The Art of Rewriting Reality: How to Break Free from Subconscious Scripts

Hey, one more thing before you go. What if the voice in your head isn't actually yours? And what if the story you've been living was written by someone else?In this week's episode of one more thing before you go, I sit down with Dr. Albert Bravante. He's a psychologist, a hypnotist, a former talent agent, and author of Rise above the script.From the casting room to the classroom, Albert has seen how fear of being in scene imposter syndrome and subconscious programming sabotage even the most talented individuals. But he also knows how to break free, and that's why he's here. This isn't just a conversation about mindset.It's a masterclass in liberation, a guide to reclaiming your voice and rewriting your reality. This is going to be a great conversation. I'm excited for today's show as we unpack a number of things.Why the inner voice isn't always your own and how to reclaim it. How visibility and vulnerability are deeply intertwined.What hypnosis and narrative psychology reveal about identity and why healing often looks like performance, and how to make it authentic. We're going to show you how to rise above the script, the one that's been holding you back. Welcome to the show. Dr. Albert Bramante.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm really happy to be here.

What a unique opportunity that you present. You've had a diverse life and journey up to this point.

Yes, I have. I wear a couple different hats, but I love what I do. I love working with actors. I love working with performers, and I also love teaching.I love teaching psychology to students. And, you know, I've worked with thousands of students over the years and hundreds of actors over the years.I really enjoy and I feel really privileged to do what I can do, and.

It'S outstanding. Yeah, I. I'm an actor. I had been an actor. My daughter's an actor currently. So I respect what you do from those points, so I appreciate that.But we have a unique opportunity here to inspire and motivate people from many standpoints, whether you're an actor or just a human being looking for some help. But I like to start at the beginning. Where'd you grow up?

So I born and raised. I still live in New Jersey. I live in a county area. I've been there my entire life. I work in New York City, so I'm very close to the city.And I also spend a lot of time in North Carolina and specifically in the Outer Banks area. So we, our family has asked down there too. So I spend about three or four months out of the year in a town called Cal Beach, North Carolina.But my heart is in. In New Jersey, New York area.

From there. What was your family like? Do you have brothers, sisters?

Yes, I have a relatively large family. I'm the youngest of five. I have three brothers and one sister. They're again, much older than I am. And everyone's still alive, thankfully.One of the things about what makes it as interesting is I come from a very interesting family. We're all different, you know, like, especially. I know I'm different than them because they're.My older brothers were very much into athletics and sports, you know, growing up. They were football, baseball. My father even was a coach at one point. My oldest brother was. Was a football coach for many, many years.Very good one, too. And so that's sort of like where I've been, you know, doing, in a sense, is I've been, you know, or growing up around sports.Now, ironically, I am not into sports in any capacity, but I respect those that do. And I was the thinker of the family, the reader of the family then, you know, almost like the nerd of the family.I love books still, too, and I did as a child. So while everyone else preferred to play sports, I prefer to read. That was like my outlet growing up. And I think that really served me well.Obviously, you know, going to school all these years and being a PhD and all that, the books really helped me out.

So I would imagine so, yeah, I come from a. Well, if you look at my whole family, my mother had eight other brothers and sisters, so she was one of nine. So family gatherings.There was like a bazillion people show up because, you know, they showed up, then their kids showed up, and their kids. Kids showed up. And, you know, we would encompass. We could encompass a football field. There were so many people coming through.So I. I can relate to that point as well. I've never been a big sports guy myself either. I played a little football in high school, but it didn't resonate with me as much.But so I understand that too. I know you've lived many lives. A professor, a talent agent, a hypnotist. We have that in common. By the way, what. What thread connects them all? What.How do you connect?

Well, I connect. I can connect all. You know, really all of them.And the psychology and hypnotist part is, you know, I went to school training to be a clinical psychologist. That was like, my goal for so many years. And when. That's.When I started out in my PhD program, I started out in a clinical psychology PhD program and that's really what I wanted to do. But towards the end of my coursework it really wasn't working for me anymore.Resonating with me the sickness and disease model of really what encompasses a clinical point of view that really wasn't resonating or sitting well with me. But also another thing that happened, I was just hired as a full time professor as I was finishing my coursework.Now to receive a PhD in clinical psychology you need to complete a 750 hour practicum and a 2000 hour internship on top of that. So you're talking at least 18 months of full time combined practicum internship opportunity.And being that I was hired full time to be a college professor and I was still working my talent agent at the same time I didn't have the time to devote to that to search for an internship, land one and then juggle everything else. It would have been impossible.So I came to the decision, really important decision was that I'm just going to finish the PhD in education and research orientated. So I would still have the PhD by my name, I would still be a psychologist by training, but just not a one practice in clinical therapy.Now during also that time I discovered hypnosis and nlp and initially I was reading an article in Psychology Today and I was looking at classifieds and if they, you know, take this video class to, to learn about hypnosis. And I liked the fact that it was very quick, more rapidly healing and it works with the subconscious mind.So after taking like that initial video intro I decided I was going to enroll in a certification program. And so I did in New York. It was a three month 150 hour program and I received a certification of the clinical endotherapist.And then I took some other certifications after that in hypnosis and tipto therapy and then I also in neuro linguistic programming. So what I feel, to answer kind of your question, has it all combined? I feel that hypnosis and NLP is much more rapid when it comes to therapy.The treatment and the protocol sometimes get to the root cause at a much more faster rate than a traditional psychologist, at least in my opinion. Now I do feel they can work hand in hand.Well together they can, you know, it's a good partnership because also a lot of techniques of therapy and NLP were rooted in psychology and psychotherapy. So that's where I feel like it can bind together. Now how did this relate to My acting, you know, talent agent experience.So when I was really launched my talent agency, the one issue that kept coming up with performers was self sabotage and shooting themselves in the foot.And what that means, what that looks like in, in this capacity would be not showing up for auditions, being late to appointments, not preparing fully for the audition, really being their own worst enemy. And I also noticed this with students.You know, the students I was teaching was, I was meeting a lot of really talented students that were not really applying themselves as they should have because a lot of them were very bright, a lot of them very intelligent. So. But they didn't see it that way and so they weren't really trying.And, and when it came time to do my dissertation, which is a, the equivalent of a master thesis, but much, much more involved for the PhD program, it's like our original, the, like the defining capstone moment for a PhD is a dissertation. So I did my dissertation on a why did actors self sabotage? Which later turned out to be a foundation for my book Rise above the Script because.So I felt like this really combines everything together because my, my psychology training, my work with actors is to really understand why they were self sabotaging what was really happening here. And you know, that led me to a whole rabbit hole.

Yeah, I could imagine. Yeah. You say the inner voice isn't always yours.Do you think that, that what we just talked about in that self sabotage, that imposter syndrome, those kind of effects, do you think that's another voice that doesn't belong to us or how does that work, the inner voice?

Well, the inner voice, we internalize the inner voice from messages received from our parents, from our teachers, our society around us and they all combine together to form the, our inner voice. So the voice inside our head. So even innocent remarks and most of the time. Well, I hopefully not.We don't feel parents putting down their children directly, but you get like offhand remarks saying like you're not athletics is not your strong suit. You know, Jimmy or Jock John. You're, you're, you're, you're smart, but you're not brilliant, you're not a genius.You know, you're not going to be a rocket scientist. And the remarks that really are, might not sound blatantly bad start to create a self consciousness within us, an imposter syndrome within us.So it's combination of our own experiences and especially with actors because no matter how talented an actor is, the amount of no's that they're going to receive is going to be much greater. Than the amount of yets.It's like, unfortunately, the stacks are not in the actor's favor because it's a very overly saturated market, Whether it's New York or Hollywood, Atlanta, there's so many actors and only a limited number of roles, a limited number of jobs that are available at any given moment. So there's going to be a lot of no. No matter how talented an actor is.And after a while, the nose start to wear, wear down, wears down after a bit because especially when you go to the audition room, you're bearing your heart and soul into that, and you're really making yourself vulnerable. And then to get no feedback. What makes it really tough is very rarely you get told no directly.Very often it's just you don't hear anything, which makes it a little bit more challenging.I definitely could imagine for a lot of actors is, you know, when you walk out of audition, whenever you're from it again, and usually no news means we didn't get the job. So that can. Those combination of things can make things very challenging. It can make you start.And make the actors start doubting, am I doing the right thing? Do I really need to be here?And then I think in your situation, you know that there's a great thing that, you know, you already have a background in the art, so you understand a lot of actors have family members who have no understanding of the art. So they'll, you know, they may start hearing message like, you know, you've been trying this acting thing for six months.You didn't really land anything.You think, maybe I should just quit and go, you know, go get a real job, you know, and that they can hear this from their families, or, like, they'll go to family home for Thanksgiving. And everyone's like, so you're an actor. So what have you been in? You know, where do I see you from?Or my favorite is, oh, you have an agent or hired you in the next Steven Spielberg movie, Have your agent called Steven Spielberg.

A real job is you go to school, you become an accountant, you become a lawyer, you become a doctor, you become somebody like this, not an actor.And I think subconsciously, I can see it played a factor in my wife walking away from that business, actually, when she wanted to do it so much, because the generational trauma, intergenerational trauma affected her to a point where she kind of said, I, I don't have enough faith in myself to go do this. She did the same thing. He did the same thing. When Caitlyn said, I'm an actor.We sent Caitlyn to New York to, to train as an actor, and Caitlin was getting work. And David said, you shouldn't have wasted your money doing that. You should have sent her to college to be somebody else.A lawyer, an accountant, a doctor, you name it. And you know, even when we'd have family dinners, he'd do the same thing.So I'm just validating what you're saying from, from an internal perspective. You know, David would constantly go, when are you going to get an eagle? And that's great. When are you going to get a real job?You know, it was like, you know, Caitlyn was. She had the support of her parents in such a way that it overrode that. And she continues to work in the industry. So it's a beneficial.So from those perspectives, you know, how do you think subconscious beliefs about visibility and worthiness shape our behavior in regard to that?Because that, that compounding of the generational trauma or those around us that continuously berate us for trying to improve ourselves or to get a job, like in the acting industry.

Yeah, well, I think there's a whole need of validation there, and that's.A lot of actors are looking for that, you know, the validation, the applause, the standing ovations, all of that stuff that's so important, you know, and when you don't get the jobs, you don't get the audition. Well, you're not going to get that standing ovation, you're not going to get the applause, and you're not going to get all of that stuff.And so that can add up over time. And so you get to struggle with that.And then of course, if you're juggling with a family that's giving you pressure from, again, as in the case from her grandfather, giving under pressure of, you know, getting a real job after a while, that can add up, you know, and, you know, because she's working really hard, and that's one thing a lot of people don't. May not really understand about actors is how incredibly hard they work.You know, even though they may, you may not see necessary returns from that, but they're working incredibly hard, even if it's just trying to secure the next audition or even just evolving with their training. So actors are working incredibly hard, and a lot of times they're not getting the support or validation that they need.And then of course, that really fuels the feeling of unworthiness.Now, some could argue it, and I don't necessarily know if I agree with this line of thinking that some people who, you know, the only people that really need reason people go into acting is because they have unmet validation needs. I'm not entirely sure I believe or agree with that fully, but there's also that school of thought too.So you're already coming into the business with a deficit, you know, again, needing the external validation.And then now you're not getting it not only from career wise, but now from your own family of origin, which is again, pressuring to get a real job and, you know, being a lawyer or doctor. And that alone could just aid over time to, you know, a lot of the struggles.And that's why we see a lot of actors having mental health struggles or substance abuse issues with substance abuse, because there's no other outlet for them to turn to.

In a sense, I agree with that. I think that, you know, and, and that can happen to anybody, even if you're not in the industry.We always have these expectations from our parents and our grandparents and our family, how we're supposed to be and how we. They think we're supposed to act and be. So, you know, from. Even from an actor's perspective, I think that we're all kind of. They're all.They're maybe living out common scripts. You see people living without realizing it.They're playing a part to please everybody within the family, please everybody within their immediate environment. You know, they're having to play that out within them.

Right.

So they don't get their feelings hurt or so they don't get, you know, the, the jarring reality from somebody to say, hey, you're not doing the right thing or something like that. Do you see that as a common thread?

Yeah, I mean, the validation, you're doing the right thing, you're in the wrong profession. Get a real job and you know, again, getting the no's. I mean, I, I've. Some actors have gotten 100 no's before they get their first job.So it's like a lot of times they give up easily because it's like they don't. They're not getting no's. They're getting no's on the gets to the base. They're not getting that yet. So.

And I think that's where in life, I mean, we can take those lessons in life in general. I think, you know, we get told no.Not just in the acting business, you get told no many times you can be looking for a job, especially in today's market, you know, today's market, the job. Trying to find a job is like tough.You know, it Is a situation that I know that people out there who are, who are looking for work that are frustrated for the same. No. Because the market is inundated in the same way. So a lot of what you're saying I think applies to even those individuals.You don't have to be an actor to understand, understand these perspectives or to understand how you have the ability to redefine and rewrite your script, your inner script and your ability to move forward in such a way.You know, I've investigated a lot of suicides for example, and a lot of people who are on substance abuse and that were alcoholics and drug addicts and so forth. And a lot of that was trying to mask the pain of failure, quote, unquote, not saying, I'm not saying that they failed.They felt that they were a failure, they felt that they didn't succeed. I know that actors, you've been mentioning it throughout the talk here, you get a no, you get a no. You get to know, you get to know you.You have to strive and push and have the tenacity to get the yes. And when you don't get that, I think that they kind of have to mask that pain.

Yeah. And a lot of times it's, it's may not. It really has a lot to do with what they receive. What they receive is painful and all of that.And you know, sometimes we see suicides or we see people spy onto drugs and alcohol and we may think that their life, if we look at it from an outsider, oh, they got it, they have it all. Why are they doing that? Because it's not about what they have, it's how they feel.And even a lot of working actors have sometimes substance abuse, you know, problems. And as you said, most of the time anybody who's a hep of substance abuser is doing it to, to numb or mask something.It's not a recreational thing that says I'm just going to do some run. You know, some people may get addicted that way. Yes. But most of the time it's to cover up something that is, they're lacking inside.And again, it could be just not having that support system.And then of course you have even the well known actors struggle because they're, they may be, you know, well known, well regarded in the industry, but there's a struggle that a lot of these actors face.Even the ones that are a listers, you know, the ones that are really awful names, they struggled because people want to know them because of their Personas or what they can do, not them as people. And I think even Robin Williams said this, rest in peace.But when he was alive, the one struggle that he often faced was, yes, he had an entourage around him, but it was because of the characters he played.He's like, I wish people were around me because of is for me, you know, if I was Robin Williams the plumber, Robin Williams the, you know, the salesman or whatever, would people want to be around him? Most likely these people wouldn't even know him. Wouldn't even, you know, paint a mind.So a lot of times these actors are sometimes dealing with all this pressure because people want to be around them for their own validation or the expert, and not because of who they are as people.

And I think that goes down the line.I mean, Robert Williams was a tragic loss just because of the talent that he had, I think, and, and the ability to bring laughter to just about anything. So he had a gift for bringing laughter. Which, you know, I, I don't look him as, as a comedian.I looked at him as an individual that can make you feel better about yourself. And we all know he was struggling deep down inside.But then you've got other high profile ones that we mentioned, Anthony Bourdain and Burrell, who just committed suicide. And you think, she would have it. She would have it all. And they were. Dan, you think he would have it all?

He was traveling the world a millionaire. He had the money. But money did not buy happiness. And that's what a lot of people don't, may not understand or resonate with.I mean, yes, money does help, but it doesn't buy happiness. It's not going to cure you. It's not going.Because if you're struggling now, and even if you get money now, you just have new things you're going to be struggling with. You know, it's not, it's not going to be the answer to everything. So. But yeah, there's that fundamental issue that really has to be dealt with.And everybody's unique. So I can't, you know, I'm not going to say particularly what was going on, but even Heath Ledger is another one we can add to the list.You know, it was right after the Dark Knight came out that he got kind of went downhill and OD'd. And some were saying that were around in his circle, so he had a really hard time with that, performing that role.

What do you think we can learn from actors about authenticity and emotional truth? Because. And we in life do the same thing.We go through these ups and downs, we'll go through A period of time, whether it be relationship wise or work wise or just being a human, you know, we go there. So I guess the question would be what can we learn from actors about authenticity and emotional truth?

What we can learn especially with is a power vulnerability, you know, because actors are doing that all the time.And a lot of times this why a lot of actors are what we call empaths, which means they have a strong component for empathy and to connect with people and to connect with their characters. And most of the time they'll connect with the characters that have the most empathy for it.The one thing that's really important is self care and also the ability to detach the boundaries is really important.So the one thing that, you know, we've been trying, at least in the adult community, is how can we help actors when the role is over to adjust, you know, to not take their work home with them? You know, in a sense the role is over, let it go because it's again it's, it can be very hard to do this.A great strategy, even with dealing with the, you know, the ups and downs of, in the middle of looking for acting is to have other passions know another interest, not just acting.So have, you know, whether it's volunteerism, advocacy, fitness or other types of business opportunities that can be, that can serve, you know, as a, a buffer or an outlet. You know, several of my, my acting clients are working real estate.They, some of them are fitness trainers, some of them work in catering, some work and teaching. So it really helps that other profession, even though I think is their full time passion and interest.But they're doing something to pay the bills and they're doing something that helps them give them some sort of outlet during a downtime. So that would be one thing I would definitely say is important is to have another interest. What we can also do I think.

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Start teaching resiliency.And I wish that in most of the acting training programs, the conservatories, the BFAs or the MSA programs that are theater or an acting based should have classes on business class, even classes on emotional intelligence and awareness, because that's part of it. It's like how do you adjust to not working for months at a time?Because that is going to happen for almost all actors is you're going to have downtime, you're going to have points where you're going to be working a lot and then there's going to be points where there may be a long period of time when nothing may happen that may mean there Are jobs available? So what we need to do is to have some sort of a game plan.Whether it's obviously, maybe financially, of course, but also emotionally, what can you do in between that time? So the important thing is to keep yourself active and find other ways to do things.Do live streams, do pot, you know, host a podcast, host do, you know, start a YouTube channel, or do something that can fuel your creativity while you're waiting for the acting roles to come in. And just to keep practicing, do and keep grounded. Because, like, with any muscle, if you're talking to an athlete or.Or a musician, practice is really important. So what. In 2020, when we had the pandemic, you know, most of the industry went to a standstill for a few months when nothing was happening.And so one of the things a lot of the big, you know, I think we need to stepped up, we did start doing virtual challenges, monologue challenges, scene challenges, different sprints and all just to kind of use that workout to keep the acting muscle alive. And we did the same thing during 2023 when we had the writers Guildening and the stag after Senior Actors Guild strike.That really put a lot of work on the standstill for a while. So the important thing is to keep that muscle active. And that's why, again, record your.You know, an actor can record themselves with scenes and doing play and doing monologues, keep themselves practice and engaged and that.

And I think that applies to not only actors, but it applies to people in life too. I think we all need to learn how to change subconscious patterns. And I think we all fall into a rut. I mean, that's just common layman language.We all fall into a rut sometimes. And I think that that is to a detriment to ourselves at times. Sometimes it's okay just to go into a rut and do nothing.But at the same time, I think we also have. Have to kind of rewrite those subconscious patterns.I think hypnosis is a wonderful opportunity for us to kind of access and rewrite subconscious patterns in not just, not just in acting, but in life in general. We can change the way that we think about things and approach things, whether it be overeating or addictions or alcohol.

Or just not being triggered, you know, that's all. Exactly. Not responding to a trigger. Because that's usually the biggest thing.Cause most of us, and this is with any profession, we get into this routine day in and day out. We do the same thing over and over again. You know, you be. Get.You know, especially if we work a 9 to 5 job, you get up in the morning, you, you rush to work, you, you set in traffic, you start cursing in traffic.And then you get to work, you, you stressed out of the day, come home, make dinner, clean the house, do whatever other chores, sit down with our family. And then the next day it's like rinse and repeat. And then we do this for several years.Of course we're going to get into a rut, and of course we're going to get into a routine. So one of the things a great practical tool to rewire, really doesn't require formal necessity is do something different.You know, change things up from time to time. You know, do things, step outside your comfort zone a little bit, try out new things.And, and that was one way to kind of like get yourself out of that rut. Also, the language that we use and, and one of the most powerful, I guess, tools that hypnosis uses is language.And the power of language is immensely, you know, both on a conscious and subconscious level.So language patterns that we utilize is important with both not just communicating with, you know, each other, but it's for itself intrapersonal communication. So the one thing, what's for actors is like, don't ever introduce yourself or refer to yourself as a starving artist or a struggling artist.Now, for some reason, and I don't know, I'm not sure why this happened, but there we tend to romanticize the idea of starving artists that become like an ideal, like a badge of honor, which I'm not sure how, why or how.And when you start talking yourself, referring to yourself as a starving artist or a struggling actor, you're already operating on a model of deficit. You're already working from a place of inadequacy already without even beginning. So what we.You can reframe that and say, I'm a professional working actor.Because whether you, whether you performed, even if it's a play, a theater, a black box theater, and there were a hundred, you know, seats, you people paid money for a ticket. You are a working actor. So that is something to refriend. Now you're a professional working actor.You would study this and I would always say you were, you're working actor. Now some people could say, well, I'm not, I'm not getting paid. Well, no, but are you working every day to get auditions? Yes.Well, you say you're a working actor.So if we refrain, reframe that, and that's a big outre word we use in the hypnotic NLP community to reframing which is just sort of like another way of just looking at things. Can you look at it this way? And then we'll say the word reframe.For those that may not be familiar with that, reframing is just like changing a perspective, in a sense. So why don't you look at it this way? So the words we use are extremely empower, are extremely powerful.This is why, again, you know, very popular sayings, you know, that we've learned in elementary schools, like, you know, never use the word I can't. Because if you can't do something, you're automatically telling your subconscious that you're not going to do it.And your subconscious mind, which is the driving force of a personality, is like a child that'll do what you tell it to do once the conscious mind is out of the way. So it'll hear like, if you say, I'm a starving artist, okay, gotta be from a starving mindset.So we need to start reframing or rewiring the beliefs that we're a part of and hearing and internalizing.

Well, and I think I agree with you. I think that language plays a role in shaping our identity and our success in many forms. And that could be in life in general.Language plays a role in that. You know, that's why you get the father or the mother that consistently says, you're not doing the right thing. You should be doing this job.You should be going nine to five. You should have a, you know, one house, picket fence. What I said earlier, that this is what you're supposed to be doing.And pretty soon you start going, well, I'm a failure because I'm not doing that. And it delves upon us and pushes us down, I think.And you have hypnosis, you have the opportunity for hypnosis to help you redefine that language to help us reshape our identity and our success. And I think it's a wonderful opportunity to be able to do that. What does it mean when I say this?Hopefully this is something I had seen that you had written. What does it mean to rise above the script? And how can someone begin that journey today to rise above that script, rise.

Above the automatic thought patterns that our faces are like, or automatic negative thought, you know, which we can. For what some people refer to as the term. And so automatic negative thoughts, which means being able to reframe that by.By changing our perspective on things. So again, the whole thing of the struggling actor. No, I'm a working actor now.You're changing your internal scripts and you know, I really use the metaphor on script because, you know, the book is really geared towards actors. So that's, you know, a concrete thing to understand. But all of us are working on scripts no matter what, what who we are as human beings.Rocker on script right now. And what we want to do is rewrite that to a point where it doesn't have to be that.And so it might be challenging our distortions or challenging our generalizations or our deletions because a lot of times it might be, you know, we might start thinking, I can't do anything right, you mean anything. Or, you know, you'll sometimes say, I wasn't really cut off by this. Who told you that? You know, tell me who said that.And a lot of times we really can't say who did because it's our inner voice talking, our inner critic. So it's somewhat changing that to a bit rising above fear even, you know, because fear is a major factor too. It's a major driver.Now one of the things I look at with fear is fear is a protective mechanism. It helps keep us safe. So there is a lot of value in fear because that's what really keeps us alive.If we had no fear, our species wouldn't be alive in this day and age. We wouldn't have made it because we would have been subject, we would have been right in the middle of danger all the time. So fear protects us now.It can sometimes go be overprotective. And the things that's our brain, you know, the key thing is our brain, our brain still hasn't really evolved from the hunter gathering days.Now of course there were real life dangers during that time.You had to avoid getting killed by a saber tooth tiger, another tribe, other wild animals that were constantly, you know, because war attacking humans. So we had to constantly be on guard.Now in modern society, well, not that we don't have these dangers anymore, but our brain still perceives a little bit of change as that danger that we might have experienced, you know, a thousand years ago. So it activates the fight or flight mode. And then therefore I'm not going to do that. I'm going to stay in a safe, comfortable environment.So Rise of a Script is also involved challenging those fears, changing those fears and even looking what fear is. You know, some could say that fear, it really stands for false evidence appearing real.Which means that, you know, we have to challenge that fear, that it's not real real, it's perceived. So, and I'm sure your listeners can identify is when you have Situations where you fear the worst case scenario.You know, you're so worried about how things can go wrong that let's take this situation happened to you in the past that you were so concerned or worried about that was going to go so wrong, you thought was going to go so wrong. What most people will find that when the actual situation happens, it's not nearly as bad as we perceived or imagined it to be. But fear ticks over.So we need to rise above the fear too and really confront that.

So I think it's a unique approach to having to rewire ourselves. Someone feels stuck in a story that no longer fits was the first step towards rewriting that.Because obviously you just mentioned the thing about having to understand that we can rewrite our own script, we can change the methodology, we can change what our subconscious is saying to us that's holding us down, holding us back and keeping us from moving forward. So what would be the first step somebody would take?

Well, the first is taking action is doing something that's a little uncomfortable, like ripping the band aid off a little bit.Um, so that might mean, you know, going live on social media, giving a public speak, you know, presentation, doing something that makes you uncomfortable initially, a little uncomfortable. Over time it'll change, start changing the, the capacity, like, well, I can do this, look what I can do, right? And then your lives can change.But it's taking those small actions because a lot of people are sitting there expecting, expecting, wanting their life to change, but are not doing anything, you know, to do that. So if you want your world to change, you've got to start process. So that means doing something different to move forward.Take that step, take that step. That's what's really important so that your life can change and move in that direction.

Yeah, that's brilliant, brilliant way of moving people forward. I know that you have a lot of resources and the ability and opportunity for people to come in and change their lives.In regard to this, whether you're an actor or a human being that's looking to move and change in their life, can you tell us how to reach you and what you have to offer?

Well, definitely go to my website, Albertpromonte.com, which is under construction. But you can go to my. You can also check out my book on Amazon, Rise above the Script. It's is available both as a book and as an audiobook.And you can also go to my website.Right now I have a lot of recordings available, short, like brief hypnotic sessions where you can listen over and over Again, and, you know, with the rear headphones, and they're on such a variety of topics. I have over 250 available that you can choose from public speaking to leadership to addictions.So just go to albertbermonti.com I'm also going to be launching a coaching program, so also there'll be a chance in the next few weeks to book a call with me. I'd love to have a conversation with you.

Outstanding. I'll make sure those are in the show notes. Everybody has an easy way to click and find you very easily.So, Albert, thank you very much for being part of here. Thank you very much for sharing your wisdom, your experience, and the opportunity for people to improve their lives.Because I think this what we've talked about today, whether you're an actor again or just a human being looking for some help, this applies to each and every one of you. So I appreciate you.

Yeah.

And again, I'll make sure everything's in the show notes and people to reach out and connect with you because I think that we have a unique opportunity for you to be able to improve your lives.

Absolutely. Yes. Thank you. And thank you for having me on.

Absolutely. And one more thing before you all go. We carry scripts. Sometimes we write ourselves.Others were handed to us by family, by culture, by fear, as we just spoke about. But as Dr. Albert Bramante reminded us today, those scripts aren't permanent. They're not prophecy. They're just pages. And pages can be rewritten.If you've ever felt stuck in a role that no longer fits, if the voice in your head sounds more like an echo than your own truth, this is your invitation to rise above the script, to reclaim your voice, to step into the spotlight not as a character, but as your truest self. Because healing isn't always quiet. Sometimes it's standing ovation for the person you've just become. So that's where we need to go.Albert, you've got the opportunity to help people, so I hope they reach out.

Thank you again.

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