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**Soulful Ambition**

A Balancing Act is a podcast for anyone in the arts desiring more. The focus is on sharing conscious, uplifting, inspiring conversation about navigating the ups and downs of this beautiful, crazy business.

Latest Episodes:

#58: Intention, Co-Creation & Abundance for Creatives w/ Business Coach, Cara Kovacs Sep 26, 2023

Show notes

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:

Cara on Instagram

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.

#57: Goals with Soul Sep 19, 2023

Show notes

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

Get your free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.

#56: Blow up your idea of what's possible w/ critically acclaimed theatre co-founders Bob Ford + Amy Herzberg Sep 12, 2023

Show notes

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:

What Bob + Amy were doing in their 20s & how they wouldn't have believed this is how their lives would unfold
Amy's journey from acting to teaching + directing
Amy's keys to career longevity
Bob's untangling from ego + identity as a NY actor
Founding a mission driven nationally acclaimed theatre in Fayetteville, Arkansas!
The importance of great theatre everywhere, not just NYC
Stories of how TheatreSquared is transforming their community
Aligning with your values + mission as a daily conversation and practice

Look at this award-winning theatre they got to build with architects Marvel & Charcoalblue.

Follow TheatreSquared on Instagram

Get your free audition meditation and stay in the loop with Analisa and A Balancing Act HERE.

#55: Star Power Sep 05, 2023

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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!!

Get your free audition meditation here.

#54: Sabrina Lynn - Rewilding for Creatives Aug 29, 2023

Show notes

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."

Learn to follow the soulful breadcrumbs
Sourcing from within rather than without
Coming to our art fed
Creating from a place of truly not caring if you book the show
How to BE with our attachments to results
Sitting with our fear rather than judging it
Preparing for auditions aligned with soul
What is the soulful creative path?
What's gotten in the way of our connection with our original creative spark?
Is our big dream ego or soul?
Blow up the Broadway box!

Two podcast episodes we reference:

Dangerous Old Woman

You never know where that audition will lead

Receive a free audition meditation and get on Analisa's love letter list HERE.

#53 - Permission to Pause Apr 25, 2023

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In this episode Analisa:

Shares how she drops in before podcasting or creating content, and how to do this for auditions, etc.
Talks about her nervous system and when it's not regulated the challenge to be creative and/or take care of herself
Permission to listen to our bodies and pause - how important it is to the creative process and our overall wellbeing
Shares why she's taking a break from podcasting

Stay in the loop + receive a free audition meditation

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.

#52: Laureen E. Smith - Different paths, 1st headshots in her 40s, Harvard Divinity School, Permission Apr 18, 2023

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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!

Season 4 Episode 51: Getting Unstuck for Creatives: Thoughts VS Feelings Apr 11, 2023

Show notes

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.

Season 4 Episode 50: Jillian Jarrett: Creatives killing it in Corporate Apr 04, 2023

Show notes

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:

Jill's journey from AMDA to selling mortgages
Doing really hard things and the rewards from that
The sense of power, resilience and resourcefulness knowing there are options to support yourself
Creatives thriving in jobs outside of theatre
Blowing up the box of what you think is possible for yourself
Jill's identity is so much more than herself as a performer
How to create a resume + interview well
Don't read a job description and count yourself out

Stay in the loop + get your Free Audition Meditation

Season 4 Episode 49: Managing post-audition doubt + uncertainty Mar 28, 2023

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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.

Receive your free audition meditation here.

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