Speaker 1Shut up, and sit down. Welcome to Being On Stage, the only podcast that gives you motivation, inspiration, and confidence to be better on stage. No matter how you entertain, sing, dance, band, comedian, public speaking, emcee, drag, burlesque, performance art, or street performer, this is the show for you. Hey, rock stars, it's your host, Reggie Dawson, and again, this is the Being On Stage podcast. Welcome back, welcome back. We are at episode 15, and I just want to take a moment to just say thank you to everybody that has been listening. I don't care when you started listening, I don't care how many episodes you've listened to, I don't care if this is your first episode you're listening to, thank you. A couple episodes back, I talked about the importance of saying thank you, and I realized that I have not been saying thank you on every episode, so I wanted to take a moment and say, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for listening, it means a lot. This is my dream and my passion, and I'm just excited to share it with you. I truly am, so thank you once again. By the way, my book launch is tomorrow. Confidence On Stage, Navigating the Three Levels of Stage Fright, releases at midnight tonight. You will want to get your copy, it is free. Head over to beingonstage.com. And get your free copy of that book. It'll arrive in your email tomorrow. So, jumping right in. You know, I was looking in the mirror today. I do my hair every morning. I look in the mirror and, you know, I have a haircut that allows me to kind of, I call it a duck butt, but it's kind of like it flips up in the front. Everything comes forward and it flips up in the front. I can do it where, you know, I push it over to the left. I can do like a half up, half to the left comb over type of spike. I can do a little bit of a pinky comb over thing. I can slick it back. And my hair is getting a little long. It's getting to the point where it's time for me to get a haircut. And it got me thinking, you know, I love the way I feel after a haircut. I'm really excited. I actually got to text my friend. I have a friend that cuts my hair for me. I have to get a haircut soon. And I was thinking, like, I feel great after a haircut. I'm very excited to get a haircut. A nice shave, a fresh style, anything like that. Like, it feels really good. I feel more confident. I feel more sexy. I feel just more alive. And, like, I'm in a good mood. I'm really positive. And I got to thinking, you know, how many other people feel that way? You have to feel that way after a haircut. Like, refreshed. You know, you look nice. Plus, they style it for you. You know, you're walking around. People are looking at you. People are noticing that you just got your hair done. I mean, you can tell. It looks very nice. You feel great. You feel clean. You feel fresh. And then I stopped and I thought, you know, when you step on stage in front of your audience, that feeling of feeling fresh and feeling confident, that feeling is what will make you awesome on stage. Like, if you struggle with getting on stage or if you, you know, lack a little bit of confidence, maybe you just need a little boost or whatever, get a haircut. Get a fresh shave. Get a fresh style. You know, do something nice to freshen yourself up. Like, clean up your look. Because I'm telling you, when you feel like you look good, you have this attitude about you. That is contagious and people want a piece of it. And so, it got me thinking about being on stage. And truthfully, you have to think about your appearance on stage. Yeah, people are there to share in your talent and that's all well and good. But the minute you step on stage, you were on display. You were there to perform. And so, I guess what I'm trying to say in the point of this podcast, really this episode, is freshen it up once in a while, you know. Go for that clean shave. Shape your beard. You know, trim your bangs. You know, just cut off the split ends. Color your roots. I'm not saying anyone needs to color their roots, but color your roots. You know, touch everything up. Go through some touch-ups before you get on stage. You need to feel fresh. You need to feel like you look good. Truthfully, on stage, everything's in the spotlight. One untrimmed hair and your beard stands out like a sore thumb. One flyaway. If you have like a perfectly up-dude hairstyle. Sorry, I don't really speak hair, but I'm trying. If you have like some fancy style going on in your hair, ladies, you do a lot with your hair. No matter what you're doing on stage, I don't care. Like, I don't care if it's even your hair. If you wear a wig on stage, you do a lot with your hair. Freshen it up. Trim the flyaways. Take care of anything that's out of place, you know. When you feel like you look good, you're going to just perform better. Any flaw, any flaw, any flaw. A flyaway, a stray beard hair sticking out, untrimmed mustache, like, hanging over your mouth. Anything, anything out of place when it comes to your, you know, your appearance, it's in the spotlight. It's going to be amplified when you're on stage. You have to keep your look fresh. You have to freshen up the way you appear. No matter what. No matter what your style is, you should care about your hair, your skin, and your hygiene. You need to, like, let's be real. You need to appear clean and approachable. I don't care what your style is. Like, if you're grunge, be grunge, but shower, you know, wash your beards, comb your hair, trim. Those are things that every person that steps on stage needs to do. The minute you're on stage, you're on display. You need to care about your appearance, and you need to appear clean and approachable. Scraggly is not approachable. Untamed is not approachable. We're being real here. I told you last episode, my promise to you is realness. I'm not always gentle, but I'm always real. You need to appear well-groomed. I don't care what you're doing on stage. I don't care what your gender is. I don't care what gender you perform as. You need to appear well-groomed on stage. Appearance affects everything. It affects the audience perception of you, and more importantly, it affects your confidence. Listen, I walked through a bar a couple weeks ago, and it was more like a nice restaurant that had a guy with a guitar. Guy with a guitar. There's nothing wrong with a guy with a guitar or a girl with a guitar. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just this particular guy with a guitar. Guy with a guitar was not presented nicely. It wasn't a fresh look. His beard was untrimmed. There was stubble along his neck. He was wearing a ball cap. I'll get into outfits next. Actually, next episode is about outfits and what you should wear on stage. This show is more about your grooming, and next show is more about what you're wearing. But anyways, he was wearing a black t-shirt. I don't know what was on the front of it, but some greenish khaki cargo shorts and sneakers. Or boat shoes or something. And it's just like, from what I could tell of the stubble on his face and just his appearance. His hair was poking out under his hat and everything. It just did not appear well kept. And his confidence just wasn't there. He was just swaying there, kind of no eye contact. Not really into what he was singing. There was no emotion conveyed, nothing. There was not a performance. He was there for people to listen to, not to perform. And while I don't have a problem with that, I don't have a problem with, you know, performing for, I guess, to set the mood. I still feel that some kind of emotion or connection needs to be in your music. Or in your performance. Or in whatever you're doing for people. The point is, the point of this episode is the appearance. And his appearance just, it wasn't there. He wasn't approachable. It seriously affects your confidence. I feel so great. Like, let's be real. After a shower, I feel more confident. I feel like I'm combing my hair. I'm putting on my clothes. You know, I feel great. I feel great after a haircut. Anything that freshens me up, I feel great. Take care of yourself. Trim it up. Trim up the hair. Trim up the beard. You perform your best when you feel good. And you feel good when you look good. When you're on stage, you have to care about your appearance. You're in front of people. You're trying to connect with those people. You're trying to make an impact. And yes, I know, I know. Don't judge my appearance. Judge my art. I'm an artist. Judge what I'm doing on stage. Judge my art. You know, I sing. I dance. It's my body, not my face. You know, I don't bull. Absolute, I'm calling bull. You have to care about your appearance when you step on that stage. If you want to be about your art, be about your art. That's fine. You're on stage. You're on display in front of people. And you need to care about how you look. You need to care about how you appear. And you need to care about how people are perceiving you. Perception is reality, folks. And I'll get into that too later on. But you're on display. You have to feel like you look good. It boosts your confidence so much. It's not even just about being on display and being in front of people. It's about confidence. I've come to the conclusion, like, this podcast, the theme you're going to hear in almost every episode is confidence. Confidence is everything. Confidence is everything when it comes to being on stage. When you feel like you look good, you're more confident. And when you're more confident, you are going to perform better. You are going to allow that explosion to happen. You're going to have that confidence to get through your entire show. No pausing, no stopping, and just get through it because you feel awesome. So whatever you can do to feel good about your appearance, do that. Do that. I'm talking your face. I'm talking your hair, your beard, showering. And it makes you feel more confident when you are well taken care of, when you're groomed. So whatever you need to do to feel good about your appearance, to feel fresh, freshen it up. Do that. Keep it fresh. When you feel like you look good, you perform better because you're more confident. So listen. If you're a celebrity and you're making millions of dollars, first of all, thank you for listening to the Being On Stage podcast. But listen. If you're like a celebrity and you're making millions of dollars, thousands of dollars a night, by all means, don't shower. Whatever. But for the rest of us, like I said, one in a million make it. The other 999,999 of us are struggling. And we need to look nice on stage because we need to be as approachable as possible. We need to turn our audience into fans. We need to make this happen for ourselves because we're rock stars. That's what we do. I'm with you guys. I'm with you all the way. I believe in you. But freshen it up. Every time you get on stage. I don't care how often it is. Every time. Folks, I appreciate you listening once again. And thank you so much for connecting with me on social media. It is at beingonstage on Instagram and Twitter. Facebook, it is facebook.com. Slash being on the stage. Again, go over to beingonstage.com. You notice the trend here? Everything's being on stage. Beingonstage.com. Get your free copy of my book. It drops tonight. Well, tomorrow. But tonight. And you know what? After you're freshening it up and you're feeling confident and you're about to step on stage into that spotlight and make that connection with the audience, the one thing I always want you to say in your mind is the one thing I say to you at the end of every episode. Ladies and gentlemen, Keep on shining.
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