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.
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Episode Highlights:
✨ Turning Down the Sure Thing for Something that isn’t Guaranteed
✨ Processing “rejection”
✨ Mental Gymnastics of Auditions
✨ Finding a Way to do Your Art No Matter What
✨ Strategies for Successful Auditions
In this episode of the Soulful Ambition Podcast, Analisa Leaming returns to her roots of performing and sits down with colleague + friend, Broadway’s Denis Lambert. Their conversation is candid, raw, and will leave you itching to just do the damn thing, your art, that is. Analisa and Denis discuss Denis’ personal journey from dancer first, the challenges of auditioning, and the importance of community and collaboration in the arts. They explore the emotional rollercoaster that comes with auditions, the significance of authenticity, and the need to process emotions in the creative journey. The conversation also touches on strategies for successful auditions and the importance of staying true to oneself while navigating the industry.
Analisa and Denis are collaborating on a brand new program beginning in January 2025 called REIGNITE: A 6-Week Inner Transformation for Audition Success. They share many details on the program in the episode and you can learn more and sign up here.
Denis performed on Broadway this year in Spamalot and Tammy Faye. He has appeared in multiple other Broadway shows and National Tours and in three productions at City Center Encores!. New York and Regional credits include Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, Dallas Theatre Center and Paper Mill Playhouse. Recent projects include starring in two regional productions of David Mamet's Oleanna and a featured role in the film "Ponyboi" which premiered at Sundance in 2024 and will be released in theaters next year. He is a graduate of LAMDA and CCM.
Denis is a passionate acting and musical theatre teacher and private audition coach. You can learn more about his studio which is centered around his weekly Song Workshop (here).
Soulful Ambition is a show for big dreamers about choosing to live inside out & acting upon your deepest longings. From starting your dream business to starring on Broadway, from sacred activism to being a radiant, aligned parent and everything in between. The manifestation of your desires is your destined path and the medicine and magic that the world needs.
17 Sept 2024
#96 How to Manifest from Soul and not Ego
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Episode Highlights:
✨ Honoring and working with the Season Change
✨ Daily habits to support taking action on your dreams
✨ Connecting with your deepest longings at a Soul Level
✨ A "new" way of manifesting your desires
✨ Taking action from inspiration vs obligation
In this episode of the Soulful Ambition Podcast, Analisa Leaming invites listeners to embrace the seasonal changes and reflect on their inner desires. She emphasizes the importance of slowing down and connecting with one's soul during this transitional time. The conversation explores the power of dreaming without constraints and the significance of metaphors in understanding one's authentic self. In doing so, you can get to the root of your desire rather than the ego's attachments and creating from here is powerful and far more fulfilling.
Time Stamps:
00:00 Honoring the Season Change and Slowing Down
12:26 Exploring Shifts in Daily Habits and Rituals
13:27 Tapping into Metaphors and Dreams
18:07 Discerning Inspired Action through Gut Brain and Intuition
20:46 Sharing Metaphors and Seeking Support
Soulful Ambition is a show for big dreamers about choosing to live inside out & acting upon your deepest longings. From starting your dream business to starring on Broadway, from sacred activism to being a radiant, aligned parent and everything in between. The manifestation of your desires is your destined path and the medicine and magic that the world needs.
3 Sept 2024
#95 The Voice as a Tool for Healing, Letting Go of Big Dreams, Nurturing Boldly, & More - Molly Noerenberg
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Episode Highlights:
Molly’s Journey Away from Performing
Using Music to Heal
How to Move Emotions
Surrender + Grief
Nurturing Yourself Boldly
In this episode, Analisa interviews Molly Noerenberg, a singer, performer, and life coach. Molly shares her background in music, including her education at Carnegie Mellon and NYU, and her transition from performing to becoming a full-time voice teacher and now life and embodiment coach.
The discussion then explores Molly's discovery of the Ishtara moving meditation practice, which helped her reconnect with her body and emotions during a period of emotional heaviness, even as she was achieving her professional goals. Molly shares how this practice allowed her to honor her feelings and find a new direction in her work.
A key focus of the conversation is Molly's current voice work, which involves "authentic voice calls" - one-on-one sessions where clients sing on mute, exploring vibration and sound without worrying about technique or performance. Molly explains how she integrates coaching lessons into these voice experiences, helping clients drop rules and restrictions around self-expression.
Not just for those who identify as “singers”, Molly emphasizes that anyone with a voice can use it for healing and self-discovery. She discusses techniques like the "song bath" to make voice exploration approachable for those who may not identify as singers.
The other major and impactful conversation is around letting go of one’s dreams. Molly shares, incredibly vulnerably, her fertility journey, going into a dark time, and the process of surrendering.
Throughout the interview, Molly reflects on her own journey of rediscovering her love for singing, the role of surrender and self-love in her personal growth, and the impact of motherhood and loss on her development. She emphasizes the importance of self-nurturing and making space for one's needs, and the potential for future collaboration with the host.
Visit Molly's Website: www.expressedlife.com
Molly's Instagram @expressedlife
Soulful Ambition is a show for big dreamers about choosing to live inside out & acting upon your deepest longings. From starting your dream business to starring on Broadway, from sacred activism to being a radiant, aligned parent and everything in between. The manifestation of your desires is your destined path and the medicine and magic that the world needs.
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