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Hosted by Sophie Adickes · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 25 episodes
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No more allowing stage fright, negative thought spirals, and self-doubt to run the show. Performance Pep Talk is your go-to tool if you’re a performer, actor, singer, or speaker who wants to feel centered and confident walking onstage. Hosted by mental performance coach Sophie Adickes (M.A. Psych, M.M., ICF ACC), each 10-minute episode blends psychology and practical tools to help you calm nerves, quiet imposter syndrome, and reshape your self-talk pre-performance. Because resilience, confidence, and self-belief aren’t personality traits, they’re skills you can train.
Sophie Adickes hosts Performance Pep Talk, a arts show with 25 episodes published.
Feeling physically nervous before a performance is one of the most annoying things a performer can experience. All that work only to be sabotaged by your body. Sound familiar? In this episode of Performance Pep Talk, Sop
Imposter syndrome (or imposter phenomenon) affects almost all singers, actors, and musicians at some point in their careers. And the tricky part is, it can show up despite your level of talent, preparation, or experience
If you're a singer, musician, or performer, you know how to practice the material. You've run it a hundred times and feel prepared walking into the audition. And yet the moment the stakes go up, your brain starts microma
If you're a singer, musician, or performer, you know how to put in the hours to technically prepare for performance. You've drilled it in the practice room, the lessons, and the coachings. Yet when you walk into the audi
Every performer (singers, actors, musicians) has that memory of a bad performance: the voice crack, the missed entrance, the blank. And as hard as those moments are in real time, what's often worse is what happens after.
As a performer (singers, actors, musicians) there is always something to improve. Always a note to clean up, a choice to commit to more fully, a skill to develop. But if the goalpost is always moving, how are you ever su
Performers (singers, actors, instrumentalists) often describe their pre-show panic coming out of nowhere. They walk backstage feeling confident, and then suddenly they experience a racing heart, shaking hands, difficulty
Performance anxiety doesn't discriminate, showing up despite your level of experience, talent, or preparation. But a lot of the time, the pressure that makes it worse is coming from us. In this episode of Performance Pep
If you would never speak to a friend the way you speak to yourself before a performance, this episode is for you. In this episode of Performance Pep Talk, we dig into why artists and performers tend to have the loudest i
You wouldn't walk into an important meeting without preparing. So why are so many performers still winging it in those crucial minutes before they walk into the audition room? So much of performance anxiety stems from a
Looking around the audition waiting room and suddenly feeling like everyone else is more talented, more prepared, and more likely to book the job? There's actually a neurological reason it happens. In this episode of Per
"Grow a thick skin" is advice almost every singer, actor, or performer has heard. But what if it's actually unhelpful? In this episode of Performance Pep Talk, we break down what resilience is/isn't and how to build the
Did you know that unfamiliar environments are one of the biggest, and most overlooked, triggers of performance anxiety? In this episode of Performance Pep Talk, we break down the neuroscience of why walking into a new au
Do you walk into auditions already bracing for failure? Do you practice endlessly but still never feel ready ? You might be caught in the perfectionism trap, and you're not alone. In this episode of Performance Pep Talk
If you've experienced performance anxiety or stage nerves and thought: “Is this normal?” “Why does this feel so hard for me?” “Does everyone else have this figured out except me?” This episode is for you. Whether you’re
What if your performance quality isn’t being held back by anxiety… but by mismanaged energy? In this episode, we’re shifting the conversation from calming nerves to channeling them in a positive way and activating energy
Why does being seen feel so uncomfortable and why does it trigger performance anxiety? In this episode, we break down one of the core drivers of stage fright and performance anxiety : the fear of visibility. When all eye
In this episode, we’re unpacking one of the biggest mental blocks performers face when it comes to building confidence: the fear of becoming “cocky.” If you’ve ever worried that being confident might make you seem arroga
If you’ve ever stepped on stage or walked into an audition and suddenly heard a voice in your head saying, “You’re not ready… what if you mess up… everyone is judging you,” you’ve met the inner critic. For singers, actor
When your body goes into fight-or-flight before a performance, logic alone won’t calm your nerves; your nervous system needs a signal of safety. In this episode, we explore why feeling grounded is one of the most powerfu
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