Sowerby is a successful actress, having worked at the National, the Royal Court as well as on various TV and film projects and is the co-founder of Dirty Market Theatre. Podcast interview with some highlights below. She is not a trained producer, she learns as the piece demands. However production is very much part of making your own work. She talks about the devising process of Dirty Market Theatre. Make a mini performance to show your ideas, making little tableaus and things have strange connections. One of the questions was ‘What is your favourite fairy tale for now’ and out of that they have devised a fairy tale for adults. Fairy tales are gory, dark and looking at the older fairy tales is very different from the saccharine of todays childrens’ programmes. We talk about devising, establishing the through line of the narrative, how an audience and critics likes to have a central message. In contemporary art we do not expect a narrative but in theatre the audience is very educated. Oxbow Lakes is immersive in that the audience is promenaded and also involved emotionally in the characters, using three different spaces within the previously unused for theatre site. We mention PunchDrunk and YouMeBumBum Train. Georgina and her business and life partner Jon Lee are co-directors in Dirty Market Theatre and we discuss how you work out the schedule of family and creating art. The joy of making your own stuff is because you get creative control and as an actor sometimes you are not meant to have creative ideas. Anyone in the space be it set designer, lighting or actor, all their views are valid. Dirty Market call themselves ‘theatre bricoleur’, French for DIY, so using music, art, philosophy and you tinker with it rather than having a grand scheme. Picasso says )paraphrased) ‘You have a concept for a painting, but the moment the pink paint hits the canvas, the painting speaks to you” So a framework is good but you need to be able to move within it. Robert Altman ‘Pick any 5 great moments in my films and they all will be mistakes’ We talk on how mistakes work, and how a player is missing ‘the audience’ before you start the show. The live aspect. Jon Lee wants to make a film but Georgina is in love with the live performance but is reassured that it will be ‘arthouse’ I have learnt in both Jon and Georgina’s classes about Bacchus, the muse. We talked about moving from being a successful actress to devising. Georgina went to Drama Centre but then assisted James Neale-Kennely She loves the empowerment of emplying the resources in the room, and being inspired by group work. She has been very inspired by Anne Bogart’s work and being delighted with what people to bring.   How has she kept the fire going within art and theatre? Georgina replied ‘Being really stubborn and having the realisation that she is not constitutionally able to wait for someone to allow her to be creative. Her background is when you want to go and paint you just do so, not wait for someone to tell you. She loves making opportunities for herself and others. She has the wonderful analogy of a chick pushing through the egg and how it needs aggression to live. Her determination is about having a choice about your life. This is why she loves teaching adults and opening their lives and hearts. I talk about the Meissner high when adults finally feel free to express She loves being an actor but hates the business of being an actor with sending CV’s out, Shirley Henderson ‘Eventually you have to decide what makes you happy’ and Georgina has found another way of doing it, by A designer, Sutra Gilmour ‘Don’t try to be original, be personal” OXBOW LAKES 4th – 28th September ’13 Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm For tickets and more information: www.dirtymarket.co.uk Georgina and Jon do Rough Classics, workshops on devising – link here http://www.dirtymarket.co.uk/here About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a we[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/09/03/narrating-pedigree-poultry-the-crufts-of-the-chicken-world/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/09/03/narrating-pedigree-poultry-the-crufts-of-the-chicken-world/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:13:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1672 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/09/03/narrating-pedigree-poultry-the-crufts-of-the-chicken-world/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/09/02/why-you-must-be-yourself-for-audiences-to-love-you-earl-okin-interview-pt-2/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/09/02/why-you-must-be-yourself-for-audiences-to-love-you-earl-okin-interview-pt-2/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:13:52 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1668 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/09/02/why-you-must-be-yourself-for-audiences-to-love-you-earl-okin-interview-pt-2/feed/ 0 0:32:44 Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director. This is Part Two of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast[...] Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director. This is Part Two of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast are noted below. I have posted this in two parts: he has so much great advice that I couldn’t bear to cut any. the first part largely covers his comedy, knowing who he is an artist and the second songwriting, music making, bossa nova and more tips on audiences His advice: be yourself and know what you are doing, get very clear on what you need to work on. Earl Okin Earl Okin, singer, songwriter, pianist, comedian He was on stage at three years of age, has opened for Paul McCartney and Wings on their 1980s world tour, he is an incredibly funny and talented performer who has spent the last 60 years entertaining. Due to his family’s history he has echoes of the music hall but has “Entertainer” on his passport, a one man variety show. This section covers his straight songwriting, he sometimes strums his guitar to demonstrate (Part One of this interview on charming your audience & doing 18 Edinburgh Fringes is here) Look at the genre you are writing in as to what chords to use. What comes first, the words or the music. With Earl it is the music, however he tells the tale of a famous songwriter saying ‘What comes first is the phone call” Whatever the style you have, you have a blank bit of paper but the style from hip hop to blues to jazz will define the colours you paint with. You need to trust your musical knowledge and taste as it will inevitably filter into your writing as much as you focus on your own voice. We cover ageing, keeping moving forward Advice ; Be Yourself, dont try and be the second someone else. Sinatra was influenced by Bing Crosby but he sounded different. Earl’s influencer Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong. Earl has sung bossa nova in Brazil despite being born in Surrey and plays his guitar and demonstrates a little on the rhythm of singing bossa nova. “It is not jazz with a Latin beat, Brazilian has nothing to do with jazz and Latin is very different from Brazilian. Jazz singers lay back on the beat, bossa singers sing before”. On knowing what you are doing to the level you need, be clear on the work you need to do. He plays some Anna Russell as we discuss me singing Michael Tippett ‘For singers who are tone deaf I suggest contemporary classical, no one will notice if you sing the wrong note except possibly the composer and he probably won’t notice either.” Earl is writing a musical, early title ‘A Harlem Story’ and a sort of a follow on from Porgy and Bess, it takes place in the last 40s so late swing style. Earl has a passion for opera and has a monthly podcast where he plays 6 eclectic songs from opera, music hall, jazz and comedy including a track of his own at the end. We finished with playing more Anne Russell then a jam, Earl on piano, singing and doing a fake trumpet and me singing   His Podcast The Earl Okin’s Gramophone Show http://earlokin.blogspot.co.uk/ About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on. Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation. Just go the website for the blog and you can subscribe there via your email if you dont want to miss a post. Equally please subscribe to the iTunes Channel to get the new podcasts without any more effort on your part If you like the podcast a rating on iTunes would really help. Also Stitcher Radio http://stitcher.com/s?fid=33657&refid=stp Post 54 of Dream, create and make money in the arts This is a series of blogs for you on how to dream up, build, market and sell a creative event, gig, festival, book launch, cabaret night, exhibition of rude plastic cupcakes or whatever creatively inspires you. It is ti[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/30/why-you-must-get-comfortable-being-uncomfortable-coaching-podcast-session-4/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/30/why-you-must-get-comfortable-being-uncomfortable-coaching-podcast-session-4/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2013 21:17:27 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1658 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/30/why-you-must-get-comfortable-being-uncomfortable-coaching-podcast-session-4/feed/ 1 0:36:39 Marysia/Ryan Lock coaching session 4 ‘Why you must get comfortable being uncomfortable’. In this fourth coaching session podcast Ryan James Lock continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goal, looking at my mindset [...] Marysia/Ryan Lock coaching session 4 ‘Why you must get comfortable being uncomfortable’. In this fourth coaching session podcast Ryan James Lock continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goal, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. He gives me advice and focus on what I, and thus you, the listening creatives, can do to promote a show, exhibition or event they are working on as part of the selling of their own work. Here are some of the highlights of his advice for moving forward this week (this is not a full transcript) Since I started these coaching sessions I have definitely moved my project forward. Last week’s homework was to do my YouTube video for the single and post it. I have posted it on my blog, facebook etc and now my friends and the world can see my work. Scary but I did it. He also asked me to do at least 30 minutes a day on promoting my project, however I tended to do a few hours one day and then nothing for the next few. I have realised I have 2 other dance songs that I have left on my hard drive – I am now thinking I could eventually release a 3 track dance EP. I play part of one at 8.33 minutes (Sun In The Morning) Janice Smylie – use what is already there, look what else you have. Most of what you want is already there.  Janice Smylie Website We discuss how I successfully create by booking the show, and then HAVING to create and deliver it. However this process of developing a product first and then having to market it afterwards I find very difficult, although the product is often better. Ryan says one has to be careful to  keep on the sidelines, effectively waiting til the product or art is ‘perfect’ Ryan asks about my sense of overwhelm and time issues. I am not even managing the gym routines properly, Ryan said it is natural to have fluctuations in your patterns and it is OK to have this. I talk about not knowing what steps to take next, I don’t know now what to do. I have got through the hurdles of initially contacting some people, I ask what next, do I go knock on doors?  Ryan says I need to understand that there are so many people trying to do things, release a song or a film or show. Don’t be naive and think people will get back to me tomorrow, creatives have the energy, passion to get their product out but don’t expect an immediate response. Mike Dooley said to Ryan ‘Knock on as many doors as you can. When you keep all the energy moving, things have to respond. Get so busy knocking on doors that you don’t have time to hang around and wait for a response.” Ryan agrees that there is no one single thing I can do, I just want to get the song out there and it is frustrating about not having just one door to knock on. Ryan says this sense of ‘I have this book, CD etc to get out there’ and yet you will never know what thing leads to another, the fluidity of life. Mike Dooley had been doing his emails and newsletters for months and then he heard from Rhonda Byrne… who invited him to be part of The Secret documentary, she had been reading his emails for 6 months. Ryan told me to write again a list of what is holding me back for each thing and a step I can take. Ryan’s tips of finding me some viral movement on my Youtube video Londontown video Only add the Youtube video link to my email signature but to the right people Add it to my Facebook profile – Fan page. Marketing research say people like to be told what is the next step of action, so suggest to people they look at my Youtube link. Create some video stills of my video, post it, tag friends and opinion formers (not your mum!), who are right for this project and ask them  engaging questions. Don’t just ask ‘ share please’. Put myself in the consumer shoes, what is in it for them. So tag their names, add the link to Youtube and ask a question that gets a positive answer. Ask an emotive or string image from the video and ask. Maybe ask some friends[...] Londontown, Marketing, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/25/the-seagull-podcast-the-cast-discusses-snoring-comedy-in-chekhov-finding-a-stuffed-seagull/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/25/the-seagull-podcast-the-cast-discusses-snoring-comedy-in-chekhov-finding-a-stuffed-seagull/#respond Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:16:06 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1634 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/25/the-seagull-podcast-the-cast-discusses-snoring-comedy-in-chekhov-finding-a-stuffed-seagull/feed/ 0 0:23:58 Podcast of our forthcoming production of The Seagull with the cast members.  James Mackenzie-Thorpe the director talks through the process of choosing to put on The Seagull whilst the frantic search up and down the country for a stuffed seagull cont[...] Podcast of our forthcoming production of The Seagull with the cast members.  James Mackenzie-Thorpe the director talks through the process of choosing to put on The Seagull whilst the frantic search up and down the country for a stuffed seagull continues with James insisting he does not plan to stuff one. The cast : Jen Cooper, Lucy Danser, Michael Eriera, Grace Hudson, Ben Kernow, James Mackenzie-Thorpe,  Nick Maxwell, Patrick Osborne, James Rose, oh and me, Marysia Trembecka James Rose and I then discuss Trigorin and Arkadina’s dramatic scene in Act III and his transformation from the beginning of the play and Act IV. I follow with a chat with Jen Cooper whose advice ‘when in doubt use gaffer’ worries me as we are still discussing the stuffed Seagull. The podcast covers: Michael Ereira on the physical restrictions of spending lots of time snoring. Grace Hudson insisting her Nina does come from Argentina. Lucy Danser’s vital character research on alcohol at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Nick Maxwell on being a lecherous doctor Ben Kernow on playing Medvedenko as Richard III. Want to see what all the fuss is about? Then check out our viral teaser for the show: thanks Matt Aucott! The show opens on Monday 2nd September and runs until Sunday 8th September. Performances commence at 7.45pm Mon-Sat and 6.45pm on Sunday. Booking in advance is advised (particularly for later in the week as we had to turn away people for some performances of The Tempest). You can book by emailing londontheatre@gmail.com or by telephoning the box office on 020 8932 4747 Barons Court Theatre, The Curtains Up  28a Comeragh Rd, London W14 9HP Green Girl Productions @GreenGirlProd www.facebook.com/GreenGirlProductions Green Girl Productions are : James Mackenzie Thorpe, Nicky Fox and Jen Cooper   My Vine on the Sunday morning of the making of the viral. Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on. Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation. 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He gives me advice and focus on what I, and thus you, fellow listening creatives, can do to promote a show, exhibition or event they are working on as part of the selling of their own work. (The arrow above plays the podcast or you can catch it on my iTunes Love Your Creativity Channel) Here are some of the highlights of his advice for moving forward this week (this is not a full transcript) I must re-look at myself as a human being. It is important for me to know I am redefining how I am seeing myself. Homework – Ask myself a la ‘Byron Katy’ – ‘everything in your life is a story you are telling yourself’, ‘who would I be if I changed the story I am telling myself.’ Say to myself: This is the new life I am creating for myself, these are new things I am going to be experiencing so actually I am going to support myself by seeing myself in that way. I am in control of how I see myself, and see myself as capable, talented. Me being more than who I am can cause issues, especially in the UK where modesty is seemed a positive thing. Ryan says that being authentic and when you show up unapologetic especially as a woman, it can make people uncomfortable if they are not happy with where they are at. When you show up and you are direct, completely authentic and say things, and you are emotionally naked, it can cause issues with people. Take a look at how when you are being yourself, how the people around you are reacting. When the magic happens is when you are completely yourself, you resonate with people in a very different way. Ryan talks about owning the fact that I am being talented, maybe I do know what I am doing. It is arrogant to say that you are not talented and hide, you just hold yourself your back and it does not help you or the world. Its important to know ‘I am talented and in demand, and I deserve to be rewarded with tangible results’. The past has no power over me unless I give it power. The rest is background noise, just carry on! Practise this week on not apologising about being myself. Not only is it ok to be authentic but it is necessary to succeed. I discussed how busy I am in all other areas in my life and getting busier but I do not want to give up the dance single. Ryan says that when we make a change in our life what comes up is not inner resistance as much as adjusting to the new level I am at. So the more work I am doing towards my art, new habits need to be formed as my time is getting squeezed more. In moving ahead all my life is moving forward, things keep becoming more important and by me making things happen, life is getting busier. Ryan said ‘every new level has a different level’, often when we are on a journey you create movement and now everything is moving forward which is great but now it requires maintenance, focus and keeping going. There will be uncomfortable times at the start when we are pushing through barriers. Time is proving to be my issue. Ryan said it is ok to reschedule things and adjust things to prioritise, find a sense of balance. Look at the fact that I am on the road to getting what I want and juggling things, in wanting the ‘body’ or the ‘car’ you cant just get it without having to maintain. As I am moving all my little projects forward, everything is moving forward.   I reported that I am still trying to find my target audience people so I can ask where they find their music and download it. It isn’t proving as easy as I thought. I have had some good success in moving forward. Ryan says that one of the great things about putting yourself out there, it seems then that the biggest thing is taking the first step, but then distractions come along. 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Love Your Creativity aims to keep myself and you focused on creativity and this is the first of a series of coaching sessions with Ry[...] Podcast Coaching Session No 1: Marysia with Ryan James Lock, Post 41 of Dream, create and make money in the arts. Love Your Creativity aims to keep myself and you focused on creativity and this is the first of a series of coaching sessions with Ryan Lock ‘Be Your Own Publicist”. There are many calming and focusing tips in this podcast about the first steps on getting your artistic product out of the door whether it is a song, a novel or a painting. This is the first coaching session CS001. Ryan has agreed to coach me in this podcast format as what to do when you have a creative product and dont know the next steps. I have a dance music song ‘Londontown’ and I am clueless on what to do next, I dont know the dance market and there seems an overwhelming amount to do. Ryan talks about my fears and is coaching me over the next few weeks on my next steps. Here are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript) so listen to the show either by clicking on the right pointing arrow above or you can go to iTunes Love Your Creativity podcast channel Some highlights from the coaching session He advised me to get very clear on what I want to achieve wth this project, fears aside, what are the objectives. Look at shifting my focus to everything that is in my control. Take action in spite of my fear. On me getting moving on this project despite my fear, he advised me to look at what am I avoiding doing. An Exercise he gave me was: Write down a list of what I am avoiding doing and putting off. This will clear my mind, then beside each thing, write an action step that I can do NOW. Then DO IT! The main thing he wants to see happen is movement. He wants me on this first coaching session to not do anything to add to the overwhelm but focus on what I want to achieve this week. I need the foundation in place as then the juicy parts will work better. Treat the project like going to the gym, it can hurt doing the weights but at the end you feel great. Regarding bad reviews and reactions, taking mine and Andrew Hyde’s little song into the world and I dont want the bad reactions or negativity. Ryan’s advice was that the more I target my project to whom it is tailored for the better I feel. Once I am clear who it is for, then I can start creating a plan. Also once I realise who the track is for then what people think of it does not matter so much if they are not my target audience. It is totally natural to worry but understanding yourself as a brand will calm down the anxiety. Know who my track is for and target then. If the people who I am targeting do not like it I can then target it, and those who slander it, if they are not my target audience which is fine. Miraculously he calmed my fears down and stopped me from feeling so scared and overwhelmed. He dealt with all my objections and waded through my excuses. Ryan has left me feeling very focused and positive. I feel He is doing a fast track programme of Coaching for free, full of strategies he uses with his private clients and for himself. If you, as a listener would like to ask myself and Ryan a question on creativity or marketing just email us or call my Speak Pipe. The advantage of leaving a message on my Speak Pipe (button on the right of my website saying ‘Leave a voicemail’ is that If you leave your blog details etc we can play the call live. If you like this and want an indepth overview on being your own publicist see Podcast on How To Be Your Own Publicist, Marysia & Ryan James Lock The Coaching Sessions in reverse order are as follows Podcast Coaching Session 006 Look at the Cold hard facts of why you have a great product and noone is buying it, plus stop ‘shoulding all over yourself’ Podcast Coaching Session 005 How to deal with ‘free’ work, learning to say NO & taking care of yourself” Why you must get comfortable being uncomfortable – Coaching podcast session 4 Why you must be your authentic self & ignore all [...] Marketing, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/25/the-power-of-sound-inspiring-diy-podcasts-on-music-money-making/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/25/the-power-of-sound-inspiring-diy-podcasts-on-music-money-making/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:17:02 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1334 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/25/the-power-of-sound-inspiring-diy-podcasts-on-music-money-making/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/24/david-kelley-on-creative-confidence-facing-fear-of-press/ Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:23:50 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1261 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/18/victorian-costumes-are-impossible-to-work-in/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/18/victorian-costumes-are-impossible-to-work-in/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:23:04 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1315 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/18/victorian-costumes-are-impossible-to-work-in/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/16/how-to-get-a-record-deal-ask-the-vamps/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/16/how-to-get-a-record-deal-ask-the-vamps/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:39:33 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1305 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/16/how-to-get-a-record-deal-ask-the-vamps/feed/ 2 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/15/my-resonance-104-4-fm-show-thursday-18th-july-8pm/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/15/my-resonance-104-4-fm-show-thursday-18th-july-8pm/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:13:22 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1294 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/15/my-resonance-104-4-fm-show-thursday-18th-july-8pm/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/12/how-to-use-ticket-prices-and-prizes-to-improve-your-sales/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/12/how-to-use-ticket-prices-and-prizes-to-improve-your-sales/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:13:38 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1286 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/12/how-to-use-ticket-prices-and-prizes-to-improve-your-sales/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/11/how-to-brainstorm-great-venues-for-an-event/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/11/how-to-brainstorm-great-venues-for-an-event/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:17:36 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1279 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/11/how-to-brainstorm-great-venues-for-an-event/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/03/why-you-must-stay-true-to-yourself-in-art/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/03/why-you-must-stay-true-to-yourself-in-art/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:03:17 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1243 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/03/why-you-must-stay-true-to-yourself-in-art/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/02/how-to-get-clarity-on-the-next-steps-market-edit-ship-it-or-die/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/02/how-to-get-clarity-on-the-next-steps-market-edit-ship-it-or-die/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:58:22 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1223 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/02/how-to-get-clarity-on-the-next-steps-market-edit-ship-it-or-die/feed/ 0