After 9 months away from releasing episodes, Mason returns to discuss the future of Real Talk! Burnout is a battle that we always hear about, but generally assume that it won’t get to us – but with everything going on, it happened to me... Read More
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After 9 months away from releasing episodes, Mason returns to discuss the future of Real Talk!
Burnout is a battle that we always hear about, but generally assume that it won’t get to us – but with everything going on, it happened to me. Join me for a few minutes as I discuss why I have been absent from the podcast scene for so long, my love for theatre getting rejuvenated over and over, and the re-introduction of my podcast!
Since the beginning, I have done this show as a way to connect with Broadway in a world where theatres had been shuttered – but that purpose isn’t necessarily the most needed as performing returns for us. While off, I reflected on the reason I keep wanting to reach out and interview amazing artists from around the industry and I came to the conclusion;
THIS is my exploration of careers and my resource to figure out what my own future will look like. Through interviews, I am finding out the benefits of colleges, internships, experience, and networking.
It is my sincere hope that you and everyone listening will be able to use my show as a resource to find the place that we ALL deserve! (Because there is a place for us all in this wonderfully busy industry)
Join me!
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[0:03] Mason Bray: Welcome back to Real Talk with me, Mason Bray.
[0:06] Mason Bray: I am so excited to finally be back creating and sharing this show after nine months off.
[0:13] Mason Bray: And I've gotten a lot of questions from people. Mason, where have you been for nine months that you can't release a podcast episode?
[0:19] Mason Bray: And the short answer is burnout.
[0:22] Mason Bray: And like real talk for you, starting off great. Burnout is so real.
[0:27] Mason Bray: And being 16, I didn't think that it could happen to me so early.
[0:31] Mason Bray: But with everything going on in my life, it was very real.
[0:35] Mason Bray: And it like just felt like I couldn't do anything else, and I was so behind, and I kept telling myself, this is when I'm gonna start releasing episodes.
[0:43] Mason Bray: But now I finally got a grasp on where I want to be, where I am, and how the future's gonna go, and I'm so excited to finally be back and be able to share this with you.
[0:55] Mason Bray: And during that time, yes, I still went to shows and supported this art as much as possible, but I'm so excited to finally be back and creating my own podcast.
[1:04] Mason Bray: But in that time, my show fell off.
[1:06] Mason Bray: And it was very, very sad for me.
[1:08] Mason Bray: I still went to all the Broadway Podcast Network monthly meetings, and I kept telling myself different dates that I would start back.
[1:15] Mason Bray: But I am finally back, and I'm so excited to be here.
[1:19] Mason Bray: For me, this show started out as just connecting to people in the industry and making a network for myself of all of these wonderful artists who I have over 50 now that have talked to me and been so generous to me, and I love every single one of them.
[1:36] Mason Bray: And I'm so excited to continue talking to people.
[1:38] Mason Bray: But this is also my idea of exploration in where I want to go with my life.
[1:44] Mason Bray: So there might be more questions targeted towards like college and what I want to do in the future relating to myself, but I hope that it still gives a source for my audience to engage and want to be part of this industry because there's a place for all of us, whether it be on stage, backstage in the marketing departments or producers, directors, choreographers, all that kind of stuff.
[1:44] Mason Bray: There's a place for all of us if we put in the work, if we put in the hours, um and take what's ours, the song on TikTok.
[2:16] Mason Bray: And in September, when I went to New York, my love for this art form was rekindled.
[2:23] Mason Bray: I spent the summer last year at the Muni watching several of their shows, and I loved it so much.
[2:29] Mason Bray: I met so many wonderful people.
[2:31] Mason Bray: I got to meet Sammy Candell in person who introduced me to the creative director of the Muni, which was so insane.
[2:37] Mason Bray: And then in September, I got to do my first in-person interview with Sean McManus, who um will be released soon.
[2:45] Mason Bray: Um coming up in the next few weeks, since we are back to releasing episodes every Monday, and I saw Stephanie J. Block in Into the Woods, Derek Clenna in Moulin Rouge.
[2:56] Mason Bray: I saw Beetlejuice through um the press company, and that was my second Broadway show ever seeing in New York City, and that was so magical.
[3:06] Mason Bray: And this art form brings so much to people and gives so many stories to be told.
[3:13] Mason Bray: Um, and I think it's really wonderful that we have that opportunity to change people's life.
[3:18] Mason Bray: And it's changed my life for the past ten years of me doing shows, designing shows, doing this.
[3:24] Mason Bray: It's really beautiful, and I hope that I can continue to bring that creativity, bring that artistry to the table with my show while figured out what I want to do with my life.
[3:35] Mason Bray: So this is a reintroduction of what I am doing, why I'm here, my new purpose.
[3:42] Mason Bray: And I hope that you will join me along this journey of welcoming back Real Talk with Mason Bray.
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