E6 Power Games and Your Creative Career

Do you feel powerless over the success of your career? “Making it” can often feel like it’s defined by someone else and has nothing to do with how hard you work or how good you are. From casting directors, producers, people who hire you for a gig, to the audience themselves - there is often a sense of giving over your power to everyone else in hopes of being one of the “chosen few” in the spotlight. In this episode, Holly talks with Jeffrey Weissman, an actor for over 40 years about the power struggle in Hollywood, how to get ahead and succeed in the film industry, and we hear his firsthand account of how he was caught in the middle of a controversial power struggle over the casting of Back to the Future II. This episode includes an Initiation Exercise to help you shift your mindset from powerless to powerful - and to shake up the Power Paradigm. 

More video tips from acting coach, Jeffrey Weissman, can be found in the Interviews with Artists Video Library.

You might also enjoy these episodes:

​Episode 31 Audition with Improv: A Coaching Call With An Actor

Episode 28 Casting with Collaboration: Finding Your Fellow Storytellers

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