10,000 NOs
Matthew Del Negro
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Actor Matthew Del Negro (The Sopranos, The West Wing, Scandal) describes his career as being told "No" for a living. Here, he gets up close and personal with top-shelf folks from all walks of life about the 10,000 "No" s they've had to endure and struggles they've had to overcome on their journey to where they are today. Inspiring, raw, honest and funny, this podcast will help you see that the people you think have "got it made" put their pants on one leg at a time, just like you.
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Bunny of Kingstown: Tobi Bamtefa
“I dropped my accent immediately. I said, ‘Bro, listen… I’m an actor. I’m just acting, alright? I’m not a gang member. I’m not even from this country!”In today’s episode, Matt sits down with actor…
Mayor of Kingstown's Tony Award-Winning Laura Benanti
"Self-reflection is often saying ‘I wish I had done something differently’, and that to me can sound like lack of gratitude, but also these things are true”. In today’s episode, Matt sits down with…
Making A Movie Takes A Village - Thank You!
"It took me until 53 to learn this lesson…"In today’s episode, Matt sits down to talk about confronting the self-limiting beliefs that can make us feel embarrassed or ashamed—especially when it comes…
Lose Your Mind with Josh Pais
“The root of all bad acting is the thought: I’m not enough.”In today’s episode, Matt sits down with veteran actor and recently published author, Josh Pais (Lose Your Mind: The Path to Creative…
Casting Director Lisa London on Showing Up Prepared and Being Yourself
"Well, I always tell actors to always bring your A game to every audition. Because you never know. Like exactly what Matt just said. I have extensive notes on actor's that I've read. And I go, 'This…
Winning with Passion: Danny Lehr’s Formula for Lasting Success
"Are you really passionate about the thing? Or are you just excited about the opportunity? Because those are different, right? It's easy to get excited about an opportunity, but when you are just…
Personal Development Coach Gavin McHale on Unlocking Our Subconscious Mind
"What I take from that if we go back to the day that Matt actually, the energy that Matt put into his audition and the way that he sent that in was, there was a level of not only confidence, but…
Film Camera Operator Anne Carson: Redefining Focus When Your Body Says Cut
"A daily practice, again, I want to leave this with you and I'm leaving it with myself. Is to just try as hard as you can to look at these challenges as opportunities. What can I learn here? Can this…
How To Power Through
"You don't feel like YES beating my chest everyday. But you kind of got to stick with it through all those slow days to get to the thing where there's a tipping point and it becomes this thing that…
Your Life Is A Movie
"It's not what you are doing, it's how you are approaching it. So if you approach that job like an actor or writer, it's what I told Erin Galvin years ago when she was coming to my classes in LA and…
Give Them A Show
"The other thing he said that I thought was interesting, because I don't do this, and I have prided myself on not doing this. They said he see's salesmanship as showmanship. And Steve Jobs was the…
How To Have More Fun
"And then I kind of thought, huh, that's just the initial overwhelm when someone comes at you with a new bag of tools. There could be stuff that I bring up in these calls where you go, 'Oh Gosh, I…
When To Share Your Ideas
"I try and do my work behind closed doors. I think I used to show my work, but now I try and do my work behind closed doors. And then be like, 'Yeahhh! I'm just free and easy.' You know what I mean?…
Be Your Own Cheerleader
"I may as well be my best cheerleader, because the world's not gonna. It's not like the world is out to get you, it's just, as we say, there's so many people putting their hat in the ring for all…
Be A Self Starter
"But if you have stuff that's the self starting stuff on the side, when you are in those periods of no work from the outside, you're not bummed about it. So your energy doesn't go down. Because I had…
How To Organize Your Creativity
"I'm talking about theories and mindsets, and that's awesome, but what about tactical? How do you translate that to stuff that's in the real world that we all have to do? When you have a baby…
Celebrate Your Wins!
"It's better to share the good than to not celebrate the win because I don't want to make it seem like this is really great; It really is great. It's kind of nice. That's the reward of all the shit…
How Perspective Changes Your Life
"It's kind of like being an actor. That's what we do. You can play someone who is considered a monster, but you are not looking at them with the same lens that you might in a normal life. If you have…
How To Be A Professional Creative
"How to we go from just being someone who occasionally feels things and sporadically creates them to someone who can do this on a professional level? Where there's both a consistency and still a…
How To Get in a Peak State
"It's like a made up goal. But I'm going, I'm giving myself two hours. I'm putting the timer on. All of a sudden, it does force you, kind of in the way that Tony Robbins talks about, which is like…
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10,000 NOs has published 376 episodes since July 2017, covering topics in Business, Careers.
10,000 NOs is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 39m.
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