Multi-Hyphenate University

Margaret Lefton

🦄 Welcome to the University for Magical Creatives, Artists, and Entrepreneurs. Part class, part video diary by your housemate, @margaretlefton. Your schedule includes: ✨ Class: Famous founders on everything from aura photography, to sacred clowning, puppetry, and quantum business 🧠 Coaching: World-class mentors guiding mindset & identity shifts 🌙 Dorm talk: Unfiltered convos on dating, money, & purpose

  1. 11 MAR

    43. My First Acting Class at 32: The Commercial Class, Improv, and Toastmasters

    This week I’m taking you inside something very new for me: my first ever acting class, 10 minutes after I got home from it 😂(The Commercial Class) After booking a major YouTube hosting role and realizing just how different it is to perform on a full set versus filming alone in my living room, I knew I needed more reps. So I built myself a “semester” of skill building - commercial acting, improv, Toastmasters, and public speaking coaching. In this episode I walk you through what these classes are actually like as a beginner, what surprised me the most, and why we should be exploring embarrassment more.  Inside this episode: 🎭 Commercial vs normal acting (they’re different? I have learned?) 🎬 What my first class at The Commercial Class in LA was really like 🎤 My experience trying Toastmasters for the first time (and why public speaking still terrifies me) 😂 Why improv is way more approachable than I expected 🧠 How embarrassment, adrenaline, and fear can become part of the learning process I’m also sharing the broader “curriculum” I’m building for myself right now - from studying the history of film to learning entertainment law and negotiation - as I continue bridging the gap between the creator economy and the entertainment world. If you’re stepping into a new skill set, challenging a fear, or letting yourself be a beginner again… this episode is for you.

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🦄 Welcome to the University for Magical Creatives, Artists, and Entrepreneurs. Part class, part video diary by your housemate, @margaretlefton. Your schedule includes: ✨ Class: Famous founders on everything from aura photography, to sacred clowning, puppetry, and quantum business 🧠 Coaching: World-class mentors guiding mindset & identity shifts 🌙 Dorm talk: Unfiltered convos on dating, money, & purpose