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. Tears
Speaker 2: are words that need to be written. Sometimes you need
Speaker 2: a good cry, Sometimes you need to just exhale and
Speaker 2: instead of fighting, instead of resisting, instead of denying, just
Speaker 2: let it go. And sometimes when you do cry, it's
Speaker 2: a cry that releases all of the yuckiness. It releases
Speaker 2: all of the people, specifically the toxic people that are
Speaker 2: around you that are trying to cipher off your energy
Speaker 2: or they're so consumed with insecurity and jealousy about themselves
Speaker 2: that they can't see anything else. Surround yourself around positive energy,
Speaker 2: Surround yourself around positive people. Today I will embrace the
Speaker 2: positives in my life. Before we get started, I'd like
Speaker 2: to remind everyone to look out for my new show,
Speaker 2: Inside the Black Box. I'll be co hosting with the
Speaker 2: great Joe Morton. We'll be on Crackle Network real soon.
Speaker 2: I'll keep you posted. Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast
Speaker 2: with me Tracy Moore, and I am your guest today
Speaker 2: on the podcast. Very excited to have this conversation with you,
Speaker 2: because I honestly don't think we've had this conversation. I
Speaker 2: may have told you stories here and there about things
Speaker 2: that I have been so blessed and continue to be
Speaker 2: blessed to manifest in my own life. I think it's
Speaker 2: very empowering when we share our experiences, our stories are
Speaker 2: obstacles and hurdles with people because it also excuse me,
Speaker 2: it also inspires them as well. And so I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk to you the day about manifesting your dreams,
Speaker 2: and I want to take you on my process. I
Speaker 2: want to take you on my journey because I feel
Speaker 2: like what I've discovered in this business, specifically and specifically
Speaker 2: dealing with actors. And I say that because actors are
Speaker 2: creative beings. Actors have to believe before they see. Actors
Speaker 2: know that this acting is not tangible. They also know
Speaker 2: in a sense that you don't graduate from college and
Speaker 2: then get a year contract on an episodic show. People
Speaker 2: have invested years, people have invested decades, and people continue
Speaker 2: to invest in this craft. What is it that keeps
Speaker 2: you going? Persistent, consistent, disciplined, confident in knowing that there
Speaker 2: is a role out there for you, whether you created
Speaker 2: yourself or you are a part of actors' access, you
Speaker 2: have an agent and you are doing your own self submissions.
Speaker 2: But this is the point. We all have the power
Speaker 2: to manifest our dreams. And I think it's so interesting
Speaker 2: today to look on Instagram and see so many messages.
Speaker 2: Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone to
Speaker 2: look out for my new show inside the co hosting
Speaker 2: with Joe Morton, will be Crackle Network, Real Center Power,
Speaker 2: Keep Show Power. How to have this spectacular incredible brain power,
Speaker 2: How to go beyond the ten percent that they say
Speaker 2: we only live in we only use ten percent of
Speaker 2: our brain. I personally want to use one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Manifesting your dreams. The message is almost overwhelming on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. However,
Speaker 2: when I started my journey, not only I remember going
Speaker 2: to Barnes and Noble looking for a book, right, and
Speaker 2: I went and I didn't know what to call this, right,
Speaker 2: It wasn't self help at that time. There was something else.
Speaker 2: But I was searching for something, and I just remember
Speaker 2: there was a small section in the mid eighties in
Speaker 2: New York about, you know, manifesting your dream, spiritual awareness,
Speaker 2: tapping into the power inside. Louise hay As a book
Speaker 2: called Heal Yourself. You can Heal Yourself, Right, And it
Speaker 2: wasn't really talked about, you know, spirituality in that way
Speaker 2: because it was either a defined religion Christianity, Buddhism. But
Speaker 2: there was this niche that I had tapped into and
Speaker 2: I bought this book by Wayne Dyer, and this book
Speaker 2: really stirred and awakenedness in my spirit where I was like,
Speaker 2: because I felt like going to Catholic school for twelve years,
Speaker 2: that I was programmed, programmed into certain beliefs, programmed into guilt.
Speaker 2: I felt guilty all the time. This book released that guilt.
Speaker 2: This book opened up my mind to the possibility that
Speaker 2: there wasn't just one choice or one way of thinking,
Speaker 2: or one way of having a relationship with God spirit.
Speaker 2: So as I delved into these books sometime around eighty
Speaker 2: five to eighty seven, you know my God, you know
Speaker 2: the list. Louise Hayes, Les Brown, oh, Don ruez et
Speaker 2: Cart told so many many Oh. Mary Anne Williamson of
Speaker 2: course in Miracles. She also wrote Nelson Mandela's speech when
Speaker 2: he was released. These books opened a whole new world
Speaker 2: for me. And instead of being programmed and understanding you know,
Speaker 2: you have to go to school, and then you go
Speaker 2: to college, you graduate from college, then you get a job,
Speaker 2: you work two point you have children. No, you get married,
Speaker 2: you have two point five kids, you go on vacation.
Speaker 2: This was the program for me growing up in the
Speaker 2: late sixties early seventies. So when I graduated from high school,
Speaker 2: when I came to New York in eighty three, I
Speaker 2: had a whole understanding of it wasn't about working hard.
Speaker 2: It was about the relationship that I had and the
Speaker 2: alignment that I had with spirit. Right, so it's my
Speaker 2: anniversary is coming up. I left San Francisco, my home,
Speaker 2: my family foundation, August fifteenth, nineteen eighty three. I had
Speaker 2: two hundred dollars in cash. I had a one way
Speaker 2: ticket to New York, and I had a Woolsworth, which
Speaker 2: you guys probably don't a lot of you don't know about,
Speaker 2: but there was a store growing up pulled Woolsworth, and
Speaker 2: I had a trunk. I bought a trunk, and I
Speaker 2: stepped all my belongings and came to New York. And
Speaker 2: I came to New York aligned with the spirit, in
Speaker 2: knowing that whatever it is I came here to do
Speaker 2: and create was going to happen. I never thought of obstacles.
Speaker 2: I never thought of hurdles. I never thought of impossible.
Speaker 2: I never thought of failure. Because at a very very
Speaker 2: young age, six years old, first grade, the things that
Speaker 2: I the knowledge that I acquired from Rain dryer and
Speaker 2: less brown in all those books became so familiar to me.
Speaker 2: And they were familiar because at six years old, I
Speaker 2: was aligned with spirit and doing that automatically, unbeknownst to me.
Speaker 2: So when I read the books and tapped in and said,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I know this because when I was
Speaker 2: six years old, I'd say, you know what, I want
Speaker 2: to bike? And I visualized the bike, saw the color
Speaker 2: of the bike. I saw the handlebars with the different
Speaker 2: color strings hanging down, plastic strings. I saw the seat bar,
Speaker 2: I saw everything. And then for my birthday, for Christmas,
Speaker 2: or getting great grades in school, I got that bike,
Speaker 2: I got whatever it is that and either way I
Speaker 2: got it because it was what I was focused on thinking,
Speaker 2: focused on visualization. So as I got older, tapped into
Speaker 2: these books and really starting to understand what that was
Speaker 2: and what that process is and how we can hone
Speaker 2: in and create the life that we want, we can
Speaker 2: have do be anything that we choose. It's up to us.
Speaker 2: It's up to your mind and how you think and
Speaker 2: where your thoughts land. Do your thoughts land and fertile
Speaker 2: ground in your brain and your spirit in your heart,
Speaker 2: or or does it land on drive unkept dirt and weeds.
Speaker 2: Does it fall there where it can't grow? So I
Speaker 2: started to understand vibrations and if you don't feel good,
Speaker 2: you can't create good. And feel good doesn't just resonate
Speaker 2: in the physical, it resonates in the mind too, because
Speaker 2: when you feel good, your mind's good. You just got
Speaker 2: all these energies and vibes going. And then it's just
Speaker 2: everything is popping. Everything is popping. And you know, I've
Speaker 2: had to have conversations with actors because when everything is
Speaker 2: popping and I got an audition and I met this director,
Speaker 2: they want me to work with them and this agent.
Speaker 2: But bah, I hope this isn't too good to be
Speaker 2: too tracy. Well, now you've destroyed all the frequency and
Speaker 2: energy that you've taken the time to build. You don't
Speaker 2: need to go there, stay present with it. So my
Speaker 2: story coming here. I landed in Harlem, and when I
Speaker 2: was in Harlem, my roommate was a singer. One of
Speaker 2: my roommates I had to one was a singer and
Speaker 2: one was a dancer at the album a La dance company.
Speaker 2: So my roommate who was a singer, she was managed
Speaker 2: by Russell Simmons and I literally got off the plane
Speaker 2: from San Francisco, saw them drop my bags and we
Speaker 2: went straight to Green Street Studios. At that time, it
Speaker 2: was in Soho and we went to that studio for her.
Speaker 2: She was going to record. And that was the first
Speaker 2: time August fifteenth, nineteen eighty three, that I met Russell Simmons.
Speaker 2: While I was in the studio, Full Force was recording
Speaker 2: with Curtis Blow Run DMC was sitting on the couch
Speaker 2: and they asked me, because they heard I was from California,
Speaker 2: They asked me, did I know anything about rap music?
Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, this sugar Hill Gang and they
Speaker 2: said that's not rap. It's like that and that's the
Speaker 2: way it is. And I said, oh my god, so
Speaker 2: aggressive here, hilarious. This was my first day in New York.
Speaker 2: So my roommate goes in to record. I meet Russell
Speaker 2: and then I meet Curtis Blow and he's like, well,
Speaker 2: where do you live? I said, one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: eighth in Amsterdam and he said, oh my god, you
Speaker 2: live in the battle Zone. I had no idea what
Speaker 2: that meant, but it didn't sound who is It didn't matter.
Speaker 2: That did not detur me. That didn't do anything to
Speaker 2: throw me on of my game. Right, I was even
Speaker 2: more excited really that zone. Okay, now I got to
Speaker 2: I'm going to work really hard so that I can
Speaker 2: get out of the battle zone. But I'll tell you this,
Speaker 2: in manifesting your dreams and what the keys are to
Speaker 2: manifesting your dreams is really holding the vision and having
Speaker 2: the discipline to do that. You need discipline to be
Speaker 2: in this industry because there's no one that's going to
Speaker 2: be over your shoulder saying have you gone over your
Speaker 2: monologue today? Or have you read a script today? Have
Speaker 2: you updated your resume? Have you gotten new headshots? Nobody
Speaker 2: is doing that unless you have a manager or an agent,
Speaker 2: and most actors don't. So you're on your own, and
Speaker 2: you need the discipline to say, you know what, from
Speaker 2: twelve to two, that's going to be by acting time,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to focus on blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Whatever your schedule is going to be or whatever you're
Speaker 2: going to do. You need to create that. But you
Speaker 2: also need to create a place in your soul that's protected.
Speaker 2: It protects your spirit, it protects your energy because people
Speaker 2: they cipher off some of your energy at times, but
Speaker 2: you need to take a beat. However that is for you.
Speaker 2: It could be just sitting down and closing your eyes
Speaker 2: for a minute. But it's so important for creative beings
Speaker 2: to visualize. You have to practice and you have to
Speaker 2: what's going to resonate with you is you actually seeing
Speaker 2: this manifestation happen, right, So manifestation is not about a Lamborghini,
Speaker 2: a five million dollar house, and you know, a billionaire
Speaker 2: bank account. That's not That's not what manifestation is about.
Speaker 2: Manifestation is about those things, no judgment, no shame. If
Speaker 2: that's what you choose to have, then that's what you
Speaker 2: choose to have. But when you visualize, you visualize, let's
Speaker 2: say that job, that that that role that you want, right,
Speaker 2: and you visualize being in that role, being a directed
Speaker 2: by that director, You visualize your co star, and you
Speaker 2: visualize the comfort and the ease of you connecting with
Speaker 2: that character. And then the next thing, you know, you
Speaker 2: get the phone call that you got the job. You're
Speaker 2: feeling good. Those frequencies are high when you visualize because
Speaker 2: when we see things that we want, right, and this
Speaker 2: is like daydreaming, you do this all the time. You know,
Speaker 2: you can pass a store and you see a bracelet
Speaker 2: that you like, and then you go, you know, you
Speaker 2: go back to your office and you visualize the bracelet
Speaker 2: on and you visualize how it looks with this dress,
Speaker 2: and next thing, you know, you have that bracelet. And
Speaker 2: it really is as simple as asking. That's your job,
Speaker 2: but the when and the how that's not your job.
Speaker 2: After the asking is the trust. So you ask and
Speaker 2: then you trust that it is coming. And for me,
Speaker 2: in my experience, the tenfold that's why I say, my listen,
Speaker 2: I got plans. However, the spirit has plans. Spirit has
Speaker 2: plans from me, So I trust a spirit's plan. And
Speaker 2: that's again where the tenfold comes, because the tenfold is like, okay,
Speaker 2: let's say, you know, I ask, I asked for you know,
Speaker 2: a client, a new client, right, And not only does
Speaker 2: the spirit provide me with a new client, but the
Speaker 2: spirit also provides me with a client that there's a
Speaker 2: common denominator or that client can help me reach someone
Speaker 2: or go in whatever. It's a connection, and it's better
Speaker 2: than just me having a client. It's so tenfold is
Speaker 2: so much greater, so much greater. That's the reward of
Speaker 2: like you believe we don't give you this too, and
Speaker 2: we will put this in here too. It's all about believing.
Speaker 2: It's all about staying steadfast in your belief. It's all
Speaker 2: about staying stead steadfast in your intentions. What are your intentions?
Speaker 2: Drawing good, being of good? Those things help manifest your dreams,
Speaker 2: and that's important. So I want to take you on
Speaker 2: my journey of manifestation because I feel like you know
Speaker 2: again in sharing our stories, and I have some tips
Speaker 2: that you might want to write down. Number one, you
Speaker 2: have to identify with what it is that your dream?
Speaker 2: What is your dream? You know, in filmmaking, when you're writing,
Speaker 2: you have a log line and that log line is
Speaker 2: supposed to summarize your whole script from beginning to end right,
Speaker 2: So you need a log line for your dreams. What
Speaker 2: is your dream? Write that down? My dream is to
Speaker 2: direct theater on Broadway. Write down. Be specific, My dream
Speaker 2: is to direct theater at the August Wilson Theater on
Speaker 2: Broadway in New York. The more specific you are, the
Speaker 2: more the universe has to work on spirit, God, whatever
Speaker 2: your religious believe. But after you write that log line,
Speaker 2: then I want you to take and dedicate this is
Speaker 2: where the discipline comes in. If it's fifteen minutes, fine,
Speaker 2: five minutes. I'm not gonna be the helicopter monk not
Speaker 2: doing it. But carve out some time where you can
Speaker 2: actually lay down, sit, close your eyes and see that dream.
Speaker 2: I had a dream eighteen years ago about a show
Speaker 2: The Black Box and stories of people of color, highlighting actors,
Speaker 2: showcasing inside the black Box Crackle TV. You've ben download
Speaker 2: season one and season two, Blessed, and we just found
Speaker 2: out today that we are also on Fox soul Mondays
Speaker 2: at six pm Inside the black Box. And it started
Speaker 2: out as a dream in this head. But I saw,
Speaker 2: I saw the show, I saw selling the show. What
Speaker 2: I didn't see, and I can be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I did not see myself co hosting. That was a surprise.
Speaker 2: That was the tenfold because I have so blessed, so
Speaker 2: incredibly blessed to have a co host of Emmy Award
Speaker 2: winning Joe Morton caliber. That's the temple. Doesn't matter how
Speaker 2: long it takes for you to manifest your dreams. Keep dreaming.
Speaker 2: There's no time limit on this. Don't put that pressure
Speaker 2: on yourself again. That's going back to that robotic you know,
Speaker 2: I grew up, graduate from high school, go to college,
Speaker 2: get a job, get married, two point five kids, vacation,
Speaker 2: break that hole. No, no, it's a new day. Take
Speaker 2: control of your life. I know you've heard people say
Speaker 2: you're the writer of your own film. You are look
Speaker 2: at this as a film. Get rid of some of
Speaker 2: the extras that have bump up your supporting cast. You're
Speaker 2: the lead. But know that you have the power to
Speaker 2: manifest your dreams. And when you feel good, you feel
Speaker 2: good in your mind, your spirit, your soul. And I'm
Speaker 2: not a pusher, but I'm only saying this because you
Speaker 2: guys are actors. You need stamina. So it's very important
Speaker 2: for you to be conscious of your health. It's very
Speaker 2: important for you to be conscious of the way you
Speaker 2: put in your mouth and as food and what you
Speaker 2: drink as drinks and hydration because you need stamina as actors.
Speaker 2: So you want to take some time during the day
Speaker 2: and you want to just visualize your dream, every bit
Speaker 2: of it. Discipline yourself at least for seven days, but
Speaker 2: you should be doing this every single day. Discipline yourself
Speaker 2: to do that every single day. After you do and
Speaker 2: feel the visualization them in your daily life. Act like
Speaker 2: it is act like it is I have a friend
Speaker 2: when sort of like I would say in the sort
Speaker 2: of beginnings of my casting career, one of my dear friends,
Speaker 2: and she is a wizard at thrift shopping and consignment stores,
Speaker 2: a wizard. So we used to go every Saturday after
Speaker 2: I talked this class, and during that time, I don't
Speaker 2: know why, but I was going through this blue jeans,
Speaker 2: white Oxford shirt, and men Oxford shoes brown or black leather. Right,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I have this like obsession. And she
Speaker 2: would take me to these store and I would get
Speaker 2: the shoes and then I would take the shoes to
Speaker 2: a shoe polisher and polish, and then when I would
Speaker 2: go in for interviews, I always had those type of shoes,
Speaker 2: blue jeans and a white Oxford shirt. Right. Well, another
Speaker 2: part of manifestation is act like you already have. Right,
Speaker 2: So I knew I was getting these clothes from consignment
Speaker 2: stores and through stores, but nobody else knew that because
Speaker 2: the way I walked in them was like I was
Speaker 2: walking out of Barney's. And I'm not saying in terms
Speaker 2: of the cash value. I'm saying in terms of the
Speaker 2: confidence and how it made me feel didn't matter where
Speaker 2: my clothes came from. But in my mind, I always
Speaker 2: wanted to shop at Barney's. I always wanted to shop
Speaker 2: at Bloomingdale's. And so as I started to be grateful
Speaker 2: for these clothes in which I had, I made those
Speaker 2: clothes make me feel like I had a million dollars.
Speaker 2: While doing that, I started shopping at Bloomingdale's. I started
Speaker 2: shopping because then what happens after that You start creating
Speaker 2: those things, and those things start to come to so
Speaker 2: you have to act as if it is right. Let's
Speaker 2: say there's a car that you want. You should go
Speaker 2: to a car dealership and see the car, take a
Speaker 2: look at the car, maybe even test drive the car.
Speaker 2: But you'll be surprised. And after a while, you know
Speaker 2: it won't be a surprise because you will sit in
Speaker 2: the power on which you know, and that power is
Speaker 2: you know that you can create whatever it is that
Speaker 2: you want to do. Be your hat. So then it
Speaker 2: just becomes like there's a guy in the film called
Speaker 2: The Secret. I don't know his name, I apologize, but
Speaker 2: he has this line where he says, then the universe
Speaker 2: and the world becomes like your shopping mall. So then
Speaker 2: it's like Hume, I want peace and happiness. And then
Speaker 2: the next thing, you know, somebody calls me and said,
Speaker 2: you know what, I can't use this ticket. I thought
Speaker 2: of you, But it's a weekend vollie. That's how it happens.
Speaker 2: That's where testimonies come from. It's always oh my God.
Speaker 2: And then there's a perfect plan. Whatever your spiritual belief is,
Speaker 2: it's already set up. We are just living through it.
Speaker 2: And if we trust, if we take care of our minds,
Speaker 2: and I tell you guys all the time, my producer
Speaker 2: Screu says, you got to get your mind right. You
Speaker 2: got to get your mind right. So it starts with
Speaker 2: your mind. Get your mind right, prepare your mine. Like
Speaker 2: I said, are these thoughts going to land on fertile
Speaker 2: ground or are they going to land on crack desert ground?
Speaker 2: They got to grow and expand, so let it be fertile.
Speaker 2: Know that you have the power to create whatever you want.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is ask. That's it. That's
Speaker 2: just ask, and then trust the how and trust the wind,
Speaker 2: and then with that the tenfolders go come. Trust. Then
Speaker 2: you have to visualize. You got to take time every day.
Speaker 2: This is the discipline to visualize what it is that
Speaker 2: you want, see it, feel it, and then you want
Speaker 2: to act as if it already had its act as
Speaker 2: if it already is walk in it confidently knowing, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's happening, and it's going to happen, and it's going
Speaker 2: to continue to happen. And I just want you to
Speaker 2: know I continue to be blessed. I continue to be
Speaker 2: blessed from the Spirit, God, the universe for whatever dreams
Speaker 2: I continue to have. And I know that my ultimate
Speaker 2: dream is to continue to help actors achieve their dreams,
Speaker 2: manifest their dreams. Trust your dreams, detach yourself from the noise,
Speaker 2: which I call yeah the debudo, stay in the light,
Speaker 2: knowing everything that your heart desires is available to you.
Speaker 2: Just ass all right, Well that's the end of our
Speaker 2: show today. Well not the show, hold on, got a
Speaker 2: little overzealous. That is the end of manifest your dreams.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to open it up right now to
Speaker 2: any questions. Do we have any questions. I'm going to
Speaker 2: bring Elsea Lathan on Elsa is going to tell you bye.
Speaker 3: Yes, today we have two of our spirited actors. We
Speaker 3: have Dana Kiel and we have Leah Young, welcome.
Speaker 2: Ladies, late, good you can go yep.
Speaker 3: Good morning from California.
Speaker 2: Thank you California. Tracy.
Speaker 4: You said so many powerful things. And it's so funny
Speaker 4: to hear you talk about those authors because I just
Speaker 4: got into those authors maybe fifteen or twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: But it's like Wayne Dyer, PBS.
Speaker 4: Got all my money because of the you two stations,
Speaker 4: because you too and Deepop too.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: My question is, but when you're still sitting in what
Speaker 4: feels like the shift and I mean another word good,
Speaker 4: how do you look up from that like like because
Speaker 4: because I can, I visualize, but I just then when
Speaker 4: my eyes open, I'm still looking around and smelling the shift.
Speaker 4: And what would you say is one step or trigger
Speaker 4: back into the space that you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is good because I know you, you
Speaker 2: take my classes, and I feel like I know you
Speaker 2: have a relationship with you. Right, So the first thing
Speaker 2: you have to say to yourself, Dana, is that this
Speaker 2: is temporary. Okay, nothing lasts forever. It's only temporary. And
Speaker 2: then when you have your meditation or your quiet time,
Speaker 2: ask ask the spirit God, whatever your belief is, just
Speaker 2: ask what is it? What is this showing you, because
Speaker 2: we don't go through anything good or bad without something
Speaker 2: showing us something got it. And before a thought comes
Speaker 2: into our head and we own it, it comes from somewhere, right,
Speaker 2: that's somewhere sit in the silence so you can hear this,
Speaker 2: not this, because sometimes our thoughts are running, running, and
Speaker 2: their thousands. But if you catch it when it's right here,
Speaker 2: that's when you know that's from the spirit. Okay. Every
Speaker 2: thought that i've cost at cost has either earned me
Speaker 2: money data like should write a book, Tracy, Where did
Speaker 2: that come from? Right? Okay? What kind of book? Talk about?
Speaker 2: And then make it soft cover so they can roll
Speaker 2: it up and put in their back pocket or ladies
Speaker 2: can put it in their purses. The whole conversation I
Speaker 2: heard here, and I just heard one the other day
Speaker 2: about writing another book. So I'm just saying to you
Speaker 2: it's only temporary. Listen to that thought and then, Dana,
Speaker 2: this is the kicker. I am ninety nine. I am
Speaker 2: one hundred percent access into this business for you. And
Speaker 2: let me tell you something. You think I'm forgetting your son,
Speaker 2: huh son.
Speaker 5: So if you need a happy thought, no, I know
Speaker 5: who you are, which means my friends gonna know who
Speaker 5: you are.
Speaker 2: Your talent is not in question. I know you. You
Speaker 2: have a team. Whether you see me, hear me every
Speaker 2: day or not, doesn't matter. Your name and your talent
Speaker 2: is embedded in my forehead. Rest in that because we
Speaker 2: found each other right you know, Elsa, you guys have
Speaker 2: a background. She's been talking about you and then finally
Speaker 2: here we are. This is this is only beginning. Wait
Speaker 2: till season three. Man Rest in that.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Tracy, thank you, You're welcome. Thank you, Dana.
Speaker 3: And next we have Leah Young with your question. Leah, yess,
Speaker 3: so what's up? Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Here we're talking about this again because it's so powerful,
Speaker 6: It's always so powerful.
Speaker 2: My question is, you know, when you want to.
Speaker 7: Allow and you want to trust and you say, what
Speaker 7: is the will for today? I'm going with it. I'm
Speaker 7: rocking with it.
Speaker 2: How can you.
Speaker 7: Not see manifesting as contradictory as you trying to control?
Speaker 7: And I think you touched on it when you said
Speaker 7: all you have to do is ask and not worry
Speaker 7: about the how and the when. But I think I'm
Speaker 7: so I'm in a space of shifting as well, and
Speaker 7: I'm you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: This is what it is.
Speaker 6: But I feel like that's taken away my agency or
Speaker 6: my belief in that I can also ask.
Speaker 7: I feel like it's contradictory to ask.
Speaker 2: I feel like I should just be.
Speaker 6: Like, I'm doing my job, I'm studying, I train all
Speaker 6: the time, and something's going to happen.
Speaker 7: I've kind of removed the ask from that, and.
Speaker 6: I feel guilty asking because I feel like I should
Speaker 6: just be trusting.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel yeah, Okay, two things, Leah. One,
Speaker 2: you are enough, and you have to know that you
Speaker 2: are deserving, because when you know you're deserving, you give
Speaker 2: yourself permission to receive. You gotta you gotta get rid
Speaker 2: of these barriers, these things, because your blessings are coming.
Speaker 2: They're here, but they got to go through this. They
Speaker 2: got to go through that, they got to come up here.
Speaker 2: They got because you'd be like switching. When we say
Speaker 2: I believe and just leave it alone, right then things happen.
Speaker 2: But when we say things nothing against I don't judge,
Speaker 2: but it is what it is. You give your power away.
Speaker 2: It's no longer your power because it is what it is.
Speaker 2: No what is it that you want? Because that's what
Speaker 2: we want to create what you want. And let me
Speaker 2: tell you about guilt, because if I learned anything, guilt
Speaker 2: comes from a lot of places. For me, Catholic school
Speaker 2: but and nothing against capital toool people shout out to
Speaker 2: Catholic schools. But from my experience in the sixties seventies.
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying to Julia is this is that
Speaker 2: not only are you a talented actress and you're doing
Speaker 2: all the things that you need to, it's you're not
Speaker 2: doing anything wrong. None of you, guys are. Everybody gets
Speaker 2: a turn. Remember that, everybody gets a turn. Okay, However,
Speaker 2: what is happening is that this idea that you're doing
Speaker 2: all the things that you're supposed to do and this
Speaker 2: but it's not pain off. It really is paying off
Speaker 2: for you, and especially at this time during the strike.
Speaker 2: So the shift. Yes, there's always obstacles and hurdles. It's
Speaker 2: always the way we look at stuff. We can look
Speaker 2: at that glass half of do we can look at
Speaker 2: that glass half full? What do you choose half full? Okay,
Speaker 2: we're somewhere. And then the other thing is ground yourself
Speaker 2: in the gratitude every single day, which I feel you do.
Speaker 2: You know, just keep doing that, because that's what's going
Speaker 2: to bring you more. But slowly get rid of words, guilt,
Speaker 2: get rid of those powerless words. And for you and Dana,
Speaker 2: I suggest both of you look up Mary Anne Williamson
Speaker 2: and I want you to get the speech that she
Speaker 2: wrote for Nelson Mandela because it talks about like we're
Speaker 2: so used to and condition in this world to put
Speaker 2: our own cells down and say what we're not doing
Speaker 2: and what we are doing. But how about we reverse
Speaker 2: that and say, no, I am gorgeous, No I am beautiful,
Speaker 2: I'm in toech like just as we can tear it
Speaker 2: down in that gratitude moment that you have, build it up.
Speaker 2: And you guys read that poem. Read it because it's
Speaker 2: so beautiful to know and we all go through that
Speaker 2: and you too, Leah, I know you so like we
Speaker 2: need you guys, more than you need us Without you.
Speaker 2: I'm on pause right now. As a casting director, I
Speaker 2: have no job. So who really has the power?
Speaker 3: You do?
Speaker 2: Okay? Does that answer it? Thank you? Yeah, you're welcome, definitely.
Speaker 3: Yay, Thank you ladies are great question?
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you you guys. Okay, So this whole segment
Speaker 2: was great, feels so good.
Speaker 5: I got Well, I'll tell you guys this later, but anyway,
Speaker 5: we're gonna come back to the Spirited Active Podcast with
Speaker 5: me Tracy Moore, and we are going to do class
Speaker 5: in session. Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast with
Speaker 5: me Tracy Moore, and we are going to do class
Speaker 5: in session.
Speaker 2: You know how excited I get about that? Got our
Speaker 2: spirit Act alumni Elsa Lason's gonna introduce us to you. Yay.
Speaker 3: We have two new beasts today, Tracy, we have danik
Speaker 3: Kiel out of California and Ya Leah Young out of
Speaker 3: New York City.
Speaker 2: All right, New York all right, ladies, well are you
Speaker 2: ready for the scene? Yes, okay, well we are going
Speaker 2: to begin. Our scene today is called Grow Our Separate
Speaker 2: Ways and written by our og writer in residence, Lea Amant.
Speaker 2: Interiorlriissa's Place. Afternoon, Larissa and Taylor are having brunch in
Speaker 2: Larissa's edgy ndcss less apartment. It's been years, so.
Speaker 6: I mean, age, are your favorite scramble eggs with cream, cheese, bacon,
Speaker 6: and stuffed French toast cup maple cru.
Speaker 4: Oh man, sis, I don't eat dairy anymore or meat,
Speaker 4: but I didn't want you to feel bad, so I
Speaker 4: brought my own lunch.
Speaker 2: I hope you don't mind.
Speaker 6: Oh damn, girl, you could have told me I'm trying
Speaker 6: to watch my weight, but I packed on the cream
Speaker 6: cheese for you.
Speaker 2: It's fine. Yah, no biggy, that's sweet. Sis. Thanks. Taylor
Speaker 2: unloads her colored organized label food container.
Speaker 6: Of course, well, I'll pull out our other Sunday tradition.
Speaker 2: Mimosas a mango juice.
Speaker 4: Girl, I thought you would never say it. Bring them out,
Speaker 4: bring them out. Can't talk with the mimosas in your mouth.
Speaker 2: Taylor pulls an eleven dollar bottle of freshly pressed mango
Speaker 2: juice sold only in Whole Foods and places it next
Speaker 2: to Larissa's two dollars bottle from Trader Joe's. I'm totally organic.
Speaker 2: No pasteurized juice shall defile this body. Would you mind
Speaker 2: making mind with the organic juice? Please? Larisa reads the
Speaker 2: bottle and almost faints. Taylor for eleven dollars.
Speaker 7: Does this go win anything else?
Speaker 2: Good health? Good health? Larisa ignores her. She doesn't have
Speaker 2: time for it. Let's see het. Taylor gets up to
Speaker 2: wash her hands.
Speaker 6: Hey, I don't know what Upper west Side bougie therapists
Speaker 6: you've go into but this is the third.
Speaker 7: Time you've washed your hands. Is everything good?
Speaker 2: Yes? I'm into the five piece this season.
Speaker 7: Five decays.
Speaker 4: Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
Speaker 7: Baby dad, don't have nothing to do with your hands.
Speaker 2: I'm applying it to all aspects of my life. Theresa
Speaker 2: takes her first bite while Taylor pulls out an empty
Speaker 2: spray bottle and it starts spraying mid bite. What are
Speaker 2: you doing? You know?
Speaker 4: Webbing b says that an empty spray bottle keeps the
Speaker 4: air fresh and circulating in the room.
Speaker 2: Utensils down. Larisa's done all right, So either you you
Speaker 2: gotta go or tell me what the hell happened to you.
Speaker 2: Taylor ponders for a moment, and then and I call
Speaker 2: my therapist for her input and moral support. Please. Larisa
Speaker 2: just excuses herself the end. Very good, good job, ladies,
Speaker 2: great chat. So I want clarity on the relationship because
Speaker 2: I at one point I felt sisters and then I
Speaker 2: felt best friends. I wasn't sure what was what was
Speaker 2: your perspective on that? We were college besties?
Speaker 4: And I've lived in Chicago and now I've recently moved
Speaker 4: to New York. But it's taken us even being in
Speaker 4: the same city, it's still taken a while just to even.
Speaker 2: Finally get together. So this is our first time together
Speaker 2: in a long time. Wow. Okay, because what I liked
Speaker 2: is that I kept saying to myself, you guys are
Speaker 2: so opposite, or something happened where you guys changed, specifically
Speaker 2: your character Dana. So I thought it was just interesting
Speaker 2: to watch the dynamics between you and Leah as friends.
Speaker 2: Don't forget for us on our new show Inside the
Speaker 2: black Box, my co host will be more It's going
Speaker 2: to be the ster that'll be streaming on the crackled net.
Speaker 2: Nor sence. She gets to wash your hands utensils down.
Speaker 2: Larissa's done, and your line was all right, either you
Speaker 2: gotta go or tell me what the hell happened to you?
Speaker 2: Now that could have the choice could have been yelling
Speaker 2: Leah or you know, so aggravated. But the way you
Speaker 2: did it, and the way about this character, she's so supportive,
Speaker 2: she's so understanding, she's so patient even though you get
Speaker 2: frustrated with you know, the isms from Dana. It's interesting.
Speaker 2: It was just I love the different dynamics between the
Speaker 2: two of you. It just was so engaging to watch
Speaker 2: you guys. So yeah, yeah, And what I'm seeing and
Speaker 2: even with you, Dana, is that it feels good to
Speaker 2: see you guys making different choices and not the obvious,
Speaker 2: because I really preach about the obvious. You know, the
Speaker 2: obvious is not what's you know going to get you
Speaker 2: the job. You got to think outside the box. So
Speaker 2: that's what I thought was really great, very good. Okay,
Speaker 2: so everybody give our actresses around of applause. Thank you ladies.
Speaker 2: You guys did a great job. And when we come
Speaker 2: back or the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you some move And now it's
Speaker 2: time to give love all the women and my family
Speaker 2: on both sides of my family, very very strong women.
Speaker 2: I can maybe count on maybe two hands how many
Speaker 2: times I've seen them cry. I grew up with women
Speaker 2: who stood their ground. I grew up with women who
Speaker 2: were not emotional. I grew up with strong, strong women
Speaker 2: who were determined, who would fight for their children, who
Speaker 2: would fight for their community, who would fight for their neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Those are the women that I grew up. So I
Speaker 2: don't cry all the time, and no judgment or shame
Speaker 2: to anyone else. That is how I grew up. Most
Speaker 2: of the women around me would tell me basically to
Speaker 2: suck it up, or you don't need to cry, or
Speaker 2: you're stronger than that. And in some cases I thank
Speaker 2: them for it, and I'm grateful for it. But then
Speaker 2: in other cases, it's okay to cry. It's okay to
Speaker 2: feel sad, it's okay to feel defeated, it's okay to
Speaker 2: feel like you just don't know what to feel. However,
Speaker 2: when you find yourself feeling that way, also tell yourself
Speaker 2: this that you are deserving, that you are worthy, that
Speaker 2: you are loved, and regardless of the noise, regardless of
Speaker 2: the obstacles and hurdles that exist, tears are not weakness.
Speaker 2: Tears build more strength. Don't forget to look out for
Speaker 2: us on our new show, Inside the black Box. My
Speaker 2: co host will be Joe the Legend Morton.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the Spirited Actor Podcast on Steroids.
Speaker 1: We'll be streaming on the Crackle network. I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us on the Spirited Actor Podcast
Speaker 1: with me Tracy Moore. I look forward to our next
Speaker 1: Spirited Podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you,