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Beyond Structure: Creating What Can’t Be Taken Away · STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

• 0:23
  guest: you know, giving myself a structure that, so that it's not just the audition or the the acting, you know.
• 0:35
  Lisa Hopkins: It's interesting the word sorry, I harp on the words with my clients.
• 0:39
  Lisa Hopkins: I'm like structure.
• 0:40
  Lisa Hopkins: That's an interesting word choice, especially for someone who's lived such a structured life, structured by everything else.
• 0:47
  Lisa Hopkins: So if you were to to maybe I don't know reframe that word as something that really worked for you, about what you really what would that be.
• 0:59
  guest: I mean right, yes, I think honestly like giving myself projects, things that I'm passionate about, things that I can look forward to working on every day, so that I'm not at the beck and call of some force that might grant me a job.
• 1:20
  guest: But you know it's like so I think it's more about yeah, if, if structure is not the word, then it would be like I don't know Self actualization in my then.
• 1:31
  guest: It would be like I don't know self-actualization in my days, like you know, something that I set out to do that I don't need anyone to sign off on, you know.
• 1:45
  Lisa Hopkins: Yeah.
• 1:50
  guest: It's interesting, because what?
• 1:53
  Lisa Hopkins: I'm hearing underneath what you're saying is is balance that won't be disrupted.
• 1:56
  Lisa Hopkins: So so I understand what you mean, Like it would make sense, knowing you and knowing just even what you've just told me, that you're used to structure.
• 2:02
  Lisa Hopkins: You're used to the structure of an eight week show or of an agent, or you know your whole life has been structured.
• 2:07
  guest: Yeah.
• 2:09
  Lisa Hopkins: And I and I understand that you don't want to be at the back and call.
• 2:11
  Lisa Hopkins: However, you also acknowledge that that is the life of an actor.
• 2:16
  Lisa Hopkins: Yeah, yeah, so, but but when you say structure and your brain knows all that data you are, you're a natural.
• 2:27
  Lisa Hopkins: Like the words you use were like work that I want to be passionate about.
• 2:31
  Lisa Hopkins: You could have been talking about what you do.
• 2:33
  guest: Right, right.
• 2:34
  Lisa Hopkins: Yeah, you said projects.
• 2:36
  Lisa Hopkins: You said work.
• 2:37
  Lisa Hopkins: Yeah, passion, that's exactly what you do.
• 2:39
  Lisa Hopkins: Yeah, you work on projects you're passionate about, and right, and, and what I'm hearing you say is because you know you've grown vertically, let's say, right, you've grown.
• 2:50
  Lisa Hopkins: You've definitely risen, as they say in your field, and will continue to.
• 2:55
  Lisa Hopkins: There's no doubt.
• 2:56
  Lisa Hopkins: If you want to keep doing that, you will, and that's just about a series of choices and opportunities and a lot of things you can't control.
• 3:04
  Lisa Hopkins: I know that if you want to do it, you will control your vessel and you will take care of your body.
• 3:08
  Lisa Hopkins: I know you will.
• 3:09
  Lisa Hopkins: So I don't.
• 3:10
  Lisa Hopkins: I don't worry about that, but what I'm hearing and you tell me if you think this is true, cause I could be totally wrong but what I'm hearing is that you're you're yearning for something that you create that won't go away.
• 3:25
  Lisa Hopkins: When right that?
• 3:29
  Lisa Hopkins: Honor it's like something you honor and value.
• 3:32
  Lisa Hopkins: That doesn't go away when you get drawn that way.
• 3:35
  guest: Yeah, totally that's it, that's it.