Welcome to the "Conversations with Alya Lei" podcast; where actor, improviser and audiobook narrator, Alya Lei brings you weekly episodes filled with inspiration and insight. Each episode features captivating guest interviews, valuable resources, and/or uplifting content. Join us as we explore the journeys, challenges, and successes of creatives and entrepreneurs, offering wisdom and motivation to fuel your own path.
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Strategy to be a successful actor no matter where you live! With award-winning actor, Chrissy Hogue Bartels
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Strategy to be a successful actor no matter where you live! With award-winning actor, Chrissy Hogue Bartels Chrissy Hogue Bartels shares her journey as an actor, challenges of being "derailed" from acting and her strategy to be successful as an actor no matter where you live! Chrissy is a multi-award winning actor with a recent Best Supporting Actr…
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Arron Lloyd: Actor & Success Coach. How Arron went from growing up in the inner city to being in a commercial for the NFL and a success coach sharing stages with Les Brown and Joseph McClendon III!!
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Arron Lloyd was born in the inner city in a single mother household, Arron has an appreciation for what it takes to create the life you deserve. As a theater, TV/Film actor and certified one star dual elite neuroencoding specialist, Arron helps actors/creatives & entrepreneurs encode themselves to default to their best. Helping them eliminate, miti…
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Transitioning to a "new" podcast: CONVERSATIONS with Alya Lei
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The Actor's Resource podcast is changing!! We are transitioning to this podcast: CONVERSATIONS with Alya Lei. The purpose of the podcast will remain the same: Inspire, Inform, and/or Uplift with guest interviews - the new difference is we are including guests from outside of the entertainment industry, also! Please join me over there! Thank you for…
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Max Muscato - Founder of Rock Autism Music Festival
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Max Muscato is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and philanthropist. As a rock artist he brings electrifying performances to every show. Over the last several years Max has gained an extensive following and has toured and opened for: Our Lady Peace, Citizen Cope, Theory of a Deadman, Aaron Carter, Finger Eleven, Ripe, The Allman Be…
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Success Interview with Catherine Campion - Voiceover Artist and Death Midwife
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Catherine Campion is a lifer in the entertainment industry. She has been working as an actress non-stop since she was 16 - first in theater, then commercials, followed by TV & features. Some favorite roles have been a foul-mouthed cancer patient on Weeds; a MN Iron Range mom standing up to Charlize Theron in North Country; and a nerdy gamer in Silv…
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Success Interview with Michael Vincent Berry, actor and Tony nominated coach
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Michael Vincent Berry is a Texas-born Actor most known for his roles in American Tragedies: WACO The Trials, Law and Order SVU, Better Call Saul and THEM. Other notable projects include the multi-award winning Crude Massacre, Last of the Grads and the LGBT dystopian film; Innocent Boy. Michael is a veteran stage actor and former Chair of Theatre an…
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Success Interview with Josh Murray award-winning actor
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Success Interview with award-winning actor, Josh Murray - General Hospital, Christmas at the Greenbrier, Gym Rat. Josh Murray debuted nationally in TV movie "Killing Lincoln" (as assassin Lewis Powell) – Executive Produced by Ridley Scott and narrated by Tom Hanks – it set a record in viewership on the National Geographic Channel. Since then he has…
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Success Interview with Elaine Rivkin, SAG-AFTRA, AEA actor - Season 2, episode 9
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Success Interview with Elaine Rivkin, SAG-AFTRA, AEA actor Elaine Rivkin is a recent transplant to Los Angeles from Chicago, where she spent decades acting, teaching, producing, and freelancing in casting. Her stage credits include Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens, Writers, Northlight, Milwaukee Rep, Geva, and many others. Since moving to LA, s…
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Jake Diamond is an award-winning editor with over 20 years of experience in Film and Television. From feature films and documentaries, to TV shows such as 90 Day Fiancé and the The Colbert Report, his projects have run the full gamut. He is also starting a new career as a filmmaker. He had made a few short films, and recently created the "Doin' Gre…
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Roxanna Lewis - Award Winning Filmmaker - Success Story
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The Actor's Resource Podcast interviews Roxanna Lewis - an award-winning filmmaker to hear Roxanna share her success story, including her near death experience which helped Roxanna define her creative choices. Roxanna's creative approach to film making originates from her deep roots as a theatrical director and choreographer. Her work has been pres…
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Ruth Haney: Hollywood Makeup Artist Success Story
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Success Story: Ruth Haney, Hollywood Studio Union Makeup Artist for over 25 years. Ruth moved from Albany, New York to Los Angeles around 1980. She had a chance meeting while waitressing that changed her life and opened the doors to the world of studio makeup. Ruth is a fine artist, so makeup was an easy transition, using color and brushes, on peop…
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Marti Mongiello - genius, veteran, director, producer, author, CEO, White House chef and the list goes on and on... Marti's current television series, Inside the President's Cabinet, launched in 2019 and is renewed for two additional seasons into 2022.
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Chalis Romero grew up in the Salt Lake City Valley, Utah. She graduated from Cal State University, Fullerton with a degree in Radio, TV & Film. First job in "the industry" was in reality TV. After a couple of years she got a job in scripted TV as an office PA and then as a producer's assistant. She was accepted into the DGA Training program in 2013…
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Lauren Buglioli - currently a series regular on Netflix's "Florida Man" (currently in production) was born in Los Angeles where she worked as an actress before moving to London, England for middle and high school, where she continued to work in film, television and theatre. She’s a graduate of the American School in London… so don’t be disappointed…
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An accomplished producer and showrunner with an extensive background in science fiction television, Montreal-born Joseph Mallozzi began his career in the entertainment industry as an animator and later as a writer. He worked developing more than 100 hours of television programming for various children’s series, including Animal Crackers, The Little…
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Shawn Maus is sincere, frank, curious, ambitious and humorous – or so he’s been told. Writer, mentor, screenwriter, playwright and life adventurer. Shawn is the creator and host of the podcast “Art in Your Heart.” His TV pilot “Soulcatch” was a quarterfinalist in the Chicago Screenplay Awards and his feature script “Boxes” has received numerous rec…
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Do's and Don'ts in the Audition Room / Self-Tape
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Our guest is Karina Ruth Walters, who is a proud member of the Casting Society of America (CSA) and has 15 years of casting experience (including S.W.A.T., UnREAL, Burn Notice, The Shield, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows, The Watch). She has worked as a full Casting Director since 2012 and prior to that, she was a Casting Associa…
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David Dean Bottrell has played guest star roles on shows like “Modern Family,” “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Mad Men,” "Longmire," "Rectify," “Justified,” “True Blood,” “Bones,” “Castle,” “Criminal Minds,” "CSI," “NCIS,” “Ugly Betty,” “iCarly” and “Boston Legal” to name just a few. His many theatre credits include Second Stage, Long Wharf, …
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Big Reveal from a Series Regular on "Ruthless"
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Yvonne Senat Jones - series regular on Tyler Perry's "Ruthless" shares with us how she was cast as "Tally" and also has a big reveal!! Yvonne was born in Dallas, TX. She is of Bolivian-Haitian descent and is fluent in Spanish. She fell in love with acting at El Camino College under the instruction of Mr.Ron Scarlata. She transferred to Cal State Lo…
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What is the one thing a successful actor needs?
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In this episode, Kurt Koehler shares his top tip on the one thing a successful actor must have and why. Kurt Koehler has worked as a casting assistant for TV and Film. Kurt is also an Actor/Writer/Director in Los Angeles. He has many acting credits, including Big Bang Theory, AGENTS of Shield, Young Sheldon and Girlboss - just to name a few. He als…
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Our guest is Michelle Khare, host of HBO Max "Karma". Michelle is seriously a bad-ass! And an amazing actress and inspiration for actors and content creators! With over 2 MILLION subscribers on her YouTube channel, we got to chat with Michelle about her acting journey! Follow Michelle Khare on all the socials and YouTube!…
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Our guest is Scott Sedita - acting coach to many of today's top stars, including Lana Condor, Ross Butler, Haley Lu Richardson, Josh Duhamel, and the list keeps going... Scott Sedita has been in the entertainment industry for 30 years! Scott has been an actor, talent agent, casting director and currently, top acting coach and owner of Scott Sedita …
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When Opportunity Knocks... Will you know what to do? Our guest is Tony Rago, a multi-hyphenate in Hollywood with over 20+ years of experience. Learn from his personal mistakes on how to notice when opportunity knocks and what to do when it does.By Alya Lei
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Manage your acting career in one place! Tired of searching for lost notes, casting director info, auditions, etc? Our guest, Ayelette Robinson, chats about being an actor, director, producer and why she created ActorsGuru.com. And she gives us a 30% discount! Follow Ayelette on Instagram @ayeletterobinson…
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Our guest, Valorie Hubbard, professional actor and owner of Actor's Fast Track, shares her biggest tip for auditions and bookings. Valorie also talks about how the entertainment industry is changing and how actors can prepare for these changes, now.By Alice Kwong
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