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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
Bret’s free quiz
Rejection Therapy TedTalk
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.
#70 Finding Your “Way” and Your “Why”
#69 Sierra Boggess: Dealing with disappointment, deep desires, and finding your purpose
#68 The Let Down After Booking the Gig (or getting the thing you were desiring)
#67 - Liz Newcomer: Enneagram, Psychology + Big Dreams
#66: Pause + Receive: Analisa’s personal practice for getting off the hamster wheel & back into Soul
#65: Marissa Ghavami: Trauma & Our Big Dreams
#64 Alchemy of Acceptance: self-doubt/fear/the need to control
#63: My Cringe: On Jealousy, competition, + the need to be special
#62 Elena Shaddow: A conversation about understudying
#61: Clinging to Results
#59: The Key to Authenticity
#58: Intention, Co-Creation & Abundance for Creatives w/ Business Coach, Cara Kovacs
#57: Goals with Soul
#56: Blow up your idea of what's possible w/ critically acclaimed theatre co-founders Bob Ford + Amy Herzberg
#55: Star Power
#54: Sabrina Lynn - Rewilding for Creatives
#53 - Permission to Pause
#52: Laureen E. Smith - Different paths, 1st headshots in her 40s, Harvard Divinity School, Permission
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