Michelle Merring, actress and Castability user, shares with us how she went from resenting self tape requests, getting so in her head that she struggled to even turn them in, to finding true confidence and joy in front of the camera. Through consistent self tape practice, she details exactly how she shifted her mindset and fell in love with self tapes, attracting more auditions and callbacks along the way. Michelle is the winner of our Self Tape May challenge last year after she completed over 16+ tapes on the app during Audrey Helps Actor's Self Tape May challenge. Check out her open scenes in the winners gallery in the Castability App to see her creativity in action.
-Creativity in Self Taping and Finding Joy in the Process
-Building Confidence Through Practice
-Shift in Mindset: Auditioning as an Art
-Role of Community in Self Taping
-Overcoming Ego and Embracing Feedback
-The Importance of Vulnerability and Learning
-Reframing Rejection and Mistakes
-Setting Intentions and Goals
-Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivations
Links:
Winners Gallery in-app
Audrey Helps Actors Self Tape May
Four Agreements book
Extrinsic vs Intrinsic motivations
Self Compassion by Kristin Neff
Michelle's website
Michelle's IMDB
Joe Towne is a Los Angeles based performer, award-winning writer, director, and teacher. He is also the CEO of The Performer's Mindset and the creator/host of The Better Podcast. For 20 years, he's coached business professionals, athletes, and actors – some of whom are selling that product you just bought or starring in that movie you Netflixed last night. As an actor, Joe has worked with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Hillary Swank, Rebel Wilson, and he most recently starred as the lead in The Art of Christmas. Today, he joins the Castability Podcast to talk about how to understand your data, the ways we can avoid burnout, and how we can overcome perfectionism to allow ourselves to show up as the artists we are.
— The Four Mindsets
— Athletes and Actors
— Perfectionism
— Toxic Habits of Creatives
— Deliberate Practice
— Casting Director Feedback + Constructive Criticism
— Regulating Emotions During Auditions
— The Amygdala Flight-Fright Response
— Remembering Our "Why"
Email us for more information on coaching with Joe: assist@theperformersmindset.com
Episode Resources:
• Listen to Joe's episode with Audrey Moore, "Passion as Fuel"
• The Performer's Mindset Instagram
• Brené Brown's Podcast Interview on Burnout
• "Burnout" by Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
• "Peak Performance" by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
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As Castability gears up for the next Show Up Challenge starting January 15th 2024, we hear from members who completed the challenge last year and they share how they transformed as actors during the process. Easier time picking takes, faster memorization, and so much more. Amanda Lenker Doyle answers important Q and A's on how to stand out (in a good way!) and the rarely discussed process of casting before they ever call in actors. Welcome to season two of Castability, the podcast!
— This Season's Theme
— How to Stand out
— Dacre Montgomery's Audition Tape
— What does Casting do before they call in actors
— Does it matter if you are not local to NY and LA anymore?
— What made Tracee Ellis Ross shine during her audition fro Black-ish
— How members improved their craft from the Show Up Challenge
— How to participate in this year's challenge