CNLP 661 | Priscilla Shirer on Improving Your Communication Skills and How Actors Learn to Cry on Demand
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Priscilla Shirer, author, evangelist, actress, and speaker, discusses how to improve your communication skills, how she learned acting skills, and how actors learn to cry on demand.
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TIMESTAMPS:
The early signs of leadership (00:16:02)
Unexpected paths and opportunities (00:18:19)
Pursuing excellence and learning from experts (00:23:11)
Developing acting skills (00:26:16)
Discussing the upcoming movie "The Forge" (00:33:55)
The evolution of Christian entertainment (00:36:19)
Simplicity as success (00:50:00)
Fear of not delivering enough value (00:51:26)
Supporting female leaders (00:55:27)
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | What is the key to crying on demand? |
| 0:05.0 | I have wondered that for years. |
| 0:07.0 | Some people, like Viola Davis and Denzel Washington have mastered, listen to this, not even the ability to cry, but the ability to crystallize their tears, meaning they just sit there in the crevice of their eye until they want one to roll |
| 0:26.4 | down. Can you even imagine? |
| 0:31.3 | So I don't know that I know the magic. I know that I've tried. There have been occasions where my |
| 0:36.1 | husband's looked over at me and gone, what's wrong? And I'm like I'm just practicing. I just had to, I just |
| 0:41.1 | had to, I just had to, so we'd be just driving a long running errands and I would |
| 0:46.6 | be thinking about something that brings endearment and warmth to my heart when we filmed war room my grandmother had just passed away and I'm |
| 0:55.2 | telling you I would fix her face in my mind I would think about her I would have to |
| 1:00.3 | skip lunch that day so I wasn't around all the rowiness of of lunch and just |
| 1:04.4 | sort of be by myself so that I could just be in a tender spot so that when it was |
| 1:08.2 | time to roll I had some emotion to to build on. |
| 1:13.3 | But I will tell you, and I'm not ashamed to say this, |
| 1:15.7 | there is this little tricky little, |
| 1:18.1 | it looks like a tube of lipstick, |
| 1:20.2 | but it's like menthol. |
| 1:21.8 | And man, when you get to that 12th take and you've cried every tear you can cry, |
| 1:26.0 | you can just rub just a little bit of that right in the corner of your eye and most of the time if you can just get the sting going. |
| 1:32.6 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhofer Leadership Podcast, it's Carrie here and I hope our time |
| 1:41.0 | together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 1:43.6 | I think it will because today we've got Priscilla Shire on the podcast. |
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