Show Notes
Quick question: when was the last time you felt something and had no idea what to do with it?
This short episode is the front door to the show. In a couple of minutes, I’ll tell you what Emotions for Humans is, who it’s for, and the one idea everything here is built on: emotion isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you can train.
I’m Jon Hunter, and I’m an acting coach – which really just means I teach people how emotion actually works. Not in theory. In the body. On demand. For years I’ve taught this to actors, and here’s the secret: actors aren’t special. They’re just the people who signed up to practise. This show is for everyone else with a nervous system – the anger you swallow at work, the tears that ambush you at weddings, the confidence that shows up ten minutes after you needed it.
No therapy-speak. No “good vibes only”. No pretending there’s a right way to feel.
Now. Go be a human.
More from Emotions for Humans
Here’s a question that changes rooms: what’s the work?
Nobody feels as confident as they look. Not even the people who look it most.
The perfect thing to say arrives in the car park, 10 minutes after the meeting ends. Confidence that clocks in late. It’s a specific kind of misery – and it happens most to the people who care most.
Here’s a sentence to sit with: the class is not the learning.