Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
Speaker 1: TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to
Speaker 1: a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Speaker 1: Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez.
Speaker 1: I auditioned every rapper from Biggie Smalls to Tupac, and
Speaker 1: I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
Speaker 1: transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons, to name a few. I
Speaker 1: also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel
Speaker 1: I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
Speaker 1: acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
Speaker 1: that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
Speaker 1: get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
Speaker 1: casting director that is powerful.
Speaker 2: And now it's time for meditation of the day.
Speaker 1: The heart is wiser than the intellect Joshua Gilbert Holland.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that I wanted to tell
Speaker 1: you guys, is that we need to trust ourselves more.
Speaker 1: We need to trust our own opinion based before we
Speaker 1: trust other people's opinion.
Speaker 2: We will cross the.
Speaker 1: Street on a green light, and we will trust that
Speaker 1: every single driver behind that vehicle, which can be a weapon.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we will trust that they will stop and allow
Speaker 1: us to cross the street, but we won't trust our
Speaker 1: instincts on a move that we should make for ourselves.
Speaker 1: The only opinion that matters in your life is the
Speaker 1: opinion that you have of yourself. Your opinion becomes the
Speaker 1: foundation of every other belief, every other anything that you
Speaker 1: are building your character from comes from that foundation. Let
Speaker 1: that foundation be trusting of yourself. When you learn to
Speaker 1: trust yourself, you learn the freedom in which you have. Today,
Speaker 1: I will embrace the truth that we are here to
Speaker 1: choose and to have choices that are for the betterment
Speaker 1: of me. Before we get started, I'd like to remind
Speaker 1: everyone to look out for my new show, Inside the
Speaker 1: Black Box. I'll be co hosting with the great Joe Morton.
Speaker 1: We'll be on Crackle Network real soon. I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore,
Speaker 1: I am so excited about our guests today. He is,
Speaker 1: and I hope he knows this because I know so
Speaker 1: many actors that it's really challenging for me to like
Speaker 1: communicate to.
Speaker 2: Them, you know, all the time.
Speaker 1: However, I hope he knows that he's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite actors and I've had a pleasure of watching his
Speaker 1: journey and I want to.
Speaker 2: Continue on this series so to.
Speaker 1: Speak, that we've been on since last week about talking
Speaker 1: about the journey of an actor. And this is an actor,
Speaker 1: a working actor, a passionate actor, a dedicated actor, and
Speaker 1: I want to talk about his resilience and persistence because
Speaker 1: he has gotten the bulk of his work on his own.
Speaker 2: So there are ways out there.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, stop complaining, stop judging, and get your
Speaker 1: treasure chest together, because he's about to drop some diamonds, emeralds, pearls,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. I want to stand up for actor, author, producer,
Speaker 1: so many other faiths.
Speaker 2: Mister jamel Hower, thank you, thank.
Speaker 3: You, thank you, and man, it's such an honor to
Speaker 3: be on the show, and I appreciate you bringing beyond
Speaker 3: and the connection is always magnetic, you know, so amazing,
Speaker 3: so amazing. I appreciate you so much. Bill.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, you guys, I had the pleasure of talking to him,
Speaker 1: which I thought. I was like, oh, I'll call him.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going to talk for a minute. I
Speaker 1: did not want to get off phard with him. I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, let me save some of this for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, like, that's how I know that. I
Speaker 1: you know, I have a connection with actors because I'm
Speaker 1: genuinely invested so many things, so many magnificent credits that
Speaker 1: you have. I want to start at the beginning, and
Speaker 1: I ask you, guys this question, did acting choose you
Speaker 1: or did you choose acting?
Speaker 3: I'm going I'm gonna say it chose me. I started
Speaker 3: off in music where I was an artist and I
Speaker 3: didn't really know the business, so I was, you know,
Speaker 3: they were kind of taking advantage of me. At the time,
Speaker 3: I had got a record deal, uh with Warner and
Speaker 3: I didn't even know. They took the money and I
Speaker 3: didn't even know, and so they had Meanwhile, I was
Speaker 3: still struggling out, you know, I was, I wasn't making
Speaker 3: no money. And I met a guy when I was
Speaker 3: opening up for Fat Joe the rapper on the show.
Speaker 3: I met a guy backstage that said, hey, you know,
Speaker 3: you gotta you know. We talked for a while and
Speaker 3: he was like, you got a good look and you
Speaker 3: got some good character, man, you should try to give
Speaker 3: the acting thing a shot. And I was like, I
Speaker 3: never thought about that, you know. And then one day
Speaker 3: I was in the city and I seen an open
Speaker 3: audition back in the day when they.
Speaker 2: Still who's but we were still alive.
Speaker 3: Right, you know, everything was live and you can get
Speaker 3: people faced, and you know, man, it was an open
Speaker 3: audition for a Burger King commercial. Uh huh. And I
Speaker 3: just said, let me give this a shot. You know.
Speaker 3: The guy put the thing in my ears. I was like,
Speaker 3: let me, let me try this. And I walked in
Speaker 3: there and when I walked out, they was like, hey,
Speaker 3: come back in here, come back in there. You booked it.
Speaker 3: They want to they want to tell I was like, what,
Speaker 3: And I booked it. And that's how it chose end
Speaker 3: up choosing me.
Speaker 1: You know, working with musical artists, I always feel that
Speaker 1: it's a natural transition inside of you guys, because you
Speaker 1: tell a story through song, you know, and and the
Speaker 1: advantage correct me if I'm wrong But the advantage that
Speaker 1: I feel like you have as a musical artist compared
Speaker 1: to someone who is is starting down the business aspiring
Speaker 1: is that you and even working actors, you hear the music.
Speaker 2: In the words.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So that to me, that's on a connection.
Speaker 1: That's something that has to be taught right, especially in comedy,
Speaker 1: because comedy.
Speaker 2: Is about rhythm and boom and rhythm boom.
Speaker 1: Right, so there's a certain pacing and then dramatic. So
Speaker 1: I think that the fact that you have that ability
Speaker 1: takes it to me in a different level because when
Speaker 1: you approach words, you know how things are supposed to
Speaker 1: sound and the rhythm, so it's more of an understanding
Speaker 1: for you when you and.
Speaker 2: You connect to both. Come on, that's why you got
Speaker 2: a resume.
Speaker 4: Everybody go to.
Speaker 2: IMDb dot com right now, That's.
Speaker 3: Why you got a rhythm And it's you know, it's
Speaker 3: it's multidimensional, you know, because you're looking from my you know,
Speaker 3: from my background with the music. It does give you
Speaker 3: an extra tool because you're looking at I come, take
Speaker 3: a sentence and my imagination create a whole song off
Speaker 3: of a city from a movie. Ye, So it gives
Speaker 3: you a different dimension to it. And then there's the
Speaker 3: other dimension of it, Like you said, the sound frequency,
Speaker 3: house things sound and it's important, and those two things
Speaker 3: are actually when I got into science, I've realized that
Speaker 3: those two things are actually what the universe is made.
Speaker 3: That's it. It's the whole universe is frequency, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's important. And I'm learning how to piece those
Speaker 3: things together. Yeah, it's shaped my whole career for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why, like to me as a captain director,
Speaker 1: that's why your work stands out. You know, there was
Speaker 1: a point in everybody's career when you would say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody can say, oh, Jaelle, you remind me
Speaker 1: of such and such a actor, right It's like, well,
Speaker 1: but I'm Jamel Howard right now, It's like people say,
Speaker 1: you remind me of Jamel Howard, you know what I mean. So,
Speaker 1: but you have crafted that uniqueness of your own. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, like, from the day on I
Speaker 1: met you, knew of you. I was like leading man,
Speaker 1: leading man, leading man.
Speaker 2: But dot dot dot mystery. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I trust you one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Right off the bag, Like you got you've got some
Speaker 3: other things to add.
Speaker 1: To I'm gonna saying, which is great because that's engaging
Speaker 1: to watch those characters, you know what. It's just I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know what I think that like, let's talk
Speaker 1: about that first project for you, because this I love
Speaker 1: when you guys have that moment where you knew, you know,
Speaker 1: the perform to this safe.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. That moment came later in the career.
Speaker 3: That was more like the purge for me. I believe
Speaker 3: it was like, uh, I feel like I'm comfortable and
Speaker 3: you know, and then I was pressed with a challenge
Speaker 3: because the director was changing up things. You know, he
Speaker 3: was changing things up quick, like listen, switching that up.
Speaker 3: You gotta be this is gonna be this. The script
Speaker 3: is gonna be this, and we're going to go to
Speaker 3: blocking in a few hours. I'm like, you know, and
Speaker 3: get to blocking and they like, you know, let's read over.
Speaker 3: We were going over it, and then I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: I don't remember it, so I'm still on paper and
Speaker 3: the director graw He's like, hey, listen, Universal is right
Speaker 3: here and Blumhouses right here, and you should get this
Speaker 3: together right now. He said, challenge, and I accepted the challenge.
Speaker 3: I was like you, when when you say action, don't
Speaker 3: worry about it right right now. But when you say action,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it. And when we got to that
Speaker 3: scene and that was the scene where the ice cream
Speaker 3: truck blew up, and then he called me, yo, Zoe,
Speaker 3: we need you over here. And I went over there
Speaker 3: and I'm looking at the dead bodies and I'm giving
Speaker 3: him all the four one one on the bodies that
Speaker 3: it flowed so effortlessly because I start to look at
Speaker 3: and absorbed the actual character and I am his right
Speaker 3: hand man. I'm the knowledge guy. I'm the guy that
Speaker 3: knows who these gang guys are. I'm the guy, and
Speaker 3: I just accepted it, you know, like they need me
Speaker 3: right And that part changed my you know, changed my
Speaker 3: view of my perception of acting in a hole because
Speaker 3: just just accepting that I belong here, you know, it's
Speaker 3: that's when you arrive. It's like I belong to the
Speaker 3: next to this guy, and this guy now like I'm here,
Speaker 3: you know. So that was the big moment for me.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, because I know I'm talking
Speaker 1: to an actor, and when I say that, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to someone who understands the work of an actor. So
Speaker 1: now you live in this world episodic where you have
Speaker 1: at least two takes.
Speaker 2: Maybe and film.
Speaker 1: I'm working with one of my clients on a film
Speaker 1: in Atlanta right now. It's a lifetime movie, and I
Speaker 1: feel so challenged because I prep her for the work.
Speaker 1: We do the work, but everything is has to be
Speaker 1: fit in fifteen days. Fifteen days A key took film
Speaker 1: and I come from just another girl on irt. We
Speaker 1: had no money. We filmed however long it took on
Speaker 1: the weeknd, that's how long it took us to shoot
Speaker 1: the film. But the rich film that I ever worked
Speaker 1: on was at least four.
Speaker 3: Weeks, right, right, No, they crunching them now they're condensing
Speaker 3: it and it's yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a lot
Speaker 3: of pressure for the actors. I can't I can't lie
Speaker 3: about that. It definitely is a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: So how do you deal with that pressure? Because this
Speaker 1: is what I imagine. I imagine the pressure is memorization. I
Speaker 1: imagine the pressure is you don't have time to develop.
Speaker 2: These characters to the extent that you may.
Speaker 1: So when you get that white copy and that contract
Speaker 1: is signed and that check clears.
Speaker 2: You got to start working.
Speaker 3: It's work gone, it's go time. So this is what
Speaker 3: I usually do. And I and I'm a pest to
Speaker 3: them after they they you want me, okay, now I'm
Speaker 3: a past send it before I even get the contracts,
Speaker 3: before I get to anything, I already started to work
Speaker 3: because I tell them send me the script. And when
Speaker 3: they send me the script, and sometimes they you know,
Speaker 3: they're like, okay, but we just waiting on it, and
Speaker 3: I'll hit them tomorrow. Hey I didn't get that script.
Speaker 3: You didn't email that. We're just trying to get it together.
Speaker 3: We got to last. Okay, send me what you got.
Speaker 3: Let me see something that my character did, you know,
Speaker 3: and get understanding of who the character is. And I
Speaker 3: start putting in the work before they get to any
Speaker 3: of the business and that for that reason, they crunching everything.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I don't want to be the one
Speaker 3: off guard and you you know, wasting money because of
Speaker 3: me not being prepared. I don't want to be prepared.
Speaker 3: Send me everything right now, you know. So I learned
Speaker 3: that you can't never never go wrong with asking, you know.
Speaker 3: So you got to ask, be on top of the things, man,
Speaker 3: and That's how I kind of balanced it out. Is
Speaker 3: just prematurely asking for everything. I want everything now, can
Speaker 3: you you gotta script Bible this that Just send me
Speaker 3: anything you got and it helped a lot. It helped
Speaker 3: a lot, But I don't think it's going to change
Speaker 3: because they want to be able to do it faster
Speaker 3: and faster and faster r con then so you know,
Speaker 3: we got to just get stronger and you know, and buildings.
Speaker 2: But how do you feel like as an actor?
Speaker 3: One?
Speaker 1: Can you really emphasize because I know you know the
Speaker 1: training aspect of it, because you're speaking about it now,
Speaker 1: And how does it make you feel as an actor?
Speaker 2: Because I believe this is the new norm.
Speaker 1: I believe that the best kept secret in terms of
Speaker 1: independent film was that we could shoot the film Orf to.
Speaker 2: Field with eight days on the folk and made six
Speaker 2: hundred billion off of it. The studios know now. So
Speaker 2: I'm just saying this is going to be your norm.
Speaker 2: Fifteen to twenty one day.
Speaker 3: Shoots done, done and a lot of some of the work.
Speaker 3: You know, well, what I did in I shot a
Speaker 3: movie call I Got Problems actually on BT that I
Speaker 3: wrote and as well, yeah, thank you, and I played
Speaker 3: the you know I played this second Lea and what
Speaker 3: I did and we can that was one of those
Speaker 3: crunch you know. But what I did was I just first,
Speaker 3: like I said, I got all versions of the script
Speaker 3: and me being one of the writers that helped a
Speaker 3: lot because I can. But you know, even after turning
Speaker 3: everything over, it's like, send me back any you know
Speaker 3: edits or anything immediately. And then it's one thing that
Speaker 3: people got to really understand. It's a sacrifice. There's something
Speaker 3: you're going to have to sacrifice. And Kanye said in
Speaker 3: the line he said in the song he said, he said,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know what I like more getting
Speaker 3: paid or getting laid. I know when I'm getting one,
Speaker 3: the other's getting away. It's like something is going to
Speaker 3: have to suffer for you to make this, you know,
Speaker 3: develop this character the way you want and be on
Speaker 3: top of the game so that when the time crunch,
Speaker 3: you are prepared. So I might can't talk to my
Speaker 3: mother like she's on my ear every you know, my
Speaker 3: on these few days, you're gonna have to just chill.
Speaker 3: I can't talk to my brother and they like, hell,
Speaker 3: how do you do this? How you do that? You're
Speaker 3: gonna have to figure that out for a minute. I
Speaker 3: got to put this time in. I need you to
Speaker 3: just chill, and I go to my space, and my
Speaker 3: space and my pieces is a big, big factor in
Speaker 3: everything I'm doing. And I go to my space, I relax,
Speaker 3: I breathe, I do a lot of meditation, and it
Speaker 3: allows me to absorb everything and shut out everything else
Speaker 3: for a minute, you know. And it's super important to
Speaker 3: be able to do that because we are used to
Speaker 3: responding so much to life and things and questions and
Speaker 3: phone and this and TV and responding, and it's a
Speaker 3: disrupt it's an interruption, you know. So when you shut
Speaker 3: down some of those things and sacrifice a few of
Speaker 3: those things. Even social media, like I shut it down,
Speaker 3: like you know, when it's work time. I'm like, they like,
Speaker 3: you don't even post like that. And a PR was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know about putting you up. You don't really
Speaker 3: post a lot. I'm like, I'm working, I'm not you know,
Speaker 3: I have to focus, you know, And so you got
Speaker 3: to sacrifice a few of those things. On top of
Speaker 3: requesting everything early and getting on top of things and
Speaker 3: having everything before you know, everything gets really hits the
Speaker 3: crunch time and then sacrificing a few of those things.
Speaker 3: That's usually the formula for success.
Speaker 2: For that, I agree.
Speaker 1: And I want to say in terms of you being
Speaker 1: a screenwriter author, I so appreciate love the fact that
Speaker 1: you took your career in your own hands and made
Speaker 1: a decision to create. Because I was speaking to a
Speaker 1: producer on Friday and he said, let me tell you something, Tracy,
Speaker 1: if your students are not creating their own content, they
Speaker 1: are not in the game at all. And so I
Speaker 1: was like, really, he was like, this is where we
Speaker 1: are at and so and to be able to congratulations as.
Speaker 2: Well sell it, get distribution. I mean, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: this is not an easy task.
Speaker 1: And I can speak from I told you inside the
Speaker 1: Black Box eighteen years, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and that one year did I say, you know that.
Speaker 1: I'm a give up never never, no no, because.
Speaker 2: You see the vision.
Speaker 1: And now when you started to say meditation turning off
Speaker 1: the noise, we speak the same language because that's like
Speaker 1: me talking right now. So and I appreciate love too
Speaker 1: that and that's why actors is so important. I always say, Jamel,
Speaker 1: we give energy to everybody else and then we get
Speaker 1: home too tired. To exercise, too tired to do our
Speaker 1: skincare rougene. No, I'm not doing that. I'm not giving
Speaker 1: you all of me, you know, I'm just not going
Speaker 1: to do that. So when you are creating as an author,
Speaker 1: because I know a lot of writers in my class
Speaker 1: or people we want to start, what type of advice
Speaker 1: can you give actors about creating their own content?
Speaker 2: Writing their own content?
Speaker 3: I would say it's two different sides of that. One
Speaker 3: is the authenticity. You know, it always gets people to
Speaker 3: bite and don't be scared to just step out and
Speaker 3: do your own thing, like this is what I want
Speaker 3: to write, this is the thing I like to write,
Speaker 3: and do that thing because that's usually going to be
Speaker 3: your best work. You know. Everybody is trying to write
Speaker 3: and fit in the box of something. Instead of that,
Speaker 3: just do what was on the heart first. This is
Speaker 3: me and I'm writing this and I love to write
Speaker 3: like this, and this is the thing I want to write.
Speaker 3: And then you that's the story, you know, Yes, put
Speaker 3: that story together and then maybe that some people want
Speaker 3: to help mold it and sharpen it a little bit. Hey,
Speaker 3: you could add this to it and make it, you know,
Speaker 3: and then it turns it into something that everybody can
Speaker 3: relate to. But you start with the thing that you love,
Speaker 3: you know, and make that make that the story. So right,
Speaker 3: write what you love, you know. That's that's my biggest advice.
Speaker 3: This the story that got picked up on BT was
Speaker 3: about a scientist that I wrote was about a scientist
Speaker 3: who lived in the hood and he was going to
Speaker 3: NASA and his friend ended up killing somebody and he
Speaker 3: got they's trying to pin it on him, and he's
Speaker 3: running around the hood, you know, over the course of
Speaker 3: a weekend, trying to clear his name. But the brother
Speaker 3: of the gangster that that tried to pen it on
Speaker 3: him was a cop, and he's like, yo, you better
Speaker 3: telling his brother we got to pen it on his
Speaker 3: kid because they're gonna figure out as you So he's
Speaker 3: running from the police and he's running from the gangster
Speaker 3: and he's the scientist. So there's different dimensions of my life,
Speaker 3: not the running and all of that. But I love science,
Speaker 3: so it's a lot of science references in there. The
Speaker 3: kid lived with his grandmother who adopted him. I'm adopted child.
Speaker 3: My mother was incarcerated, yeah, and enforced to care you know.
Speaker 3: So that's a part of me, you know, so different
Speaker 3: nuggets in there is a part of me. I never
Speaker 3: was like everybody when they say you're a product you
Speaker 3: know the environment. I'll never believe that because my environment
Speaker 3: was what I just wrote about, and I was designed.
Speaker 3: You know, dude, need to get out of that, you know.
Speaker 3: So a lot of them I would say, just write
Speaker 3: what you love, man, And the next thing I'm writing,
Speaker 3: there's some extra terrestrial you know, some sci fi I'm
Speaker 3: in that, you know.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 3: I love. I love that. That's my thing. So I
Speaker 3: gotta I gotta send you this this link.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, Javelle, this is how much of
Speaker 1: it to I mean aliens. Right when I was married,
Speaker 1: I used to I used to pick our vacation spots
Speaker 1: based on hot spots. It wasn't until we were in
Speaker 1: Arizota that my husband was like, what is it?
Speaker 2: And then he real.
Speaker 3: This is where they've seen that uf old that job
Speaker 3: over there? Yeah, you got me over here. I know
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: So I.
Speaker 1: Love the range. Your range is fierce. I love the range.
Speaker 3: Man. You're going to.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you something too. But I definitely, well,
Speaker 1: you know what this is what I believe. I believe
Speaker 1: that we reconnect for a reason, and like when you know,
Speaker 1: because I'm transitioning, I want to direct full time for
Speaker 1: the rest of my life and play with all my friends.
Speaker 2: That's my goal because a lot of friends and a
Speaker 2: lot of talent friends and just play.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's not I you know, and I feel like for
Speaker 1: a long time I've silenced that side of me because
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I want to direct, you know, and play.
Speaker 2: But now it's in more than ever.
Speaker 1: The urge is like, yeah, we're doing this because you
Speaker 1: have been doing this, so we're doing this. So I
Speaker 1: was directing in the when we did live casting, I
Speaker 1: was directing in there.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it because I wasn't conscious.
Speaker 1: I was just like I would do things with my assistants,
Speaker 1: say listen because you know we have VHS.
Speaker 2: Back then, I would say, do me a favor, stop.
Speaker 1: Rewind record over that, janew do it again. This is
Speaker 1: what they're looking for, man, and you got it, but listen,
Speaker 1: you know. So I want to throw out some of
Speaker 1: your credits here before because I feel like Andy's going
Speaker 1: to be punching that in.
Speaker 3: The chat too.
Speaker 2: Okay, So law.
Speaker 1: And Order, which is a dynamic franchise. A dynamic franchise.
Speaker 1: I've you know, I worked on the other side of
Speaker 1: New York Undercover and so so I think that's so dynamic,
Speaker 1: Like when you do New York shows and you're a
Speaker 1: New York actors, so to speak, like, I just think
Speaker 1: that's so fierce that you're a part of that branchise.
Speaker 1: But actors, I want you to listen to these credits here.
Speaker 1: He also produced by Robert de Niro, which I love,
Speaker 1: Like NYC twenty two, can you tell them what that
Speaker 1: was and how it was working with Robert.
Speaker 2: I love Robert de Niro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's amazing man, And that was one of that
Speaker 3: was in the beginning of my career when I was
Speaker 3: getting a lot of just three four line punches, and
Speaker 3: I met him and he just was amazing and just
Speaker 3: giving me a little bit of game and the show
Speaker 3: he basically got took. You know, it didn't last that long,
Speaker 3: right I know, yeah, really yeah, yeah, so, but he
Speaker 3: was amazing man, and that was a short lived thing.
Speaker 3: I think that, you know, the way the universe aligns people,
Speaker 3: I think it was meant for me to get a
Speaker 3: couple of things that he told me, And yeah, which
Speaker 3: you know, just how to how to stay on site. Uh,
Speaker 3: stay in sight of the flow of life is what
Speaker 3: I call it. It's that rhythm, you know, how to
Speaker 3: stay in that line, you know, And that's all I really,
Speaker 3: I don't think it was more about the role for
Speaker 3: that particular project. It was more about getting that that nugget,
Speaker 3: you know. But it was dope, man. It was amazing
Speaker 3: being on set with one of the big heavy ratings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 1: Greatest, and you guys, he had reoccurring roles. One of
Speaker 1: my favorites. And I'm not a Marvel person, but Luke
Speaker 1: Cage was one of my favorite shows. And it was
Speaker 1: just so random because like I just don't.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that's when I was a big I
Speaker 3: was such a big Marvel fan before that, and that
Speaker 3: that particular show change change me. Uh, because I was
Speaker 3: in the beginning of my career. I was looking at
Speaker 3: film and you know, remember I'm transitioning from music, but
Speaker 3: I was still in the street. I was still like,
Speaker 3: it's a hustle to me, and I'm thinking, do this
Speaker 3: get my money? Do this get my money? But when
Speaker 3: I was on set, when I got booked for that,
Speaker 3: and I was in my trailer and I got the
Speaker 3: producers of Marvel and Netflix directors and then they outside
Speaker 3: like is Jamail ready? It is Jamail ready. I'm listening
Speaker 3: like wow, Like that's it was. It was such an
Speaker 3: awakening for me. That was like producers of Marvel is like,
Speaker 3: it is Jamail ready. And this is something I was
Speaker 3: a kid and I grew up on and you know,
Speaker 3: so at that point I stopped looking at it as
Speaker 3: a hustle and I was like, I really want to
Speaker 3: be great in this. I want this feeling, you know,
Speaker 3: to last. And it changed my career. After that, I was,
Speaker 3: you know, I was settled in ye this. I want
Speaker 3: to be a good character. I want to be a
Speaker 3: good actor. I want to you know, I was settled
Speaker 3: in my decision of wanting to do that and not
Speaker 3: even thinking about the money. You know, I just let go,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know I wanted to interject to audience.
Speaker 1: Another thing about musical artists and my experience of helping
Speaker 1: to transition them into a film and TV, is that
Speaker 1: you're also very conscious of your body. You know, you
Speaker 1: you you unconsciously know everything about the movement of your
Speaker 1: body as an artist when you're performing, So when you
Speaker 1: transition into an actor, that's something that you don't have
Speaker 1: to be concerned about as long as you have which
Speaker 1: is something that you learn. The inner voice has to
Speaker 1: be active within your character like in real life.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna I don't have.
Speaker 1: To if I'm thinking, oh, she makes me mad, I
Speaker 1: don't have to say to myself, Tracy, holds your hands
Speaker 1: up and be mad.
Speaker 2: It's just automatically going to happen.
Speaker 1: Right, So does that work for you in terms of movement?
Speaker 3: Yes, And I think that I never identified it. It's
Speaker 3: just something that's just natural. But now that you may
Speaker 3: be aware of that, I'm gonna be I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 3: use that and put a big beam on that, because yeah,
Speaker 3: you just it's just something that is automatic. You connect
Speaker 3: with it. It's a it's a rhythm and it's a dance,
Speaker 3: you know, and and you looking at everything, is this rhythm?
Speaker 3: Is this dance? And you just flowing in between it,
Speaker 3: and it's just naturally you you do the step, you know,
Speaker 3: and the person makes the step out you stuck with them,
Speaker 3: and you know you used to just moving like that,
Speaker 3: and and that's a perfect way. I'm glad you made
Speaker 3: me aware of that from focusing you know that right there? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's exactly describe it. No, No, for sure.
Speaker 1: It gets brilliant because you know, when you go to
Speaker 1: acting school for the first time, I'm talking about acting
Speaker 1: one on one, the first thing they say is, you know,
Speaker 1: this is your tool, this is your body is And
Speaker 1: so what happens in my experience is that people.
Speaker 2: Disconnect the body from themselves.
Speaker 1: So it's things are awkward, standing is awkward, all of this.
Speaker 2: And it's like you got it.
Speaker 1: Like you said, it's a rhythm and a vibration because
Speaker 1: it's not just your energy. Really quickly, I coached someone
Speaker 1: in Color Purple Oprah One Tree's production, and one of
Speaker 1: the actors dropped one of the celebrity, but one of
Speaker 1: the actors dropped the line which could have jolted by client. However,
Speaker 1: being vibrationally connected with the ensemble, she just said something
Speaker 1: that jarred the other actor to come back and get
Speaker 1: back in that rhythm.
Speaker 2: But if you and he's a singer too, she's a thing.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it was just natural. It just flowed as
Speaker 1: opposed to panicking or you.
Speaker 2: Know how.
Speaker 3: We used to have mic cutting off in the and
Speaker 3: put the mic down. Yeah, kick the B box yo check.
Speaker 3: You know, we just go with the thing, you know.
Speaker 2: And you've been on the stage where you've been like
Speaker 2: this and a.
Speaker 3: Whole stupid that is.
Speaker 2: So I don't know how. I don't know how, y'all.
Speaker 1: I've been really blessed with some of my clients, specifically Buster.
Speaker 1: I've been a lot of his shows, and to be
Speaker 1: backstage and to watch the audience, it is mesmeriting that,
Speaker 1: you guys, from ten thousand people to two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to let you know what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: I'm going to let you give your last words after
Speaker 1: class in session because I want because you'll also see
Speaker 1: the actors as well.
Speaker 2: And be able to get feedback.
Speaker 1: But we're going to go into I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: Elsa Lapin on now, and Elsa's going to introduce the
Speaker 1: actors and they're going to ask you a question.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was so refreshing, Thank you, Jamel. That was wonderful.
Speaker 4: So today, absolutely today we have two of our spirited actors.
Speaker 4: We have Miss Leahmitria Starks. Welcome Leamitria, you can come
Speaker 4: on camera.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we have.
Speaker 3: Mister Jamal Began.
Speaker 2: These are my favorite too.
Speaker 4: And we also have mister Muhammad Williams. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Nice to meet you, brother.
Speaker 5: Nice, nice to meet you brother, much appreciated man.
Speaker 3: Likewise likewise.
Speaker 4: So Leah Mitri and your first what's your question?
Speaker 7: So my question is, with you all having the shorter
Speaker 7: filming times, what is your memorization process that could help
Speaker 7: other actors when they have to memorize lines quickly.
Speaker 3: That's a great question, and that's something that I teach
Speaker 3: a couple of a couple of people under me. What
Speaker 3: I do is I take my phone the recorder or
Speaker 3: you know, you got your voice recorder, and I record.
Speaker 3: I read the script and I press record, and I
Speaker 3: read everybody's lines and read minds in my head. So
Speaker 3: I'm reading with myself and I leave out my lines,
Speaker 3: and then I go back and press play, and I'm
Speaker 3: able to everybody's lines. Is there and they saying they
Speaker 3: part because it's all me. But then I'm saying my
Speaker 3: part out loud. That triggers the brain to lock it
Speaker 3: in faster. It's it's it's almost like listening to a song,
Speaker 3: and you're going to learn a song, and just like
Speaker 3: teaching kids, they learned you know, math and stuff through
Speaker 3: songs faster than a teacher teaching normally. So you want
Speaker 3: to put it in a rhythm like that, that's that's
Speaker 3: like putting it in the you know, in rhythm. It
Speaker 3: helps a lot and you'll you'll remember it a lot quicker.
Speaker 3: I can remember you know, a few pages in like
Speaker 3: an hour or so, you know, and it's like boom
Speaker 3: boom boom, I get it, you know, and bigger scripts.
Speaker 3: Of course, it'll take you a day or two, but
Speaker 3: you'll get it faster, a lot faster.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You're welcome.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 5: That was that was that was huge.
Speaker 3: That's great of the process, you know. And I wanted
Speaker 3: to really focus on figuring that thing out because it
Speaker 3: takes a lot of pressure off you once you know
Speaker 3: the words. That's the actor is one of our biggest
Speaker 3: fears is forgetting the words, you know, and that I
Speaker 3: wanted to take the pressure off. So I had to
Speaker 3: figure out a system that can can lock it in faster.
Speaker 3: And that's been working for me for years. That that
Speaker 3: one little system right there does it.
Speaker 4: That's awesome, Thank you. So Mohammed, what is your question?
Speaker 5: My question is more so on the on the writing piece.
Speaker 5: What is your process When you have an idea or
Speaker 5: something that's formulating in your head and you're like, you
Speaker 5: know what, I need to get this down? What is
Speaker 5: your process? Do you just do a couple of bullet
Speaker 5: points and then you developed from it or do you
Speaker 5: just go directly into it and just start writing.
Speaker 3: So I'm a right brain person. I'm more Einstein than anything.
Speaker 3: So Einstein said your imagination will take you further than knowledge.
Speaker 3: So what he meant by that was that long as
Speaker 3: you can imagine something, you can you can bring it
Speaker 3: into existence. And there are things that imagine that exists
Speaker 3: in another dimension already and you think you don't. It's
Speaker 3: not here, it's not in front of you, but it's
Speaker 3: in another dimension for sure. So with that being said,
Speaker 3: I like visual So as soon as I think of something,
Speaker 3: I thought that this alien movie. The first thing I
Speaker 3: did was, let me look for a name that hit
Speaker 3: that that feels, you know, heavy, And I find the
Speaker 3: name and then I find pictures. That's that's the most
Speaker 3: important thing in my righting process. I look for the
Speaker 3: pictures first, I don't write one word down. It's pictures.
Speaker 3: I find a picture. Okay, there's gonna be a fight
Speaker 3: with two aliens. I give me a picture of some
Speaker 3: deep alien fighting or something going on. I put that
Speaker 3: on my on my word, you know, make a word.
Speaker 3: She put that on there. Then I bring Okay, the
Speaker 3: guy looks crazy. He's at the top of the mountain,
Speaker 3: or he's on the top of a building and he's
Speaker 3: looking down at it. I'm picturing scenes, and I'm bringing
Speaker 3: his pictures for the scenes, and then I take that
Speaker 3: and then I start writing. I use pictures first to
Speaker 3: get me in the vision of the movie or the
Speaker 3: show or whatever. And once it puts me in the
Speaker 3: mood and the energy of it, then I get words.
Speaker 3: They just come like, okay, I could see it starts
Speaker 3: off with this same guy that I got the picture of.
Speaker 3: He's walking and it might be some dirty, dirty warehouse
Speaker 3: and it's a rat just crossed his legs and he's
Speaker 3: looking down and he'd be you know, it comes to you.
Speaker 3: After you get these visuals images, you'll start to you know,
Speaker 3: get the get the process that's going faster because your
Speaker 3: imagination triggers it and it's just start pouring, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's the getting started, you know, that's the main thing.
Speaker 3: Once you get that first thing down, it's like a
Speaker 3: all right, I'm good, you know, broke the yolk. I'm good,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, I appreciate.
Speaker 3: That absolutely, absolutely, absolut thank you, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thank you.
Speaker 1: Also, thank you Leomitria and Mohammed. So you're going to
Speaker 1: see them in a few seconds. So Jamel is going
Speaker 1: to stay with us. You guys are so blessed. I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful to have your presence here and hear all
Speaker 1: the things.
Speaker 2: This is wonderful. You are really really touching a lot
Speaker 2: of people.
Speaker 1: When we come back to the Spirited Actor Podcast with
Speaker 1: me Tracy Moore, we're going to do class and session
Speaker 1: and we're going to get some more nuggets from Jamel Power.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore,
Speaker 1: and you are still blessed. We have actor author extraordinaire
Speaker 1: Jamel Howard.
Speaker 2: Is still with us.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, I see y'all standing up and clapping
Speaker 1: as you should.
Speaker 2: Because he left. He gave y'all from stuff, okay, and we're.
Speaker 1: Going to extend another invitation to him because he's a
Speaker 1: wealth of knowledge.
Speaker 2: Try y'all.
Speaker 1: So now we're gonna have class and session where we
Speaker 1: bring on the actors spirit actor alumni and they are
Speaker 1: going to perform a scene for Jamel and then he's
Speaker 1: going to come back and give us some real good nuggets,
Speaker 1: some more you guys.
Speaker 2: So, Elsea's going to come.
Speaker 1: On and she's going to introduce the actors and I'll
Speaker 1: pH be the narrative for the scene.
Speaker 4: Yes, so today's less and session, we are welcoming back,
Speaker 4: Miss Leahmitria starts Welcome back, Lea Mitia, thank you for
Speaker 4: having me, And mister Muhammed Williams, Welcome back, Mohammed.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that as always, thank you all for having
Speaker 5: me absolutely.
Speaker 4: So today's scene is written by Dana Kiel. Homecoming been
Speaker 4: a minute exterior campus lawn steps, evening dusk. Marcus Travis
Speaker 4: sits on the steps, texting. Meanwhile, Denise Wilkes Wicks wraps
Speaker 4: up a phone call as she walks in Mark's direction.
Speaker 6: Okay, girl, what time are you going to get there?
Speaker 4: Denise stops a bout a yard from her from Mark.
Speaker 4: As he looks up from his.
Speaker 6: Phone, that's an hour away. I gotta eat. Okay, I
Speaker 6: hit you in about an.
Speaker 5: Hour, Denise Wicks, Yes, forgive me.
Speaker 7: I know your face, but I can't remember nobody's name.
Speaker 7: The pandemic took my memory.
Speaker 5: It's all good. We all that. You know, we don't
Speaker 5: remember names both, but it's Mark Mark Travis.
Speaker 4: So your blushes and smiles emotions for her to sit down.
Speaker 7: So you remember, yes, because you were the r A
Speaker 7: in Banka Hall and a couple of us got caught
Speaker 7: by you, and you told us that you wouldn't turn
Speaker 7: us in if we left in ten seconds.
Speaker 6: And honey, you counted us down too.
Speaker 5: I mean, y'all was probably up there visiting some knucker
Speaker 5: Head freshmen, so acts we were, and I didn't want
Speaker 5: anybody to end up in something that they might regret later.
Speaker 7: So, well, I'm still single because you've won my one
Speaker 7: shot at a college, sweetheart.
Speaker 5: Come on, I doubt that. But you look the same.
Speaker 5: I mean you don't find it in before.
Speaker 7: Okay, So you know we all had a crush on
Speaker 7: you back then?
Speaker 5: Nah, no way.
Speaker 7: Yes, because when we got back to the dorm, everybody
Speaker 7: wanted to know what you were wearing when you kicked.
Speaker 6: Us out the door.
Speaker 5: What are you doing now? What are you up to?
Speaker 7: I still real estate in Everston, Illinois.
Speaker 5: No way, I'm in a shy too. I passed up
Speaker 5: a small church and I do real estate. I'm a
Speaker 5: mortgage broker.
Speaker 6: You're a pastor.
Speaker 5: I know it's hard to believe, but you know it's
Speaker 5: a very coming as you are a type of church,
Speaker 5: non denominational. All we do is meditate.
Speaker 4: Wind begins to whistle, humpted Denise to move closer to Mark.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, it's a little cold now, and.
Speaker 4: Mark removes a small canteen from his jacket pocket, takes
Speaker 4: his jacket off and puts it around Denise.
Speaker 6: Thank you? What was in there?
Speaker 5: Or just and frustrate you?
Speaker 4: He takes a sip.
Speaker 5: It's kind of keeping me warm. You are well.
Speaker 6: May I have some of that warmth?
Speaker 4: He hands on the canteen and she takes a sip.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6: I'm definitely warm now.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: So Everston is really close to me. We should definitely
Speaker 5: hang out.
Speaker 7: Okay, you know what, I Am going to come to
Speaker 7: your church because I still can't believe.
Speaker 6: You're a pastor.
Speaker 4: Denise school's closer to Mark. He turns towards her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very one one right now.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: Well we're keeping each other on.
Speaker 4: Market, Denise, leaning to each other and kiss see.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, I gotta copy it
Speaker 1: after him, Okay, so whatever.
Speaker 2: You want to drop on.
Speaker 3: Yes, So that was good. That was good. First of all.
Speaker 3: That was that was really good. And I can imagine
Speaker 3: starting Lemitria right, yes.
Speaker 6: Lea Maria, Leah Maria, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: Lea Metria, gotcha. So I can imagine. I know, I
Speaker 3: can feel your flirtatiousness. I can feel the flirt on you.
Speaker 3: If you was able to actually be there with him,
Speaker 3: I see that it would have been something different. For sure,
Speaker 3: you had been able to put a little morning But
Speaker 3: I like all of what you did for sure. My
Speaker 3: only nugget would be for you is where you're from originally, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: I can hear a little Oklahoma in your in your
Speaker 3: in your voice, I would say, and they say, they
Speaker 3: say that to me all the time, like New York,
Speaker 3: New York, New York, and they can tell I got
Speaker 3: the New York, you know, but I had to learn
Speaker 3: how to just suppress a little bit of it, you
Speaker 3: know sometimes, So I would say that that's My only
Speaker 3: nugget for you is suppress the Oklahoma a little bit
Speaker 3: and depending on what you shoot, and sometimes they might
Speaker 3: want the Oklahoma. But be able to just neutralize accent
Speaker 3: a little bit as something I'm still learning as well,
Speaker 3: so that that's that's one thing and everything else just
Speaker 3: it was dope to me and uh from Mohammed, I
Speaker 3: would say, just being uh this knowing the objective is
Speaker 3: I actually I like this lady. I want this woman.
Speaker 3: I want to connect with her, I would say, just
Speaker 3: the patience in your game a little bit, like you
Speaker 3: know you really but it felt almost like you were
Speaker 3: getting through it too fast, you know, to convince her. Hey, listen,
Speaker 3: your eyes are like beautiful, you know, and you're taking
Speaker 3: those moments to like just draw, you know, have her
Speaker 3: fall into you. You know what I'm saying with your
Speaker 3: game because it's game. You know, you to given it
Speaker 3: this that you know, so you want her to fall
Speaker 3: into it a little more. You need to just kind
Speaker 3: of take your time with certain punches of it, you know.
Speaker 3: But for the most part, it was Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that, Thank.
Speaker 1: You, Jamal, And I just wanted to add because it's
Speaker 1: you know the fact that the pastor maybe it's me.
Speaker 1: I'm a cassidy director. I take characters literally, a cast
Speaker 1: of drinking gretefood and vodka in.
Speaker 2: The middle of the day. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Everything about this pastor is the word?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: And then let me tell you Leah Mitria met her
Speaker 1: on inside the Black Box. She has been such a
Speaker 1: committed students ever since then.
Speaker 2: Mohammad lives in d C.
Speaker 1: Another committed actor. But I have to say that, you
Speaker 1: know sometimes.
Speaker 3: And you can say it to Jamil, but.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the writing is interesting and you just have to
Speaker 1: because this is a scene that I would have had
Speaker 1: a conversation with the author, just the writer, just to
Speaker 1: get some clarity on why I would be attracted to
Speaker 1: a preacher who drinking vodka and great food in the
Speaker 1: middle of the day.
Speaker 5: Start with but it's a very it's a very come
Speaker 5: as you are type Churchill that I passed it. All
Speaker 5: you do is mainly meditate. I'm just saying that kind.
Speaker 5: It's not that kind.
Speaker 3: I just have question.
Speaker 7: You know, first, ladies, the answer is called. They weren't
Speaker 7: the ones call, so they'll take whatever.
Speaker 3: Wow, I want to get taken whatever, because you didn't.
Speaker 1: You didn't start out to me as someone who would
Speaker 1: take anything.
Speaker 2: You didn't being on the phone.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like actions speak volume of who you are. It's not
Speaker 2: the words. I don't care what you say.
Speaker 1: Because my cousin is a vegetarian, but she eat chicken
Speaker 1: wings because she has a taste, then you ain't no
Speaker 1: vegetarian head, right, So I'm just saying, so I just
Speaker 1: want to eating the chicken.
Speaker 3: That's what you say. I'm banking.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I get a taste, getting
Speaker 1: the taste of your vegetarian that tastes must be out here.
Speaker 2: About it anyway, I digress. I just want everybody to.
Speaker 1: Put your head together for Leomitrio, Storics, Williams, thank you
Speaker 1: all later for bringing these actors, and once again, Jamel Howard,
Speaker 1: you are a treasure. I am so so happy to
Speaker 1: reconnect with you. We're going to have you back on
Speaker 1: because there is a part two in you. And I
Speaker 1: also want actors to know all your credits. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that you want to tell us now that you're
Speaker 1: doing that's coming up that we.
Speaker 5: To support you.
Speaker 3: Yes, So I've got like I said, I got, I
Speaker 3: got problems is on BT right now that I wrote
Speaker 3: then You Have Been for Love that's on BT as well,
Speaker 3: and I'm in that and part two is coming. We
Speaker 3: just finished shooting part two which I'm gonna produce on
Speaker 3: and one of the main characters and You Have For
Speaker 3: what It's Worth that just came out. Yes, yep. And
Speaker 3: I'm one of the main guys as well. And now
Speaker 3: I'm shooting The Family Business, which I talked to you about.
Speaker 3: Shooting The Family Business, which I am one of the
Speaker 3: recurring character, is on now be on for a few
Speaker 3: seasons of that. Yeah, that's that's it, and many many
Speaker 3: other things coming down the pipeline on the right in
Speaker 3: side Sciphi is coming real soon. I'm working on it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh man.
Speaker 1: We just wish you continued success and blessings you are
Speaker 1: so deserving of at all. Ladies and gentlemen, once again,
Speaker 1: please put your hands together for your mouth power.
Speaker 3: You appreciate, appreciate, appreciate you. Love you man.
Speaker 1: When we come back on the Spirited Actor Podcast with
Speaker 1: me Tracy Moore, I'm gonna give you guys some love.
Speaker 2: We need love.
Speaker 3: Everybody needs love.
Speaker 2: And now it's time for kudos, Corn Kudos.
Speaker 1: Corner is a place where we come and celebrate and
Speaker 1: support spirited actors and we introduce them to you.
Speaker 2: This week's Kudos.
Speaker 1: Corner puts the spotlight on spirited actors Sasha Morales. I've
Speaker 1: known Sasha since she was fourteen years old, and I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of the woman and the actress she has
Speaker 1: grown to be. You've seen Sasha co star in PowerBook three,
Speaker 1: Raising Canaan on Stars and in a New York Minute
Speaker 1: on YouTube. She has also starred in The Shorts Room
Speaker 1: five twenty six and Stupid Cupid, as well as the
Speaker 1: feature of Port Authority. In addition to our acting work,
Speaker 1: Sasha is a licensed esthetician and owner of Fear Skin Aesthetics.
Speaker 1: Kudos Tasasha Morales, and now it's time to give love.
Speaker 1: This actually happened to me this morning. Timing is perfect
Speaker 1: and peccable. So some of my students know that I
Speaker 1: was allegedly diagnosed with arthritis.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I'm just very conscious of the words that I'm put
Speaker 1: out there, so that's what I'm saying. But bit arthritis
Speaker 1: very painful, made some adjustments, continuing to make adjustments in
Speaker 1: my life. This morning, I woke up in search of
Speaker 1: my tiger bomb, because my tiger bomb gives me a
Speaker 1: sense of relief, if not for a couple hours, it's
Speaker 1: a great sense of relief.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking in all the places in the bathroom
Speaker 1: where I know the tiger bomb should be in, and
Speaker 1: I'm searching, and I'm so confused because I'm really good
Speaker 1: at putting things back where they belong. My mother was
Speaker 1: a stickler on that, so growing up that's something I
Speaker 1: took in my life. So I sit down in my
Speaker 1: chair and I think to myself, where could my tiger
Speaker 1: bomb be. I always put it in the right place.
Speaker 1: And as I sat there, I heard a voice say,
Speaker 1: check your purse. I checked my purse and there was
Speaker 1: the tiger bomb. I'm here to tell you I would
Speaker 1: have never checked my voice. Had I not heard that voice,
Speaker 1: I never checked my purse. You have to learn not
Speaker 1: only to trust yourself, but before a thought hits your brain,
Speaker 1: it comes from somewhere. Trust that somewhere, trust that digest
Speaker 1: that take in that. Because I found my tigerbaumb this
Speaker 1: morning in my purse.
Speaker 2: What a blessing. Don't forget to look out for us.
Speaker 1: On our new show Inside the Black Box, my co
Speaker 1: host will be Joe the Legend Morton. It's going to
Speaker 1: be the Spirited Actor Podcast on Steroids. We'll be streaming
Speaker 1: on the Crackle network. I'll keep you posted. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us on the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Tracy Moore. I look forward to our next Spirited Podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you.