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, rock stars. Reggie Dawson, your host of the show. Welcome back. Being On Stage podcast, July 6th, 2019. We are just about a week into our podcast everyday challenge for the month of July 2019. So, if you're listening and you've listened to all of the episodes or some of the episodes, thank you. Thank you, thank you. I cannot thank you enough for tuning in. It's people like you that help this podcast become discoverable. How do you help that? I'm so. I'm so glad you asked. First thing you can do is, one, just listen. That always helps. Second thing you can do is go into iTunes or wherever it is you listen to podcasts, whether it's Spotify, iTunes, CastBox, PocketCast, wherever it is, and just leave a rating and a review and like a comment on the podcast. And that helps other people find the show as well. Today's episode is one of those things that, you know, I heard something on television, so naturally I'm going to spin it around for performers. That's kind of what I do. I take ideas from business, marketing, history, television shows, and I just kind of spin it around and I put it in words for performers to keep them motivated, inspired, boost your confidence, and really help you get to that point of leaving a legacy on stage. And if you're interested in more about how you can leave a legacy on stage and what you're trying to accomplish, you can get on my calendar. We can chat it up. Beingonstage.com slash calendar. I think that's enough plugs for like the first two minutes of the show. So anyways, I was watching TV with my kid, my daughter. She's 14 years old. She's not like a little, little kid. And one of the shows that she is really into right now is Adam Ruins Everything. And it's not like right now. I mean, it's three seasons in, but she goes through bouts of wanting to watch it. So we'll sit there and binge watch like six or seven episodes. And listen, I know what you're thinking. Anytime you're sitting there watching like half hour, hour long episodes and you're sitting there for three to four hours. And five hours just watching one right after another. Yeah, it might border on the unhealthy. However, educational television, something that teaches you something, especially if it's something that you cannot or will not learn in school. I'm all for that kind of television. And my wife and I both agree. You can kind of watch that television as often as as much as you want. As long as your schoolwork and your housework is done, you can watch as much educational television as you want. But we do limit the. The stuff that rots your brain, you know, the video games, the just mindless sitcom television. We do limit that. But anyways, we were watching Adam's Adam Ruins Everything, and it's on true TV in the United States. I don't know where you're listening or where what it's on, what channel it's on, where you watch. But you can also find it online. Adam Ruins Everything. And we're looking at season one, episode 19. And I forget the actual title. I love the episode. Oh, it was Adam Ruins Forensics or something like that. It was talking about fingerprints. And one of the topics that came out, ironically enough, was snowflakes. And one of the things he said is, you know, they were comparing how fingerprints differ from person to person. Just like no two snowflakes are the same. No two fingerprints are the same. And Adam, I mean, it's called Adam Ruins Everything for a reason. He takes what we believe in our rational thought tells us. And he uses history and science to prove it wrong. So when the comment was made that a thing, you know, just like snowflakes, no two fingerprints are alike. Adam Chimes said, actually, snowflakes are not that different from one another when they start. So and I looked it up like he's got all his sources quoted on true TV's website. I actually went to the New Yorker and I read an article about snowflakes. And I also looked at the National N.O.A.A. It's a weather service thing. And, you know, so I did the research and it is factual. So first and foremost, snowflakes. I live in Florida. I don't really see a lot of snowflakes. So it feels a little weird to be talking about them. They also don't often happen in where I, you know, in my country at all in July. So it is kind of awkward to talk about snowflakes in July. But hear me out. Hear me out. OK, so when a snowflake starts way, way up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever it's called. I'm not. I'm not giving sciencey on you. When a snowflake starts and develops, it's basically just an ice crystal. And as it falls, you know, it gets more defined in it. You know, it loses some here and it starts to collect crystals along the outside. And that's what kind of makes the points of the snowflake makes it kind of a star pattern is the crystals. The small microscopic crystals that it collects on the way down as those crystals collect onto this ice like ball, ice cube, whatever we'll call it. And it becomes a distinct shape. So what actually happens is when it's first starting out, it's just like everybody else. OK, it's just like every other snowflake way up there. It's it's just basically an ice ball. It's an ice orb or whatever, if you will. And as it falls and collects more and more, it becomes more defined and more unique and it becomes something beautiful. I mean, if you ever look at a snowflake close up and not that I have again, Florida boy. But if you ever get a chance to look at a snowflake under a microscope, they're absolutely gorgeous. I've seen pictures and everything and videos. I've never seen it myself, but they're gorgeous to look at. So if you ever get that opportunity, take a look. So how does this tie into performing? What does this have to do with performing? Because that's what this podcast is. It's built for performers. Everything in it, everything that I talk about and say is ultimately ends with performing on stage. Hence the title of the podcast, being on stage. Ha ha. All makes sense now, right? See what I did there? All right. All right. Enough of the little side stupid comments I make sometimes. So what does this have to do with performing? Well, I'll tell you a lot of times when we're starting out, we're nervous. We don't think we're going to make it. Maybe there's internal voices, sometimes external voices, other people telling us we're crazy. Who do we think we are? This is this is reserved for. The people that are truly amazing at what they do. I have no business being out there, but I got to tell you, that's every single person that has ever started anything, not just performing anything, anything that you're going to start for the first time. You're going to go through that same nervous pattern that you get when going on stage. How a snowflake is like a performer and how snowflakes have to do with this is think about what I said about the snowflake as it falls. It collects crystals. It collects little microglia. It collects microscopic crystals that help define it and shape it. And the same thing happens to a performer as you fall. And by fall, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're falling from grace and you're failing. No, you're going to fail. We're all going to fail. That's a part of growth. Fail. You cannot have growth without failure. It's not possible. I'm still coming to terms with it. It's it's a it feels really hard to come to terms with. It's it doesn't make a whole lot of sense at first, but it's true. You cannot. Grow and move forward without failing. You've got to fall flat on your face in order to pick yourself up and stand strong, period. So as you start to fall or progress, we'll call it progress as you as you start to fall and progress in your career, you're falling from the atmosphere down into the stratosphere, into the meso fear or whatever. My daughter took all this earth space science stuff. I don't know any of it. Please don't correct me. I apologize. I'm sure I've got it all. It's backwards and upside down, but that's why I'm not a scientist. I'm a performance coach. Boom. So as the snowflake falls, it collects crystals, become more defined. Same thing happens to you as you progress in your career, as you have experienced failures, as you experience heartache, as you experience pain, as you experience success. And as you continue to fall, you're collecting all of that onto the core. That is yourself. You know, when you first start, you have this thing that you do. You know, you have this talent that you want to show on stage. So when you're first starting out, that's all you're, you're just an ice ball of talent. And as you start to progress and as you start to grow, and as you start to perform more and more and more, and you meet new people and you try new things and you learn new skills to support your talent, those are those little crystals that you're collecting. That's what's turning you in from an ice ball to a snowflake. So as you start to go forward, as you start to keep, and as you keep moving, keep that in mind. That you're going to become more defined and become that amazingly beautiful snowflake that you see under the microscopes just by keeping going forward. You have to fall, you have to move forward, and that's what's going to define you. That's what's going to shape you into the performer that you are truly, truly meant to be. If there's something that you're struggling with, something you're trying to work through, I'm here for you. Hit me up, hop on the calendar. Again, beingonstage.com/calendar. I cannot wait to talk to more people. It's very exciting to get to have these conversations with performers and really kind of work through things that they're working through. So thanks again for those of you that have signed up on the calendar. If you haven't done so yet, you definitely want to jump on that. It's not going away, but I'm just super, super, super stoked to talk to you. So thanks again for tuning in. And as always, keep on shining.
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