On Learning to Take Up Space | Melissa Weisz

What does it look like to use the tools of acting to live a fuller life? Melissa Weisz, actor, writer, producer, and facilitator, joins Faye for a personal and powerful conversation around identity and taking up space. Melissa opens up about stumbling into acting through a Yiddish-language Romeo and Juliet, discovering on her first scene that her messy emotions finally had a place to go, and how she now teaches women to use acting techniques as life tools, to feel their own feelings, take up space in a room, and stop performing the polite version of themselves. This episode goes deep on the difference between feeling and acting on a feeling, why anger was the hardest emotion to access, the most important real estate in a person's life (the moment between trigger and response), and what it means as a Jewish woman to refuse to perform a smaller version of yourself. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one. Connect with Melissa: Website: www.melissamalkyweisz.com Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/melissaweisz/ Connect with Faye: Website: https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ IG: @thetrailblazerpod Substack: https://trailblazerpod.substack.com/