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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 11:23:43 +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/2015/06/15/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/2015/02/21/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/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/2014/06/01/100-days-of-being-an-actress-dont-let-my-inbox-become-the-mistress-of-me/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/01/100-days-of-being-an-actress-dont-let-my-inbox-become-the-mistress-of-me/#respond Sun, 01 Jun 2014 18:04:16 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3097 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/01/100-days-of-being-an-actress-dont-let-my-inbox-become-the-mistress-of-me/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/2014/05/22/100-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 11:13:36 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3053 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/22/100-days-of-being-an-actress-the-magic-of-movies-at-cannes/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/04/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-2-self-taper-movie-editor/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/04/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-2-self-taper-movie-editor/#respond Sun, 04 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/2014/04/29/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/2014/03/31/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/2014/03/25/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/2014/03/06/how-to-be-happy-cherish-moments-of-beauty-where-you-can/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/06/how-to-be-happy-cherish-moments-of-beauty-where-you-can/#respond Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:00:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2736 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/06/how-to-be-happy-cherish-moments-of-beauty-where-you-can/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/04/dont-just-give-things-up-for-lent-do-more-of-what-works/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/04/dont-just-give-things-up-for-lent-do-more-of-what-works/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:37:15 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2726 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/04/dont-just-give-things-up-for-lent-do-more-of-what-works/feed/ 1 0:34:53 This is a Marysia Trembecka with Ryan James Lock coaching session. Ryan and I chatted about being 2 months out from our New Years Goals and seeing where in some areas there has been progress and in others a dark failure. I know I am not alone, but  [...] This is a Marysia Trembecka with Ryan James Lock coaching session. Ryan and I chatted about being 2 months out from our New Years Goals and seeing where in some areas there has been progress and in others a dark failure. I know I am not alone, but  being in my gym I can see how much quieter it is now that the January Gym Resolution has faded away for lots of people. I always give something up for  Lent, as my father is a Polish Catholic, my mum an English Protestant and I am a Buddhist. Since I was a teenager all three of us  have always given up something for Lent, my sister just thinks we are mad.  Traditionally early Christians gave up things for purification and enlightenment in the 40 days before receiving baptism to convert to Christianity. I do actually find peace and indeed purification and enlightenment as I strip away each year some habits for 7 weeks, my life always moves forward and I learn something new. Last year I gave up sugar, alcohol, reading fiction books and men that were bad for me (the last one was the one I failed on, though it did provide some amusements as my ex kept yelling ‘I am not bad for you!” when I refused to see him ;-)) In giving up the alcohol, men and reading I ended up with lots of spare time which I filled with gym, reading non fiction, opening my mind and thus starting my own blog and my podcast. Lent starts Wednesday 5th March 2014 this year. This year I am thinking about cultivating new positive habits rather than just giving up things as I always start again with the old habits when Lent finishes. I want to try and implant as a creative, a proper business day routine, so sitting at my desk at 9am to do work for 4 hours as if I was  paid to do so. I know auditions etc get in the way but the idea of a 4 hour per day focused work when I am not on set seduces me into the idea that I would get letters sent out, be more on top of everything, keep up to date with everything such as chasing expenses etc. Currently by the time I sit down to do work; after a late night, breakfast and possibly the gym it is often lunchtime and then I have to dash out an hour later. Ryan says what you focus on is what improves so cultivate and build habits that take you where you want to go is a much more positive place than the negativity of giving things up to improve your life. For example in the gym don’t think that you hate your body so you have to be in the gym to lose fat but to be there to do more pressups, getting stronger etc. So  Ryan, when he gave up smoking instead of giving up, he tried to make his mission instead to build great health so juicing veg and going for longer walks. I talk of the joy of being free and louche, on set filming last week with wine glass in hand and cigarette in the other, it is fun to be free without boundaries but I do know that the good habits are the way forward. (I don’t actually smoke but my character did and having that cigaretter dangling whilst I was suitably made up as a woman in the 1950s felt very decadent!)  After many years of giving up things for Lent maybe I won’t give up anything but start something instead. Ryan says Don’t deny yourself but cultivate what you need more of to get what you want. If you want to build a great client base, rather than look at what to stop doing, maybe take a new course or look at what has got you great results. Ask what works Do more of what works that gets you the results you want. What can you add to your life and to your toolbox to cultivate what you want (For example I know if I learnt to touchtype properly it would help.) I got an iPad finally after years of wanting one but not seeing why I needed one and I was on set  filming a commercial last week. I had a scene at 10am and then not one til 6pm as there was a change of location, so I could just grab my iPad from my handbag and do lots of work, so now I can grab moments to be more productive. Ryan says that if it is not going the way you want, don‘t bea[...] Inspiration, Motivation, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/22/like-an-olympic-athlete-a-lifetime-of-training-for-one-perfect-moment/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/22/like-an-olympic-athlete-a-lifetime-of-training-for-one-perfect-moment/#respond Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:00:45 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2697 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/22/like-an-olympic-athlete-a-lifetime-of-training-for-one-perfect-moment/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/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/2013/08/30/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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Via email                  marysia@loveyourcreativity.com Facebook                  http://www.facebook.com/Loveyourcreativity LinkedIn                  LinkedIn; Marysia Trembecka Google Plus             Marysia Trembecka Fun, Marketing, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no 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/2013/04/21/just-do-it-dont-care-what-anyone-thinks-marysias-podcast-with-liz-ranken/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/21/just-do-it-dont-care-what-anyone-thinks-marysias-podcast-with-liz-ranken/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:12:07 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=326 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/21/just-do-it-dont-care-what-anyone-thinks-marysias-podcast-with-liz-ranken/feed/ 7 0:31:15 Liz Ranken is a friend of mine, but yet again when I start to delve into the backstory and processes of my successful creative friends I am always amazed by their focus and achievements but most of all, their unrelenting focus forward on creating no[...] Liz Ranken is a friend of mine, but yet again when I start to delve into the backstory and processes of my successful creative friends I am always amazed by their focus and achievements but most of all, their unrelenting focus forward on creating no matter what happens.   Liz Ranken, RSC/DV8/Shared Experience Movement Director, painter (@nationalportraitgallery), yoga queen vine.co/v/bUgFDKerVhF — Marysia Trembecka (@MarysiaT) April 19, 2013     Liz Ranken is among many things -a RSC Associate Artiste. Imagine getting a letter from the Royal Shakespeare Company saying ‘I hope you consider the RSC a good creative home for your work’ – Movement Director over 50 RSC Productions A Portrait Artist. Her painting of Michael Boyd is in the Portrait Collection of the RSC and the archive at the National Portrait Gallery, despite starting painting for the first time since school while Movement Directing at the RSC. Associate Artiste at Shared Experience Having given up the arts at school and then started taking ballet lessons while reading biology she went to become a Physical Theatre Performer and Choreographer in Award winning groundbreaking DV8 ’My Body Your Body’ & ‘Deep End’ and with Shared Experience in such shows as ‘Mill On The Floss’ Asthanga Yoga queen Some links to DV8 DV8 Deep End that Liz did DV8 Your Body My Body These are some pictures she has done of Patrick Robinson who is a very established actor. He was cast as understudy for Romeo for the RSC in 1980 as landmark casting and has had a 24 year span in ‘Casualty’. He also had great success in BBC ‘Strictly Come Dancing in December 2014 getting to the last five. The big take away from this  is “Just do it don’t care what anyone says. If it feels like a passion just do it cos you get better by doing it.  Go with repetition and try something again and again or in different ways but you learn by repetition” She shares Tips on believing in yourself & your creativity “Just do it .. be driven by the spiritual’, Write affirmations before starting your work eg “I paint to my highest level so I might serve and inspire humanity’ “ I do 25 affirmations  before i do anything.” “Whenever i don’t do the affirmations the difference is huge. it’s the ego thats stops so many of us, and sabotaging our work.” These affirmations settle the ego down and bring her higher being up into more elevated state and in the bliss of the moment “Failure… i dont read reviews.” Full Transcript Follows Hi this is Marysia at loveyourcreativity.com, this podcast interview is with Liz Ranken who is an everything, a movement director, a painter, a physical theatre practioner, a writer. Not only does she create in many ways but she’s also hugely successful in all of these areas. One of her paintings is in the National Portrait Gallery. She has worked at over fifty productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been involved in huge amounts of ground breaking theatre and dance work in the UK. She really is legendary and wonderful. She talks about all of this in this podcast and her spiritual practice, how she really gets her ego out of the way, how she has explored doing affirmations and proper physical and spiritual warm up before she starts work which has had a huge impact on her ability to create. Her big takeaway that she keeps coming back to is “just do it, don’t care what others say. If it feels like it’s a passion, do it because you’re going to get better at doing it, so do it”. Now Seth Godin in his startup school podcasts says when he wishes when he first started working as a freelancer that he would’ve asked each client at the end of each job to give him a testimonial which he could then laminate, put in a folder and build a body of work and show him new clients. Liz has an amazing testimonial.   I said to Liz that I’d like to start the show by asking if there was any real memorable moments for her that made her think she made it [...] Fun, Inspiration, Motivation, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/art-is-never-finished-only-abandoned-so-lets-release-it/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/art-is-never-finished-only-abandoned-so-lets-release-it/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:56:40 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=199 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/art-is-never-finished-only-abandoned-so-lets-release-it/feed/ 2