Brain Candy – Nick Hoffa’s “Eyeline” Podcast

Feed Your Head. It’s a hard business, being an actor, and you need to keep a steady stream of positive and useful information coming into your brain. You can spend your day on Facebook and go between people who are booking and #blessed and people who are struggling and trying (and sometimes succeeding) to lock it up while they can’t seem to get hit by a bus if they tried. Meanwhile you’re taking the emotional rollercoaster ride that goes along with that. Or you can actively seek out encouragement and perspective from working actors who are freely sharing their stories and potentially mapping out the roads you should explore. One of these options sounds far more productive to me.

Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to virtually meet Nick Hoffa on Stage 32. Nick is an actor living in LA. He’s started a podcast called the Eyeline Podcast, that’s available on iTunes. Each Episode is about an hour worth of some really valuable conversation with other actors of all different stripes. These are people (some very accomplished) who can help you with the long view on a career that has more ups and downs than perhaps any other. Imagine being a fly on the wall as Virginia Madsen talks about her journey? Or what if you could get some real talk from Katie Lowes (Scandal) about how taking care of herself really helped her career? Well, now you can hear stories just like these on Eyeline.

It costs you nothing. It can be the thing you listen to on your commute. Certainly, if it came down to “Showtime” or the “Eyeline” on the 1 Train, I know that I’m going to be listening to Nick. If you have a desk job, you can listen to it on the website.

Sometimes when you’re on your journey, it’s easy to lose perspective. And if you have the chance to check in with Nick’s Podcast, I’d highly recommend it. I consider it a valuable resource and I hope you do too.