16 episodes

Are you a Performer who actually wants to get paid for your talent? This podcast is for you! Vocal, Performance, and Business Coach Molly Mahoney brings you bi-weekly interviews with performing arts experts helping you to build your performance career. It\'s called Show Business for a reason!

The Prepared Performer Podcast Molly Mahoney: Vocal, Performance and Business Coach interviews Performing Arts Professionals such as Anthony Boyer (Agent with Stage 9/DDO), Molly Tynes (Pippin on Broadway) and Sean Hankison (Barbie\'s Dream House)

    • Arts
    • 4.0 • 5 Ratings

Are you a Performer who actually wants to get paid for your talent? This podcast is for you! Vocal, Performance, and Business Coach Molly Mahoney brings you bi-weekly interviews with performing arts experts helping you to build your performance career. It\'s called Show Business for a reason!

    • video
    TPP015: VIDEOS THAT SHINE WITH SARAH MICHELLE BROWN

    TPP015: VIDEOS THAT SHINE WITH SARAH MICHELLE BROWN

    Sarah Michelle Brown
    Writer, Director, Virtual Video Director
    Sarah Michelle Brown’s passion is for telling stories that reach out and give audiences a powerful experience. She is an award-winning artist who writes and directs for the stage, in music videos, documentaries and narrative films. Since studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York City, Sarah has primarily worked as an indie artist. Most recently, Sarah has turned her 15+ years experience in front of and behind the camera, into a method of training entrepreneurs how to make videos that shine.
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    • 44 min
    • video
    TPPP 014: TRUSTING THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH W/ TATIANA ALVAREZ

    TPPP 014: TRUSTING THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH W/ TATIANA ALVAREZ

    Trusting that you are enough is one of the hardest things an actor can do. Young actress, Tatiana Alvarez recently took a big leap, trusted herself when she was really tempted to try and do the same thing everyone else was doing, and it totally paid off. 
    In this episode learn how to make your best impact in an audition by...
    digging in and really discovering what YOU do best
    celebrating the specifics that cause you to truly shine
    dropping the need to compare yourself to other auditioners
    showing them what you can do, instead of showing them what you can't do
    and 
    being brave enough to know that your only job in an audition is to give them YOUR best and tell a story, you have no control over whether or not you book the gig. 

    • 14 min
    • video
    TPPP013: KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE WORTH AND GETTING IT WITH MARLA DIANN

    TPPP013: KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE WORTH AND GETTING IT WITH MARLA DIANN

    Marla Diann, an entrepreneur, visionary, and philanthropist for over two decades, brings her 20+ years of entertainment publicity, storytelling, and branding expertise with her love of human potential and entrepreneurship to her eight-year-old mentoring company. 



    She is passionate about mentoring creative entrepreneurs in a holistic approach to developing an integrated, trusted, and congruent personal brand as she coaches them how to build a leveraged business based on a healthy money relationship. 



    Together, she and her ambitious clients navigate a clear path to higher, more consistent revenues without compromising their health, well-being, dignity, family or values. 



    She intends for her clients to excel in their industry as the go-to-expert working less (more time for family, travel, passions) while earning more. 



    Marla is a certified Money Breakthrough Method ™ coach who inspires women and men to transform their relationship with money helping them break free of unconscious limiting money habits, gain control of their money behaviors and build a stronger self-worth and higher income. www.marladiann.com 



    Free Gift: www.5essentialstrategies.com 

    In her 10 page comprehensive report, Marla takes the entrepreneur through her innovative personal development style business model of 5 essential strategies. The system helps transform the entrepreneur’s money relationship, mindset, branding strategy, and profitability for sustained growth. 

    • 48 min
    • video
    TPPP 012: BROADWAY KINKY BOOST CAST MEMBER ELLYN MARIE MARSH

    TPPP 012: BROADWAY KINKY BOOST CAST MEMBER ELLYN MARIE MARSH

    Ellen's credits include:
    Broadway: "Cry Baby," "Enron," "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," and "Kinky Boots," as well as lots of fun projects along the way: Regional theater all of the country, theme parks, cruise ships. Most recent tick off the bucket list: voicing a troll for the sleeper hit "Frozen".
    Voice and acting students have started on Broadway and national tours of "Annie," "Lion King," "Matilda," "Fun Home," "Les Miserables," "Mary Poppins," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," "The King and I," "Kinky Boots," and "Beauty and the Beast."
    Follow her on Twitter at:
    https://twitter.com/ellynmarsh

    • 50 min
    • video
    TPPP011: BUSINESS ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS W/ SHELLY CADY

    TPPP011: BUSINESS ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS W/ SHELLY CADY

    Shelly is a Speaker, Coach, and
    the Best Selling Author of “Heartbeat to Happiness: Eight Principles of Living
    a Happy Life.” Shelly is passionate about helping others so that they can live their
    true passionate lives and indeed obtain whatever their heart desires. You can
    learn more about Shelly at: http://www.shellycady.com

    • 30 min
    • video
    TPPP010: ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION - TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN (PART 2) W/ MONTAJA SIMMONS

    TPPP010: ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION - TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN (PART 2) W/ MONTAJA SIMMONS

    Montaja Simmons is a proud native of
    Pittsburgh, PA; she obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Musical Theater
    from Youngstown State University.
    In the second semester of her
    senior year in college, she became an office union member receiving her
    Actors Equity Association Card.
    Now back in her home town of
    Pittsburgh, Pa she continues to pursue her acting career, while trying
    her hand at film work, commercials, voice over work and even Disney
    Princess Impersonating.  You can catch Montaja in her most recent
    Commercial work with Giant Eagle's grocery store.
    Montaja Believes
    everything creative, artistic and inspiring is worth perusing and in the
    near future her very own business to help sharpen the excellence of
    performers of all types will be in full swing.

    • 15 min

Customer Reviews

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5 Ratings

5 Ratings

Deirdre Tshien ,

Great show!

This podcast brings together a great blend of advice and inspiration. It's engaging and filled with practical tips, making it a valuable resource without feeling overly specific or targeted. Molly is amazing! Deirdre

Nancy Showalter ,

Love this podcast!

Listened to the Marla Diann interview Knowing What You Are Worth and Getting It. It was great. And one thing Marla said really resonated with me was that we get paid for our purpose and not our time. Love that. Thanks, Molly and Marla!

Reader Girl📚 ,

Awesome

This podcast is so helpful

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