Welcome back to the Think Bigger Actors Podcast! Today’s guest we have Giovanni Porta – Writer, Producer, Actor. This episode was so freaking special. Giovanni was so real, so transparent about why he stopped acting. How it wasn’t fun anymore and he literally had to stop for his mental health. I got chills listening to …
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Welcome back to the Think Bigger Actors Podcast! Today’s guest we have Josh Brenner, The Last of Us, Glory Daze, Silicon Valley – and so many other voice over characters you know and love. His trajectory to CAA and how it wasn’t as smooth as I had romanticized it in my head…you know because sometimes …
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Welcome back to the Think Bigger Actors Podcast! Today’s guest is Ciera Payton who is an accomplished actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist hailing from New Orleans. Most recently, Ciera showed her talent for bringing real people to life in Lifetime’s Wendy Williams biopic. Williams’ superfans campaigned on social media to cast her as the larger-than-life celebrity …
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Welcome back to the Think Bigger Actors Podcast! Today’s guest – we have Jamie McShane. You might know him from the hit Netflix show Wednesday, or the Lincoln Lawyer, or freaking Bloodlines – which I was a huuuuge fan of…so when he came on to BOSCH and I got to work with him. Why did …
Episode 404: Jamie McShane – The How Long It Took To Be A Series Regular Episode Read More »
Welcome back to the Think Bigger Actors Podcast! Today I pulled up a chair and chatted with Casting Director, Lisa Zambetti. She cast a slew of things, but most recently, Criminal Minds. We dove deep, and she addressed the State of the Industry right now, shared some HARD DATA on what she’s seen with actors …
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Welcome to the Think Bigger Actors Podcast; I’m your host DaJuan Johnson. I’m going to tell you right now…if you have aligned yourself with the struggle of “Actors always get taken advantage of when it comes to money.” or the “starving artist trope…” this is not the podcast for you. Because your toes will be …
Episode 402: Miata Edoga – The Money Episode (Stop Subscribing to the Struggle) Read More »
Welcome to the Think Bigger Actors Podcast; I’m your host DaJuan Johnson. In this Season 4 opener, I break down the top 7 things I learned last year about being a working actor…from the depression that followed after coming off of my show of 7 seasons…to really understanding in a different way the difference between …
Episode 401: All Things DaJuan (Let’s Talk About The Business) Read More »
Welcome back to this week’s podcast of the Think Bigger Podcast! This is it! The season finale! (But don’t worry, season four is coming soon) I brought in my current acting coach. Craig Archibald – you are definitely going to want to hear this talk. He wrote the book THE ACTORS MINDSET which is linked …
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You know, so much of our career as actors we are chasing the SERIES REGULAR role…it’s the pinnacle of an actors career – so they say…well, what happens when you get that series regular role…you shoot it…you wait for it to get picked up, everything looks like it’s a gooooo…and it doesn’t happen. The network …
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Today’s guest we have Sam Valentine – Actress, and host of the One Broke Actress Podcast, where she shares her day to day life as a working actress…she also has a Paetron Community, and a podcasting business…she’s pretty much killing it. But, this podcast was so open and vulnerable…I mean, I haven’t heard ALL of …
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