Cultivate Your Skills
Three Rules
Matt D'Avella
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
RJ Woessner is an actor living in NYC and he's doing pretty damn well for himself. But that wasn't always the case. We talk about how he got started out, some of his early struggles, and how he made his own way in the cutthroat world of voice over acting.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you beat up? |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:05.0 | That's amazing. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the ground up show. |
| 0:08.0 | Today on the show I've got R.J. Wessner. |
| 0:11.0 | He's an actor here in New York, and believe it or not, he's not struggling. |
| 0:15.0 | But that wasn't always the case. |
| 0:16.0 | When I first moved here, I had no idea what I was going to do or how I was going to even get to this point. |
| 0:21.3 | We talk about how to overcome failure, the importance of getting paid for your art, |
| 0:25.1 | and why you should think about diversifying your talents. |
| 0:28.0 | I think naturally we are persuaded to have one focus. |
| 0:33.0 | You kind of have to be multi-hyphenated. |
| 0:35.7 | This is the ground up show. |
| 0:52.6 | Music kind of have to be multi-hyphenated. This is the ground up show. All right. |
| 0:53.3 | So today on the show I have with me a voiceover actor. He's an actor, actor, |
| 0:57.8 | a musician, dancer, uh, did I miss any juggler? Do you any joke? No, I'm not a juggler. Not a juggler. |
| 1:03.3 | All right. It's RJ Westner on the show. What's up? Yeah. So we actually met on the internet. |
| 1:09.8 | Mm-hmm. backstage. Yeah. As I meet, well, I don't meet most of my friends on backstage, but lately I look around So we actually met on the internet. Backstage. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.4 | As I meet, well, I don't meet most of my friends on backstage. |
| 1:17.9 | But lately I look around at all my friends, my girlfriend, I've met them all on the internet. |
| 1:19.8 | So it seems pretty fitting. |
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