This week’s podcast episode is me musing on how to find many ways to make money from our creativity.

Write a list of all your talents, skills and specialist subjects ;)
What other subsidiary skills have you learnt along the way to create an income from?
What else are you really good at?
What networks can you tap in or develop to sell those skills?

I did a podcast interview back in 2014 with Paul Clayton and I have added just a few key pieces of advice from him on this, largely for me to remember and you to muse over.

He also quotes Anita Dobson, talking about how she did not call herself an actor til she had a year earning only as an actor.

I know Paul Clayton (imdb link) not just from his many many TV and film appearances (Ali G Indahouse, Peep Show, Him and Her, The Queen and he is now deceased in Hollyoaks) but also he was the Chair of the Actors Centre and in January 2014 he played my husband in the multi award winning Sunday Dinner With The Morgans
He has a lifetime of knowledge about the acting industry and at a time when he found his work was slacking off, he set up his own company doing corporate work as an actor and wrote a great book about it.


I will add up the full podcast interview with Paul for the next podcast 37 – it was first released on my original LoveYourCreativity podcast in 2014.
Blog post about the interview https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/23/how-to-book-auditions-this-is-who-i-am-would-you-like-it-paul-clayton-on-auditions-making-money-as-an-actor/

Some of the advice added here from Paul Clayton includes
‘I think I'm quite resigned about it now
because I think there comes the stage in your life where
and this is probably to do with you developing
as a person and perhaps there were elements of me and
late development - certainly in relationship terms,
you know, I didn't really settle down with anybody til I was nearly 40 and that did coincide,
I think with an awareness of what you are as a person.
Listen, I know that as a young actor I would walk into a room and I didn't have confidence problems.
I might have been nervous but don't think that would necessarily come across but I would go into the room thinking. I know I'm a very good actor. What would you like me to be?

I don't think that works. I think you have to go in there saying this is what I am.
Would you like it?

I am the best Paul Clayton there is, I think they'll be some people breathing a sigh of relief that I'm the only Paul Clayton there is but I'm not bothered if you don't want Paul Clayton, obviously, there are some things that I would love to do, but that I am not right for.
So it's not that I'm not good. It's that I'm not right and you know.

Last week I was waiting for a voiceover and I don't know what it was .
My agent ‘are you free on this day, it is a really big one.
It's a really nice one’. I didn't know what it was and then on Thursday morning then ’They've gone the other way’, so I didn't know what it was.
They've gone the other way because something they heard in that person's voice made them make that choice. Because what wins people over is you the person.
That's what we bring into acting and and there's some people mistake this with typecasting
but you bring a unique brand to your work that is you and possibly a lot of our life is finding out who we are and then when we settle into a knowledge of that, we sort of know
what we're selling really.”

'“He had a saying which was every day do one thing.
That may result in work and then get on with being who you are because who you are is what will get you the work and I know having directed a lot in my 30s in rep companies.
So sitting on the other side of the table and having whole days of people coming in, you can see desperation.
You can, you can smell it and it's not nice.
You have that job. You have the job until you open the door.
And then when you step in the room, most of what you're doing is taking you away from the job unless you're careful.
So it's working about what you need. If you go and think I’ve got to shine in there. If you're not shining outside, you know, you're not going to do it.”


The song at the beginning is a remix of my LondonTown tune by Andrew Hyde
At the end is a clip of my Vampire For Your Love tune from my album ‘If you can’t make love make coffee’ available online, and also actual CDs if you want to contact me ;)

Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make Money
This podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.
The book on mental, practical and financial tips on ‘getting your art in gear’ is being launched soon.

About me, Marysia Trembecka

I am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.

Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.

My ‘THE SINGING PSYCHIC’ who ‘reads the songs in your heart’ also has a GAME SHOW version, and was a finalist in Best Show, Funny Women in 2016, and I have toured internationally since then.
I have also produced five webseries as the character including my 23 episode SONGS OF BREXIT webseries I made for the June 2016 EU Referendum, on the pros and cons of the EU, I started the web series singing The Clash’s ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now’. It was very wll received due to the blend of education and entertainment, and I ended up on London Live and even a BBC2 Live Debate on the National Living Wage amongst other press of the back of that.


I also was awarded Arts Council funding for research on a solo show on how we are all judged by our sexuality, so as part of that, I interviewed people on the cutting edge of sexual politics. From this I then created another character ‘Queen Of The F*cking World’ which has also toured internationally from Glasgow WOFF film festival in the female perspective strand to sell-out London, Edinburgh and Adelaide runs. I sing and play the bass guitar and guitar in this show.

My film acting credits can be found on IMDB and indeed my projects are on my media gallery
http://marysiatrembecka.com/media-gallery/
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My London acting agent is Dulcie Huston, CCA Management
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