650: Actor TONY HALE | Lessons on Fear, Success, and Mental Well-Being

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Rachel Hollis

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Three-time Emmy Award-winning actor, producer and author Tony Hale joins Rachel on the podcast. While he is best known for his role as Gary Walsh on Veep his career spans film, animation, and theater. Tony and Rachel discuss his career trajectory and personal growth, delving into topics like his big break with Arrested Development, the evolving definition of success, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, his routine practices, and finding value beyond professional achievements.His Netflix show The Decameron ("like, Love Island, but back in the day") premiered on July 25th and examines the theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic, as a cast of misfits tries to outlast the bubonic plague pandemic in 1348 Florence. Get the Start Today Journal - https://starttoday.com/products/start-today-journal 00:00 Overcoming Stage Fright: A Personal Journey 01:07 Introduction to the Rachel Hollis Podcast 01:39 Early Career Struggles and Breakthroughs 03:05 Redefining Success and Personal Growth 07:06 Navigating Fame and Identity 12:27 Balancing Work and Personal Life 20:47 Parenting and Letting Go 22:57 Overcoming Stage Fright 24:01 The Start Today Journal 25:12 Integrated Family Systems Therapy 27:31 Acting Preferences and Experiences 28:56 The One-Man Show Challenge 33:11 Navigating Career Ups and Downs 35:21 Daily Routines and Rituals 35:26 Filming in Italy 39:43 New Show Release and Reflections 41:13 Conclusion and Social Media Have a question you want Rach to answer? An idea for a podcast episode?? Call the podcast hotline and leave a voicemail! Call (737) 400-4626 Sign up for Rachel’s weekly email: https://msrachelhollis.com/insider/ Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelHollisMotivation/videos Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MsRachelHollis/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices.

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0:14.8	I was doing this play about three years ago and every night it was a one man play pretty much and towards the end this other actress came in but most of like about 45 minutes was just me on the stage and I remember thinking every night before going on oh tonight's the night I'm gonna have a panic attack in front of a thousand people like there was this
0:18.4	real like oh well you know it's it might not have happened last night but it's going to happen tonight and this
0:23.9	therapist that I was working with what I would say hey you know when that when you start
0:27.2	kind of feeling that or hearing that voice like why don't you just start turning it and
0:32.0	saying hey thanks for being here I know you're trying to help Why don't you just start turning it and saying,
0:32.8	hey, thanks for being here.
0:34.1	I know you're trying to help.
0:36.2	I'm gonna go do the play,
0:38.6	and I'll be right back.
0:40.5	Because what I used to do is be like, no, no, I'm good, no, and I would just try to like fight my way out of it.
0:46.0	And, and once I started doing that, there was this kind of, and again, inside out kind of affirmed that, it was just this more compassion given to these emotions and more like embracing them rather than trying to push them away.
1:00.0	And it really changed my perspective on fear and anxiety big time.
1:04.0	Hi, I'm Rachel and in this show we talk about everything.
1:12.0	Life and work health and healing
1:15.7	relationships with others and with ourselves these are stories for the
1:21.4	seekers these are conversations for the seekers. These are conversations for the curious. This is the
1:27.1	Rachel Hollis podcast. I guess first where are we where are we talking to you at today where are you based right now I live in
1:45.1	LA I live in L. A cool yeah and yeah we've been here for about 21 years so you've been in
1:51.4	L.A. for 21 years did you come out there to act, I'm assuming?
1:55.0	I did, yeah.
1:56.0	I was living in New York for about, um, seven years, doing commercials, doing odd jobs,
2:02.3	everything under the sun.
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