The How + Why You Need to be Owning It

The How + Why You Need to be Owning It

Owning It means taking responsibility for your thoughts and actions.

Owning it in the camera ready world is essential to how you show up.

My dear friend, casting director – coach – actor – documentary filmmaker, Sean De Simone, joined me on my Camera Ready & Abel podcast to go deep with practical tips as well as personal stories of owning it that led to career and life transformation.

Fake It Til You Make: Good Strategy or Set Up for Failure?

Fake It Til You Make: Good Strategy or Set Up for Failure?

I was riveted watching Shonda Rhimes‘ Netflix series, Inventing Anna about “fake German heiress” Anna Delvey. I could not get enough of Julia Garner as Anna + it brings up all sorts of questions about “faking it” which Vivian Manning-Schaffel explores in this excellent piece for Shondaland, including a quote or two from yours truly + some gems from Alan Ibbotson who’s got all the wisdom, including this one:

How To Get On TV

How To Get On TV

Some people will be wrong, and that’s okay – Lisa Kudrow on handling rejection

EVERYBODY asks me how to get on TV. Elizabeth Wagmeister – who didn’t have an agent or a reel when I cast her on Page Six TV – provideS the playbook you’ve been looking for in this episode of my podcast, Camera Ready & Abel (brought to you be the word RESILIENT.)