February 15, 2025 • 35 mins
In this episode, Garrett Gaudet reflects on his recent experience attending Theatre Woodstock's production of Cabaret, which reignited his passion for theatre and performance. He discusses the play's emotional impact, the importance of stepping out of one's comfort zone, and how his background in theatre has influenced his teaching style. Garrett emphasizes the significance of creativity and personal expression in his life and wants to pursue more artistic endeavours.
Takeaways
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Takeaways
- Rediscovering passions can lead to personal growth.
- Experiencing live performances can be transformative.
- Theatre can teach valuable life skills like public speaking.
- Teaching requires performance skills to engage students.
- Creativity should be prioritized in personal projects.
- Stepping out of comfort zones fosters growth.
- Improv skills can enhance teaching and communication.
- Pursuing passions can lead to deeper connections with others.
- It's essential to create for oneself, not just for clients.
- Finding joy in creative expression is essential for fulfillment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the podcast. It's Gara Kadet and I'm
back with another episode. And one of my goals for
this year was to have a monthly podcast that is
currently a managable rate for me in the life style
that I have, And I really don't want to do
an episode a new episode unless there's something I really
want to talk about, and that's what this episode will be.
(00:22):
And I guess every other episode, but I have rediscovered
a passion that I completely forgot about. So this past week,
I attended a performance of Cabaret at Theater Woodstock in Woodstock, Ontario,
where I live, and I was blown away. It was
such a spectacle that really just caught me off guard.
(00:44):
One of if you listen to my last episode, it
was the episode about this I'm tim and kind of
reflecting on my twenty twenty five goals and what I
want to achieve and experience this year, and a big
theme of that was experiencing and doing more more for
me and to see what I can really make of
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everything outside of my work life because there's not much
of a balance. So part of that was to experience
more things and that's very broad, very general, but seeing
doing things and seeing things like a play was part
of that, and it might not have been formalized in yes,
I need to see six plays this year, and that's
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one of the things that I want to do, is
just something where the local theater company is doing a
production and I want to support it. I want to
see it. And that's exactly what I did last week
and this week. I really enjoyed it. I was captivated
by the performances, the passion and the production that goes
into a show like Cabre. And it's definitely a passion
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that I forgot about. And I think that's the interesting
thing about passions. It's how it makes you feel and
what it does to you insider internally, because like I said,
I haven't been involved in theater in a while, or
I haven't been involved in theater in more than fifteen years.
(02:12):
So to go back to a theater where I think
the last time that I went back to that theater,
I was in a production and I'll get to that
in a little bit, it was cool, It was kind
of nostalgic. It was exciting to see the caliber of
performers that were in cabaret. I had never seen cabaret
like I said, I've been very disconnected to theater performing
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arts for a long time, and it's a reason that
I want to see a production like Cabaret, or a
local production like that, as it's so close to me,
so I give it a shot. I didn't know what
Cabaret was. I read a little bit of the synopsis
of the player the story, but I didn't look that
much into it. And I have had no previous experience
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I had. I hadn't seen the film. I hadn't seen
any other production of Cabaret, and I think that was
nice to go in there with your expectations and not
know what was coming. And boy, what I in for
not a rude well, I guess an awakening for sure,
where I won't spoil Cabaret, but it's very much documenting
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life in nineteenth Berlin and the rise of Nazism in
Germany or Weimer or Republic. And it's such a The
tone of the play is so upbeat and live free,
liberating in the first act, and then it gets really
dark in the second progressively gets darker as it is
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synchronized with the political timelines in the country, and it's
it's the thing I kept thinking is like that's a
that's a gut punch. There's so many moments in the
play where the lyrics the lines are so like ooh,
like that was that was rough, Like for someone like
myself who hadn't seen Cabary before. There were so many
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numbers that were like a punch the face or like whoa.
And the stories unfortunately super relevant today and it's I
think a play that everyone should see. I would hope
everyone would have the same takeaways, as there's so much meaning,
depth and really puts into perspective of the lifestyle of
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what a lot of people are complicit of, or shows
kind of what choices we all have. And I think
that was really fascinating to kind of observe that and
to kind of see it play out and unfortunately having
to see this play out again in real time, in
actual life, in our timeline, but is I think the
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performances were just really spectacular, to the point where I
saw it last Thursday and it's like, I have to
see this again. It just had such an impact that
I loved the passion from a lot of the performers.
The MC was brilliant, the actor who played Sally was brilliant,
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even the Yeah, I just can't talk enough about some
of the performances. And this is a local community theater.
It's not professional, let's say. But that's not what I watched.
I would gladly pay to watch that probably another time,
for sure. The play has a two week run, a
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two weekend run, so there's about eight shows and I've
seen two of them. And after I watched the first one,
it really was like an epiphany within watching the performance.
Where I had previously been in one production of Alice
in Wonderland, I think it was like May two thousand
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and nine, so it's been a while. I was, I
was adolescent, I was very much early in my youth
and I want to try acting for a long time.
I was a very shy kid and introverted for sure,
and I want to try something different. I was. Sports
were always a priority, I would say a priority or
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took up most of my time where I was doing
a lot of sports. I was participating in a lot
of sports, athletic, but I wanted something with more connection
because yeah, sports, I enjoyed the competition of sport and
still do to this day. I don't like working at
a gym because I don't feel that competition. But getting
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back to getting into theater, it's something I'd never done before.
My family isn't artsy that way. They're not into art
or performing arts, and I can't say that I had
many friends who were into that as well. So getting
into something like that, that's so out of the lack
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of better term, norm was, I guess, an interesting step
where I was trying something new. I was trying something
different and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the practice of it,
the planning that went into it, all the detail and
even as I forget how old I was, but the
depth of performance that hook to pull something off like that,
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it was really cool. And now that in my line
of work where I'm producing videos all the time, I've
really enjoyed that. So sitting in row see Rosie Years
the third row last week, I was just sitting there,
It's like, this would be cool to do again. This
is something that I forgot that I had such a
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connection with or aspirations for, because a big reason, like
I said that I want to get into theater was
to be part of some productions. That is something that
I want to do. And you know how that was
a current statement it's still something I want to do.
And sitting there watching especially the actor played Sally or
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portrayed Sally Bulls in Cabaret, was really inspiring because just
to see the passion and the range and the emotion,
especially having watched it twice now or seen it twice,
it's really inspiring to see someone just go for it.
And I think that's something I've done a lot in
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my life, is just kind of going for it. Whether
it's starting a business or being a professor in my
early tweees, it's just kind of going for it and
seeing what I can make of it. And I think
that's got a strong correlation to what happens in a
theater production is you put it all on the line.
It's live, there's no second takes, and you just put
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everything into it. And I was just it's really taken
aback of, like Wow, they're all going for it. And
that's something I want to be more involved with when
it comes to performing or creating producing. I want to
make that. I want to make sure that's part of
what I do moving forward. So my impressions of Cabaret amazing,
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I thought once and I have a feeling that my Spotify.
Wrapped is going to really show that I like theater
performing arts, and I did have a theater kid kind
of upbringing. Even though it wasn't like in every production
or a yearly thing, I was exposed to it enough
where I could appreciate it where I think at least
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some of the Cabaret soundtrack from the Allencoming production or
the recording on Spotify will might make an appearance. I'm
almost certain of it right now, at the level that
I've just really become a fan and a little obsessed
with it. Of late, I watched the first production and
I went on YouTube looked for all the different performances.
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I've seen Emma Stone as Sally Bowls on YouTube Amy
Lennox as a great rendition of Cabaret the title song
of Cabaret, and it's some of the best performance I've
ever seen. I've seen that clip so many times now
where I've just kind of mesmerized by her performance. And
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I think the character of Sally Bowls too, because it's
so complex and it's so fascinating to see her character
development throughout everything that's occurred in her life, but also
what we see on stage two. So yeah, I've listened
to the soundtrack a lot. I've seen the three production
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of Cabaret on YouTube and I've watched it again, and yeah,
I still have that great affinity for the play and
it's definitely something everyone should see because it is that emotional,
it's that the depth of it, the music of it
is amazing, and yeah, it's just so, so so good.
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So I'm going to talk about a little bit what
the theater did for me, because I mentioned that I
did one production of Alice Orderline, so that doesn't make
me a theater kid per se at all, but the
fact that I did something like that was kind of
a big deal for me at least where I was
this introverted, shy kid, where I was the kid who
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was a ring bear in a wedding when I was
I think four three or four. I was really young,
but I also ran. I didn't make it down the aisle,
so I was uncomfortable in front of a lot of people,
and then after getting into theater, that really pushed kind
of my comfort level. And I think a lot of
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times growth comes when we get uncomfortable, and that there's
definitely something where there was a lot of growth doing
theater and being in a production and performing in front
of hundreds of people in a musical too. And I
wouldn't say I'm musical. I love music, but I wouldn't
say that I'm good at it by any means. Whatever
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the opposite of perfect pitch is is kind of what
my vocal range is at at least right now, or
my talent. Maybe that's something I look into it to
improving if I want to pursue theater, get more involved
in that for upcoming productions. So it might have to
be ensemble for a long time, but I'm still okay
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with that. But yeah, it's just something that I wouldn't
have thought that would still have such a lasting impact
where over fifteen years later, I'm still looking back and
going my life would be so different if I didn't
do that. It was really a transformative kind of opportunity
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that I didn't realize the weight of, I think at
the time, where it definitely has been such a positive thing,
where now I don't really like I would. I would
say it's still a little nervous or anxious, but I'm
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not afraid to address a room. I'm not afraid to
speak in front of people, I'm not afraid to do
public speaking because of this pressure, test of exposure of
doing that as a kid, and I don't think I
would have done that any other way. And I can
speak from experience of I definitely know how to project
my voice because of the theater, and it's essential where
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it's not where you can just you know, say your
line like this and everyone's going to hear you. You
have to enunciate and project your voice. And that has
really come into my life when I started being a
professor and when I started teaching at the college, and
it's something that I do every week now. And teaching
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is performing, it is performing every class. For example, some
of my classes are three hours, some of my classes
are four hours. And to keep people's attention also my attention,
you really have to demonstrate that you're interested, you're enthusiastic,
and be performative about that. Because if I am lecturing
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on something as forgettable as Microsoft word or the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that is something where I
have to go over the top to get excited about it,
or use performance as a method to illustrate and teach
something that's not as exciting or sexy or interesting for
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some people. You have to be able to really connect
with an audience, and that is really what theaters about.
So in a lot of ways, I do think teachers
or professors or lecturers are very much performers all right,
at least some good ones, where they care about the
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quality of education. They care about what goes into their
performance or what they are communicating to their audience i e.
The students. And it's something that I've definitely practiced. Now.
I've been a professor for seven years and that feels
like a long time, but it has not felt like
a long time. But those seven years of fifteen week
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classes of three hours per course or four hours per course,
that's hundreds of hours now of practice of performing, of
learning improv I love improv. I have been such a
fan of Smash in the last year and always whose
line is anyway, I've always just like something I want
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to do, and that is something that I do want
to do. So it is a practice skill. It is
a skill that you really have to work on where
that just doesn't come naturally. It does every week I
am prepared, but sorry, every week I am prepared. But
that doesn't mean that I know exactly what I'm saying,
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so a lot of it is a little bit improvised
some weeks, a lot of it depending on what I'm teaching.
But that's just kind of what comes with being a teacher,
or at least a lecturer, where you have a rough
idea of where you're going to go with it, kind
of roadmap, But that doesn't mean these stops along the
way are going to be the same every year. Or
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you might mention something one class but add something another class.
It's very different. So I improvisation is definitely another skill
that has helped with teaching, but it's really leaning on
the performance of it, because if I am improvising in
all of my classes, it has to be performative to
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a point where it doesn't look like I'm making it
up on the spot, like it's pre planned. It's got
some sort of end goal, and I always have kind
of a point to the point that I'm making. I
always have where I'm going to end up with it.
That's always for certain. That's certain, but that doesn't mean
I know how to get there. And it's drawing from
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a lot of real world experiences, drawing from case studies
or things that are happening in the world of business
or whatever I'm lecturing in that I can integrate into
something like a class. So it is super performative because
you have to sell it. And I think that's where
I really love watching comedians or Conan O'Brien talk about
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comedy and all these other comedy icons talk about the craft.
I really respect that a lot. I've loved radio and
other styles of performing are that. It's just such a
fan of it, and so I just study it a lot,
and I just really listened to what they are saying.
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So I was listening to an episode of Conan O'Brien
Need a Friend, and he was talking about that some
people would come on his late night show and it'd
be going okay, it wasn't the best kind of interview,
but the interview we would then gesture to the crowd
and say, yeah, sorry about this, it's not going that well.
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And Conan made such a point of to say that
you've just pointed out that the audience isn't getting a
good show, and they didn't know that. They didn't think
that it was going poorly. Because if you aren't either
in the industry or can tell, you're still thinking you're
getting a really good show. So a lot of that
mentality and mindset has been transformative into the way I
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teach as well, where it's even if I'm going to
a classroom, I'm not one hundred percent maybe confident in
kind of what I'm going to say, I still have
to be confident in how I say it and how
I deliver it because that will make a world of
difference to students or to my audience of how it's received,
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how receptive, and how palatable the messaging is to them.
Because if you let on that it's like I that
there's like a hint of doubt in it, you're not
going to be seen as an authority or a credible
figure that they should even care about or pay attention to.
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Especially in a college classroom, that will be exposed really
quickly because it is a college classroom. So it is
trying to captivate an audience, especially in a tough room,
in a tough environment like a college classroom, where students
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are tired, they're overworked, they pull all nighters, and there's
a high workload. So if you're trying to practice the
craft of performing, that's essentially a great audience to work
on because they're not there to necessarily be entertained or
care of what you're talking about, because they're there because
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they're trying to get their diploma, their degree, their education,
and then get out a lot of them aren't as
academic or enthusiastic about learning. But that's your job is
to get them engaged, to get them excited to share
that same enthusiasm when it comes to lecturing or teaching
in this performance. Another thing that I've kind of integrated
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into my teaching is something that they use in radio
when they have coll Ins Talk radio or morning shows
or drive shows will use this a lot where they
have a conversation, they talk about something and then they
ask for the opinion of the audience where they'll say, yeah,
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I had this great dinner at this restaurant, but something
really weird happened where the waiter brought the wrong order
left on the table and I didn't say anything, So
I just had a steak dinner and I was charged
for let's say a salad. If you've had a weird
experience at a restaurant or what would you do in
that scenario? Give us a call at and then they
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call in so I've also implemented that, and that's not
in any I would say teaching handbook or a guidebook
of what to do in a scenario or situation like that.
But it's just another way for people to get involved,
to be heard, to get them participating in the conversation
and bring them into the performance, especially if you want
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to keep an audience engaged. That's exactly how you do that.
And I think a lot of times in my career,
I've spent a lot of time unintentionally training for things
that I want to do, and whether that's social media, marketing, teaching,
I guess now performing and what that looks like. I've
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been practicing a lot and doing hundreds of hours of lecturing.
Now you know, it's it's helpful. It's been helpful to
get up in front of a room and not think
much of it. Yeah, of course I might feel more
nervous than some rooms than another, but you know, I
don't have any issue talking in front of politicians or
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influential people or notable people. It's just part of it.
And some rooms are easier, obviously, because I think everyone
gets nervous. But if I am prepared and I know
exactly what I need to communicate or execute not a problem,
not a problem. So I think that's really what theater
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has done for me. And I would also say that
performing has also been a lot of my podcasting career
because you have to be I did about it. You
have to get people involved, especially with the podcast that
I had with Eating and Weekly. It's a music podcast
with mixes and things like that. There's lots of different options.
You could go to Tiesto, arm Van Buren, Martin Garrick's Hardwell,
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there's so many other options, but I was somehow able
to be as engaging that. I still have half million downloads.
I had half million downloads on that podcast. That's not nothing.
It went to number one, So I did enough of
that as well. I did over three hundred and eighty episodes,
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but I did enough to get those people say, no,
what I'm going to listen to Garrett's podcast. He just
has a style or my music selection. But again it's
still performance, and I think that's where being a DJ
being marketing. It's knowing what your audience wants and understanding
and how to deliver that and identifying what works for
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a specific audience. There's so many kind of correlations with
everything that I do that all are performative, which is
really exciting, especially with some of my new aspirations I
guess or re revised or revisited aspirations of maybe I
do want to be more of a performer because I've
just been doing it my whole life without even knowing
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it to that extent that I do it a lot
and do it well. So it's really just given some
food thought of, like, huh. It's been a big week
of just reflection and trying to understand of how connected
everything that I've done is with performing, and it's been
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eye opening and really inspiring motivating that I've stumbled upon this,
And it was just because of this performance of Cabaret,
which is still maybe as much as an obsession because
it is admiring the passion that goes into the performances
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and kind of the reason why I'm rediscovering this and
it's really exciting. I'm really excited because I think that
I've been doing so much that it's hard to keep
up with what I'm doing and why I'm doing it.
So seeing this example, this catalyst for pushing really pushing
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more forward to what I want to do, has been
really wonderful. Has been this. I think this this thing
that I've been looking for or waiting for, where I
haven't needed something necessarily. But there's an aspect of my
life where I wasn't doing things for me, very work focused,
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as I've always been very career focused, but personally, I
don't have anything for me, and I think I want
this for me. I know I want this for me
because it gives that feeling of now I'm going to
do this, and I'm going to do it for the
love of it or just because I want to be expressive.
And I think that's why I admire so much about
performing at the theater is it is so expressive. It
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is very communicative of an emotion of feeling, and I
think that's really really cool. So when I was at
the theater just last night, so I went last night
to cabare and the last thing I did before I
left the theater was ask someone at the theater of, hey,
do you have an improv group? And she wasn't sure,
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so I have to do some further digging. But I
was very intentional the second time I went to the
theater to find out if there was an improv group
that is definitely something I want to do and will
do if there's something here locally, because it's something that
I want to do and it's a way to just
get into more into performing Because like I said, I'm
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pretty good at improv. I can get myself out of
situations or teach a college solve the class with a
lot of improv. So's it's good to have. It'd be
good to put that into a more performance aspect of
it and not so much of a job situation when
it comes to improv. But improv does come from a
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level of instinct. It comes from a level of understanding
the material or the situation. So it's not like you're
just making up or weighing it. I don't in my
opinion that it's just as you go. It's very much reactionary,
but it's also basing on a level of understanding and
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of the material and the context. So in a classroom,
you're not just weighing it. I'm leaning on the stuff
that I know that I'm qualified to teach. So it's
very transferable into an improv performance in a situation. So
that is something that I'd like to do. When it
comes to that, I would say too with everything that
I produce. So I produce podcasts and short form videos
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for a lot of different clients, and it's still the
production of writing sketches and skits and bits and coming
up with those regularly. Where was it last night? No,
it's the night before. It was the night before, so
it was Thursday recording this on a Saturday. Came up
with a new show concept for one of my clients,
and it's a really great idea and you'll probably see
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it in some point this year because it's going it's
it already got greenlit, so it's going to happen, and
it's going to be I don't probably a spring launch,
i think, but it's one of the more written pieces
or shows or concepts I've done probably ever. And I'm
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just taking bigger swings and making this more professional and
not so much of the social media, because social media
is a big part of what I do, but it's
a production. It's the creative that I love, of finding
ways to market, communicate, storytelling that I really like. Where
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in my teens I was I liked creating short films
and coming up with different ways to make movies and
things like that. So I want to get back to that.
I have a note and I said this in my
last episode that has dozens of different TikTok or short
form sketch ideas, and I'm going to start to dedicate
one day a week to creative stuff for it's for
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me and developing this skill and this untapped intrinsic need
that I want or that I have, or it's like, okay,
now do things for you. You've done things for clients and
everybody else. It's time to flip the switch and make
you the part of that make it and do it
for you because you have all these big ideas and
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visions and I just got to do it for you.
So yeah, that's kind of where things are headed. I'm
really inspired, as you can tell by my tone. Very
different tones than the last episode, as it was kind
of somber, yet playing the foundation for I guess experiences
like this where it's been very intentional of going to
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things like cabaret and doing different experiences so I can grow,
develop and actually get to what I want to do
personally and what I want to achieve without that getting
in the way of anything. So I'm excited. I've reiterated
a couple times but Cabaret has definitely been the thing
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to bring it out of me, and I'm so thankful
that I had that opportunity to see it twice. It
is such an excellent production and I'm sad it's ending,
but I wasn't even part of the production, but it
did so much for me personally, and the story so impactful,
and I'm glad I now have that to revisit, to
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listen to the music, to listen to the Cabaret soundtrack,
and to further develop my writing as a creative because
I don't consider myself a writer, but I do consider
myself as a creator and producer, so I can look
to a story like Capra and go maybe I can
go deeper with my storytelling and be comedic and poignant
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and pointed with a lot of what I'm trying to
communicate through the story or the content that I'm creating,
and utilize that in my own stuff, because there are
some things I want to talk about that is deeper,
but it's just how do I go about that. But
I also want to do more comedy. I really love comedy.
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I'm doing a lot of sketches with my client and
friend Chris for Chrissyafood social media channels, but I also
wanted to do that for me, and I think it's been
a struggle of trying to, you know, be professional, but
it's not about I guess just be a professor, but
I do son. I'm so multi faster that I don't
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have to just be one thing. And I think one
of the takeaways too, after rediscovering kind of a new
forgotten passion is that some of the friends and some
of the connections I've made is just because I've demonstrated
my love for dance music and the passion and express
online in such an authentic way that there'd be a
lot of people in my life or a handful of
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people for sure, then I just won't have that connection
to because I didn't show that. I didn't do that.
I said, maybe I shouldn't be doing that because I'm
known for this one thing. So it's a lot of
great takeaways, at least for me personally, for personal growth
and just for what I want to create. So setting
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aside one day a week for just doing creative things,
for writing, for producing, for shooting, and just getting comfortable
with being uncomfortable taking bigger swings, taking bigger risks and
seeing where that takes me, because I don't know exactly
where I'll be going, but I know that this is
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the direction I want to go in. And I think
even if you don't have anything figured out, if you
at least have a sense of direction of where you
want to go, that's still progress, and that's still taking
a step into what you could be doing or want
to be doing. So super thankful, super grateful that I
got to see Cabaret and definitely follow me on Instagram.
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I've already started to record more vlogs going to the
auto show on Monday in Toronto, and there will be
videos coming out of that, because again, it's taking that
step up what I can do and being more expressive.
I feel like I've really been masking a lot in
the last couple of years, and my content hasn't been
that good, but my clients has been. So it's kind
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of doing more for me and being authentically me, creating
that content I've wanted to do, and being more liberated
in what I can produce and what I can do
on my own dere cadet kind of social channels or platforms.
So yeah, I hope that was interesting. To listen to.
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I think it's always interesting to hear people that are
passionate about what they are interested in and what they
want to do. So I hope there was at least
some sort of takeaway for you of being able to
identify a passion or once you find that one thing
that you love, keep doing it and have fun with it.
I think for a long time that I've kind of
been looking for that thing or the thing hasn't really
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been obvious to me. So I've rediscovered performing and we're
going to do a lot more of it. So and
that continues with these monthly episodes for now of this podcast.
So thank you so much for listening to this podcast.
I know there's so many podcasts out there, so if
you listen all the way through, it means a lot
to me. And if you have any ideas of what
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you think I should be making, or there's something that
you've recently discovered, a passion that you found out that
you have or I've always had, I'd love to hear
you talk about it. I just want to be inspired
by other people that are passionate, and I think that
creates better communities and you can just relate to people better,
so I will leave it there. Make sure to give
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me a follow on Instagram if you haven't already at
Garret Gadnett. You can find that in the podcast description
and subscribe to this podcast for more episodes where I
talk passionately at whatever's on my mind. And there might
be something specific each month, or it just might be
more of a personal pod. But thank you for listening
and I'll see you next time.
Welcome back to the podcast. It's Gara Kadet and I'm
back with another episode. And one of my goals for
this year was to have a monthly podcast that is
currently a managable rate for me in the life style
that I have, And I really don't want to do
an episode a new episode unless there's something I really
want to talk about, and that's what this episode will be.
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And I guess every other episode, but I have rediscovered
a passion that I completely forgot about. So this past week,
I attended a performance of Cabaret at Theater Woodstock in Woodstock, Ontario,
where I live, and I was blown away. It was
such a spectacle that really just caught me off guard.
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One of if you listen to my last episode, it
was the episode about this I'm tim and kind of
reflecting on my twenty twenty five goals and what I
want to achieve and experience this year, and a big
theme of that was experiencing and doing more more for
me and to see what I can really make of
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everything outside of my work life because there's not much
of a balance. So part of that was to experience
more things and that's very broad, very general, but seeing
doing things and seeing things like a play was part
of that, and it might not have been formalized in yes,
I need to see six plays this year, and that's
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one of the things that I want to do, is
just something where the local theater company is doing a
production and I want to support it. I want to
see it. And that's exactly what I did last week
and this week. I really enjoyed it. I was captivated
by the performances, the passion and the production that goes
into a show like Cabre. And it's definitely a passion
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that I forgot about. And I think that's the interesting
thing about passions. It's how it makes you feel and
what it does to you insider internally, because like I said,
I haven't been involved in theater in a while, or
I haven't been involved in theater in more than fifteen years.
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So to go back to a theater where I think
the last time that I went back to that theater,
I was in a production and I'll get to that
in a little bit, it was cool, It was kind
of nostalgic. It was exciting to see the caliber of
performers that were in cabaret. I had never seen cabaret
like I said, I've been very disconnected to theater performing
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arts for a long time, and it's a reason that
I want to see a production like Cabaret, or a
local production like that, as it's so close to me,
so I give it a shot. I didn't know what
Cabaret was. I read a little bit of the synopsis
of the player the story, but I didn't look that
much into it. And I have had no previous experience
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I had. I hadn't seen the film. I hadn't seen
any other production of Cabaret, and I think that was
nice to go in there with your expectations and not
know what was coming. And boy, what I in for
not a rude well, I guess an awakening for sure,
where I won't spoil Cabaret, but it's very much documenting
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life in nineteenth Berlin and the rise of Nazism in
Germany or Weimer or Republic. And it's such a The
tone of the play is so upbeat and live free,
liberating in the first act, and then it gets really
dark in the second progressively gets darker as it is
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synchronized with the political timelines in the country, and it's
it's the thing I kept thinking is like that's a
that's a gut punch. There's so many moments in the
play where the lyrics the lines are so like ooh,
like that was that was rough, Like for someone like
myself who hadn't seen Cabary before. There were so many
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numbers that were like a punch the face or like whoa.
And the stories unfortunately super relevant today and it's I
think a play that everyone should see. I would hope
everyone would have the same takeaways, as there's so much meaning,
depth and really puts into perspective of the lifestyle of
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what a lot of people are complicit of, or shows
kind of what choices we all have. And I think
that was really fascinating to kind of observe that and
to kind of see it play out and unfortunately having
to see this play out again in real time, in
actual life, in our timeline, but is I think the
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performances were just really spectacular, to the point where I
saw it last Thursday and it's like, I have to
see this again. It just had such an impact that
I loved the passion from a lot of the performers.
The MC was brilliant, the actor who played Sally was brilliant,
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even the Yeah, I just can't talk enough about some
of the performances. And this is a local community theater.
It's not professional, let's say. But that's not what I watched.
I would gladly pay to watch that probably another time,
for sure. The play has a two week run, a
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two weekend run, so there's about eight shows and I've
seen two of them. And after I watched the first one,
it really was like an epiphany within watching the performance.
Where I had previously been in one production of Alice
in Wonderland, I think it was like May two thousand
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and nine, so it's been a while. I was, I
was adolescent, I was very much early in my youth
and I want to try acting for a long time.
I was a very shy kid and introverted for sure,
and I want to try something different. I was. Sports
were always a priority, I would say a priority or
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took up most of my time where I was doing
a lot of sports. I was participating in a lot
of sports, athletic, but I wanted something with more connection
because yeah, sports, I enjoyed the competition of sport and
still do to this day. I don't like working at
a gym because I don't feel that competition. But getting
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back to getting into theater, it's something I'd never done before.
My family isn't artsy that way. They're not into art
or performing arts, and I can't say that I had
many friends who were into that as well. So getting
into something like that, that's so out of the lack
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of better term, norm was, I guess, an interesting step
where I was trying something new. I was trying something
different and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the practice of it,
the planning that went into it, all the detail and
even as I forget how old I was, but the
depth of performance that hook to pull something off like that,
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it was really cool. And now that in my line
of work where I'm producing videos all the time, I've
really enjoyed that. So sitting in row see Rosie Years
the third row last week, I was just sitting there,
It's like, this would be cool to do again. This
is something that I forgot that I had such a
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connection with or aspirations for, because a big reason, like
I said that I want to get into theater was
to be part of some productions. That is something that
I want to do. And you know how that was
a current statement it's still something I want to do.
And sitting there watching especially the actor played Sally or
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portrayed Sally Bulls in Cabaret, was really inspiring because just
to see the passion and the range and the emotion,
especially having watched it twice now or seen it twice,
it's really inspiring to see someone just go for it.
And I think that's something I've done a lot in
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my life, is just kind of going for it. Whether
it's starting a business or being a professor in my
early tweees, it's just kind of going for it and
seeing what I can make of it. And I think
that's got a strong correlation to what happens in a
theater production is you put it all on the line.
It's live, there's no second takes, and you just put
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everything into it. And I was just it's really taken
aback of, like Wow, they're all going for it. And
that's something I want to be more involved with when
it comes to performing or creating producing. I want to
make that. I want to make sure that's part of
what I do moving forward. So my impressions of Cabaret amazing,
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I thought once and I have a feeling that my Spotify.
Wrapped is going to really show that I like theater
performing arts, and I did have a theater kid kind
of upbringing. Even though it wasn't like in every production
or a yearly thing, I was exposed to it enough
where I could appreciate it where I think at least
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some of the Cabaret soundtrack from the Allencoming production or
the recording on Spotify will might make an appearance. I'm
almost certain of it right now, at the level that
I've just really become a fan and a little obsessed
with it. Of late, I watched the first production and
I went on YouTube looked for all the different performances.
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I've seen Emma Stone as Sally Bowls on YouTube Amy
Lennox as a great rendition of Cabaret the title song
of Cabaret, and it's some of the best performance I've
ever seen. I've seen that clip so many times now
where I've just kind of mesmerized by her performance. And
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I think the character of Sally Bowls too, because it's
so complex and it's so fascinating to see her character
development throughout everything that's occurred in her life, but also
what we see on stage two. So yeah, I've listened
to the soundtrack a lot. I've seen the three production
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of Cabaret on YouTube and I've watched it again, and yeah,
I still have that great affinity for the play and
it's definitely something everyone should see because it is that emotional,
it's that the depth of it, the music of it
is amazing, and yeah, it's just so, so so good.
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So I'm going to talk about a little bit what
the theater did for me, because I mentioned that I
did one production of Alice Orderline, so that doesn't make
me a theater kid per se at all, but the
fact that I did something like that was kind of
a big deal for me at least where I was
this introverted, shy kid, where I was the kid who
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was a ring bear in a wedding when I was
I think four three or four. I was really young,
but I also ran. I didn't make it down the aisle,
so I was uncomfortable in front of a lot of people,
and then after getting into theater, that really pushed kind
of my comfort level. And I think a lot of
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times growth comes when we get uncomfortable, and that there's
definitely something where there was a lot of growth doing
theater and being in a production and performing in front
of hundreds of people in a musical too. And I
wouldn't say I'm musical. I love music, but I wouldn't
say that I'm good at it by any means. Whatever
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the opposite of perfect pitch is is kind of what
my vocal range is at at least right now, or
my talent. Maybe that's something I look into it to
improving if I want to pursue theater, get more involved
in that for upcoming productions. So it might have to
be ensemble for a long time, but I'm still okay
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with that. But yeah, it's just something that I wouldn't
have thought that would still have such a lasting impact
where over fifteen years later, I'm still looking back and
going my life would be so different if I didn't
do that. It was really a transformative kind of opportunity
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that I didn't realize the weight of, I think at
the time, where it definitely has been such a positive thing,
where now I don't really like I would. I would
say it's still a little nervous or anxious, but I'm
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not afraid to address a room. I'm not afraid to
speak in front of people, I'm not afraid to do
public speaking because of this pressure, test of exposure of
doing that as a kid, and I don't think I
would have done that any other way. And I can
speak from experience of I definitely know how to project
my voice because of the theater, and it's essential where
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it's not where you can just you know, say your
line like this and everyone's going to hear you. You
have to enunciate and project your voice. And that has
really come into my life when I started being a
professor and when I started teaching at the college, and
it's something that I do every week now. And teaching
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is performing, it is performing every class. For example, some
of my classes are three hours, some of my classes
are four hours. And to keep people's attention also my attention,
you really have to demonstrate that you're interested, you're enthusiastic,
and be performative about that. Because if I am lecturing
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on something as forgettable as Microsoft word or the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that is something where I
have to go over the top to get excited about it,
or use performance as a method to illustrate and teach
something that's not as exciting or sexy or interesting for
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some people. You have to be able to really connect
with an audience, and that is really what theaters about.
So in a lot of ways, I do think teachers
or professors or lecturers are very much performers all right,
at least some good ones, where they care about the
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quality of education. They care about what goes into their
performance or what they are communicating to their audience i e.
The students. And it's something that I've definitely practiced. Now.
I've been a professor for seven years and that feels
like a long time, but it has not felt like
a long time. But those seven years of fifteen week
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classes of three hours per course or four hours per course,
that's hundreds of hours now of practice of performing, of
learning improv I love improv. I have been such a
fan of Smash in the last year and always whose
line is anyway, I've always just like something I want
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to do, and that is something that I do want
to do. So it is a practice skill. It is
a skill that you really have to work on where
that just doesn't come naturally. It does every week I
am prepared, but sorry, every week I am prepared. But
that doesn't mean that I know exactly what I'm saying,
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so a lot of it is a little bit improvised
some weeks, a lot of it depending on what I'm teaching.
But that's just kind of what comes with being a teacher,
or at least a lecturer, where you have a rough
idea of where you're going to go with it, kind
of roadmap, But that doesn't mean these stops along the
way are going to be the same every year. Or
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you might mention something one class but add something another class.
It's very different. So I improvisation is definitely another skill
that has helped with teaching, but it's really leaning on
the performance of it, because if I am improvising in
all of my classes, it has to be performative to
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a point where it doesn't look like I'm making it
up on the spot, like it's pre planned. It's got
some sort of end goal, and I always have kind
of a point to the point that I'm making. I
always have where I'm going to end up with it.
That's always for certain. That's certain, but that doesn't mean
I know how to get there. And it's drawing from
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a lot of real world experiences, drawing from case studies
or things that are happening in the world of business
or whatever I'm lecturing in that I can integrate into
something like a class. So it is super performative because
you have to sell it. And I think that's where
I really love watching comedians or Conan O'Brien talk about
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comedy and all these other comedy icons talk about the craft.
I really respect that a lot. I've loved radio and
other styles of performing are that. It's just such a
fan of it, and so I just study it a lot,
and I just really listened to what they are saying.
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So I was listening to an episode of Conan O'Brien
Need a Friend, and he was talking about that some
people would come on his late night show and it'd
be going okay, it wasn't the best kind of interview,
but the interview we would then gesture to the crowd
and say, yeah, sorry about this, it's not going that well.
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And Conan made such a point of to say that
you've just pointed out that the audience isn't getting a
good show, and they didn't know that. They didn't think
that it was going poorly. Because if you aren't either
in the industry or can tell, you're still thinking you're
getting a really good show. So a lot of that
mentality and mindset has been transformative into the way I
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teach as well, where it's even if I'm going to
a classroom, I'm not one hundred percent maybe confident in
kind of what I'm going to say, I still have
to be confident in how I say it and how
I deliver it because that will make a world of
difference to students or to my audience of how it's received,
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how receptive, and how palatable the messaging is to them.
Because if you let on that it's like I that
there's like a hint of doubt in it, you're not
going to be seen as an authority or a credible
figure that they should even care about or pay attention to.
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Especially in a college classroom, that will be exposed really
quickly because it is a college classroom. So it is
trying to captivate an audience, especially in a tough room,
in a tough environment like a college classroom, where students
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are tired, they're overworked, they pull all nighters, and there's
a high workload. So if you're trying to practice the
craft of performing, that's essentially a great audience to work
on because they're not there to necessarily be entertained or
care of what you're talking about, because they're there because
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they're trying to get their diploma, their degree, their education,
and then get out a lot of them aren't as
academic or enthusiastic about learning. But that's your job is
to get them engaged, to get them excited to share
that same enthusiasm when it comes to lecturing or teaching
in this performance. Another thing that I've kind of integrated
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into my teaching is something that they use in radio
when they have coll Ins Talk radio or morning shows
or drive shows will use this a lot where they
have a conversation, they talk about something and then they
ask for the opinion of the audience where they'll say, yeah,
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I had this great dinner at this restaurant, but something
really weird happened where the waiter brought the wrong order
left on the table and I didn't say anything, So
I just had a steak dinner and I was charged
for let's say a salad. If you've had a weird
experience at a restaurant or what would you do in
that scenario? Give us a call at and then they
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call in so I've also implemented that, and that's not
in any I would say teaching handbook or a guidebook
of what to do in a scenario or situation like that.
But it's just another way for people to get involved,
to be heard, to get them participating in the conversation
and bring them into the performance, especially if you want
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to keep an audience engaged. That's exactly how you do that.
And I think a lot of times in my career,
I've spent a lot of time unintentionally training for things
that I want to do, and whether that's social media, marketing, teaching,
I guess now performing and what that looks like. I've
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been practicing a lot and doing hundreds of hours of lecturing.
Now you know, it's it's helpful. It's been helpful to
get up in front of a room and not think
much of it. Yeah, of course I might feel more
nervous than some rooms than another, but you know, I
don't have any issue talking in front of politicians or
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influential people or notable people. It's just part of it.
And some rooms are easier, obviously, because I think everyone
gets nervous. But if I am prepared and I know
exactly what I need to communicate or execute not a problem,
not a problem. So I think that's really what theater
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has done for me. And I would also say that
performing has also been a lot of my podcasting career
because you have to be I did about it. You
have to get people involved, especially with the podcast that
I had with Eating and Weekly. It's a music podcast
with mixes and things like that. There's lots of different options.
You could go to Tiesto, arm Van Buren, Martin Garrick's Hardwell,
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there's so many other options, but I was somehow able
to be as engaging that. I still have half million downloads.
I had half million downloads on that podcast. That's not nothing.
It went to number one, So I did enough of
that as well. I did over three hundred and eighty episodes,
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but I did enough to get those people say, no,
what I'm going to listen to Garrett's podcast. He just
has a style or my music selection. But again it's
still performance, and I think that's where being a DJ
being marketing. It's knowing what your audience wants and understanding
and how to deliver that and identifying what works for
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a specific audience. There's so many kind of correlations with
everything that I do that all are performative, which is
really exciting, especially with some of my new aspirations I
guess or re revised or revisited aspirations of maybe I
do want to be more of a performer because I've
just been doing it my whole life without even knowing
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it to that extent that I do it a lot
and do it well. So it's really just given some
food thought of, like, huh. It's been a big week
of just reflection and trying to understand of how connected
everything that I've done is with performing, and it's been
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eye opening and really inspiring motivating that I've stumbled upon this,
And it was just because of this performance of Cabaret,
which is still maybe as much as an obsession because
it is admiring the passion that goes into the performances
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and kind of the reason why I'm rediscovering this and
it's really exciting. I'm really excited because I think that
I've been doing so much that it's hard to keep
up with what I'm doing and why I'm doing it.
So seeing this example, this catalyst for pushing really pushing
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more forward to what I want to do, has been
really wonderful. Has been this. I think this this thing
that I've been looking for or waiting for, where I
haven't needed something necessarily. But there's an aspect of my
life where I wasn't doing things for me, very work focused,
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as I've always been very career focused, but personally, I
don't have anything for me, and I think I want
this for me. I know I want this for me
because it gives that feeling of now I'm going to
do this, and I'm going to do it for the
love of it or just because I want to be expressive.
And I think that's why I admire so much about
performing at the theater is it is so expressive. It
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is very communicative of an emotion of feeling, and I
think that's really really cool. So when I was at
the theater just last night, so I went last night
to cabare and the last thing I did before I
left the theater was ask someone at the theater of, hey,
do you have an improv group? And she wasn't sure,
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so I have to do some further digging. But I
was very intentional the second time I went to the
theater to find out if there was an improv group
that is definitely something I want to do and will
do if there's something here locally, because it's something that
I want to do and it's a way to just
get into more into performing Because like I said, I'm
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pretty good at improv. I can get myself out of
situations or teach a college solve the class with a
lot of improv. So's it's good to have. It'd be
good to put that into a more performance aspect of
it and not so much of a job situation when
it comes to improv. But improv does come from a
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level of instinct. It comes from a level of understanding
the material or the situation. So it's not like you're
just making up or weighing it. I don't in my
opinion that it's just as you go. It's very much reactionary,
but it's also basing on a level of understanding and
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of the material and the context. So in a classroom,
you're not just weighing it. I'm leaning on the stuff
that I know that I'm qualified to teach. So it's
very transferable into an improv performance in a situation. So
that is something that I'd like to do. When it
comes to that, I would say too with everything that
I produce. So I produce podcasts and short form videos
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for a lot of different clients, and it's still the
production of writing sketches and skits and bits and coming
up with those regularly. Where was it last night? No,
it's the night before. It was the night before, so
it was Thursday recording this on a Saturday. Came up
with a new show concept for one of my clients,
and it's a really great idea and you'll probably see
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it in some point this year because it's going it's
it already got greenlit, so it's going to happen, and
it's going to be I don't probably a spring launch,
i think, but it's one of the more written pieces
or shows or concepts I've done probably ever. And I'm
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just taking bigger swings and making this more professional and
not so much of the social media, because social media
is a big part of what I do, but it's
a production. It's the creative that I love, of finding
ways to market, communicate, storytelling that I really like. Where
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in my teens I was I liked creating short films
and coming up with different ways to make movies and
things like that. So I want to get back to that.
I have a note and I said this in my
last episode that has dozens of different TikTok or short
form sketch ideas, and I'm going to start to dedicate
one day a week to creative stuff for it's for
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me and developing this skill and this untapped intrinsic need
that I want or that I have, or it's like, okay,
now do things for you. You've done things for clients and
everybody else. It's time to flip the switch and make
you the part of that make it and do it
for you because you have all these big ideas and
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visions and I just got to do it for you.
So yeah, that's kind of where things are headed. I'm
really inspired, as you can tell by my tone. Very
different tones than the last episode, as it was kind
of somber, yet playing the foundation for I guess experiences
like this where it's been very intentional of going to
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things like cabaret and doing different experiences so I can grow,
develop and actually get to what I want to do
personally and what I want to achieve without that getting
in the way of anything. So I'm excited. I've reiterated
a couple times but Cabaret has definitely been the thing
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to bring it out of me, and I'm so thankful
that I had that opportunity to see it twice. It
is such an excellent production and I'm sad it's ending,
but I wasn't even part of the production, but it
did so much for me personally, and the story so impactful,
and I'm glad I now have that to revisit, to
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listen to the music, to listen to the Cabaret soundtrack,
and to further develop my writing as a creative because
I don't consider myself a writer, but I do consider
myself as a creator and producer, so I can look
to a story like Capra and go maybe I can
go deeper with my storytelling and be comedic and poignant
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and pointed with a lot of what I'm trying to
communicate through the story or the content that I'm creating,
and utilize that in my own stuff, because there are
some things I want to talk about that is deeper,
but it's just how do I go about that. But
I also want to do more comedy. I really love comedy.
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I'm doing a lot of sketches with my client and
friend Chris for Chrissyafood social media channels, but I also
wanted to do that for me, and I think it's been
a struggle of trying to, you know, be professional, but
it's not about I guess just be a professor, but
I do son. I'm so multi faster that I don't
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have to just be one thing. And I think one
of the takeaways too, after rediscovering kind of a new
forgotten passion is that some of the friends and some
of the connections I've made is just because I've demonstrated
my love for dance music and the passion and express
online in such an authentic way that there'd be a
lot of people in my life or a handful of
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people for sure, then I just won't have that connection
to because I didn't show that. I didn't do that.
I said, maybe I shouldn't be doing that because I'm
known for this one thing. So it's a lot of
great takeaways, at least for me personally, for personal growth
and just for what I want to create. So setting
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aside one day a week for just doing creative things,
for writing, for producing, for shooting, and just getting comfortable
with being uncomfortable taking bigger swings, taking bigger risks and
seeing where that takes me, because I don't know exactly
where I'll be going, but I know that this is
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the direction I want to go in. And I think
even if you don't have anything figured out, if you
at least have a sense of direction of where you
want to go, that's still progress, and that's still taking
a step into what you could be doing or want
to be doing. So super thankful, super grateful that I
got to see Cabaret and definitely follow me on Instagram.
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I've already started to record more vlogs going to the
auto show on Monday in Toronto, and there will be
videos coming out of that, because again, it's taking that
step up what I can do and being more expressive.
I feel like I've really been masking a lot in
the last couple of years, and my content hasn't been
that good, but my clients has been. So it's kind
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of doing more for me and being authentically me, creating
that content I've wanted to do, and being more liberated
in what I can produce and what I can do
on my own dere cadet kind of social channels or platforms.
So yeah, I hope that was interesting. To listen to.
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I think it's always interesting to hear people that are
passionate about what they are interested in and what they
want to do. So I hope there was at least
some sort of takeaway for you of being able to
identify a passion or once you find that one thing
that you love, keep doing it and have fun with it.
I think for a long time that I've kind of
been looking for that thing or the thing hasn't really
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been obvious to me. So I've rediscovered performing and we're
going to do a lot more of it. So and
that continues with these monthly episodes for now of this podcast.
So thank you so much for listening to this podcast.
I know there's so many podcasts out there, so if
you listen all the way through, it means a lot
to me. And if you have any ideas of what
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you think I should be making, or there's something that
you've recently discovered, a passion that you found out that
you have or I've always had, I'd love to hear
you talk about it. I just want to be inspired
by other people that are passionate, and I think that
creates better communities and you can just relate to people better,
so I will leave it there. Make sure to give
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me a follow on Instagram if you haven't already at
Garret Gadnett. You can find that in the podcast description
and subscribe to this podcast for more episodes where I
talk passionately at whatever's on my mind. And there might
be something specific each month, or it just might be
more of a personal pod. But thank you for listening
and I'll see you next time.
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