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Soulful Ambition

The podcast for ambitious people yearning for more soul. Formerly known as A Balancing Act, Soulful Ambition explores what it means to live inside out and go after our deepest longings. Analisa Leaming is a Broadway actor turned down what would have been her 5th Broadway show to move her family to the mountains of Colorado and become a full-time coach. Soulful Ambition might sound contradictory at first… Because we’ve let society define ambition as striving for individual success, monetary gain, and personal achievements. But that’s not what the soul really craves. In each episode, we’re calling back the parts of ourselves conditioned to society’s grind and external pressure. And awakening the longing in your chest that is so big it threatens to swallow you whole. So you can shine unapologetically, source from within, and work towards your dreams with abandon.
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Now displaying: September, 2023
Sep 26, 2023

Learn more about 1:1 Soulful Coaching w/ Analisa Leaming

or Soulful Creatives Circle Membership  HERE.

Get a free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.

In this wide-ranging interview with Cara Kovacs, the Business Witch, we dive deep into service, and the business side of sharing our passion. Analisa and Cara cover many angles:

  • The importance of having a strong Why & different ways to find it

  • The ethics of shifting from the “Starving Artist” mentality 

  • Intentionality in all things as spellwork

  • Detaching from outcomes: go back to why

  • Money & Power

  • How to Practice the Energy of Abundance

  • Re-Defining Success and what supports your big wild dreams

Episode Summary

In this episode, Analisa interviews Cara Kovacs, the Business Witch. There are so many gems in this conversation, which covers the intersection of passion and pragmatism. How can we allow our passions to inform our pursuit of success? How can we redefine success on our own terms, instead of just accepting what the world tells us? Where is the line between wanting something and clinging to it? What are the hang ups keeping artists from building wealth? As Analisa points out, scarcity mindset comes from SCARS; it is up to us to heal around them. It is about choosing to look at where you are held. It is about becoming well-resourced for the good of all.

Topic Shift Time Stamps 

0:00 Analisa’s intro 

4:18 Cara’s self-introduction

7:05  Money & Entrepreneurship & the collective idea of the Starving Artist

12:50 How to Detach from Outcome

14:18 Why Do You Want What You Want?

16:58 We have all been dehydrated in the desert

19:38: Money & Scarcity

25:45 Reclaiming Wealth to Enact Global Change

27:43 Global Resources & Sufficiency

32:00 Examples of Gratitude Reframes - from the perspective of a moment of sadness

34:43 The Voice as the Bridge Between Inner & Outer World: how can creatives use their voices to support their dreams?

Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:

Cara on Instagram

Soul of Money by Lynn Twist

A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor +  soulful coach for creatives.  This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success. 

Sep 19, 2023

Learn more about 1:1 Soulful Coaching w/ Analisa Leaming

or Soulful Creatives Circle Member  HERE.

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In this solo episode, we dive deep into what it means to set our Goals with our Soul. It’s a skill to be able to cultivate structure from within, versus needing and then resenting external systems. How can we have both freedom to create and grounded connection to the systems in our lives? It’s about finding the sacred in the mundane. 

So, how can we use daily habits to harness our big wild dreams instead of it just being a drag? We give ourselves a specific timeline (12 weeks) and pick small achievable changes to make.Not following through on goals we set for ourselves has great ramifications on our self worth, and the number one reason we don’t follow through is picking things that are too big. 

What are the micro steps in our day to day that really matter? Analisa digs into the nitty gritty of our small daily habits, talking through the life of a working performer, investigating what small daily goals we can set that will support our biggest, wildest dreams.

Topic Shift Time Stamps 

1:34 The Astrology of the Moment Rundown: Virgo Season, New Moon & Mercury Rx

2:40 The Two Creative Responses to Goal-Setting & Structure

4:54 The Magic of this Episode

7:38 Which Habits Aren’t Supportive of Your Big Dreams?

10:06 Twelve Weeks & Just Pick One

13:27 The Waterfall of Life metaphor

19:15 What Supports Our Actions? Community!

Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:

Link to the Huberman Lab podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953110?i=1000625908647

James Clear’s book, Atomic Habits: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

 

A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor +  soulful coach for creatives.  This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success. 

Get your free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.

Sep 12, 2023

Learn more about 1:1 Soulful Coaching w/ Analisa Leaming

or Soulful Creatives Circle Member  HERE. 

Today's episode with co-founders and artistic directors of TheatreSquared, Bob Ford + Amy Herzberg: 

  • What Bob + Amy were doing in their 20s & how they wouldn't have believed this is how their lives would unfold
  • Amy's journey from acting to teaching + directing
  • Amy's keys to career longevity
  • Bob's untangling from ego + identity as a NY actor 
  • Founding a mission driven nationally acclaimed theatre in Fayetteville, Arkansas!
  • The importance of great theatre everywhere, not just NYC
  • Stories of how TheatreSquared is transforming their community 
  • Aligning with your values + mission as a daily conversation and practice

Look at this award-winning theatre they got to build with architects Marvel & Charcoalblue.

Follow TheatreSquared on Instagram

 

A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor +  soulful coach for creatives.  This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success. 

Get your free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.

 

 

Sep 5, 2023

Two ways we can work together: 

1:1 Soulful Coaching or the Soulful Creatives Circle 

Read more here and set up a discovery call! 

 

This short + sweet episode is all about Analisa's journey with the word STAR. 

Make the claim + own your star power! 

You're literally stitched from stardust. 

May this episode support you before an audition, stepping on stage and as you walk through your life. 

You are a radiant Being of Light!! 

A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor +  soulful coach for creatives.  This season is designed to inspire performers and creatives to journey towards their dreams with more soul and less attachment to outcomes and society's definitions of success. 

Get your free audition meditation here. 

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