Be Your Own Cheerleader

In the eleventh episode, Amy Lyndon talks about how every actor needs to pump themselves up and be their own "pom pom parent."

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Episode Transcript

(00:11):
Hey guys, this is Amy. Lyndon I started this podcast
for you because I am here to help Empower you because you are
enough. I am here to help you get to the
next level in your career. And most of the times, it has
everything to do with what you think about yourself.
I am a booking coach celebrity booking coach 54, plus Network,

(00:35):
series regulars, and Emmy winnerand image in Winter.
And thousands of people working around the globe, all because of
this technique that I created, Ireally want to help you.
So I do believe that if you keeplistening, you might pick up
some gem that I am dropping downand it will change the course of

(00:56):
your entire career. My uncle's in the business and
you know, it's a fallacy when they say nepotism that your
family will help you if they're in the business.
The truth of the matter is he didn't do diddly-squat for me.

(01:17):
Okay like nothing, goose egg zero zip, if anything?
He was extremely harmful to me he got me this audition ones and
then now this taught me this lesson taught me about
interviewing and how to get yourinterview down, what they call
your elevator pitch. So I was 21, he sends me down
for a casting call to meet thesecasting director, for this big

(01:40):
feature that they're casting in,which Debra Winger at the time,
ended up booking the main role and I go down there.
I'm thinking I'm meeting casting, they didn't have sides
or anything, so I thought it wasjust an interview with the
casting director. Hey, what's up?
I'm 21, blah, blah, blah, right.So then the casting director
says, right this way, you're going to be meeting Francis,

(02:01):
Ford Coppola, I was like What? What?
Okay. So how many things went wrong?
All right. So I go in there and I sit down
I go. I really like the Godfather.
I mean like an idiot. Like how many people have said
that to him like a million trillion by that time?

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And it means like so stupid and later on I find out that the
actually hires people from theirinterview, they don't audition.
They just interview. So, as you can imagine, I can
get that job. That's hard me at that time,
that you have to be prepared, you have to always be prepared,

(02:44):
always, always, always, and justwhen you think you're prepared,
something else happens, you know?
So that's why I was always really clear with my people
before. They went to meet with agents
and managers for casting directors, to have at least a
one minute. Tell me about yourself and don't
talk about acting and please do your research.

(03:06):
Trying to people. I mean I should have known
immediately what that interview might have been about.
I just left it up to my uncle. You understand his track record
at that point was not that greatanyway and here I was still like
please help me you know, I was always reaching to him to

(03:26):
please. I of this notably actor, I need
help, right? And anyway, it was never
happening. And how many times do we do?
Ooh, that, how many times do we reach to other people for help?
And they're continuously lettingus down and he was no exception.

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I mean, there were like I could name like five to ten other
times until finally. I told him to go fuck himself
like sort of a my own way. I didn't know what I, that's
what really, what I wanted to say.
He was the executive producer Rocky.
I mean, it doesn't get bigger than that.
He's good friends with slow. You rewrote the script with him
go to Warner Brothers and he wasresponsible for Sylvester

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Stallone playing Rocky because he was the one that said we're
not, we're not going to do it with you unless he plays Rocky.
And so he was executive producer, Rocky brought into
Warner Brothers chart, of Winkler was the company and they
got it made and Rocky wasn't even supposed to be this big
thing. It was so low on their totem,
pole of movies that were going to like, their slates solo.

(04:36):
Whoa, it was what they call a sleeper head, they didn't even
give it much money. It was really an indie film.
So you never know, guys, but what I will tell you is this is
that if you keep reaching For someone to help you.
You will always be disappointed.And you know, that's a big part

(04:57):
of this booking philosophy. If you keep reaching for someone
to help you with your read, you're always going to lose.
The casting directors job is notto help you.
Their job is to discover you to find you to cast you a quarter

(05:19):
of my series regulars. I have 53 series regulars, 23
are on the air. Right now, out of all the series
regular supporter of them have no other training other than the
Linden technique, how is that possible?
Because it's called the 15 guyline map to booking, right?

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And, you know, it's and I deal with a lot of people with a lot
of training, a lot of training. There's not a lot of people that
I get as fresh meat. Okay.
I love fresh meat, I just want you.
No love fresh meat, but I also love the challenge of taking
somebody who's getting a lot of callbacks in the armed booking

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or who's just sick and tired of being sick and tired of being
sick and tired and they're absolutely open.
To cracking the code to booking for themselves.
Because it is a code, you know, that right?
It's it's simple and it's understanding complex and its
application. The reason why it's complex in

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the applications because I can'tjust be it.
What I say is what I say really,it can't just be that the out
that that's all it is person with the strongest point of
view. The strongest approached, the

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strongest understanding of story, the strongest sense of
power within themselves. Those are the people that work.
You have no idea how much of success comes from being your
own cheerleader, because if you didn't get it as a kid that it

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wasn't instilled in, you at a very young age that you are
amazing and successful and you're going to be amazing and
successful in whatever you do. So as actors we're already
empaths to begin with. We're busy pleasing.
Can people going, please tell mewhat you're looking for because

(07:35):
I'll just give it to you. Instead of saying no
motherfucker I'm here. All of you can go home and that
comes from the confidence of theway that you're raised when
you're could stand up and be counted.
So all of you as potential booking sluts, because that's

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when you're going to be, you're going to be a booking.
Slut. If you hang out with me, you
will be and that comes From yourself-esteem and your
understanding that you are a gift and that your art is a gift
and that, whatever you bring is going to be a very strong way to

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go. That is what makes you who you
are. But what are we doing?
We're always making ourselves. So freaking vanilla and most of
my notes to people is you're nothitting it hard enough.
And what does that come from? I don't believe in myself.
I don't believe in my choices. I don't believe that.

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I am the one for this job. And I'm telling you, it came
from the fact that you didn't have Pom-Pom parents.
So you are going to have to be the Palm punk.
You are going to have to pump yourself up?
Why do I talk about this? Because I'm always in the mirror
going, you. Let's go, let's go.
You, you could do this. Let's go.

(09:06):
I mean, odds I'm doing this to myself.
I did enough Pom-Pom parents when my parents came to see a
play. I'm sorry.
Mom got exposed. They didn't Come for me.
They came because they knew theywere gonna have a party at the
house after. So what they did, it was their
event for the night. Honestly.
They rented a bus. So all of their friends got on

(09:27):
the bus, to go to the play, and then they were going to come
back to the house for a party that I wasn't even invited to
you. Would you call him Pom-Pom
parents? Absolutely not.
Did they go to my place? Yeah.
Did they say it was great. Yeah.
But where they pump on parents know?
When I was a manager in the people that made it, the fastest

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didn't necessarily have the bestcredits.
Or they weren't always the most beautiful.
They were the ones that had Pom-Pom parents, so you guys are
going to need to be your Pom-Pomparent.
What does that include? That includes respecting
yourself as an artist and not allowing sabotage to get in the

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way every time you have an audition.
Hey guys. You so much for listening, I so
appreciate it. So if you really believe your
enough and you will click that button and you will go to the
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(10:34):
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