Season 5 Episode 5: Kateri Interviews Anne

Anne has the enormous pleasure of interviewing her dear friend and podcast co-host Kateri McRae about her research, her passion for working with college students.

Anne and Kateri bust the myth of the muse and of spontaneous creative inspiration by exploring various tools to strengthen your creative habit. Kateri explains the neuroscience of habit formation; then both offer ways to increase your awareness and control over your productive creative habits and their obstacles.

Anne and Kateri explore the old-school Stanislavski tool called Public Solitude, and then deep dive into an investigation of the psychological concept of Self-Consciousness.

Anne discusses various fears and internal obstacles actors encounter; Kateri then defines anxiety and stress and explains the difference between the two. Then both Kateri and Anne offer ways of coping and combatting these common fears, anxieties, and stressors.

Anne and Kateri discuss their reactions to the conversation with Dr. Danny McIntosh about different kinds of empathy, the space between actor and character, characters and other characters, and interdisciplinarity.