S7: E8: How to Reach Your Performance Potential Onstage & Off, With Psychotherapist & Life Coach Elma Linz Kanefield, New York, NY

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Season Finale! How to Reach Your Performance Potential Onstage and Off. - At an audition, a young woman walked on stage and prepared herself to sing, but when she opened her mouth there was no sound. This story sounds like a nightmare, but for Elma Linz Kanefield it was very real and life-changing. She wanted to understand how and why this “stage fright” happens and what makes some performers succeed while others struggle. Elma’s trauma inspired her to become one of the world’s only specialists in the psychology of the performing artist. In this interview, Elma shares how she empowers performers and restores their mental health in her new book Hamlet’s Mirror: Reaching Your Performance Potential Onstage and Off. Elma defines Performance Potential as “being the best you can be and doing the best you can do based on what you know in the moment of performance.” This is an internal state when you are emotionally and mentally able to balance the challenges, fears, and insecurities that can come with entertaining others. In Hamlet’s Mirror, Elma explores the performer’s culture: its challenges, the highs, and the lows.

Website: https://www.elmalinzkanefield.com/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hamlets-Mirror-Elma-Linz-Kanefield/dp/B0B6XGTYPC/

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Lara Bianca Pilcher, the host of the Artist’s House International Podcast (AHI), is an experienced show host and international speaker, and educator in the arts industry. Her career as a performer in the arts industry spans over 20 years. Andrew Pilcher is an expert performing artist's Physiotherapist/PT, with years of experience working behind the scenes in the world's leading theatres, recording studios, film sets, and performing arts training centers. Artist’s House International is a not-for-profit that uses the tool of creativity to help transform lives and podcast capture, honest industry conversations, featuring the global voice of believer artists. AHI founders, Andrew and Lara Pilcher have been married for 15 years and have two awesome kids.