by Melanie Ramiro | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog
Have you noticed that people often get all hung up on credentials in this business. A lot of experts tend to have a bunch of extra letters behind their name. But which ones really matter? Does a paper on the wall mean that you’re truly better at what you do? Yes...
by Melanie Ramiro | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog
A lot of people think I mean one thing when I tell them that I’m a star creator & supporter. They often assume that I turn people into stars and then support them in their business dealings. Well, that’s partly true. I’m not talking...
by Melanie Ramiro | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog
Learning any new craft is a lot like learning a foreign language. We often want to be awesome at it straight out of the gate, but that rarely — if ever — happens right away. What really happens is that we end up looking and sounding like a frustrated...
by Melanie Ramiro | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog
One of the hardest things to get past in my performing days was the big chasm between what I envisioned being able to do, and what I could actually do. I got all inspired and lit up like I was on fire when I saw Cirque du Soleil, but then the first time I got onto a...
by Melanie Ramiro | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog
Big mythology geek that I am, I used to love the movie “Clash of the Titans” when I was little. (The original, not the remake — the one with the steampunk owl. Super-nerd alert!) One part in it that always stuck with me was the scene where Andromeda...
by Melanie Ramiro | Jun 9, 2015 | Blog
I talked last week about finding a snake in my dishwasher, and how that one experience made me face one of my biggest fears. Before that, I had another fear, not as scaly — but just as scary: Standing in front of a group of people. The fear was even worse if I...
