Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry

Saddle up for a thrilling adventure story straight from the golden sands of the Bahamas. Josh Friedman, writer, producer and director extraordinaire, takes us behind the scenes of his epic feature film debut The Queen's Jewels.

Josh reveals how a chance beach encounter sparked his imagination and inspired the movie's treasure hunting plot. We get the inside scoop on creating the original short film as a "proof of concept", and the ...

PODCASTING 101

How to PODCAST with Claire Rozario: 
Ever wondered about podcasting? or had an idea for a pod but not too sure where to start or what to do. Well my podcast manager Claire Rozario and I have your back. 

So strap yourselves in for podcasting 101! Here's some really cool things i learnt in this chat:

• the difference between branded content Vs independent content
• formatting
• genre
• podc...

Welcome Back to the Friday Diary for Los Angeles

Today I'm popping on my yogi hippie hat and talking to you about the Lion's Gate Portal: 

8:8 Lion’s Gate Manifestation portal

Righto, this is more of a hippie spiritual update but today is the Lion’s Gate Portal. It’s the 8:8 Manifestation portal.

Quick little update of the week that was here in La La Land; I auditioned for the role of a nun yesterday, it was ...

Welcome back pod fam!

This weeks Ep is out travel guide to Santa Barbara, Ynez Valley and Beyond.

Boss joins me as we cover some of our fave places we discovered on our recent adventure to Santa Ynez Valley! In this chat we talk about: 

• Santa Barbra (we had no idea that this was a cute College town) 
• Solvang (a Danish Christmas town)
• Los Olivos (our fave) 
• Calabasas (naturally, we had to try the Erewhon in Calab...

Welcome back to the LA Actor Diary!

I AM AN ACTOR

This week I saw my therapist and and this is the sentence he got me to write down; I am an Actor, and gave me homework; for one month I am to live this mantra, to fully embrace being an actor.

You see, self doubt creeps in more often then I’d like to admit, and during our therapy session this past week. Terry (my therapist) said; “There’s a part of you th...

Monty Franklin show notes 

Welcome back to the pod Monty Franklin; Aussie stand up comedian, actor, writer, producer and director. Monty was a guest on the pod a couple of years ago, you can go back and listen to that ep if you feel like it, it’s episode #390 and in that chat we talk lots about the worth ethic needed to have success in the arts here in America. 

Today’s chat was about finding the balance and l...

Welcome back to the Friday LA Diary!

Los Angeles Actor Diary 

Self motivation. That’s the stuff that can get tricky if you’re having a down day or you’ve had a week of no auditions. And the truth is, that this week there’s been no auditions, but the podcast has been really exciting and busy here in LA so I’ve found that the pod is letting me throw myself creatively into prepping and researching up...

Meet entertainment journalist JMo or Jonathon Moran, he's one of Australia's leading entertainment journalists. He's honest, straight up and believes in sharing the truth. 
With over 20 years in the industry and a no-nonsense kind of wit about him, he's been the go-to person for film, TV and music stories over the years. 
JMo opens up about his mental health journey, he's got a podcast called Mental a...

Welcome back to the LA Diary

The week that was…

Righto cool things that happened this week:

I got an audition for a nurse, I’ve just submitted the tape, it’s for a commercial, I got to play a nurse for a little while, the script was heartwarming too, it’s between the nurse at a school helping a kiddo out.

As you probably know by now, I teach a fair bit of yoges here in LA but yesterday I got to teach at a n...

Welcome back to the pod Candice Fox, one of Australia's most celebrated crime fiction authors. She's onto her 22nd book as we recorded this episode. 
This isn't Candice's first time on the pod, she was on it about 3 years ago, you can listen to that chat here: Candice on the pod vol 1

In this episode we talked about 2 of her latest books and one of them being optioned for Apple TV and just before we...

Welcome back to the LA Diary; the week that was in LA. 

This weeks thoughts (plus oracle card reading at the end!

It’s funny how as an actor some days it feels like you’re in a contact state of failure, with absolutely no light at the end of the tunnel. Then there’s days when everything feels possible, it’s like this indescribable energy that only comes when you’re truly going after your dreams.

Y...

I went into this podcast hoping to make a friend in Mitch, he was such a joy to research and wait for it, he has the exact same career dream as me! We both want to be late night talk show hosts!
Mitch is a celebrated radio host, pod honest, comedian, actor and TV presenter. He's an all round entertainer. Mitch is open, honest, funny and one of those people you immediately want to become friends with.