Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

You Winning Life Podcast with Jason Wasser, LMFT: Bruce Weinberg- Kids Books Author

22 Aug 2019 · 1 min

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In this segment of the You Winning Life Podcast, host Jason Wasser, LMFT, asks guest Bruce Weinberg about the role of mentorship and the allure of theater in contemporary society. Weinberg reflects on his early start in acting, noting that his parents supported his passion and that he trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse during middle and high school. He contrasts the popular view of theater as a trendy, easy pursuit with the reality that acting requires deep commitment and skill. The conversation highlights the importance of having mentors outside the family—such as coaches or drama teachers—and underscores how early, serious engagement with theater shaped his development.

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As you look at today's society, right, we can go in two different directions with this one. One is the importance of finding a mentor, right, and someone who believes in you that's not your parent, you know, whether it's an athletic coach or like you've done this, been a professor/drama coach. But you're— but the other side of the coin is being in theater is the cool thing now. So what was that like for you when you first got into theater and drama and acting? And how old were you when that happened?
Well, I started when I was really young, and then I started to develop it more in middle school and high school. As a matter of fact, my parents were supportive of my love for theater because I grew up in Pennsylvania, and at the time they had this amazing acting school, which was the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Believe it or not, it's— some people think like, oh, it's just acting, you know, it's like, it's, you know, it's easy, you know, easy breezy, just memorize some stuff and like, you know, get up there and say it, but it's really not. It's really a lot more than that.