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  • You, the Career

  • A Holistic Guide to Acting, Life, and the Biz
  • By: Benjamin Mathes
  • Narrated by: Benjamin Mathes
  • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Inspiring, challenging, and full of useful tools, this audiobook is perfect for the beginner and the veteran actor. There is a career that only you can create. This audiobook will show you how.

©2019 Benjamin Mathes (P)2020 Benjamin Mathes

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An Essential Item for the Actors Essential Toolkit

Beautifully articulated, resonant and the perfect solution to an actor who’s experiencing a strong rut. Bless you for making this.

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  • Raúl Santana
  • 02-04-22

You, the career

Its a fantastic book, highly recommended. Its worth a lot more of what you’re paying for.

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  • Ivan
  • 20-09-21

All it will do, is change your life

If you care to investigate the most meaningful ideas underlying a career, in acting or otherwise, this book will invite you to explore how you approach your work and life all while teaching you a lot of practical information about an actor’s career. I highly recommend this book to everyone, actors and non-actors.

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  • Bijou
  • 07-02-21

A ‘Quick Check’ for every actor at any part of your career!

I follow Benjamin Mathes’s acting school, Crash Acting, on Instagram. So I was not surprised by the value that this book offered in such a rapid way.

Acting is such a complex career. The doing of the craft is never done, the industry is always evolving, and all the while you have to manage yourself. The last bit is usually the hardest part. This book is a quick check to your ego that you should require yourself to listen to monthly. It doesn’t matter if you experienced success or failure in that time. Life doesn’t give us what we want on a whim because we deserve the growth that’s waiting in the journey. This book is the answer to keeping yourself on track in the best of times and the worst. You may not realize it but your career can span over the course of multiple decades; if you want it to. The life you live, the memories you make, and the quality of life you live is up to you. Follow the advise in this book and you’ll build a life worth remembering.

Quick and Concise
I thoroughly enjoyed the fact that the chapters were quick and to the point. This is because the messages were precise in connecting with the truth of experiences and emotions. Meanwhile the explanation was put in a way that would allow the reader to recognize it in their own life.

Wake Up Calls
The only way out of a rut is to put your head down and keep your legs moving. That can lead you in directions that don’t end where you set out to be. However, with the knowledge in this book you’ll have clear and focused goals that will guide you towards the success you were actually after. At the end of each month read this book, quick check your ego, and get yourself realigned. You’ll be so glad you did.

In the arena mentality
This book spoke to me because the advice and insights it offers is the likes that you’ll only get while your in the ‘arena’. Sure, when you’re sitting on your couch at home acting looks great. The performing is just a small portion of this industry. Everything else is rarely talked about. You spend 90% of your time looking for work, being rejected, and trying to make rent. You do that for years on end and eventually treading water can start to feel like drowning. Your passion can go out. The industry can suffocate the best of us. This book acknowledges it. Then gives you insights into how to overcome it. Hollywood is a fast paced and competitive environment but that doesn’t mean that you have to sell your soul to do what you love. Thanks to, the brilliant, Benjamin Mathes there is a safe and welcoming environment built out of community and support instead of ruthless competition.


Read this book every month, quick check your ego, and build the life of your dreams!
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Connor Callahan

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  • allison pierce
  • 30-11-20

Amazing and easy read

This book is full of both everyday basic wisdom and deep life changing revelations. It is very well read and goes by in a flash. I started it over as soon as it was finished!! Highly recommend to anyone who wants to delve deeper into themselves and any artistic or creative endeavors.

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  • Mike Nicklas
  • 20-11-20

Incredible!!

Hands down the best book I’ve listened to on this app! Such a grounded approach to life and “acting.” Plenty to digest here, will play back a few more times. But wow, this is it. You will walk away with a great sense of what this process/practice looks like.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-11-20

amazing!!

This book will save the life of your artistic heart! You will believe again, hope again, dream of and DO Everything the world told you you couldn't Every artist needs this book!!!

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