Visualization, alignment, and the science that makes success inevitable.
🎯 TL;DR
• Visualization isn’t "woo", it’s science-backed rehearsal.
• The Transformation Triangle: Aligns outcome, identity, and action.
• Moneen’s breakthroughs: letting go of “not enough,” choosing joy, showing up for herself.
• This week: Your Next Lead Role workshop Tuesday + Monologue Jam Thursday.
• Members: Monologue Challenge submissions due Monday, Sept 1 at midnight.
🌟 FEATURE STORY: How to Rehearse Your Future
In this week’s Rehearsal Jam, I did something different. Instead of jumping right into text, I led a guided visualization, an exercise to meet the version of you who has already booked your next lead role.
The science behind visualization:
This isn’t just about “positive thinking.” It’s about training your nervous system.
- Neuroscience: Brain scans show that when you imagine an action, your motor cortex lights up almost the same way as when you physically do it. You’re literally strengthening the neural pathways for performance.
- Sports psychology: Olympic athletes use visualization daily. Michael Phelps famously ran entire races in his mind, down to the feel of the water, so on race day his body just followed the script.
- Mind-body connection: Your heart rate, breath, and muscle tone shift according to the pictures you hold. Imagine calm confidence, and your body starts to mirror it.
Acting is athletic. Breath, timing, recovery, presence, it’s all trainable. Visualization gives you extra reps without burning out your voice or body.
The Transformation Triangle:
After visualization, we built on it with something called The Transformation Triangle.
🔺 Top Point: Your Desired Outcome
Your North Star. Landing a series regular. Building steady auditions. Creating a thriving creative career. Clarity here gives your system direction. What outcome do you desire?
▶️ Bottom Right: Your Operating Field
Your identity, beliefs, mindset, and emotions of the person who achieves the desired outcome. This is who you’re being. Are you showing up as someone hoping for a chance, or as the Lead Actor who belongs? Beliefs like “I’m not enough” drain power. Beliefs like “I’m powerful, present, and worthy of being seen” fuel momentum. What is the operating field of the YOU that books your next lead role?
◀️ Bottom Left: Your Outputs
The 3D actions you take. Rehearsing monologues. Shooting reels. Submitting auditions. Networking. Tangible, observable steps a camera would see. Once you are in the right operating field, what tangible actions and outputs will get you to your desired outcome?
Why all three matter together:
Here’s the truth: your transformation falls apart if even one corner of the triangle is missing.
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Desired Outcome without Operating Field or Outputs: This is wishful thinking. You’ve got the vision board, you’ve written down the dream role, but nothing changes because the identity and actions don’t match. It’s like staring at a script and never stepping into rehearsal.
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Operating Field without Outcome or Outputs: You might feel good for a while...confident, inspired, high-vibe, but with no direction and no follow-through, the energy fizzles out. It’s like warming up your voice every day without ever choosing material to perform.
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Outputs without Outcome or Operating Field: This is the grind. You’re hustling, taping, networking, sending emails, but with no clear goal and no inner alignment, it feels like pushing a boulder uphill. Burnout is inevitable because effort isn’t anchored to a bigger vision or identity.
When all three points connect, something shifts:
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Your Desired Outcome gives direction.
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Your Operating Field fuels belief, energy, and presence.
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Your Outputs turn vision into action-based momentum.
When those three align, the result isn’t forced. It feels natural, inevitabl, even magnetic. That’s the power of the triangle.
Actor Breakthroughs from the session:
During the exercise, Moneen shared some powerful realizations:
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She saw a confident version of herself, “still fabulous,” and gave herself permission to be fully seen.
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She released the belief “I’m not enough.”
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She claimed: “show up for myself the way that I show up for those that I love.”
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She identified joy as her baseline, not a bonus.
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She listed concrete outputs: daily creative work, regular physical activity, building a new reel, curating content, doing expense and time audits, and hiring support.
Her triangle was complete: clear outcome, empowered operating field, and tangible outputs. That’s not theory, that’s alignment in action.
Future memory and timeline work
Neuroscience calls this work “future memory.” Your brain is a prediction machine. When you rehearse a future vividly and emotionally, your nervous system encodes it as a lived experience. Later, in an audition, your system recognizes the pattern and replays it.
Quantum theory adds another layer: multiple futures are possible. The one you stabilize fastest is the one you embody repeatedly in thought, feeling, and action. That’s why these exercises feel like “timeline jumping”, you’re not waiting for your future, you’re rehearsing it into existence.
Why this belongs in rehearsals...
Monologues and rehearsals are our lab. They’re not just practice pieces, they’re weekly chances to connect your goals, mindset, and actions. That’s how you stop "hoping for a break" and start stepping into your next lead role with confidence.
🎬 Upcoming Events
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Your Next Lead Role Workshop - Tuesday 7pm ET
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Rehearsal Jam – Thursday 7pm ET
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🎤 Quote of the Week
"The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more it will be." – Wayne Dyer
And...ACTION!
- Joey Freddy Larsen
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