It was a question I never, ever, ever foresaw myself asking. The fact I was even considering the question was almost more confronting...

"A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without one, you'll never be enough with one." ~ Cool Runnings Cool Runnings...

Every now and then, one encounters something that strikes them like a lightning bolt. For us, reading Thomas Merton's letter to a young...

Making the Olympics once is a monumental achievement. Making the Olympics five times is astronomical. Kenyan-American runner Bernard...

Warning: this post is going to feature some real talk. Earlier this year I uncovered something pretty confronting: in several aspects of...

Ben Bergeron is the coach behind the Fittest Man and Fittest Woman on Earth. A former Ironman triathlete, Bergeron is now considered one...

American screenwriter Jerry Stahl has an amusing (uncomfortably true) saying: "There's no deodorant for desperation". Unfortunately, us...

"If we're going to succeed, or fail, we should do so on our own terms, with our own ideas — our own brand." ~ Phil Knight Humans like...

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ~ Margaret Fuller The end of the year means time to reflect. And being the proud nerds we are, that...

Third year is a rollercoaster in the fullest sense: alternately invigorating and overwhelming. While it may seem a rather specific...

It was now becoming too good to be true. She was still in her final year at drama school but had already signed with one of the UK's most...

There's an old Indian parable our meditation teacher likes to recite often — to the point where we can essentially repeat it verbatim —...

Intellectually, we appreciate the purpose of feedback is to make us better. Emotionally, it can still be hard to take. As actors,...

"Shoot for the moon", said Norman Vincent Peale. "Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." We recently introduced our method of...

Fame. A complex topic, yes, but one we'd like to attempt to tackle here regardless. It's been a surprisingly frequent — and often...

We briefly referenced the book, The Art of Possibility, in a recent post, but since it's such a damn profound read, wanted to dive a...

If Inside Out taught us anything, it's that all emotions have their place, not just the "nice" ones. Nonetheless, jealousy tends to...

Imagine it's a Saturday morning. Our alarm is going off and we reach for our phone to shut the damn thing up. And have a cheeky pre-day...

It's time to call out one of the biggest killers of committed and driven actors: the lack of a logical mathematical equation. For the...

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary." ~ Jim Rohn 'Tis once again the season we nerd out and reflect on...