Stop trying to be like everyone else.

Artists, like everyone else, have big dreams… but get in their own way of achieving them. While you might be able to earn and learn your talent and creativity, it’s your ORIGINALITY that will make the biggest difference for you.

What you may not realize is that the very things you want to change about yourself are the aspects that most set you apart, keep you memorable, and should be the focus of your attention.

Do you stay up all the style trends? Do you spend time changing your look to appear like everyone else? If so….

STOP. IT. NOW.

You could be killing the things that make you the most hireable!

Strive For Distinctiveness

Overcome unseen forces that are standing in the way of true success by staying persistent in your commitment …to yourself.

It isn’t enough to kinda like yourself.

Pure self love is crucial for working artists. 

To be able to offer your greatest talents to the world, you must truly know yourself the way a musician knows her instrument. Your essence is your trademark.

On Today’s Show

My friend Jayne Taini has had an incredible career in both television and film, and it’s still going strong. Learn what she believes is key to becoming a working actor. Jayne will be joining us in the studio today to talk about:

✔︎ How working on tried and true theatre material helps you have improved TV/Film auditions

✔︎ How class work builds on itself and gives you the ability to make facile quick choices

✔︎ How imaginative play FREES you to uncover new levels you didn’t know you had

✔︎ How to make room for the way you work with others, and be able to receive different artists methods

…and a ton more!

Today’s Guest

Meet Jayne Taini!

Most recently known as Harriet Greenberg, Ray Donovan‘s Accountant for 4 seasons, Jayne has also been seen on Shameless, Z Nation, Desperate Housewives, Lost, The Walking Dead, NCIS, Big Love, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue, ER, The Practice, and many others. Jayne began her career in gorilla theatre against the Vietnam War on the Orange Coast 
College Campus. She trained in LA but her desire to make a living in theatre took her back to her home town. In Seattle she played Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart in it’s first production outside of NY running simultaneous with the Public’s. She was Assoc Artistic Director of TRIAD Ensemble for 5 years. Ms. Taini has spent her career doing regional theatre, moving from the Seattle Rep to L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum with The Cider House Rules (Garland Award). Most recently in LA she opened the Wallis Annenberg in Beverly Hills in The Parfumerie .Representative Regional: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Third Rail Theatre) Outside Mulligar (B Street Theatre), A Doll’s House, When We Were Married (Seattle Repertory), Broadway, Oktoberfest (Empty Space), The Bacchae , Snow Falling on Cedars, and Sister Aloysius in Doubt (Portland Center Stage), A Life with Father (Denver Center), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Hartford Stage), Enchanted April (Cleveland & Pasadena Playhouses), Praskovia, The Merry Widow (San Francisco Opera). Other Favorite Roles: Mother Courage, title role (Canadian Fringe Festival circuit); Mrs. Alving, Ghosts; Grandma in Lost in Yonkers; Marilla, Anne of Green Gables; Bottom & Demetruis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ruth, Collected Stories; Fenya, The Brothers Karamozov (LADCC Award) .She also toured Japan and the USA in “Labor of Love: A Rice Farmer’s Musical” culminating at the Barcelona Olympic Arts festival Film: Forever with Deborah Ann Woll, The Amateurs starring Jeff Bridges. Recent TV Guest Stars: Recurring opposite Liev Schreiber on Ray Donovan, a hippy lover of William Macy on Shameless, NCSI-LA, Comedy Central’s new show Hampton Deville, the election episode of Superstore, ABC’s mini series When we Rise directed by Lance Black. Watch Jayne’s Reel—>