Psychological lightness in 1 move

In this week’s newsletter we’ll be covering a few things:

🤖 3 ways I use Ai to level up my acting

🧪 An experiment that in one swift keystroke made me feel mentally lighter.

🎨 Something I made i’m releasing

Here's how I'm using Ai to become a better Actor (i will be going into these individually in more depth in future issues)

My Swiss Ai-rmy Knife: Claude

Uses:

• Audition Prep

• Agent Email Drafts

• Brainstorming ideas a script i'm writing

• Marketing strategy for my various side hustles

• Advisor on absolutely anything I feel out of my depth on

• loads more

My research assistant: Perplexity (a more intense google)

For the past couple of weeks I've been using Perplexity's deep research function to investigate casting directors, to help me find experts to use alongside this newsletter and to do research on a real life character i was auditioning for. It worked incredibly - like a much much much better version of google.

Audiobook Narration: Pozotron Studio + Auphonic.

For the past 4 years I've been an audiobook narrator. I do it from home, i create and narrate audiobooks for authors and I love it. I make more than I would in a bar job, it stops me from going to auditions in desperate need of a job (an audition killer) and it keeps me in training.

It is only sustainable, however, if I use two specific Ai tools to help me:

1. Pozotron Studio - for Proofing, Script prep and error management

2. Auphonic - grading and making it sound sweet.

Without these tools i would be up shit's creek financially and emotionally

Shameless plug - i’ve soft launched my course “5 Figure Audiobooks for Actors” where I give actors everything they need to start their own fulfilling narration side hustle they can do from home (like i did). There are 2 slots left. So, as they say in the crab fishing industry "catch it while you still have fingers." Check it out here.

The Experiment Journal

Every week I conduct an experiment using a new mindset, hack or technique to find the most effective, practical tactics that lead to you booking better jobs, working better side hustles and feeling better within yourself

Experiment #005

I feel cluttered.

My mind is everywhere.

Since last Christmas, my brain has become pizza dough—tossed, stretched, and smacked by a chef in a stripy shirt.

I owe this mind punch-up partly to Experiment 002: a 4-month long, brave (my words) expedition into social media's dopamine-fueled jungles.

(Though I'd be dishonest claiming the 5 years before were organized bliss. The clutter's been building; social media just accelerated it.)

Then Wednesday, like a mental cat, I spontaneously jumped into the air and archived everything.

All my files.

Desktop. Dropbox. Google Drive. Phone. Emails. Digital everywheres

I archived them all

Turned many many many cluttered files into one folder.

One folder per platform.

Basic? Oui

Huge? Oui

I learnt it from watching the first 5 minutes of productivity expert Tiago Forte's video.

Did I watch further for context?

Of course not—I was too busy thinking

"THIS is the solution to EVERYTHING!"

And you know what? The moment I did it, I felt better.

Relaxed.

Calm.

Goodbye pizza doughbrain.

Hello light, fluffy cloud mind.

Reducing my digital world to one folder essentially reset me to 0.12—where the .12 represents those (rare) occasions when life demands a document from my past.

It's less about sweeping everything under a rug and more about building a new attic, moving everything there, and installing a search bar on the door.

If this feels unsatisfactory, it's because it is.

It's only the beginning—the reset before the rebuild.

A new system to help me feel more in control and less frazzled. I'll report back my findings. I’ll be watching myself very closely.

But for anyone needing some productivity garlic butter for their messy brain, here's what you can do:

1. Create a file called "Archive [today's date]"

2. Drag all your files into it

3. Repeat across all platforms*

4. That's it

*For emails, just select all and click archive.

Here's the original video—I'll investigate further steps and report back.

Until then

Here’s what I created this week:

In honour of the soft launch of my 1st audiobook course I drew the above.

She’s unruly and not much to look at, but boy was she interesting to launch.

Reply to this email and tell me what you liked about it the most!

Next week we will be talking to our first guest for a new section called

 “Cool people who make even cooler things”.

See you then.

Alex x

P.s. If you know anyone who's interested in the stuff we are interested in forward this on to them - if you want the web version here's a shareable link