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, MC, drag, burlesque, performance art, or street performer, this is the show for you.
Speaker 2Hey Rockstars, Reggie Dawson, your host of the Being On Stage podcast. Thanks for tuning in. Listen, I don't talk about the weather very often. I live in Florida and a lot of times people think Florida, oh sunshine, the sunshine state. Well, where I live in Florida along the east coast there's a rain shower in the summer every afternoon between 12 and 3. Usually only lasts anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. And listen, I'm not here to talk about the weather. I'm here to talk about performing, but I think we all have rainy days. So it could literally be a. It could be a rainy day. And listen, I know I've said so, listen, a couple of times. It's kind of my thing. Go with it. Rainy days happen everywhere. And when they happen, oftentimes you feel, you know, you could feel depressed, you could feel gloomy, you could feel unenergized or lethargic. That's like the same thing. You just, you kind of feel like you want to lay in bed all day. And if you got someone with you, like a spouse or a significant other, you would probably want to lay in bed with them all day. And today is. Today is no different than any other day. Rain started. But it's a little earlier today and it's a Sunday. So it's like Sunday, lazy day, family day, rainy day. Yeah. Yeah. Totally rains every day here in the sunshine state, especially during the summer. It's the tropical season. What can I say? So I was talking to my wife about this and I'm kind of in that, I don't want to do anything. I just want to lay around with you. So let's cuddle, kind of feeling. And I, you know, I, of course, I have to podcast. It's my routine now. I podcast every day, anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes, trying to keep it more towards the 10 minutes now that we're making a 90 day commitment to podcast every day. So, hey, if you need little nuggets of stuff like confidence, boosting, motivation, inspiration to get you going for your performance or rehearsal, tune in. There's a new one every day and I don't know what it's going to be about, but it's going to happen. So today, rainy days and my wife said something, she goes, it's okay to have a rainy day. And we got to talking about that for a bit because I didn't know what to podcast about. I mean, I'm doing this every day. I don't really have a lot of planning, uh, for, for the podcast. I usually plan it out a little bit, but I grip it and rip it. That's my, that's my style. I'm, I'm real. I, I'm authentic. Um, and I'm just, I just give it to you the way it comes to me as if we're having a conversation, you know, unscripted. So we're, we're talking about how, how rainy day makes us feel. And I bring up the fact that I have to podcast and she goes, well, why don't you talk about rainy days? I'm like, well, why, why would I talk about rainy days? She goes, everyone has them. Performers have rainy days, don't they? I'm like, well, when it rains, yeah, of course we have a rainy day. And I mean, you know, I'm, I'm paraphrasing of course, cause she's, uh, she's a great, great woman, but she's, she's very, uh, creative with her words, let's just say. Um, so she said, you know, performers have rainy days, don't they? Like, you know, you, you don't feel like doing anything. You kind of want to take it easy. She's like, is, isn't that okay to do once in a while? And I got to thinking, you know what? She's right. She, I mean, don't tell her I said that. But she's right. Uh, and that's actually truthfully, like every man has to, uh, or it doesn't matter if you're mad, every person that's marrying a woman has to, uh, get used to saying you're right. So she's right, you know, as performers, we, we have rainy days and, and yeah, it could actually be when it's raining outside, but you know, think about those days when you just, you don't really want to move and you don't really have it in you, or you don't want to be like at full energy level. Now, number one. You got to push through it a little bit because you have to do something and that's, you can go back to July 1st, it's called do it every day. You have to do something every day and at some point, yeah, you're going to have to rehearse full out. You're going to have to really sit down and plan and put some hard work into your performance and then there's performing you the rainy day or not push through, but on those days in between those days, you know, when maybe it's planned out or maybe you're have a little time before you have to plan a couple of days. Where you really have to go hard. It's, I'm going to tell you, and there's probably no other coach that's going to tell you this, mainly because there's no other podcast for coaching performers to improve their stage performance, but this, this is it. This is what no one else to tell you. It's okay to have a rainy day. It's okay to take it easy. Not every single time, mind you, but if you're having a day where, you know, you don't really want to work on anything. You don't really want to work on any one particular thing. You don't really want to go all the way high energy. You don't really don't want to put everything into it. It can't become a habit. This can't be an everyday thing, but you know, a Sunday maybe, or an actual rainy day. Look up some videos of what you want to learn, you know, go half, maybe even a quarter level of the energy that's needed to perform. Maybe just do something fun with your talent. You know, it's not always about preparing for a performance and, oh my God, the stage performance coach, the talent coach is telling me it's not about preparing. Ah, the world is ending. No, listen, you coach the person as well as the performer. Okay. And that's, that's kind of what I'm doing for you here. There's such a thing as burnout. There's such a thing as burned down and there's such a thing as hell no. And if you don't listen to your body. You're going to get burned out. He's normally working hard at his tricks making his little adjustments to his tools because magicians do have tools even for sleight of hand. And he's starting to feel bogged down. He's stressed out. He's having one of those days. It's raining outside. He's not really feeling it. So maybe Steve needs to sit down and just do a couple of fun little card tricks for himself or for his nieces and nephews. Have fun with it. Take it easy. Keep yourself sharp. Keep yourself doing what it is you love. Doing your talent. But for lack of a better phrase. Lay off. Take it easy. Relax. It's okay. You can go hard tomorrow. And I know that sounds like procrastination. But procrastination is saying I'll do it tomorrow. This is not procrastination. This is listening to your mental self saying, listen, I can't do it like this anymore. We need a break. And if you don't listen to that, that's when you start getting burned out. That's when you start. Really stressing out and endangering your health. I've had people stop eating. I've had people sacrifice their sleep to keep working on their performance. When that time comes and you eat, your body is screaming at you. Can we please take a break? You have to listen and you have to take that break. You have to take it easy. You have to go back to the fundamentals of having fun doing what you love in an easy environment. That's okay to do. I'm here to tell you it's okay to do. You got to keep your mind healthy. Okay, going into this because there's a lot of things you're going to face as a performer and not all of them are going to be positive. So you really have to keep your mind healthy. And this is just one way to do it. Okay, so listen, tune in every day or every other day, whatever for every episode. Have something fresh for you tomorrow, something new, something hot. I don't know what it is yet. But you'll find out when I do. And if you want to make sure that you get all the episodes, maybe you can't listen to them every day. But you want to save them for when you're at the gym or whatever on the treadmill. You just click subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and that way you'll get up. every time there's a new episode, which is every day, but it'll automatically be there for you to go to when you have time. You don't have to search for it, figure out where you left off, any of that stuff. So happy to help, happy to help. That's, that's what I'm here for. And listen, if you could be so kind as before you click stop, as I'm ending this podcast, if you could please be so kind to drop a rating and a comment on my podcast, that would be great actually, because it helps other people find the show and it makes me feel good about myself. So listen, thanks again for tuning in. I greatly appreciate all of our new listeners and all of our oldest listeners. Take it easy, everybody. Keep on shining.
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