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10,000 NOs
by Matthew Del Negro
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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SEVERANCE ACTOR: Why YUL VAZQUEZ Believes All Art Stems From One Source
“It’s all the same source. And the source in everything that you do, whether you’re taking a photograph or you’re playing music or you’re acting... is you. It’s all you.” I sat down with friend and fellow actor, Yul Vazquez , this summer, and he blew me away on multiple levels... Not only does he...
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How to Build a Voice Over Empire by Serving Your Community with David H. Lawrence XVII
Today's guest, David H. Lawrence XVII, is a prime example of someone who decided to control his own destiny while still pursuing his dream, by combining his experience in technology with his love of storytelling to serve others by giving them tools and a path to success. His combo of service…
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WWE Champion and World's Strongest Man: Braun Strowman
Braun Strowman (Won the Arnold Amateur Strongman World Championships, WWE Champion, Entrepreneur and Now Host of EVERYTHING ON THE MENU) sat down on 10,000 NOs with Matthew Del Negro podcast… He doesn’t just flex his muscles… He drops some legit, hard-earned, plain-spoken KNOWLEDGE BOMBS full of...
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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 Tobi Bamtefa, whom you may recognize as Bunny, the gangster kingpin at the heart of Paramount +’s...
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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 his Mayor of Kingstown colleague and celebrated American Actress and singer, Laura Benanti.…
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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 to asking for help. You hear the saying all the time: “Making a movie takes a village,” and it...
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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 Invincibility). You may know Josh from projects like Joker, Ray Donovan, Law & Order, A Man in Full or...
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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 guy is really good we can bring him in for another part.' Sometimes for the same project.…
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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 excited about an opportunity when it doesn't work out, you're going to stop trying as hard. But if…
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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 certainty that I'm right for this role. Like I'm right for this role. I know that I'm right for this...
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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 is way bigger than you." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working...
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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 she was doing a temp job. And she would come in and start telling me about the thing and she was...
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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 same way. Whenever they put on a presentation, it is a show. You get publicity and it's a big…
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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 don't know if I can add that to my life. When you first hear it that's the reaction, then when you...
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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? And let them think you got lucky. Whereas I used to want to be like, 'Nooo, I worked so hard!" Now...
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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 these jobs, that it's just the way it is. It's just the way it is. Like you might not get seen. But…
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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 Mickey Brasch, I wasn't bummed about being done with those other jobs." Today’s episode was…
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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 screaming on your arms on a Saturday and you have to do an audition tape. When you have a song in your...
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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 you put up with to get to that." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs...
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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 to play them then you have to look at them from a detached viewpoint so that you can get inside...
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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 spontaneity and an authentic desire to express yourself." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one...
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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 get into a peak state and then do your thing. Like his whole thing is every day starts with, 'Yes!...
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Are You Creating For Yourself?
"Write for yourself. Make the art for yourself. And in doing that, you will be making the art for others. But you can't really make it for the audience. You don't know what they want. They don't know what they want. And then he quoted Steve Jobs as saying, 'The customer doesn't know what they…
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Don't Listen To The Doubt
"You plant the seeds, you don't go look at them every day. Because if you looked at them every day, you'd be like, 'They are not growing. It's just dirt... It's just dirt. Nothing happened. I'm watering them, I planted 'em, like seven days ago... There's just dirt there, forget it.' But, if you...
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How To Get Out Of Your Own Way
"Remember that for the next time. It's easier said than done, but you really should own that. When I got out of my way, not only did everybody really respond to me, but I knew I crushed it." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where...
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Are You Allowing The Success?
"In some ways we don't have to earn it. It's so against my nature to even say that. But, I always think I've got to earn it before I can get it. And that's why I think for me, the 25 years of earning it, now I'm allowed to receive it. But, you can just click the switch and go, 'I'm going to…
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How To Follow Your Instincts
"No, follow my instinct. Like I'm old enough to know how I work and where I'm going to be in my sweet spot. Sometimes that might involve coaching, sometimes it might not." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the...
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It's on YOU!
"Look at what you actually do; Not what you say you do; Not what you think you do; Not what you tell others you do; What you actually do. And you're like, 'Oh, it's on you, Matt!' Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt...
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Keep Showing Up
"And then all of a sudden then you get jobs, then you meet other people on those jobs, and if you are showing up all those times, all of those people now go, 'Eugenia is really great.' And maybe they don't hire you for another decade, but then at a certain point they do!" Today’s episode was…
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How To Enjoy The Ride
"I'm enjoying the ride. Even when the wave knocks me down. I'm enjoying the fact that I'm in the ocean getting knocked down, and I'm alive, and I'm actually surfing." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the...
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How To Overcome Fear
"I could embarrass the hell out of myself. And that's a fear. I'm just not going to give into it. It's like Apollo 13; failure is not an option. What do I have to do?" Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the...
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It is Going to Work Out
"This idea of faith and believing before seeing. And I think that's what it's about. It's having this unshakable belief that it is going to work out." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face...
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Start Planting The Seeds
"You don't know where you're going to end up. But if you have this vision for it, and you do the work, you can get there." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we...
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How To Get Out of a Funk
"When you're getting to that period of feeling like it's slipping away; it feels like it's crumbling; it's just a terrible feeling and I don't wish it on anyone-- And I know we've all experienced it. But when you get that feeling, immediately let it trigger you to go create something." Today’s...
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When You Feel Like Quitting
"But if you get into that mode you will not be as powerful as if you get into the mode where you're like, 'OK, sucks right now, but I'm coming for 'em.'" Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that...
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Will AI Replace Actors? Hollywood on the Cusp of Change
"Digital did not ruin filmmaking. Digital gave us the Duplass brothers. Digital democratized it and then people were like, 'Oh well, it's not digital that's going to ruin it, it's this thing called YouTube that's going to ruin it.' And in fact YouTube is incredibly entertaining and good stuff...
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How To Weather The Storm
"It's a never ending challenge to stay in the right head and continue to believe that whatever is next is on its way. There are good things on their way to us, there are challenging things on their way to us. That's just the way it is. And it's not just us, it's anybody in life." Today’s episode...
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How To Get In The Driver's Seat
"This business crushes you down so much that you think you can't get in the driver's seat. Oh, thank you so much for letting me hang on to your bumper! F that!" Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges...
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Was it a Mistake? Or an Opportunity?
"It's always the things that everybody else thinks are mistakes that are actually advantages if we look at them that way." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we...
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Prepare Yourself For Success
"You have to make a decision when you're clear and sober; and you have to go, this is what I want. And then if you really think that, then you have to do it come hell or high water." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt...
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You're Great... And You Can Be Better!
"I think we need to do a better job of assessing our pros and cons. Sure, you have cons. Sure, maybe you were too big on that one tape. And you did this or that. But you're great also. You're great... and you can be better!" Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working...
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Dare To Show People Your Mess
"It used to be I'm good over here and I'm not telling you what I suck about because I don't want you to know that I suck-- Because I'm too embarrassed. And it's like, OK then you're going to keep sucking in a worse and worse way." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs...
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Give Yourself Something to Focus On
"When you create your own, there's something about the fact that you're in the driver's seat. And then if auditions come in you're already driving and you're like yeah, to the audition, hop in and I'll get you there." Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors...
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Michael Beach: There's No Such Thing As A Perfect Actor
“You can never be the perfect actor; it's never going to happen; but that is the search!" Today’s episode is a sit down with Matt's fellow Mayor of Kingstown cast mate, Michael Beach. Michael can currently be seen on multiple shows in the Taylor Sheridan Universe (Tulsa King being the other hit...
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How to Bounce Back Quickly
“I was in such a groove. I played volleyball Thursday night; I played the best I played all summer-- and then wham!" Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actor Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we talk about...
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How to Get Better Results!
"What did I do that worked? And what did I do that didn't work? And apply that knowledge to the next situation.” Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Insiders Acting Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we talk about…
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Visualizing Your Goals
“If we have a vision that's pretty specific, but then we are loose enough with it to be open to what happens or what doesn't happen, I think that's a good place to start.” Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actor Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the...
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Surrender To The Moment
“This moment you have, right now, whatever it is, things are happening-- it has nothing to do with you. But it's all you have; is the present moment.” Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actor Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face...
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Preparing For The Part
“Running through all these scenarios and being super prepared allows you to get there and be relaxed. And when you're relaxed you bring your best work; and incidentally have the most fun.” Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where...
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Chazz Palminteri: The Saddest Thing in Life is Wasted Talent
“The decision I'm about to make-- Is this bringing me closer to my goal? Or farther away from my goal? And if your decision is farther away, don't do it!" Today’s special episode is a sit down with Oscar nominee, Chazz Palminteri. In this conversation, we dive into Chazz's rise to stardom, how...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
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...
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