This Is Too Much : Recent Episodes
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This Is Too Much is a podcast that refuses to believe that talking about therapy, our emotions, our fears, money, trauma, to list a few things, should be shied away from. Join actress Andrea Londo, in conversation with different guests, as they open up about their stories, areas of expertise, and lessons learned. Uncovering the immense power and autonomy that lies in understanding the mental loops that can transform our mental health. Let's debunk the taboos around the conversations and subjects we deem "too hard"...“too much”. Ultimately understanding ourselves, those around us, and those nowhere near us, better.
This episode is a continuation, Part I was uploaded last week!
In this segment, we focus more heavily on the following topics:
If you've ever wondered how to get a Talent Manager in the industry, this episode is for you! Join actress Andrea Londo in conversation with Manager Greg Bekkers as we break down everything you need to know in this TWO part episode, Part II next week!
In this Episode we talk about:
- What grabs a manager's attention right-off-the-bat!
- Do's and don't(s) of submissions
- Headshots headshots headshots! What matters in a headshot, what makes a headshot good, etc.
- What's the most important thing about a headshot (pretty certain no blogs online talk about THIS)
- The importance of who YOU are to stand out, or provide variety to a roster/company
- Rosters, timing, and seasons of submissions
- The "Invisible" Progress you make as an actor and the importance of it
- Some of the casting-frustrations you have to navigate as an actor and why you need to trust casting and your own manager through them
- The bigger picture you need to keep in mind
- The importance of "your look" and accepting it despite what you wish others saw you as
- How to find balance
- EXPECTATIONS! What your manager expects from you
- What you can expect from your manager
- The importance of adaptability and embracing opportunity for growth/ personal change
- What does trust and safety look like in a manager-actor relationship
- How personal should your relationship be with your manager?
And much more!
Find more about Apollo Management, Greg's company, here:
https://www.apollo-management.com/
Este capitulo es la segunda parte de nuestra conversacion con Lina Mar!
Seguimos nuestra conversacion de la energia femenina y su sanacion.
Ahora tocando temas de:
- Que es la "sanacion uterina"?
- Porque es tan importante sanar nuestro utero?
- El poder y la energia de nuestro utero y todo la informacion que contiene.
- Temas de infertilidad.
- Temas de tu periodo mensual
- Temas de anticonceptivos
- El poder de nuestro utero y la importancia de sanarlo en relacion al embarazo, y en particular despues de un aborto (espontaneo o autoinducido).
- El aborto o una "semilla no germinada" - que quiere decir eso para nuestro cuerpo y bienestar?
- esto y mas en este capitulo con Lina Mar, fundadora de la red mundial de "Empovive"
Hola!
En este capitulo hablamos con terapeuta holistica e integral, Lina Mar! Lina Mar es fundadora de "Empovive", una red mundial de trascendencia femenina basada en el humanismo integral y la espiritualidad.
En esta platica profundizamos sobre los temas siguientes:
- Energia Femenina
- Energia Masculina
- La diferencia entre ambas
- Como distinguir si una herida es una herida femenina o masculina
- Como empezar a sanar nuestra propia fuente de cada una de estas energias
- Somos mas propensos a un tipo de energia segun nuestro genero?
- Como influyen las expectativas de la sociedad en ambas manifestaciones de energia?
Para mas informacion el instagram de Lina es: @empovive
Hello everyone!
A short episode from yours truly to fill you guys in and update you on what's new. We're excited to expand the Podcast here and there with informed and well-versed Spanish speaking guests!
As mentioned, PLEASE REACH OUT! :)
We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, ideas, and suggestions at:
thisistoomuchcast@gmail.com
Thank you for being here and for your all your support.
Talk soon!
Today we're bringing you a very candid and transparent conversation with YouTube extraordinaire Christina Mychas! Christina is a content creator with a devoted following - including Andrea herself! And it's for a reason! Christina is one of the most honest people Andrea has ever come across online. So naturally, we had to have her on. Listen in to discover what Christina had to do, and had to CONFRONT* about herself, to stop shopping and take control of her debt (120K in student loans!).
You won't regret diving into this one :)
In this episode we talk about:
- Christina's content as a YouTuber
- How to Stop Shopping
- What does it mean to be a shopaholic? How did Christina come to realize this? How do any of us?
- What is shopping REALLY about?
- The real driving forces behind our over-consumption
- Being a blogger and being in debt
- Being an actress and being in debt
- The concept of our "Fantasy Selves"
- Mental Health in relation to shopping, or overcoming any persistent problem in our life.
- Therapy
- How to be a creative and honest individual online and not care what others think about you
- How to take your debt seriously and take control of your finances
- Minimalism
- Christina as a "minimalist-ish" = more on her unique take on minimalism
- Taking Minimalism too far
- Toxic Minimalism
- Simple Living
- How to tackle "letting go" of your things
- Decluttering
- Shopping our own closets!
- How to curb impulse shopping
We hope you enjoyed the Episode as much as we did !
As mentioned in the outro of this episode... please email us at:
thisistoomuchcast@gmail.com
We want to hear your thoughts, your questions, and/or your ideas for potential guests and topics. Thanks for being here! More soon <3
Part 2 of our conversation with Flynn!
Starting right where we left off, we continue our conversation with Holistic Therapist and IFS Specialist, Flynn Skidmore.
In this Episode:
- Panic Attacks - what they are and how to reduce the anxiety that leads to them
- Accepting Anger
- Therapy as a safe space that facilitates authenticity
- "Hiding" and "Secrecy" of emotions
- How to create and cultivate emotional freedom
- Insecurity - What is insecurity? How does it show up? What categorizes someone as insecure?
- Insecurities and projecting
- How to create a better relationship with our insecurities
- How to be MORE SECURE + CONFIDENT
- How to get out of your own way
- Different tools to understanding why we might be stuck and how to navigate them
- How to take action DESPITE our insecurities, very specific anecdotes and examples of what that looks like
- "Our Highest Self" as "Vision Holders"
- Frustration as a vehicle to change and empowerment
- What "fulfilled" and "satisfied" people do
- People that want you to be small
- How we internalize not feeling safe in our highest expression of self
- Insecurities in dating
- The relationships we attract
- How to choose better partners
- What choosing a partner really means for your life and yourself
Today's guest is the brilliant Flynn Skydmore!
Flynn is a therapist specialized in multiple things including IFS (Internal Family Systems). His ability to explain and articulate why we might be struggling so much with ourselves and others, has quickly garnered him a wide audience on Social Media. In this episode, Andrea and Flynn tackle some of the most common questions and subject-matters related to how to improve ourselves, how to change what we don't like about ourselves, and how to life a life that is more meaningful and conducive to happiness.
In this episode:
- What is IFS (Internal Family Systems)
- What does it mean to have "different parts" inside us?
- "No Bad Parts" by Dick Schwartz
- "The Higher Self" in all of us
- How different "parts" coexist inside yourself
- How to approach your different "parts" with curiosity
- The four layers of awareness
- Loving Awareness v. Shameful Awareness
- Social Anxiety
- "Authenticity"
- Negative emotions and how to navigate them
- Intentionality as a compass for life choices
- Escapism / Avoidance / Bypassing Emotions
- Therapists as "Guides"
- Why are you "stuck" in a pattern of behavior? And how to change that
- Getting to the root of what we really want -- from an emotional perspective
- How to get what you want
- Anger - how to accept it, how to change it, how to deal with it.
- Is there a "Hierarchy of Feelings" ?
- Emotions as protective parts
- How to "get"/achieve/feel emotional safety
- People Pleasing
- Trauma and the manifestation of trauma in the body
- Systems Theory
If you've ever wondered how your inner programming/childhood/beliefs play out in your life, your choices, your relationships (with yourself and others) this episode is for you! Welcome to episode 3! We are joined by Dr. Rachel, a therapist with a keen understanding and focus on the inner child. Buckle up cuz it's a good one!
In this Episode:
- What exactly is our inner child?
- Inner child as defined literally and somatically
- What do your adult patterns hint at about the beliefs you picked up in childhood?
- Multiple examples of how your inner child plays out in your adult decisions as well as self -beliefs
- What is trauma bonding ?
- Examples of trauma bonding
- Toxic relationships as an invitation to heal
- Compassion on the journey to heal our inner child
- Approaching therapy through the lens of self compassion versus "fixing ourselves"
- What does inner curiosity look like in relation to healing?
- Healing as a paradigm shift
- Couples therapy and conscious intentional repair in relationships
- Generational trauma
- Self-parenting
- Healing parental wounds
- Compassion for our parents and modern parents
Dr. Rachel Greenberg is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist & Teacher offering seekers from all over the world empowerment & relational practices inspired by various psychological and spiritual traditions. She’s the Founder of The Numinous Path, her psycho-spiritual practice for Whole Self Healing & Transformation. She’s influenced by her academic pursuits and rigorous clinical training in addition to her own series of profound spiritual awakenings and embodied emotional healings. Her passion is to support the embodied healing and transformation process and to be a guide towards awakening authentic expression intra- & inter- personally. She guides people to radically actualize an aligned life and cultivate the art of deep relating. Dr. Rachel is honored to be a creative conduit for the healing work she lives, teaches, and guides.
Healing Back To Wholeness is Dr. Rachel’s comprehensive digital course and community-based program for anyone ready to heal your past, liberate your patterns, and create your authentic life. The course is a deep dive into healing practices to direct an awakened and heart-centered life and equip you with tools to recover from trauma. You can join her for the live 2023 cohort by enrolling here:
https://www.heydrrachel.com/hticselfstudy
Welcome to Episode2!
Today we are dismantling and lifting the veil off perfectionism with the amazing Dr. Jen! Dr. Jen and Andrea both grew up self-identifying as perfectionists. The two bond quickly over their shared emotional experience and all that entails !
In this Episode we talk about:
- What is perfectionism?
- Can we pinpoint where perfectionism comes from?
- Intra-personal trauma and its impact
- High functioning anxiety
- Why it's "easy" to internalizing low self worth
- Trauma as an experience that ruptures a just-world belief
- The pressures "children of immigrant's" face
- Integrating “perfectionism as an identity”
- Perfectionism as a coping mechanism.
- Maladaptive coping mechanisms
- Why showing up as "too much" is not always our fault
- Self image obsession as a desire for connection
- Perfectionism getting in the way of connection
- Behavioral experiments that help you get better with your perfectionism
- Guilt and perfectionism
- Self-forgiveness
- Values based living
Dr. Jen Douglas is a psychologist, coach and speaker on perfectionism in women. She helps individuals and organizations around the world break free from unhelpful personal narratives and societal expectations. Dr. Jen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she teaches and supervises fellows at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her online course Freedom from Perfectionism: How to Take Back Your Time and Live a More Authentic Life, can be found here:
drjenniferdouglas.com/courses
Find us on Instagram:
@DrJenOfficial
@AndreaMLondo
Book excerpt is from "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin
In this episode, Andrea and her first guest, therapist Anna Hollaender-Bird, dive head first into what it means to be "too much". Like listening in on a conversation between two friends, we get insight into their experience as Latina women navigating their respective industries, families, and environments.
In this Episode we talk about:
- What does feeling like “too much" mean from a psychological point of view
- The association between doing "too much" and what Anna calls being a “high achiever"
- The dichotomy of being perceived as successful and simultaneously feeling shame or embarrassment around everything you are
- The link b/w identifying as “to much” and being a perfectionist
- Assumptions we make around others based on their looks
- The psychological imprint you operate from as the children of immigrants
- Overcompensating for insecurities through social media
- “Fantasy Selves”
- The correlation between self-imposed pressure and societal expectation
- Is there such a thing as a middle ground? AKA “just enough” versus “too much”
- The pro’s and con’s of perceived external beauty
- What your internal dialogue and self talk says about you
- Confronting our shadows and insecurities through healthy mature conversation
- Extremes in movie representation
- The struggles of any self-imposed career title
- Authentic Self
- What does embracing and acting authentically look like?
People mentioned in this Podcast:
YouTuber Christina Mychas
Actress Barbara Mori
Speaker and Author Brené Brown
More about Anna and how to contact her:
Anna is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) specializing in working with women, creatives, high-achievers, and people with difficult romantic relationships and/or difficult relationships with their parents. Anna aims to make coming to therapy a safe and warm experience. She’s integrative in her therapeutic approach using traditional “talk therapy,” EMDR therapy, and performance psychology techniques to help people heal and achieve peak performance. Her education includes the University of Southern California (USC) and Antioch University.
Anna’s career highlights include being a public speaker on the topic of mental health at universities such as UCLA and & UC Berkeley and her clinical work at the renowned Reconnect Trauma Treatment Center in the Pacific Palisades.
Currently, Anna is seeing adults based in California online for therapy. She also runs a group for adults about dealing with your difficult parent. Check out her website for more information at talkwithanna.com/entertainment-industry
Anna has rolling client openings.
You can always reach out to her for a free 15-minute consultation consultation at: www.talkwithanna.com/schedule/