096 - Addicted to Success - Leigh Hall

Audrey Helps Actors Podcast

Jesse Lumen

Performing Arts, Audreymoore, Losangeles, Business, Actress, Arts, Tv, La, Actor, Careers, Sagaftra, Film, Sag, Actors, Filmbusiness, Aftra, Acting

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week Audrey Moore talks with therapist/reformed actress Leigh Hall about how this career can lead to an addiction to success. They discuss the pursuit of happiness over the pursuit of being special, cognitive distortions (the games your mind plays on you to make things harder), and how to be an actor while living a balanced life.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, I'm Audrey Moore with the Audrey Help Sackers Podcast and this is episode
0:06.2	number 96.
0:09.6	Feeling like you're going to give some roundhouse kicks to your acting career.
0:15.8	Are you addicted to success?
0:19.6	I am.
0:20.9	Give me that sweet, sweet, serotonin hit of success.
0:26.2	Today we have Lee Hall.
0:27.7	Lee Hall is a licensed therapist who wasn't actress for 20 years.
0:32.3	She has many actors and creatives as clients, something you can hear all about in our first
0:37.1	episode with Lee, episode number 80 titled Radical Acceptance.
0:41.8	So if you've not heard that episode, you may want to swoop to do over to episode 80 and
0:48.0	listen to that and then come back and swoop to do it over here and listen to this one.
0:52.3	But also if you don't want to, it's fine.
0:54.4	This episode holds up all in its own.
0:56.7	Today we are going to discuss the choice between being special and being happy.
1:02.5	Can I be happy without someone validating that I'm special at all times?
1:08.5	We'll find out.
1:09.5	All right, it's getting close to self-tape May this year.
1:13.0	We're not having a leader board, but we are having a progress board where you can see
1:18.8	everyone is participating and what markets they're in and all the good stuff.
1:23.9	That's also kind of what makes it really fun.
1:26.0	And the good news is this year, it's all going to be automated.
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