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January 9, 2023 β€’ 44 mins

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My next guest is a Canadian born Sarah Booth, a classically trained actor who is currently starring as Yvette Nichol in the Prime Video adaptation of Louise Penny's Three Pines books.

Chances are you’ve seen her in numerous other tv worlds including guest starring on Law & Order: SVU, Star Trek: Discovery and Heartland . Trained in Montreal, she continues to work on stage as well, including her critically acclaimed performance as Una in Blackbird. She was recently awarded 2022 ACTRA's Best Female Performance for Last Call and in 2018 was the recipient of the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award. She used to save the day in Universal Studios Waterworld live stunt show and challenges her adventurous spirit with horseback riding, running and fitness.

In this episode Lisa & Sarah talk about living life as an adventure, the meaning of vulnerability , emotional triggers in real life and as tools for acting and so much more!

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Lisa Hopkins (00:00):
This is the stop time podcast. I'm your host,
Lisa Hopkins, and I'm here toengage you in thought provoking
motivational conversationsaround practicing the art of
living in the moment. I'm acertified life coach, and I'm
excited to dig deep and offerinsights into embracing who we
are and where we are at.

(00:23):
So my next guest is a Canadianborn classically trained actor,
who is currently starring asYvette Nicole in the Prime Video
adaptation of Louise Penny'sThree Pines books. Chances are
you've seen her in numerousother TV worlds, including guest
starring on law and order, StarTrek Discovery and Heartland
trained in Montreal. Shecontinues to work on stage as

(00:46):
well, including her criticallyacclaimed performances as una
and Blackbird. She was recentlyawarded the 22 actors Best
Female Performance for lastcall, and in 2018, was the
recipient of the breakthroughArtist of the Year Award. She
used to save the day inUniversal Studios, Waterworld

(01:06):
live stunt show, and challengesher adventurous spirit with
horseback riding, running andfitness. It is my great pleasure
to introduce you all today andfor myself to get to know Sarah
booth. Welcome, Sarah. Hello,nice to meet you. It's great to
meet you. So again, thanks somuch, so much for taking the
time to join me. You're prettybusy girl these days.

Sarah Booth (01:28):
It has been really busy. But I gotta say I am
enjoying every moment soaking itup. For sure.

Lisa Hopkins (01:33):
Good for you. I mean the time, right? Yeah.
Well, that's I mean, literally.
I mean, you know, since you're aself proclaimed adventurous
spirit, why don't we just jumpin? And I'm gonna ask you. Well,
first of all, congratulations onthe on the huge success of the
show. I mean, it just was justreleased. I know, it's so
prevalent in your life rightnow. Yeah. But I'm so so
curious. Like, what is thebiggest challenge you've faced

(01:55):
with this new milestone ofsuccess in your career?

Sarah Booth (02:01):
Oh, man, that's a great question. Because it's so
fresh. I feel like because thefirst two episodes just came
out. And they, you know, westill got, we still got three
more weeks of fun. I think sofar. It's just been a lot of
soaking up and not yet liketaking action.

(02:25):
But I think after the holidays,I'll definitely have to have,
you know, some good teammeetings with my agents. And
just kind of decide, what do wewant to do next? Where can this
take us? Did it open doors, didit not? So I think the decision

(02:45):
making will probably be thehardest thing because prior to
this, I've been auditioning foreverything. People say, Oh, do
you say no to things? You, Pat?
I'm like, no, no, no, no, I'mstill in the situation that I'm
auditioning for everything. I'mreally trying to build my
career. So we'll see if thatshift happens. And if it does,
I'm sure my indecisive soul willbe very terrified.

Lisa Hopkins (03:14):
Thank you for sharing that. I mean, it is so
interesting. And I'm reallyhearing, hearing this awareness
that there's a there's a lot ofpossibility here potentially.
Right. And that there'll becertain action items that you
know, that as you know, asperforming artists that are sort
of sort of obvious, right? Imean, suddenly, there's new,
like, things that you should bedoing based on this. Right.

(03:35):
There's action items to be done.

Sarah Booth (03:37):
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. And also, this characterthat I play, she's quite light,
she has a comedic aspect to her.
But the body of my work is verydark, high states. Drama. So it
will be interesting for peopleto discover me in this comedic

(03:59):
role and then be able to look atthe rest of my work. And you
know, hopefully have like a whoamoment. You know, hopefully.

Lisa Hopkins (04:08):
Yeah. Are you having a woah moment? Like, are
you did you surprise yourself?

Sarah Booth (04:13):
Yeah. I never thought I would play this role
ever.

Lisa Hopkins (04:17):
Interesting. So what have you What have you
learned so far like that so muchin that? Wait, let's go back.
Why did you never think that youwould play a role like this?

Sarah Booth (04:27):
I never thought I would play a role like this.
Because when I received thebreak down, the casting director
that was casting, she knows mevery well. My first film and
television television auditionwas with her. So I know that she
was, you know, really pushingfor her, her local people. But
when I saw the caliber of theshow, producers of the crown,

(04:51):
Amazon Left Bank, I was like,Oh, wow, thanks, Andrea. But,
you know, I'll give it my bestshot but I think And they'll
bring in a name or you know, Idon't know, I just thought it
was it was something that I wasreally happy to show what I
could do but had no expectationswhatsoever. So I really did the

(05:13):
audition for myself and forAndrea, who was the casting
director, because I knew shewould just get a kick out of
this crazy character that I puttogether. And I guess she did
because a month later theycalled and they said, we loved
your tape. It was way too big.
Bring it down. I kind of did a180 on the character. Well, not

(05:36):
on the character. But you know,on the comedic, I really
grounded her. And they theywanted to meet and they said,
let's, let's find a middleground between your two tapes.
We did. And then I found out Igot the role. But it was such a
whirlwind. I really didn't thinkin that initial audition. I even
had a shot, which definitelyworked in my favor. Because if I

(05:59):
did think I hadn't shot, I don'tthink I would have been as
adventurous as I could havebeen.

Lisa Hopkins (06:08):
Yeah, that's that's a huge insight. What
really stands out to me is thatyou had totally bought into this
isn't for me. So therefore youkind of take an element of risk
away. But then what I heard,right, because what do you got
to lose? Because you've in yourhead, you've already lost? I
mean, it's not. It's not mine.
That's what it sounds like whatmotivated you what made it

(06:29):
really real was your heartcenter, you would I heard you
say loud and clear, I did it forher. I wanted to show her what I
could do talk to me about that.
That's interesting.

Sarah Booth (06:42):
We have a very special relationship. Andrea has
always pushed for me, Andrea andalso her partner, Randy, who
they both believe in me so much.
And have really brought me infor the biggest projects that
have come to Montreal, or thatare you know, that they're
casting close to Montreal. And Iwas just I think there was a

(07:04):
playfulness to receiving thisaudition. I hadn't seen Andrea
in a long time it was during thepandemic. So I knew I probably
wouldn't see her for a very longtime. And I felt very
comfortable with her whenever Iwent to audition at her office.
So I felt like I just wanted tosend her like a fun message, I

(07:25):
guess. So like, they like what afine character. Here's my spin,
you know, and it just felt funto do. Honestly, my, I had to
change my perspective onauditions, like in the past two
to three years. I just, itwasn't a job opportunity

(07:45):
anymore. It was just fun. It wasplaytime. That's it I had to
take that away, I had to takethe desperation away. I was in
LA, I had five jobs, I justwanted to book something. So I
didn't have to run around withlike, a chicken with my head cut
off. So I think really workingon that part of myself and not
expecting a job, but just havinga 20 minute session with my

(08:11):
friend in my apartment to justplay around. That's when my
career really changed. Wow. Yes,

Lisa Hopkins (08:21):
that's super interesting. Yeah. So again,
back to the sort of feeling ofyou talk to me about sort of the
action items and that once youprocess it, you know how you're
going to move it into action.
I'm curious to know if it's okaywith you like internally what
you've noticed so far, or maybewhat you're just noticing right
now about how you're receivingand perceiving things around

(08:43):
you.

Sarah Booth (08:49):
I have to sit down and breathe. Because it feels a
little bit like a super funtornado. I feel like my brain is
constantly going a mile aminute. Oh, someone messaged me.
I want to message them back. Oh,I have to do this. I have to do
that. I have interviews. It'slike all like, welcomed chaos

(09:14):
right now. Which I'm reallyenjoying. And you know, I
definitely feel like the stressin my body. Obviously a good
stress. But I feel like I don'twant to miss a moment of it.
It's fun. It's really fun.

Lisa Hopkins (09:32):
Yeah. Oh, it's so it's just I mean, I feel it it's
emanating off of you. But I feellike even without this project
you have that I don't know youbut my instinct is that that's
this part of that. That that wasthat was seen or that you you
allowed to really be you in thatmindset shift that you that you

(09:53):
talked about right where you putfun back in it which is
obviously huge part of you. Imean when I'm looking at your
You know your bio and stuff andthat you know the she used to
save the day, right? I mean livestunt show right and challenging
your adventurous spirit. Talk tome a little bit about your
adventurous spirit. And when younoticed it showing up in your
life.

Sarah Booth (10:14):
I grew up in a small town of 2000 people, some
very farm dairy farms. Mybackyard was probably three
kilometers long. We haveanimals, I had a pony. It was
just I don't think I everrealized how adventurous I was
until I moved to the city andstarted. I love that I was in

(10:37):
the city, of course. But I waslike, Oh, I have all this, this
energy. Where do where does itgo? So that's when I really got
into fitness because they neededlike my hands, my hamster wheel
in the city. So yeah, I havetrouble sitting still long. I
love traveling for work. I lovediscovering new cities. When I

(10:59):
got the idea to move to LA. Iwas like, let's do it. Let's
just Let's just do it. I lovekind of jumping in to events
sometimes. Which is, you know,pros and cons, of course. But I
feel like it's really helped meand in my life in my career to
just stay curious. Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (11:18):
Yeah. You know,

Sarah Booth (11:19):
never. I feel like if I had a job that I knew my
hours every week, and when myvacation was and all that stuff.
I'm sure part of me would haveresented about that. But I think
I would get bored of it reallyquickly. Makes Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (11:36):
How long ago was it that you went to LA talk to
me about that transition? So youwent from small town farm girl,
probably to high school. Did youtraining in Montreal? I'm
guessing. Right? Yep. So whichis the big city right nearest to
you? And then I think you wentto Toronto? Is that right in
between that? Yep. That makessense. Yeah. Talk to me from
there. Like what that transitiongoing to LA and how long you

(11:58):
spent there. Just sort of abrief I'm curious about that.
Yeah.

Sarah Booth (12:02):
I lived in Toronto for about two and a half years
after I moved from Montreal. AndI just couldn't, I just wasn't
happy in that city. And I thinkpart of it is because I was
struggling so hard. I couldn'tfind an agent. I couldn't find,
you know, auditions to save mylife. So it was a little bit of

(12:22):
a struggle. And I decided, Youknow what, my goal is to live in
LA. And my husband is in theindustry. He's a filmmaker, he
obviously was onboard to move aswell. And we had a movie come
out where we said, hey, let's goto LA for two months, the movies
coming out great time to, youknow, meet up with some people

(12:43):
and have a little heat. So wewent down in a month into being
in Los Angeles, I was like, Wegotta stay. I love it here. And
so we started the applicationfor the green card. And waited,
I think about nine months to geta yes or no if we could stay or
not. So those nine months werestressful, can't work. Can't

(13:04):
leave. You know, I don't knowhow they expect people to live,
but that's what we had to do.
And I when we found out we gotour green cards, I was just
like, I was crying. It you know,because in a way you're
thinking, wow, my whole, like,at least this version of my
dream is weighing on this.

(13:26):
That's stressful. You know? Soonce we got the Yes, it was
great. We stayed for about sixyears, made some great
connections, some great friends,we found our la people, which
was great, because I had spokento a lot of people saying, oh,
you know, I don't like LA Idon't like people bla bla bla.
And, I mean, we definitely founda great group of friends. And I

(13:49):
could see how some people wouldlike LA you know, depending
where you live and all thatstuff. But if you live with,
with all the artists, you know,you find some good people the
real artist.

Lisa Hopkins (13:59):
Absolutely. So how long have you been back or what
what brought you back to Canada.

Sarah Booth (14:03):
The pandemic brought us back once the
pandemic hit. No work in LosAngeles. Everything. Fitness,
Waterworld, acting, everythingwas shut down. And my
grandmother was was ill. So Idecided to come home and take
care of her for about three anda half months. And as soon as I
landed, I was like, we have tocome home. I just like had this

(14:28):
feeling that we had to comehome. So after three and a half
months, I flew back to LosAngeles. We packed up a U haul
and drove home. Wow. Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (14:38):
What point in that did you audition for three
pints?

Sarah Booth (14:42):
I auditioned for that. I would say we moved back
in November and I auditioned forthree pints for the first time I
think in

Lisa Hopkins (14:51):
June. Oh interesting. So we'd have enough
for you after you came home.

Sarah Booth (14:55):
Yeah happened after we came home. It honestly as
soon as we moved to Canada it Ithas been nonstop. It's been so
busy, which is fantastic. Ithink they had to also hire a
lot more Canadians for theprojects that we're shooting up
here during the pandemic. So, somany amazing Canadian actors got
some really awesome roles andopportunities, which is

(15:15):
fantastic. Yeah. And it's sobusy, busy, busy, busy here.

Lisa Hopkins (15:21):
Great. That's so good. I'm so happy to hear that.
It's interesting, actually, inthree pints Gamal says something
about I'm paraphrasing, but hesays something about the biggest
mistake you can make is istaking actions on assumptions.
Yeah, something to that effect.
Totally. What do you think aboutthat statement? for yourself?

Sarah Booth (15:40):
Oh, I think that's a great statement. I definitely,
like I said, didn't think Iwould book this role. Especially
in this career. I mean, in anycareer in life, we assume so
much. And, you know, I feellike, the older we get, the more
situations we've been in, werealize that there aren't really

(16:02):
any rules. So don't assume ask,especially being a part of, you
know, this project that I justdid, where it was my first
series regular role, where Ifelt like I had more control
where I was able to have sayabout my character a little bit
more. It gave me this, like,confidence, this different kind

(16:26):
of confidence, where I feltlike, well, you know, instead of
saying like, Oh, well, if Iasked that, like, maybe, you
know, maybe they'll say no, orwhatever. And now I just have
more confidence to be like, Hey,can I have access to that? Or?
Or can we do you know, like,just to speak up a little bit
more, which feels really nice.
Gives you a little more control,or at least makes you feel like

(16:49):
you have more control? Do wehave any? I don't know.

Lisa Hopkins (16:55):
Yeah. No, that's it's really interesting. I mean,
in the work I do, I talk about,you know, shifting energy,
meaning literally, you know, ifyou have like a certain amount
of energy that you're spendingtowards something, right, if you
can repurpose it, which you didwith your assumptions right now,
because now that now that you'rein it, something shifted, right.
So now you have more room, lessroom for assumptions, but more

(17:16):
room for this confidence thatyou're talking about, or for
this new, right, more positiveanabolic energy, which is pretty
cool.

Sarah Booth (17:26):
Yeah, yeah, it feels it feels great. Just to
know that, especially as actors,we're always so used to, not
having control, just being kindof, I hate this word, but being
kind of desperate, willing tolike, just like, sit there and
shut up because you want thisjob. So it's just nice to, you

(17:49):
know, have room to have a littlebit more space.

Lisa Hopkins (17:53):
To do what you do best. Yeah. Right. Isn't it
ironic that actors who are soyou know, brilliantly, you know,
gifted at doing what they do?
Sometimes we only get the tip ofthe iceberg? Because they don't
feel the permission to do it.
Right. So,

Sarah Booth (18:09):
absolutely. And permission, I think is, well,
it's huge for me, that's onething I've noticed, if someone
gives me any permission in life,I will go 110% Or if they say I
can't do it. So

Lisa Hopkins (18:21):
I love that talk to me about that. So when
someone says to you, you can'tWhat do you rise? Oh,

Sarah Booth (18:26):
I like I just competitive competitive not
competing with anybody else, Iguess. But just competing with
myself, like, Oh, you don'tthink I can do that? Oh, I can
do that. It's just pushed me tolike so many levels. And my
husband really knows I have thatbutton. And he uses it sometimes
during the pandemic, because I'mself taping all the time from

(18:48):
home. I can zoom with friends asreaders, which I do many, many
times. But it's nice to have a,you know, a human in the room
with you reading with you. So hewill and he's a director, so
they would always have so he'llread with me. And sometimes, you
know, if I'm not getting thescene, or I find a challenge in

(19:09):
the scene, be like, I don't knowif I can do this. I don't think
this is me and like he'll findsome way to challenge me. And
I'm like, Okay, let's go. Yeah,

Lisa Hopkins (19:19):
I love it. Yeah, it's a great motivator
sometimes. Right? It is.

Sarah Booth (19:23):
Yeah, it really is.
As long as it's not always. It'sgood.

Lisa Hopkins (19:27):
Yeah, no, that makes it makes perfect sense. So
what is your definition ofliving in the moment?

Sarah Booth (19:33):
My definition is just among the chaos, being able
to recognize that you're in atornado. But being able to take

(19:53):
a breath and enjoy that nomatter what tornado you're in, I
think is It's important becauseI think like the momentum
sometimes of either tragedy orexcitement, you like you're on
the ride, right? It's just like,you're gone. But I feel like
good moments, bad moments to beable to just, like, slow down

(20:16):
that momentum and say like,okay, like, you know, my
grandmother passed away a fewyears ago. But I was able to be
in the room right after shepassed with my family and be
like, This is a beautifulmoment. This is really nice.
It's shitty, but this isactually a really nice moment

(20:39):
for everyone. So I think youknow what I mean? Like just
being able to like, halt for asecond

Lisa Hopkins (20:45):
100% And it sounds like pull backs zoom out as
well,

Sarah Booth (20:49):
right? Yeah. Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (20:52):
Yeah, that's really beautiful. I love Oh,
speaking of assumptions, what domost people assume about you
that they get wrong? Do youthink

Sarah Booth (21:01):
that I'm not nice?

Lisa Hopkins (21:03):
They assume that you're not nice.

Sarah Booth (21:05):
When they let me they don't know me at all. Okay.
So many people meet me in reallife. And they're like, Oh, my
God. You're so nice. And I'mlike, Okay, I guess because of a
lot of people have seen me playreally dramatic stuff. Or, you
know, that's mostly what theysee of me. They assume I'm like

(21:27):
this, like, dandy badass, like,I'm gonna punch you in. No, but
yeah, so many people, Gavin'sfriends because Gavin will post
sorry, Gavin is my husband. Hewill post you know, all he's,
he's very proud has been he'soften like that. And I'll meet

(21:47):
his friends, especially now thatwe live in Windsor, his hometown
of neatest friends. And they'realways like, she still? Has they
only see me through Facebook orwhatever.

Lisa Hopkins (21:57):
That's funny.
Yeah. Interesting. How does thatmake you feel? Like when? Are
you surprised? Like,

Sarah Booth (22:03):
yeah, I was surprised at first, but now it
just makes me feel like I'mdoing a great job.

Lisa Hopkins (22:10):
I love it. That's awesome. What's the one? What
would you say is one bigaudacious goal, that or dream
that you have that that youhaven't really even put out in
the universe yet. There'ssomething you'd like to share.

Sarah Booth (22:26):
I want to travel more. Travel for pleasure.
Wouldn't be nice, more. I travelfor work, which is great. Love
it. But I want to feed theadventurous soul. I haven't
surfed for quite a few years, Istopped when I moved to Los
Angeles. I had Costa Rica on mybucket list. I have Australia on

(22:47):
my bucket list. So many places.
So I would like to set up mylife in a way that I work. And
then I have some time off that Ican be like, see later. For

Lisa Hopkins (23:01):
you. Yeah, put all your energy into that adventure.
Yeah, yeah, that's brilliant. Imean, it's interesting, because
it does sound like you're livinga beautiful kind of balance. I
mean, you're getting lots ofadventure in your work, which is
really, really cool that I'mhearing you say that. I really
want to devote some time to myfirst love of adventure.

Sarah Booth (23:20):
I do. Yeah. I just want to go. You know, ride
horses in the Rockies. Why not?

Lisa Hopkins (23:25):
Well, yeah. 100% Oh, my gosh.

Sarah Booth (23:29):
There's too many beautiful things to see. Like, I
am starting to get FOMO

Lisa Hopkins (23:34):
is that right?
Yeah. That's interesting. What'ssomething that you've seen
recently that you kind of goDang, I want to do that. But I
don't have time.

Sarah Booth (23:41):
Iceland? Huh? Yeah, they have. They put out a
special flights out of Detroitfor like, I think $500 return.
And I was like, That would befun. And everyone says if you're
an outdoorsy person, Iceland isjust totally, yeah, super cool.

Lisa Hopkins (24:02):
Yeah. Is there something like what's one thing
that you don't want people toknow about you that, you know?
Yeah, I know. That's a kind of ayou don't have to answer it. If
you don't want to know

Sarah Booth (24:13):
I well. I think one thing that I don't want people
to know about me, which theyprobably do, but I think they
don't is that I can be reallysensitive. Yeah, I kind of have
more of like a tough, you know,I'm fine. It's good. But yeah, I

(24:34):
think that I that I can bereally sensitive. And I don't
want to show it like I'mdefinitely more emotional than I
show. Which I think I get thatthat's why I love performing
because I can live throughreally interesting, crazy

(24:55):
moments without it It's just youknow, it's there's no stakes in
my real life. Obviously, in thework there is but yeah, yeah,
it's it's fun and weird.

Lisa Hopkins (25:11):
No, it's super interesting because it's like a
such a paradox. I love paradoxesbecause on the one hand, the way
you live your life and with ourconversation about adventure,
right, the ultimate and risk foryou sounds like would be to not
have, you know, not to sort ofconduit, your your sensitivity
through a character, whichactually really serves you

(25:32):
because it's what you do, andyou're serving others. And it's
safe, because you're good atthat. But I'm hearing that the
vulnerability piece is reallyhard.

Sarah Booth (25:42):
Yeah, personally, yes. Yeah, for sure.

Lisa Hopkins (25:46):
Absolutely. And it makes perfect sense that, you

Sarah Booth (25:48):
know, therapy is a wonderful thing.

Lisa Hopkins (25:53):
Well, there's no, it's funny, because, you know,
especially in this world that welive in now, like, there's the
thing about vulnerability asbeing a badge these days, you
know, like, it's, and, you know,we talk about toxic positivity,
we don't talk aboutvulnerability to do you know,
what I mean, like, there's acertain, certain sort of range
of like, you know, we're all ona spectrum, in every moment, in

(26:14):
every day in the big picture inthe world, in our family in our
work. And I think this, youknow, and I mean, I work, you
know, obviously, you know, thecoach, I work with us and
mindset and stuff, but it's notabout attaining one mindset,
just as it's not about gettingone gig, right? I mean, we're
playing one role, right? It'sabout being able to access all
the parts of you. So that whenyou need to play a role, you

(26:37):
can, let's say or, right,

Sarah Booth (26:39):
yeah, and do it in a healthy way too. Because I
remember earlier my career Well,geez, right up to not long ago,
I mean, you know, we'll havedifferent triggers for No, you
know, and they'll last a certainamount of time, and then they'll
get stale, and you need a newtrigger. And most, you know, for
motion and things like that Iused to use, like, you know, sad

(27:03):
triggers, all those things thatyou can think about dog parents,
grandparents, whatever. And thenthat stopped working for me,
like a few months ago. And I waslike, Oh, my losing it, you
know, my moving my guest. Andthen all of a sudden, I realized
what was what would what wasuseful to get me emotional, was

(27:28):
thinking about all the things Iwas happy about. Just like a
total 180. And I was like, oh,that's, I feels healthier. You
know? Yeah. That's sointeresting.

Lisa Hopkins (27:43):
It's really interesting, because the way you
triggered yourself to do whatyou do, well, always worked
until it didn't. And that's thethat's your edge. That's
literally your edge. And that'swhere you you recognize that
what got you here is not goingto get you where you want

Sarah Booth (27:58):
to go. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. You don't want to damageyourself, or you don't want to,
you know, just start phoning itin, if you can't, because you
know it. And that's like,that'll take away your
confidence as a performer.

Lisa Hopkins (28:14):
Well, and there's nothing wrong with doing it the
way you did it. It's just notserving you anymore. Like don't
spend any energy going backgoing. Yeah, that wasn't okay.
It worked. And it was fine. Andyou used it and you're here you
obviously didn't kill you. Yeah,there was there was something
bad about it. Right. Looking inretrospect, it's a waste of time
really saying other thananything we can mine as a gift
to say, how can I use thatmoving forward? This

(28:36):
information? Yeah, yeah, that'sbeautiful. That's pretty cool.
I'm excited for you. And thatsort of knew it was timed well,
too. Right. Synchronicity Iwonder? I think so. Wow. I think
so too. What do you know, we'llwe'll stay true about you.
Really? No matter what happens?
What can no one take away fromyou?

Sarah Booth (29:00):
My sense of humor.
I have, I love to laugh, andhave fun. And I think that's
just in me. Yeah. And yeah, Ifeel like no one could really
take that away from me because Ican make funny jokes in my head.

(29:21):
I don't have to say that outloud. Yeah, yeah. I drive to
hmm, yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (29:33):
If you couldn't do what you do, like if you
couldn't act or let's say youcouldn't even be in the arts.
What What would you do? Do youthink?

Sarah Booth (29:41):
Before I discovered I wanted to be an actor. i My
uncle was the spokesperson for acar company that sponsors a lot
of equestrian events. So he didPR for them he would travel,
present trophies. Whatever, youknow, golf tournament or

(30:02):
whatever he would, so he waskind of there to like,
celebrate, have fun. And I waslike, wow, that's such a fun
job. I would love to do that. Sothat's what I wanted to do. I
was gonna go into communicationscool. And then my high school
started an arts program, thelast two years of high school
for me, and I got cast in a playand I was like, Oh, here we go.

Lisa Hopkins (30:28):
How do you want?
How do you want to beremembered?

Sarah Booth (30:34):
I want to be remembered by someone who is
generous. Who likes to take careof other people. And who people
remember as being really fun.
Yeah, no, I'm gonna be like, thefun. You know, I don't like

(30:58):
children. But I I love kids. Ijust don't want my own won't be
fun. And we can come I'll belike, Yeah, I'm in LA shooting
for the next three months golike that, you know, I that's, I
want to have meaningfulrelationships with, you know, my
nephews and my nieces. But,yeah, like, I don't know, I
just, I guess I just want to beknown as like the fun and

Lisa Hopkins (31:23):
yeah, everybody needs a fun Do you have? I meant
to ask you, where do you fall inthat? Do you have siblings? And
I have an older brother. Got it.
I was curious. Because whenyou're talking about growing up
and being like, reallyadventurous and ballsy and all
that kind of thing. I was like,I meant to ask you earlier like,
Oh, I wonder if she was likebrought up with like a lot of
brothers but just wanted right.

Sarah Booth (31:42):
one older brother and his friends like I would
always want to hang out with theguys always do with the guys.
We're doing high school. Hungout with his friends, David. But
yeah, I just I was always kindof like, yeah, just always with
the dudes. I had a lot ofgirlfriends too, but I don't
know. I didn't. I didn't likethe you know, sometimes there's

(32:07):
like cattiness, or I mean, ithappens on both sides. But I was
like, I was afraid to get tooclose to girls, I would say I
would. It was easier with thedudes. Yeah,

Lisa Hopkins (32:17):
they were to fit the girls have to feel it.
Right.

Sarah Booth (32:19):
Yeah, exactly.
Didn't want to be feeling. Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (32:23):
Understandable.
Right. I love that, though.

Sarah Booth (32:28):
Then we grow up and find out well, men are actually
more sensitive.

Lisa Hopkins (32:34):
They just they just don't know how to do it.
They just don't know how to. Howto navigate that. That's super
interesting.

Sarah Booth (32:41):
But I relate.
Because it's hard for me to.

Lisa Hopkins (32:45):
Yeah, yeah. It's important to,

Sarah Booth (32:48):
to to be able to like to be vulnerable. Yeah.
Yes. Because I feel like I needI need those moments to draw on
in my life. I need to live lifeto the fullest. So I think the
most important parts are whenwe're vulnerable. And if I feel

(33:09):
so much better after I am, ofcourse,

Lisa Hopkins (33:13):
most interesting, what, what does it look like to
vulnerability? Like, how do youdefine it? Because I think it's
defined differently foreverybody, right?

Sarah Booth (33:23):
I think being vulnerables being too scared to
say something but saying itanyways.
I guess talking your truth, eventhough it's terrifying. That
will be vulnerability to me.
Whether it's sad, happy, scary,like being able to just tell

(33:47):
someone something truthful, thatyou want to tell them? Pretty,
pretty powerful. Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (33:58):
Yeah. Thank you, first of all, for sharing that.
What's the fear? Like what's theperceived fear? You know, and I
understand that I hear you. I,you know, and it's interesting.
You said in saying it anyways,what's what's the fear? Like?
What is the worst case scenario?
Do you know what I mean?

Sarah Booth (34:18):
I think it could.
Sometimes it could be come fromsomewhere that you're not sure.
Complete or you don't completelyunderstand your feelings. So
that can be confusing. And maybeunclear to the other person or
your feelings might change. Soyou feel like oh, maybe I
shouldn't mention it now.

(34:38):
Because I'm not 100% Sure, likewhere I'm going with this. or
fear of rejection, fear of beingshamed. Judgment, basically,

Lisa Hopkins (34:51):
I would say, so let's do the rapid fire. Okay,
so I'm gonna say what makes youand you say whatever comes to
your mind. Okay, great. Well,Get. So what inspires you?

Sarah Booth (35:04):
anything around me?

Lisa Hopkins (35:06):
Love it? What makes you sad?

Sarah Booth (35:11):
lonely old people?
Hmm. I could I could cry justthinking that right now.

Lisa Hopkins (35:18):
That's interesting. I mean, why?

Sarah Booth (35:21):
When I see them in public, maybe I make up a story
but I met like when someone'slike old and struggling and
alone, I'm just like, likeimagine having no one. No one
left to be with or take care ofyou.

Lisa Hopkins (35:38):
Sounds like that's a good tool for

Sarah Booth (35:40):
you. Right? Thank you. We just discovered another
one for the old toolbox that wasespecially old men. Hmm. Because
I feel like old women can takecare of themselves. But old men
out there, there's somethingabout it. Huh?

Lisa Hopkins (35:59):
What what frustrates you?

Sarah Booth (36:01):
Oh, I just got like, full of something what
frustrates me like running outof patience. That first like
when when like, you're just likewaiting for something to happen,
and it won't happen. Thatfrustrates me.

Lisa Hopkins (36:21):
Interesting. So you mean running out of
patience? Or do you mean justhaving to be patient?

Sarah Booth (36:25):
Okay, I guess having to be patient? I guess
the frustration comes when I'verun out.

Lisa Hopkins (36:32):
Yeah, it's an important distinction. Right?
Would you consider yourself apatient person?

Sarah Booth (36:37):
No. Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (36:41):
Is that because you haven't had to be and things
have worked well, with yourrhythm? Or?

Sarah Booth (36:45):
I think so. Yeah.
I've like honestly, I don't havevery many complaints in life.
And I think the things that I doget frustrated with are not
like, let's be honest, it's notanything that you know, is life
changing. Well, I mean, youknow, life changing meds but
yeah, it's just I find it hardto get something out of my head

(37:05):
when it's in my head. Yeah, Iget obsessive a little bit

Lisa Hopkins (37:11):
was really interesting. Because your your
body changed completely when youwent, Oh, I just something came
up on me. What was what was yourbrain? Where did it go? Did it
did it actually take you to it'ssomething that you can share?
That is is a recent frustration?
Or was it just purely visceral?
Because it seemed so like,present?

Sarah Booth (37:28):
I think it was just visceral. Yeah. Because I can't
think of a specific interesting,you know, but Oh, yeah. I don't
know why when I know something'scoming like anticipation. It
like have really frustrates me.

Lisa Hopkins (37:45):
How do you do? Are you good with anticipation?
Like, are you like, Are youbetter with this motion?

Sarah Booth (37:50):
I'm better with motion if I'm feeling anxious or
something like that. I run. Justput on my headphones in my
running shoes. And I run runrun.

Lisa Hopkins (38:00):
Yeah. What makes you what makes you hungry?

Sarah Booth (38:04):
Like, physically hungry? Or like, like, hungry?

Lisa Hopkins (38:09):
Whatever you like.
What came to mind first?

Sarah Booth (38:13):
Fit. What makes me hungry is the smell of fresh
bread. I cannot resist. That'sit.

Lisa Hopkins (38:27):
And if it were to be if it were to be something
more esoteric or altruistic,what would it be? And it doesn't
maybe there isn't anything rightnow. That's fine.

Sarah Booth (38:36):
Well, right now, I could say that. What makes me
hungry is a challenge, huh?

Lisa Hopkins (38:43):
No, totally cool.
What makes you angry?

Sarah Booth (38:49):
People that are mean for no reason. Or, I mean,
any reason like there's noreason to be mean, but you know,
what, if someone's just having abad day, and they just like want
to make someone else have a badday. I hate that. So people that
are mean to service people I wasa waitress for ever. And I'm

(39:10):
people that serve clients likecustomer service, any kinds of
those jobs. I've so much respectfor and people who are rude to
these people. I can't deal withthat. I can't.

Lisa Hopkins (39:24):
Yeah, fair enough.
Finally, what makes me grateful.

Sarah Booth (39:31):
My family, my dog.
And I'm really grateful that Ihave really a really strong
support system. Family Friends.

(39:52):
I'm really really lucky withthat. That's pretty cool. I
think yeah, having just havingeveryone be Want to be along for
the ride is really fun.
I brought my mom to thepremiere, and she had so much
fun. And I love seeing that.
That was that was more fun towatch than the show.

Lisa Hopkins (40:13):
That's cool. All the residual Joy right from the
thing. Love it big joy.

Sarah Booth (40:19):
Yeah. Feel very open right now which make
healing.

Lisa Hopkins (40:24):
Oh, well. I mean, yeah, my pleasure just to hold
space. I mean, I just I feelthat artists in particular,
rarely get that because they'reso busy giving, or so busy
perceiving what his needs neededto be given or, you know,
showing up in a certain way andall of that. And it's a huge joy
to me just to offer that toartists. It's

Sarah Booth (40:44):
such, it's also so nice and refreshing. You have
amazing questions. And like itmakes you reflect. And I'll be
thinking about these questions.
Like, you know, for quite a fewdays seemed like, you know, you
just kind of replay it in yourhead. And it's it's, I don't
know, I just love talking anddiscovering more things about

(41:06):
myself and other people.

Lisa Hopkins (41:09):
I love that. Does it make you is it more fun or
more vulnerable for you?

Sarah Booth (41:14):
Oh, I would say vulnerable. Oh, cool. Yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (41:21):
So you had fun being vulnerable a little bit
though?

Sarah Booth (41:23):
I did. Yes. Yeah, I just I just need someone to be
like, push me push me out of theplaying. Yeah, I feel like once
that, once I open up I feel likeit flows but it's just like that
initial.

Lisa Hopkins (41:42):
It's beautiful.
You have a beautiful energy. Oh,thank you. Very beautiful. What
are the top three things thathave happened so far today?

Sarah Booth (41:51):
I got to hang out with my mother in law. Nice. I
had an amazing ride on mypeloton. And my dog got the
cutest haircut

Lisa Hopkins (42:08):
really short or?

Sarah Booth (42:10):
Yeah, it's a little short, but he needs a dog to
have. He's a Yorkie mix withPomeranian he looks like oh my
gosh. He's very cute.

Lisa Hopkins (42:18):
And so finally, what are you most looking
forward to?

Sarah Booth (42:22):
I'm most looking forward to me. I am most looking
forward to that's a really hardone. I think just getting back
to work. Yeah. Seeing what'snext? Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah.

Lisa Hopkins (42:50):
Yeah. He'll give us our oh my gosh, I can't thank
you enough for spending thistime with me again. I know
you're really busy. And it'sbeen such a joy speaking with
you truly.

Sarah Booth (43:04):
Thank you so much.
It's been a joy for me.

Lisa Hopkins (43:06):
It's my pleasure.
I've been speaking today withSarah booth. Thanks for
listening. Stay safe and healthyeveryone and remember to live in
the moment. In music, stop timeis that beautiful moment where
the band is suspended andrhythmic Unison supporting the
soloist to express theirindividuality. In the moment, I
encourage you to take that timeand create your own rhythm.

(43:30):
Until next time, I'm LisaHopkins. Thanks for listening
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