by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | May 28, 2018 | business, Inspiration, SpeakEasy, Success
Pinball is fun when you are the playfield and not the ball. The playfield is the part of a pinball machine that all the cool dohickeys reside. The place where pinballs get trapped, ramped, orbited, flipped, and bumped. Are you the playfield or the pinball? Do your...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 29, 2018 | business, General, Inspiration, Success
Because if you do, you’re not alone. IT IS A THING. Inspired by a brave and daring post I was commenting on within the last week, I was PM’d and asked to talk a little bit about Upper Limiting. A term coined by Gay Hendricks in his book “The Big...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 3, 2018 | business, General, Inspiration, SpeakEasy, Teaching, Technique
What would you say if I told you that your mindset doesn’t matter? That all of your goals are achievable no matter what you believe? What if I told you that it DOES NOT matter how prepared you are. Or how knowledgeable? “You don’t have to be great to...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 21, 2018 | business, General, Inspiration, Success
Balance sucks. I’m allowed to say that, because I am a Libra, and therefore know these things automatically. It sucks because striving for it never brings peace, and almost always brings pressure. Balance brings pressure to be FaceTastic. Facebook + Fantastic =...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Nov 15, 2017 | business, General, Inspiration, SpeakEasy, Success
We are in charge. If there is something that doesn’t quite fit in the way our studio runs, we can change it. We are in control. We get to make the rules. Here’s a fun game: Write down all the things that make you want to stab your own face bug you about...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Nov 7, 2017 | Inspiration, Musical Theater, Review, Students, Success
Open Door Productions is a brand spankin’ new company formed by the University of Utah Department of Theater undergrad students. (Yes. That means 18 to 23-year-olds are creating things. On their own. With sets! GASP!) This company did a thing. They staged the...
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