Thom Allison: How To Overcome A Negative Mindset And Manifest Joyful Career

<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Are you stuck in a negative pattern loop? Are you having trouble finding joy? Take baby steps! Joining the conversation on Cue To Cue today is Actor/Singer/Director Thom Allison who reminds us to take the small victories to uplift ourselves, others and our craft. You have to willfully make a choice to find joy. If you can see it, you can change it. Don't feed your weakest self, feed your best self!</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Grab a notebook, a pen, your favourite beverage, and get comfy! Enjoy!</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">In this episode:</span></p> <p class="p1"> </p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li2"><span class="s1">How the stillness brought by COVID can give us that much needed break</span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1">How choosing joy every day uplifts ourselves, others and our craft</span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1">His journey shifting from acting towards creating magic on stage in musicals</span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1">The importance of diversifying the creative team to make the story richer and getting a different point of view</span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1">His challenges in overcoming bulimia, self-doubt and impostor complex and how he did not let these internal fears overrun him</span></li> </ul> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">A Little about Thom :</span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">Canadian Screen Award winner, Thom Allison can be seen as “Pree” in the hit series, KILLJOYS, on Space/Syfy Networks. Thom has appeared on Broadway in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and in the original Canadian companies of Miss Saigon, The Who’s Tommy and Rent. He was also a judge on CBC's Over the Rainbow, searching for Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Wizard of Oz. At The Stratford Festival, Thom has appeared in Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, My Fair Lady, Threepenny Opera, The King and I, King Henry VIII, and Into the Woods. At the Shaw Festival: Ragtime, Wonderful Town,