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Walk & Talk: Summer Break · The Aligned Actor

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  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to The Aligned Actor Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Amy Schloerb, your friendly fellow actor and mindfulness and mindset coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the podcast where I offer practical mindfulness tools and mindset shifts
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  SPEAKER_00: to help us all thrive in our full actor lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we deserve to thrive in our full actor lives.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: The acting business is a roller coaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's full of ups and downs, twists and turns.
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  SPEAKER_00: We never know what's coming next.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will only survive if we are taking care of our bodies,
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  SPEAKER_00: our minds,
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  SPEAKER_00: and our spirits and making sure that we are fortifying our nervous systems because
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  SPEAKER_00: the entertainment industry likes to wreak havoc on our nervous systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is the podcast where I try to help us all handle all of that muck
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  SPEAKER_00: and turmoil and trials and tribulations With as much grace and self-compassion,
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  SPEAKER_00: inner kindness and humor and love and laughter and light and all the stuff
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  SPEAKER_00: as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for those of you who are consuming this content on Substack or probably
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  SPEAKER_00: on YouTube as well, you may notice there's a big difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no Face.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no video.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no...
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  SPEAKER_00: There might be a face,
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  SPEAKER_00: because maybe I have my picture set up as the... What shows up if there's no...
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  SPEAKER_00: If there's no video.
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  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, there's no video.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because this is an impromptu episode that I am recording while I'm out on a walk with my dogs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you might hear me rustling with a poop bag at the moment, because...
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what happens when you're out on a walk with dogs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes they have to go tend, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is live and unfiltered, folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fun time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm recording this episode because, like I said, it's an impromptu episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had all these plans for this summer where we were going to do this deep dive
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  SPEAKER_00: on mindfulness, and we still are.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in the middle of that series, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We just got through,
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe,
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  SPEAKER_00: all of the content on sort of the basics of mindfulness, what it is, how to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been giving you practices that you can use and incorporate into your life,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I was about to get into the benefits of Of all of this,
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  SPEAKER_00: why this matters to actors so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: And truth be told,
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  SPEAKER_00: I had recorded all of that content before the summer while my child was still
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  SPEAKER_00: in school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: then clearly at times I'm going to find times to step away and be able to do this,
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  SPEAKER_00: record more content.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that just has not happened because for whatever reason,
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  SPEAKER_00: Summer mode got activated in my mom body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I'm,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: there have been some projects I've had to work on
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  SPEAKER_00: because there are certain deadlines for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But other stuff, I just, if I have some free time, I am reading a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so the motivation on work kind of went to a standstill this summer,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I think is okay and I actually think is really good
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's actually what I want to talk about in this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to talk about how sometimes, you know, as actors we feel like we gotta keep going.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's always something new and something better and something different
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  SPEAKER_00: and something we could tweak and something we could do better or different
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  SPEAKER_00: or whatever or more for our careers.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I don't want us to neglect or underestimate the power of rest,
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  SPEAKER_00: the power of Vegging out the power of reading a book,
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  SPEAKER_00: the power of creative dormancy,
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  SPEAKER_00: the power of just relaxing, letting life just be what it is in this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because these seasons don't last forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: They come and they go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just stopping every once in a while,
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  SPEAKER_00: as Ferris Bueller would say,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you don't slow down and look around every once in a while,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're going to miss your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something like that, paraphrased.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to allow ourselves that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm actually really glad that I have allowed myself that time this summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been spending some really great time with my kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been reading,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been relaxing, and it's been very restorative and very helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think we all need that at times as actors.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's really what I wanted to jump on here and let you know about.
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  SPEAKER_00: First off,
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  SPEAKER_00: to know that this is,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're doing a little bit of a hiatus here at
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  SPEAKER_00: The Aligned Actor podcast slash Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't expect more content on mindfulness until probably the end of August, I would say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe even September.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not exactly sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll do another one of these little episodes on some kind of idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not really sure about that either.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of going with the flow at the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's really fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm enjoying that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope you are enjoying your summer as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're not...
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  SPEAKER_00: If something has been slow or not to your liking or whatever the case may be,
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to know that this too shall pass,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I know sounds trite, I think might be the word, but it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mindfulness teaches us that everything is temporary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Impermanence is really the only permanent thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything flows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing stays the same forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just can't.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not realistic.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if this summer has been challenging for you, then my heart goes out to you and I see you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And certainly there have been aspects of this summer for me
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  SPEAKER_00: that have been very challenging as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I definitely do see you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But know that this too shall pass.
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  SPEAKER_00: There will be another side.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will get through it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we will continue on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's kind of, I guess that's kind of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go back to enjoying this nice day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's actually got a nice breeze here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not too hot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought it was going to be really hot when I stepped outside today for this walk
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  SPEAKER_00: with my doggies, but it's not so bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're going to enjoy our walk and I hope that you enjoy your day.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me.
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  SPEAKER_00: As always,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can head over to my website,
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  SPEAKER_00: thealignedactor.com, to find out more about me and my work.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can noodle around on my Substack,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is, I think, Substack dot, no, maybe thealignedactor.substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, if you're already watching this or listening to this on Substack,
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  SPEAKER_00: you already are on the Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just look around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enjoy yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: A self-guided tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, thank you so much for joining me and I will see you again soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye.