Lauri Smith - Actors learn about intimacy in a room full of strangers.

About this episode

Lauri Smith discusses the journey of actors learning about intimacy and personal experiences of introversion and empathy.

As Lauri Smith and I traveled together for about an hour, I watched in my mind's eye a slide show of my childhood. We both were fine playing alone, we loved acting out stories and episodes. Both introverts. Both shy. Both actors and performers. Both empathetic, sometimes awkwardly so. She told me about how she lost my way doing the good girl thing and how heavy the armor in front of my heart can become, at the end bringing these together around the quote attributed to Victor Frankl:&nbs...

People in this episode

Host: Mac Bogert

Guest: Lauri Smith

Topics covered

• intimacy
• acting
• introversion
• empathy
• personal growth

Keywords

• intimacy
• acting
• introverts
• empathy
• personal stories

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