Hi everybody, this is Audrey Moore with the Audrey Helps Actors podcast, and this is episode number 137.

Rhymes with Levin. What is that?

Levin is a bread? Apparently, leaven is when bread expands. That's what we got for you. 137.

Today on the show, we have Brandon Black. Brandon is an actor-influencer known for his role in

Monster, a Medea homecoming, dear white people, and you're the worst, as well as his millions of

views on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Today we discuss in the room auditions versus self-tapes,

the nitty-gritty of how to be an influencer

how to take more control of your self-tapes all right it's self-taped me self-taped me 16 takes one month

did you do it yes you did and if you didn't that's that's fine here's the thing every tape is a win even if you only did one you did it i just

want you to know i am so inspired by yourself tapes it is a joy every morning i wake up bright and

early around 6 a.mish and i sit and i watch your tapes and i am in awe of how creative and how exciting and how

collaborative and how supportive this community is. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you.

Shout out to the blood on the gloves. Did you guys see that one that I posted? That was awesome.

Shout out to all of you who can do 16,000 accents.

Shout out to the many, many of you, too many of you who speak so many languages. Shout out to

those of you who put your tapes up there and muted all of them because you were doing it for you. I think that's awesome. Like

whatever you got to do to feel comfortable putting the tapes up there, getting your practice on,

I think it's a beautiful thing. Take care of you. All right. If you have not done so yet,

I want you to sign up for self-tape may.com, sign up for free because we're going to list. We're going to put a list up.

Every year, I post the list and every year, like, 20 people are like, I also finished and I'm not on the list. And I'm like, did you sign up for self-tapemaid.com? They're like, I didn't know I had to. And I'm like, you have, you have to.

So please, please, please get credit for

even one tape that you did and sign up at self-tapemaid.com. It's free. I'm not collecting your

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