Whaddup. I'm a performer (currently in Fawlty Towers in the West End). AND I run a business. Because art and commerce can exist together. Quite successfully, in fact. If you're an audience-facing professional, and you want the tips, tricks and techniques used by theatre performers all over the world, then this is the place for you. This is where you get confident, you get charisma, and you start owning the room in a whole new way. This is Showing Up 2.0. It's a vibe.
Summer in London? In November? For realz?
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Maybe not for real, but it's summer in my head, Reader. All I'm thinking about at the moment is next summer in London. I love summer. I'm a South African right down to my core - I am all about summer, sunshine, sweat, suntans. Right now, it's snowing in the UK - every year it takes me a while to get used to this weather. Every year I underdress. Every year I freeze. So, I am already looking ahead to summer next year! WHOOP! I can't wait (only 6 months to go). And I'm already feeling that sense of excitement - the air is warm. The cherry blossoms are in bloom. And I have something incredible to tell you about. An incredible thing is happening in summer next year in one of my favourite cites in the world: LONDON. I am going to be part of a MOVEMENT. And you can be too. Here's how... Every day I talk to women online, and I read their emails, and I see their social posts...and I am amazed that in 2024 we are still talking about how we can raise our voices. Why aren't they already raised? Why aren't they out there, loud and proud for the world to hear? Why are we still so worried about what people will think, how they'll respond, what their reaction will be? So...here's how I'm about to become part of a movement. In June 2025 I will be co-hosting a B.O.L.D Intensive: An in-person transformative retreat. Limited to 12 women. And it's totally fuss-free. No crazy fanfare. No webinars. No fancy-ass prelaunch videos. Just the most incredible mutha-luvin experience I will have been part of since I started my business five years ago. Plus some crazy-ass bonuses and surprises. For an INSANELY low price. The in-person B.O.L.D Brand Intensive Retreat will be a three-and-a-half-day experience where you get to go all-in on your brand. Because the deep work, the soul and think work you want to do on your brand can't be done on the daily. There's too much going on. And the things you'll be doing will get you to push yourself to a new place. A place you know you can get to but you're not sure how to do it. A place where you'll: 👉 position yourself as a thought leader 👉 grow your following 👉 attract new business and speaking opportunities 👉 launch, pivot, or refresh your brand 👉 inspire more people & reach bigger audiences 👉 boost your confidence and push yourself 👉 build lifelong relationships with other like-minded women So EXCITED! Ash PS This isn't a vote. I'm doing it. And I'm doing it with two incredible women. Carol Cox and Diane Diaz of Speaking Your Brand. They have hosted three in-person retreats, to this kind of response. And be supported by me, Carol, Diane and the other women at the retreat. I can't wait to share all the details with you next week (and remember to look out for them amidst the OMFG it's Black Friday nonsense - this is one that will truly change your life). |
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Whaddup. I'm a performer (currently in Fawlty Towers in the West End). AND I run a business. Because art and commerce can exist together. Quite successfully, in fact. If you're an audience-facing professional, and you want the tips, tricks and techniques used by theatre performers all over the world, then this is the place for you. This is where you get confident, you get charisma, and you start owning the room in a whole new way. This is Showing Up 2.0. It's a vibe.
One of the most important things I learned when I was studying voice and performance is this: If your knees are locked, your voice is locked. And it's true. When you stand in front of an audience, take notice of what your knees are doing. If they're locked - I can guarantee you that your voice will be locked too. Here's why: Locking your knees shifts your weight and can lead to shallow breathing. When this happens, it can restrict the proper use of your diaphragm for breath support. And if...
GOOD MORNING, Reader! It's been a couple of weeks! But I am back. I can't say I'm raring to go. That would be a lie and I'd never lie to you. I'm more...in tabletop position to go. Like a horse would be if it wasn't raring. I've been in South Africa for two weeks and it's been absolutely wonderful - but also pretty full-on with family and friends and commitments and dinners and mini-breaks to the bush. Now, I'm back in London, the Fawlty Towers tour has kicked off in Bromley, and I'm planning...
You can listen to this email here: We Must Have Art Apartheid.mp3 I don't have a specific piece of art for you today, Reader. I'm sorry. Rather, I have some musings on why it's so important that we HAVE art. So, I'm going to try and share that with you coherently, on a day, and at a time when I don't feel very coherent at all. I feel quite sad and overwhelmed and helpless. Here we go... I grew up during Apartheid in South Africa. It was a very dark time, the '80s. We really were on the brink...