Alignment Before Action Free Workshop November 2nd!
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In a solo episode that is jam packed with inspired practices, we dive deep into the HOW of releasing our attachment to outcomes, specifically around auditions. Analisa guides us through:
The fears that come up with we WANT the job
The need to acknowledge and make space for “Little Self”
Embodiment tools for realigning with YOU
What it feels like to come home to ourselves
The real time inspiration for a new, FREE workshop on putting these concepts into practice
How do we share our authentic selves in auditions, when so much is on the line? How can we manage when we start to really WANT it? Why does it get grippy-er the closer we get? How can we step back into alignment with our truest state, so that we are open to creative inspiration? Bookmark this episode to listen to whenever you need Analisa to remind you of how to release the clinging by honoring your longings.
Topic Shift Time Stamps
0:00 Analisa’s Intro
1:50 Client Inspiration for this Episode
3:13 Authenticity is Allowing for Bless & Release
4:30 Acknowledge the Fear of Longing: Now It’s Mine to Lose
6:25 Talking to “Little Self” & Listening to Their Voice
8:21 Of Course You Want it!
10:01 Embodiment & Voice Work: other doorways in
12:14 Am I Identifying with the Clinginess?
14:00 Getting Back into Alignment with YOU
16:31 I Want to Come Home to Myself
19:06 Alignment Allows For Creative Ideas to Bubble Up
21:00 Inspired Alignment Workshop Details
Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:
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.
Learn more about 1:1 Soulful Coaching w/ Analisa Leaming
or Soulful Creatives Circle Member HERE.
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Episode Highlights:
Identity shifts, grief, and integration
The impact you can have by sharing soulfully
Social media assumptions
Build resiliency by seeking rejection
Reach out in gratitude
Teach your audience how you want to be treated
Using your discernment with social media boundaries
In this episode, Analisa interviews Bret Shuford, Broadway actor, creative life coach, and one half of @BroadwayHusbands. There are so many gems in this conversation, which ranges from ego death to passing the torch to sharing your soul on social media. How can we integrate our old identities when we shift gears? Can you get in alignment before you post, the same way you would before an audition? The key to taking the pressure off of maintaining a social media presence is committing to showing up consistently, and Bret & Analisa share many practical tips for doing this in this lively interview.
Topic Shift Time Stamps
0:00 Analisa’s Intro
3:55 Bret’s New & Improved Self-Intro
7:05 How to sit with the difficult emotions of transitions
11:30 Broadway Pen Pals: it’s not what you thought, is it?
15:05 On the Broadway Mountain & the Chain of Mountains
18:52 Unpacking our social media assumptions
21:41 Our Job is to become Known: Measuring Likes? Stop
24:33 Your Content is NOT for You
27:52 Reframe of the Four Pillars: Disneyland Metaphor for Social Media
32:32 Make Posting a Habit & Not an Event: Ariana DeBose example
40:37 Everything Old is New Again: Repost!
43:05 Draft when you are sourced; pause when you’re not
47:17 You are part of the ocean: share your gratitude
48:14 Create more than you consume: commit to posting every time you log on
50:20 Follow outside your industry
55:57 How to work with Bret
Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:
Bret Shuford on Instagram: @bretshuford @broadwayhusbands
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.
Learn more about 1:1 Soulful Coaching w/ Analisa Leaming
or Soulful Creatives Circle Member HERE.
In a meta solo episode that is made to be listened to on repeat, we dive deep into what it means to realign with our authenticity. Analisa guides us through:
Authentic Self-Introduction
Her personal process for getting into & staying in alignment
Ways to deal with the resistance that pulls us out of our authenticity
The difference between playing big & trying hard
Getting Meta with an invitation to the Soulful Creatives Circle
Episode Summary
In this vulnerable solo episode, Analisa explores the concept of Authenticity. How do we step into our own individual Authenticity in everything we do, from introducing ourselves, to creating art, to being with our families…and yes, even to auditioning? How can we be open to the audience’s energy while not allowing it to knock us off course? Can we play big without forcing? Where is the line between wanting and needing? Bookmark this episode to listen to whenever you need Analisa to guide you through stepping into your authentic self.
Topic Shift Time Stamps
0:00 Analisa’s Authenticity Reframe of the Podcast Intro
3:13 A Vulnerable Story About the Inspiration for this Episode
5:50 Being Open to (Audience) Energy while Staying Aligned with Our Authenticity
7:30 Have You Ever Gotten Squeezy in an Audition?
8:10 Bookmark Here: A Tool for Stepping into Authenticity
8:58 How Did Analisa Step into her Authenticity for this Episode? First Steps
10:58 Dealing with the Hungry Ghost & the Fears That Feed It
14:05 Denim & Character Shoes: How to Work Authentically Within Outside Expectations
16:45 A Time for Singing Story
19:20 The Fix for the Fix It Mentality: Feel into It
21:06 Analisa practices her own authenticity while sharing about the Soulful Creatives Circle: dealing with the assumptions that come up
24:07 The Last Step: Let Go of Outcomes
Soul Nourishment mentioned in this episode:
“Blessed We Are” - A Mystic song Analisa uses in her own dropping in process.
Analisa’s REEL about Authenticity
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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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Aug 31st workshop: Claiming your Big Dreams + Moving towards them with LOVE
How to make the claim, manage disappointment + insecurity, stay in alignment, release the neediness, and discern ego from soul. In this 2 hr workshop I’m going to share with you practical steps, exercises, and practices. I won’t hold back for fear of being “too spiritual.” I’m going to play BIG in a way that I know will inspire you to dial up your own bright light.
✨✨✨ Just announced: New Group Program The Soulful Creative Circle
This episode:
Sabrina Lynn "Let’s have a soulful conversation & open the door to illuminating the blueprint that is unique to you."
Two podcast episodes we reference:
You never know where that audition will lead
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.
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In this episode Analisa:
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A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
This episode with Laureen E. Smith is a massive dose of PERMISSION to trust the path that you are on!
Laureen started her career with a BA in Theatre and then took a completely different route via divinity school at Harvard and becoming a minister.
Now, in her 60s, she's a D.C. based actor and in this episode shares wisdom through her story and the perspective it's given her.
She speaks to many fears that actors face and how she navigates them, including feeling "too old" after getting her first set of headshots in her 40s.
May this episode expand your definition of success and what is possible!
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A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In today's solo episode Analisa explores the importance of cultivating awareness of thoughts and feelings for creatives.
Creatives tend to be more emotionally aware, but often they are more emotionally reactive and are still stuck in very limiting thoughts.
Through developing the capacity to notice and sit with uncomfortable emotions, you will be able to bust through current limiting beliefs.
There are no bad emotions - they all have gems of wisdom.
Analisa shares a tangible practice for how to metabolize the emotion and then to begin to shift our stories.
She also shares a huge reason why we resist this work and how to love our way through it.
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A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In today's episode Analisa interviews one of her best friends, Jillian Jarrett - performer, makeup artist and most recently seller of mortgages.
In this episode:
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A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
We have so many tools to prep for auditions, but we rarely talk about how to manage afterwards. The waiting, the doubt, the uncertainty.
In this short solo episode, Analisa explores some ideas to build the capacity to manage all that arises post audition in order to have a more sustainable, joyful journey.
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A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
Kara Lindsay has been seen on Broadway in Wicked (Glinda), Beautiful (Cynthia Weil), Newsies (Katherine). Read her full bio below.
In this episode Analisa + Kara talk about:
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KARA LINDSAY Broadway: Wicked (Glinda), Beautiful (Cynthia Weil), Newsies (Katherine) Original Cast/ Fathom Events Film. National Tour: Wicked (Glinda), Little House on the Prairie (originated Laura). Paper Mill Playhouse: Newsies, Jolly Holiday, Little House...Prairie. Sacramento Music Circus: Singin in the Rain (Kathy Selden). NCT: Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins).Kansas City Starlight: Cinderella (Cinderella). Kansas City Rep: Cabaret (Sally Bowles). 5th Avenue: Lone Star Love (Miss Ann Page). Geva: A Christmas Carol(Belle). TV: “Murphy Brown”, ABC’s “Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong”, ABC’s “The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II”, Tony Awards, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. BFA Carnegie Mellon University. Huge thanks and LOVE to my friends, family, Stewart Talent/ Industry Entertainment.
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In this short solo episode Analisa shares the framework she's currently using with her clients:
What is the new way that we can approach our dreams?
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
Today's guest is the incomparable J.J. Caruncho - read his full bio here. This episode is filled with truly life changing ideas and inspiration. Here's what lies ahead:
An explanation of how we get stuck in limiting beliefs and fear
The magic question: Is this true?
Fear of success
Perspective on the gift of failure + failure as a scientiic model
How he uses the brevity of life to be courageous and present
How losing his voice for a decade (due to a boched surgery) was the greatest gift of his life
March 9th Embodied Intuition for Creatives workshop just $27!
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A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In this tiny nugget, solo episode with Analisa, she lets her freak flag fly. She shares how working with Divine Feminine energy has changed her life, her creativity, and her artistry.
Listen to the episode to hear how this applies to actors and could be the key to rapid transformation.
Also in this episode Analisa speaks to the epidemic of women against women and themselves, and how this work could be the key back into our bodies, our fullness and our power.
Embodied Intuition or Creatives Workshop
Episode with Lauren Elise Rogers
Rewilding for women with Sabrina Lynn
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
Today's episode is with Broadway performer and beautiful soul, Jessie Hooker-Bailey.
Jessie's credits include Beautiful and Waitress on Broadway as well as Freaky Friday, Devil Wears Prada, Sister Act, The Color Purple, Ragtime and Footloose regionally.
In this episode:
Sign up here for the Embodied Intuition for Creatives workshop hosted by Analisa Leaming + Lauren Elise Rogers. March 9th, $27 from 11am - 1pm EST. Replay available.
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In this episode Analisa dives deep into the belief that can keep us stuck and how it's not our True Self.
Halfway through the episode is a tangible practice to move from fear to our Higher Self.
It's a balancing act and we'll likely bounce between these thoughts and beliefs often, but being aware is key to a healthy journey in our industry.
Sign up for the March 9th workshop Embodied Intuition for Creatives with Lauren Elise Rogers (from Sex Ed for You and episode 39 of ABA.)
Message Analisa here with coaching inquiries.
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In this episode Analisa dives deep into the belief that can keep us stuck and how it's not our True Self.
Halfway through the episode is a tangible practice to move from fear to our Higher Self.
It's a balancing act and we'll likely bounce between these thoughts and beliefs often, but being aware is key to a healthy journey in our industry.
Sign up for the March 9th workshop Embodied Intuition for Creatives with Lauren Elise Rogers (from Sex Ed for You and episode 39 of ABA.)
Message Analisa here with coaching inquiries.
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In this episode Analisa dives deep into the belief that can keep us stuck and how it's not our True Self.
Halfway through the episode is a tangible practice to move from fear to our Higher Self.
It's a balancing act and we'll likely bounce between these thoughts and beliefs often, but being aware is key to a healthy journey in our industry.
Sign up for the March 9th workshop Embodied Intuition for Creatives with Lauren Elise Rogers (from Sex Ed for You and episode 39 of ABA.)
Message Analisa here with coaching inquiries.
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In this episode Analisa dives deep into the belief that can keep us stuck and how it's not our True Self.
Halfway through the episode is a tangible practice to move from fear to our Higher Self.
It's a balancing act and we'll likely bounce between these thoughts and beliefs often, but being aware is key to a healthy journey in our industry.
Sign up for the March 9th workshop Embodied Intuition for Creatives with Lauren Elise Rogers (from Sex Ed for You and episode 39 of ABA.)
Message Analisa here with coaching inquiries.
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
In this episode Analisa dives deep into the belief that can keep us stuck and how it's not our True Self.
Halfway through the episode is a tangible practice to move from fear to our Higher Self.
It's a balancing act and we'll likely bounce between these thoughts and beliefs often, but being aware is key to a healthy journey in our industry.
Sign up for the March 9th workshop Embodied Intuition for Creatives with Lauren Elise Rogers (from Sex Ed for You and episode 39 of ABA.)
Message Analisa here with coaching inquiries.
A Balancing Act is hosted by Analisa Leaming, Broadway actor + holistic performance coach. 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.
Creator of Meisner in Music, Jillian Paige, shares how the Meisner technique can be applied to singing and life.
In this episode:
- How training programs can be product focused on the product rather that process and manifest as physical tension, trauma, etc.
- How MiM can help signal safety to our brains and bodies
- Tangible, practice life + acting tools to manage performance nerves and anxiety
- How to practice
- How to honor whatever is arising in us and using it in our performance, audition or rehearsal
- Permission to use our human experiences to enrich our art, rather than resist anything that’s unpleasant and uncomfortable
-How cultivating awareness enhances our acting skills AND our lives
www.meisnerinmusic.com
A Balancing Act is a podcast for actors, singers, storytellers and creatives designed to be a place to rest, replenish, recharge and remember who you really are and why you're daring to dream so big.
Another solo episode with Analisa - it's story time!
She shares two stories from her own path:
One is about thinking you know what's meant for you only to find out it is something else.
The other is about following your intuition and making a choice that goes against what we "should" do.
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