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Trusting yourself to expand your visibility with Elanna Rossdeutscher - Episode 410

July 24, 2024 • Sheila Botelho

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What if acting could be your gateway to both personal and professional growth? In this illuminating episode, we sit down with Elanna Rossdeutscher, the dynamic founder of the Acting Social Studio, who takes us on her extraordinary journey from being a young theater enthusiast to performing in front of and directing behind the camera.


You'll hear about how acting skills can transform your life, from mastering the art of public speaking to building unshakable confidence and even managing social anxiety. Elanna’s story is a testament to the power of passion and persistence, offering invaluable insights for anyone looking to enhance their personal and professional lives.


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Elanna:

the way you speak to people, the way that your um people perceive you, if you're listening all of these things. That are all what you learn in acting but you actually always use in your professional world as well.

Sheila:

I'm really excited to share a special guest with you. I'm really excited to share a special guest with you where we're going to be talking about creativity, artistry, starting something new that is coming from within yourself, and also trusting yourself to take the steps to create a business that you love. That involves helping other people embrace visibility and their own creativity. I'm Sheila Botelho. I am a self-care strategist, creator of the season's self-care strategy app and host of the Connect with Sheila Botelho podcast. I'm so excited that you're here. Welcome to everyone in attendance. And now I have the privilege of introducing you to my guest, and before I bring her on, I'm going to have her explain all about herself and where she's come from and some exciting things that she's got in the works. But for now I will say Alana Ross is the founder of the Acting Social Studio and I'm thrilled to have her explain what her goal is with this beautiful opportunity that she's opened in the community, how it's going and all of the roads in her own creativity that have brought her here. So I'm going to just bring her on now.

Sheila:

Let's see here. Let's see here. I think she just needs to request one more time. Ah, there we go Lovely. So stay tuned. And here she is now. Hi, how are you? I'm great Welcome. It's so good to see you.

Sheila:

You too. It's been a while it has, and what I've been loving is seeing your promo videos for the Acting Social Studio. They just like draw you right in.

Elanna:

I'm glad I'll have to pass that on to my creator. Code creator.

Sheila:

He's the best, so wonderful. So I would love, alana, for you to share with me and everyone watching who you are, the work that you're doing, and then we're going to get into kind of what brought you here. But, yeah, maybe describe yourself for our viewers.

Elanna:

Yeah, sure, so I'm Alana Rostoycher. I'm a director, screenwriter, actor and acting coach, and I create stories with my passions to make stories with a childlike wonder to the complex mind of adulthood, and also by using a psychological approach, to make stories that make you empathize with your enemy. And with my acting studio, I have created an idea of, instead of just using acting skills to learn how to act, to actually use acting skills to help you with your personal and professional goals, such as public speaking, confidence, body language, presenting, networking, social anxiety. So that is who I am.

Sheila:

I love so much that you have taken this creativity that you've had for so much of your life and turned it into this beautiful creation, because it's something. Now, in this world of so much video and online business and all of the ways we're connecting in different, different ways than we're used to maybe from years ago, things like you're talking about are really coming to the forefront the things like fear of visibility and standing out and having your voice be heard, and how are you perceived and how are you received. I think it's such a fun and playful way that you're addressing it and that's why I wanted to have you on Um.

Sheila:

So tell me, how did this kind of let's kind of back up a little bit how did your journey in film and TV and screenwriting and all of that, how did that get started for you? And tell us a little bit about kind of the the little path that you've been on to get to where you are now, and tell us a little bit about kind of the little path that you've been on to get to where you are now.

Elanna:

I'd love to. I actually started acting at age four because of my mother, because she was a theater director, and I remember being in my first play and I honestly had maybe two lines. It was not a big deal. I got to color on stage, I got to pick out some PJs to wear and I got to suck my thumb and sit on a couch and I couldn't have been happier. I was in heaven and for some reason, like there was something about when I wasn't acting, I would go onto the balcony and just look out and watch the other people act and I just was like, oh my gosh, this is the coolest thing in the world, like there's nothing better than this. And then, as I grew older, I got to do more and more plays. I started doing plays in Hamilton and then I was in theater till I was 17.

Elanna:

And then I got into this acting program at age 17 at LB Acting Studio in Toronto and there I got to learn TV and film acting. And from there I kept learning and it was like the best thing ever because, um, not only did I get to learn TV and film, I actually we got to take scenes that we learned and film them at an acting studio, like a film studio, and it just made me feel so incredible and important and it just started making me realize that this could be my life, this could be my world. And from then on I became a teacher's assistant at that studio and I got to learn kind of how to help direct these actors. And then now I have, uh, I I started my, uh, my film and I just finished that and then I opened up my acting studio after that. So I think that everything that kind of led me up to now has just been a domino effect. It just kept being this new thing that would just help and add on to the next thing.

Sheila:

Oh yes, and what I'm seeing too are the themes of from a young age. You knew what lit you up and you tried that and you followed it. And that's the beauty of finding something. Not everybody finds that when they're younger, but that really is a gift. The gift also lies in trusting that you can actually follow it and not allow, like maybe, traditional thinking or outside forces to kind of pull you away from that. It is something that you really know, that you want to do, because everybody's got their different ideas about especially creative pursuits.

Sheila:

For some reason reason even though film and tv is like I don't know, multi-billion dollar industry for some reason this kind of starving artist kind of thing kind of comes into people's minds. But when you really think about all of the people who are involved in creating even just one production, it's a whole ecosystem, it's a whole economy so really there's and there's always more like.

Sheila:

There's more stories to be told. There's different ways for it to be told. So I think it's beautiful that you just trusted it and that you went for it, and I would love to know too, like you know, tell me about when you decided this is what I want to do. What was that like in your home life? It like? What kind of encouragement did you get? What kind of response did people have when? When you decided this is what I want to do, what was that like in your home life? Like? What kind of encouragement did you get? What kind of response did people have when you said this is what I want to do with my life?

Elanna:

Yeah, I think that when I kind of just started getting into the arts, I I got into dance first and I was a competitive dancer for eight years and I thought that that's what I was going to be doing. And then I kind of 16, I was starting to kind of battle the two ideas against each other and I I tore my psoas in the side of my body, where if I dance for more than three minutes, I felt like I got stabbed and I couldn't breathe and I was going to keep fighting that and be like yeah, I can.

Elanna:

I can live a life like that, it'll be fine. But then I started to realize that that might have not happened right Like I don't think. I know now that I wouldn't have been able to keep dancing. And my favorite part of dancing was my performance and how I could make people feel from it. And the feedback I got back from people was always like, oh, I love this little thing you added. Or I loved how I just get so excited watching you on stage, and that started translating into acting more as I got into TV and film and I was like, oh my gosh, maybe this is actually the best of both worlds, of these two worlds colliding.

Elanna:

And when I brought it up to my family actually the best of both worlds of these two worlds colliding and when I brought it up to my family, I was hoping for support, right, and I was lucky that they're very creative people. My dad's an entrepreneur and my mom has always been an artist in so many different ways. What an incredible woman as well. So I was lucky that. What an incredible woman as well. So I was lucky that they said if you can support yourself and you can do something that you love, we support you and I love that. I I I'm so glad that I got that, because I honestly don't think that I could keep going the way I have, uh, if it wasn't for for them, because it's it's so hard, right, it's so hard to do all of this. So, yeah, to have the support from them was incredible and my friends were just so excited.

Elanna:

I had great friends as well that were just like this is so cool, like you get to be in this thing, and so I am lucky in that way. I'm very lucky in that way.

Sheila:

Yeah Well, like you say, both of your parents are creative, and it's so true that the entrepreneurial space is really an exercise in creativity and experimentation.

Sheila:

And you know, facing things like facing, having putting yourself out there, possibly failing rejection, all those things and when you're moving into acting and any kind of performance, really you have to be knowing that, okay, there's going to be be rejection is going to be part of it. Here's the thing. Though I don't think people understand, that's just true. I think, of anything that we pursue, especially if it's something we've never done before, if we're leveling up and going into something new. Um, like I said before, it's almost like certain industries and certain focuses, people will have like a little label on it as to, oh well, this is how it is, but really it's, it's true of anything we're going to do that is different.

Sheila:

So I love that you got the support and I love your parents they're amazing and it's just great to kind of hear that story and of you know the boundary that was shared with the support and encouragement that you had and and, yes, you realize it takes it takes having a supportive ecosystem to be able to really have the longevity, and I mean those who don't have that and they still make it like that. That's a lot of inner strength, but you've probably built a lot of inner strength from the process of auditioning and like, how did you find the auditioning process when you were, you know, getting out there on the? I?

Elanna:

think that when I started it, I had a very I thought of it as a very specific way of doing something and I was like I just have to go in there and I'm going to say hi and I'm going to make friends with them and then I'm going to start my scene and it's going to be great. And it was not really like that, because when I started fully auditioning it was right before pandemic started and that was when I got into more, bigger auditions, and so I think at the beginning it was a lot of self-tapes. Even now, I guess it's always been a lot of self-tapes and so it was changing that idea of okay, so they won't actually get to know me or say hi to me when I start. That's new. And now I have to think of, like, okay, how can I, you know, uh, still be personal, uh and personable with these people?

Elanna:

Um, and then I found self tapes really enjoyable at the beginning, like I loved it. I was able to like have the space to just play with it and have fun and um. But I think as the time went on, it started to get more difficult to try to do these self tapes, because you just don't everything, you don't get this feedback right and you're looking for these, these answers, or just like a hint of, just like a face expression that you think would help you kind of connect with the person that's the casting director or the director, and so I think that was really difficult and a change to kind of get used to.

Sheila:

Yeah, yeah, like kind of just imagining what will the response be, and that is really. That's something really interesting when it comes to, like, how a lot of us are I mean, now a lot more people are are you know, working in, you know, connecting with people face to face? But still a lot of people. Our remote workforce has really shifted. There's larger. So being on a screen and doing, like you know, doing anything that is, like you say, a self-tape or you know, putting something out there without having the feedback and not getting the the energetic response, it can really raise a lot of questions for you. So it's great that you've been able to just consistently keep doing that and do you find, like, are you still um, acting, are you still auditioning, while you're also building your acting studio?

Elanna:

oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Today after this, I'm going to oakville to work on a self-tape with my friend, so it's still a constant thing that I'm doing, so it's an art in itself.

Sheila:

I've seen some of them and I'm like it.

Elanna:

Just it's captivating to me because you're showing what about it is captivating to you.

Sheila:

Well, you're showing different sides of yourself, right, and I mean, I know you as you and I know your younger self too, because I met you when you were much younger, and it's just kind of interesting seeing you take on a whole new persona and like you're like stepping into a whole new kind of identity, and so I'm like, ooh, yeah, interesting, and yeah, like, do you find like there I know there's all these and I don't know understand all of the terminology but like, what type of acting do you find you lean towards? Like, is there a certain model that you do?

Elanna:

And what is?

Elanna:

that yeah for, honestly, for the longest time I was all about dramas, like I love getting dramatic, I love the, the complexes of like a crying, sad, emotional scene, and even from a young age I was like that is what I love. But I think just recently I would say that I'm starting to realize that I have been doing dramas for so long and enjoying that, that I haven't actually had that childlike feeling in a while of just playing with the thing, like playing with something fun, playing with something that's just like quirky or different, and so now I'm kind of letting myself be like, hey, that's not less important than a drama, that's just as important, especially if we're performers and we're especially in the time that we're living in. I'm just like helping people just feel something or feel good or feel fulfilled, and so I've been kind of playing in that realm lately and I'm loving it because it's funny how I could play a dramatic piece and be somebody who's really outgoing but then just go all serious.

Elanna:

And now, just like actually, I think what this new step is is just stepping more into like myself and trusting that the combination of my art and who I am is just blending together and I don't have to be exactly a character to do that.

Sheila:

That's so great. I love, I love self-trust, I love that this whole conversation around self-trust, with all the different things that that come into our lives and the things that we get to do, um, you know, I think every decision that we make comes from how we see ourself, and if you can find yourself being able to trust yourself, to try on new ways of doing things, then it just expands what's possible. And don't you find like when you put yourself into a new space or a new character, you're like, oh, it expands out to now you see something else that you could do, another type of role that you could play, but you wouldn't know it, right, unless you got into that.

Elanna:

Yeah, and I think that that's what happened when I started getting auditions for more different characters, like the crazy nephew who's like drunk at a party, you know and I was like I've never done that, let's try that. And then it ends up being so fun because you're like you get to try all these things that you would never normally get to do in your life, right, and you're like, wow, okay, sure, today I'm a zombie killer, I'll do that.

Sheila:

Right. I think a lot of people like this is the beauty of I think, what you've created, too, is that people are, they're in their life, it's the same every day and to be able to step out of that and into a new persona in a safe space. There's so much value to that too, a playfulness and exploration and something that you may learn about yourself while you're actually in it, playing a different role. So maybe tell me now about this shift then, from like, yes, you're still acting, you're auditioning, but then the shift from this beautiful movie. Actually, maybe let's start there. Tell me about your own self-directed film that you did Like. It was really interesting seeing the pieces of that come together. Maybe share some highlights about that and where people can find that to watch it too.

Elanna:

I would definitely say that this has been one of the biggest highlights of my life this far. Like making that film was something I was never even expecting to feel that much of an emotional pull to like. Yeah, so my, my film is called fire escape and it's about a young jazz musician who falls in love with a girl fleeing from abuse and it's about how logical and romanticized love just clash together and also the idea of what happens when you get distracted by love and what happens to your dreams when you get distracted by love, like what's more important. And I got to film it all in Cambridge, ontario, where I'm from, and I got to use local businesses to film in and just show the beautiful architecture around the city and that just felt really important and it felt very necessary for me to make my first film in my hometown and just be able to share the community that I grew up in, and so that itself was just so fulfilling. But my favorite parts were man favorite parts there was.

Elanna:

There was a moment that I was on the fire escape and we were taking photos for our poster shot and there was this incredible movie-like pink sunset. The entire sky was pink and my producer looked at me and he just made me pause and he said, like, take this in for a second, like look down, look at all the people here. They're here to support you and we're all doing this because we believe in this and it's because you brought these people in. And you just have to remember this moment, and I have. I very much remember that moment and the best way I can describe making this film was that there was like this um, I was in a snow globe where it just felt like the snow was just falling so slowly and I was in my own world and everything else just disappeared and I was in my zone of of flow and my zone of passion, like everything just lined up, and it felt very natural to me. So I crave that feeling all the time now.

Sheila:

So we'll see how you recreate this in different ways, different iterations ongoing, but what a beautiful first. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, like having it, having it filmed in your hometown and having the support of local businesses and supporting local businesses, like what a beautiful creation for yourself in that role with your first film and you know, I guess, from there you then when did this idea of the studio come to mind? Like how long has this been percolating? Tell me about you know the studio come to mind Like how long has this been percolating? Tell me about you know when it actually launched and then how it's going, and like who who should be coming and checking it out? Perfect, yeah.

Elanna:

Well, funny enough, it actually started as a acting group of people that I called acting social, because there was a group of actors in Toronto that I wanted to get together and when I was living in Toronto that was a big focus that I wanted to have people come together to my apartment at the time and just try on these different scenes and play with them and have fun with them and have these deeper conversations about what we've been learning, what's been working, what hasn't, and just having that creative space with a community of people. And, as you can see, a community is a really big word for me Same, same, oh yeah. So then it started becoming bigger, where we started going to TIFF and going to movie events and writing notes in the theater and then having a dinner to talk about it. And as it went on, I started realizing that I was doing this in Toronto but there was nothing in my hometown and I started thinking what could this be if I turn this not into just conversations but like a studio where people can learn and take the things that I've been taking from this community and bring it into a classroom?

Elanna:

And so that's kind of how it started, and first it started more as a studio just to learn how to act in a general way for TV and film. But lately it's just been building into something of its own where I've kind of pivoted and focused more on using these acting classes for people who want to use them for the specifically professional goals and how acting skills are what you need to change, these little tiny things that are from acting techniques. So, just like you know, sitting differently, breathing from your stomach, the way you speak to people, the way that your um, people perceive you if you're listening, all of these things that are all what you learn in acting but you actually always use in your professional world as well.

Sheila:

So, yeah, it's so great and I see how, like, for instance, back in the day, I went to Toastmasters because I wanted to be doing more public speaking and speaking from stage and being able to communicate well and other people I knew had done that and it was great. But I feel like in this scenario, what you've created, it's so much more deep because you've got all of the different cues that go along with it, like it goes so much more deeply into how we perceive ourselves and how we perceive others and then you're learning in that group atmosphere. It sounds like from you know other people's strengths or growth edges. So I just love the sense of community too and playfulness. I can imagine how much laughter and enjoyment comes in this realm as well.

Elanna:

Yeah, and there's also just like this moment when a student just gets it, yeah, right, and they have their first breakthrough. And you're just looking at each other and you both know what just happened, right, and you're like did you feel that? Like I do this thing with my actors all the time, where I go like this and I said it's this, and they go yes, it's this. And it's just this funny little joke that we have that when we do this, it means like something's just working, something the magic's happening.

Sheila:

It's good. Yes, yeah.

Elanna:

So whenever my actors do something good, I go oh, it's this, so they feel good.

Sheila:

Oh, I imagine you know so much comes up in these exercises and these, these events because, like, we have our persona, how we perceive ourselves, how we perceive others, how we show up and then, depending on who we're connecting with and what rooms we're stepping into, things come up from inside of us and maybe things from our past. So it's almost, it feels very therapeutic.

Elanna:

Yeah, that's a common word for it, totally.

Sheila:

Yeah, that's amazing. Do you find, like, how are you attracting people? Obviously on the socials, are you? You know what are the? What are the other ways that you are reaching out to find new people to be joining this beautiful community?

Elanna:

Yeah, I think that obviously, social media, I think also just trying to connect in person with people and networking events and just talking to the community in general just about what they're doing, and then just being like, oh, that's interesting, because this is what I'm doing and that actually connects to you, because what you're talking about is something that I can help you with, right, yeah, I also would say, yeah, also just events for film as well, because then, as I'm working with my film, I'm also talking about acting social and that's how it all kind of connects in this nice way, where it's like, oh, someone liked my directing, oh well, I can do this at my acting class for you if you're not in one of my films. So, yeah, I really like how all of those just blend nicely.

Sheila:

Oh, that is a beautiful blend.

Sheila:

And understand, like I mentioned, off the top, this whole the world has really shifted and I feel like you know, with AI, with all of these different things coming in that are really going to help make our lives a lot easier. There's also it if we allow it to, it can actually be a beautiful opening up of space to actually connect with other people, and I feel like that is is the theme right now. I'm noticing people want to be actually connecting with real humans, that actual space together and like really stepping in a more powerful way into the purpose of their lives, and it sounds like a lot of things come up when we try to do those things. But having a safe space to be able to explore the way we're showing up and to deal with like getting visible, which for years and years they've been saying what the public speaking is like the number one fear.

Elanna:

Like people fear that falling or something like that, yeah, yeah, speaking in public.

Sheila:

Maybe if I speak in public I might die, and actually it's interesting because there is a connection, right, like my eastern european friends, um, my people who are like in different parts of the world, who've come through serious conflict where you don't want to stand out, it totally makes sense. Yeah, so it's like inherited trauma, it's's witnessed trauma, and we may not even know like where is this coming from, but it looks like being a woman right Like historically, we want to like just you don't want to, don't want to rock the boat.

Sheila:

So you're really providing a beautiful service for people who are like wanting to actually break through those types of fears because there's such a beautiful um, like I've experienced with myself, where there's a beautiful sense of calm and a sense of just acceptance of yourself being who you're meant to be and doing the work you're meant to be doing and when you do that it like gives permission to other people to do the same, and so I feel like you're providing a platform for that.

Elanna:

Yeah, I think that that's the reason I started the studio, like that is the biggest reason is because I love building people up and I know what makes me feel alive and I want to help people be able to get to that point and feel comfortable in themselves to do those things and feel confident. One of my favorite examples was I had this student who had really bad social anxiety and also wanted to use active social for their business goals, and so one of the homework I asked them to do is kind of different. I told them, when you go into a coffee shop, the next coffee shop you go into, I want you to walk in and change the way your posture normally is. You're probably looking down normally or trying to not look at your surroundings, but I want you to look at your surroundings, look at everybody around you, and that actually can comfort you. And when you go up to the person when you're ordering, just say how are you and say it in a genuine way instead of just like a quick you know, buy out of sight, out of mind type of way where we're all robotic, but just actually connect to that person.

Elanna:

And when you sit down, don't find a spot where no one can see you, actually sit in a spot where you can see everybody in the room, because once you can actually see everybody and you start to notice things, you think it'll actually make you feel more anxious, but it calms you down because you realize no one's really paying attention to you. But now you can pick up on little things that other people are doing and from that he was like I feel so much better walking in the rooms now, like I can walk into a room and feel much more confident just from doing that. There's so many little things, right, there's so many little things. And if acting is all about body language and just empathy, if you're empathizing and being curious with the curiosity, it's bringing all of those little things and adding it, even when you walk into a coffee shop.

Sheila:

So that's fun, what a public service, uh, action, because you know you feel like so many people are just walking in and like just robotic almost. So the more people that can walk in and actually make a connection, how beautiful the ripple effect is. And it. I noticed when one person does that, everybody else kind of perks up, yeah, and they start showing up more like human as well. So, yay, I love this. And isn't it interesting? It's the simple things. Like it does it seem. For that person it must have felt like a really big deal because the result was a big deal, but when you break it down step by step, it's actually little pieces, yeah.

Elanna:

And they're doable. You know they're pieces that you can do and you're not going to be like, oh, that's too much, too quick, it's like a slow burn, Right. And so you get these little wins each week during the course because it's like, okay, we've done this, oh, I've changed this little thing and now we're going to crank it up a bit more. Now we're going to do this and it's not in a way of say, in a coaching space Sorry, I also wanted to say I started doing acting social and using it into corporate.

Elanna:

So using it for, you know, a team of workers at one business, right, and so you're building teamwork, but instead of it just being coaching when you're trying to work together and just feeling a bit tense, you're actually getting with acting social to make it really creative and fun, because it's not coming from a place of I need to learn. It's coming from a place of oh, we get to like act and we get to do something creative and fun together as a group. So you're taking away that pressure and you're you're exchanging it for fun and new ideas.

Sheila:

And I think it's so valuable in a group context, like I can see this being a wonderful addition to like business retreats. I can see it being something that is just part of like developmental practices with inside of an organization, because people can, like so many businesses are so focused on their goals, which is very important but like they become disconnected from each other and just something like this really brings a cohesion and a sense of empathy within the workplace. It's beautiful and you mentioned something earlier you said and it's doable's, one piece at a time. And I just want you to know this is so somatically informed. This is so what you're doing. It's so nervous system supportive, because tell Darden, someone who I've learned some and been, you know, going through some nervous system healing practices with, she loves to say do the next doable piece. And the nervous system loves calm, it loves it, loves familiar, it loves slow, it loves that that feel, it brings anything that brings up for the comfort Right.

Sheila:

And so interesting you're able to help people do this in a group context, which normally people may think, oh, but that's scary because you're in a group and everybody's looking. But the way you're presenting it does sound really safe and enjoyable and and playful. I mean play is such a beautiful thing. I think you know I, I know your parents are definitely. I have a feeling play was probably a big part of your education growing up.

Elanna:

Yes, totally Like trying new things, trying this, trying that. Oh, you see this, great, let's go do that. I think my favorite thing that I've learned from my parents is normally parents, when you say you're going to, you want to do something crazy, they go well, I don't know Right, and they'll like test you on it. But my both of my parents, whenever I said, like something crazy, like when I wanted to go to Bali for a month, um, I said I'm thinking of going to Bali for a month by myself, they went great, go do it. That sounds like a once in a lifetime opportunity. You should definitely do that, and I think the biggest decisions I've made in my life have only happened because I've been like I want some feedback. What do you think they're like? Do it. So yeah.

Sheila:

So valuable. I love that you did that. Yeah, I was. I was gifted with parents, my father specifically, but both my parents were very supportive that way too, and to where you know your friends might be like.

Elanna:

really, yeah, oh, yeah, might be like really yeah, oh yeah, no, I talk to my friends a lot.

Sheila:

They're like what? And I borrowed that that kind of feeling with my own teens and realizing like we are co-regulating with each other all the time. And so so, for instance, let's take it back into your studio. You're leading these people through these exercises, you're calm and confident and that actually is released into them. It's like that ecosystem that they're in. If you're calm and confident, more likely they're going to feel that way too, totally. Yeah, you may be the only space where they're showing up and actually feeling really calm and confident.

Sheila:

It's pretty you're doing some incredible things.

Sheila:

I am so excited for what you've written and what's to come, and I look forward to spreading the message of your work and letting people know about it. This is one way. So for those people watching and who will hear about this on the podcast after the fact, please check out Alana. We're going well, obviously, here on Instagram. You'll see her her Instagram handle and, um, make sure that you follow acting social studio and see all of the good things to come. Is there anything specific you've got upcoming that you want to promote right now, Like an event specifically, or just maybe your next classes and sessions are?

Elanna:

Yeah, well, I think I have two things, uh uh. First one is that summer classes have now begun. You can start registering, so they go pretty fast. So if you're looking to get into an acting class this summer, go to actingsocialca and you can sign up on there. Um, and then also, um, I don't have the exact date yet, but I will be having a, a premiere in Cambridge for my film Fire Escape, so that the community can all come and see it, and so that'll be in early fall.

Sheila:

So definitely excited to look for that. Oh well, I'll be watching. Send me all the links and I'll link it all up and everyone. Thank you so much for listening and being here and, alana, thank you for sharing. It's so good to see you and I'm just so excited, like you're following your bliss, like you always do, and I can't wait to see everything that comes from this.

Elanna:

Thank you so much. Thanks for chatting with me. I loved it Wonderful.

Sheila:

Have a great rest of your day and take care everybody. We'll see you on another Instagram Live. See you, bye, bye you.