This week’s Coffee-Chat focuses on one of my favorite “thrival-gigs”, a term coined by MITB founder Helenna Santos-Levy, a few years back. A thrival gig, is ultimately a cooler way to say my freelance or part-time survival gig- because in the end, hopefully you’re thriving toward that award-winning feature film career you’ve got your heart set on, while doing a multitude of freelancing (thrival gigs) to survive. My favorite thrival gig is promotional modeling work. The term “modeling” is a little bit misleading, because in most cases you’re not actually modeling, but you do have to be an outgoing, hygienic,…
Author: Leah Cevoli
Last month, I talked about my struggle with body image and eating disorders, and spoke candidly about the realization that for most of my adult life I haven’t been happy with the way I look on the outside, no matter what the numbers were on the scale. This month’s “Weighing In”, has nothing to do with weight, but it all goes back to self-love. I’ve spent the past year, for the most part, living out of three suitcases. In May 2012, I put in a 30-day notice at the town house I rented for the past seven years in Los…
I recently launched a consultation service called, “Coffee Chats.” Having lived in Los Angeles for 14 years now, working in various areas of the entertainment industry, it’s only natural that I get a lot of questions from friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, and total strangers. Questions range from how do I get started in voice over, to how I build my social media followers, to where can I get promotional materials printed for my band, and everything in between. For a while, I would spend countless hours responding to each email, sending contact info, suggesting resources,…
I’ve lost 10 pounds this month. I haven’t been eating all that healthy, and outside of a few hikes in the canyons of LA, I haven’t been working out much. I attribute the weight loss to the progress and the transparency I’ve embraced about being open about my struggles with an emotional binge eating disorder and a warped sense of body image. In large part, this came about thru a recent panel at Wonder Con that I put together called “All Shapes and Sizes Welcome: Body Image and Women’s Issues in the Entertainment Industry”; which featured Helenna Santos-Levy, Adrianne Curry,…
As a single woman in my 30’s, typically dating single men in their 30’s, I find that most of us want to discuss our past hurts, failures, and issues with love and romance. Most of us seem to have walls and borders that we don’t even know exist when it comes to dating…. we’re so used to the “way it always ends up”, or “the rules” we have set for ourselves in terms of dating, and I’m guilty of this too, that we could be missing out on the greatest person we’ll ever meet standing right in front of us. I find…