Podcast appearances and mentions of douglas taurel

Meet Douglas Taurel. Douglas Taurel recently played Joe Petito in the upcoming Lifetime Movie, The Gabby Petito Story. He worked opposite Thora Birch, who also directed the film. He was cast as a voice in the popular video game Red Redemption and has appeared in numerous television shows and independent films. Including The Cobbler (starring Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman) and The Kindergarten Teacher (starring Maggie Gyllenhaal), which premiered at Sundance. He's built a seasoned resume with characters living on the edge of life. The Los Angeles Times said his work on Nurse Jackie, "Nurse Jackie gets her most fascinating character yet to date."  He recently finished directing and starring in the TV series Landing Home which he wrote. It recently earned Best Drama at the GI Film Festival, and he was nominated for Best Actor and Best First Time Director at the GI Film Festival. The series also earned Best Drama by the Wings of Honor Festival. It is now streaming on Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Tubi and Vudu, and Vimeo On Demand.  Douglas is well known for his solo show, The American Soldier, which has been nominated for the Amnesty International Award. A play that he wrote to honor Veterans and their families. It is based on actual letters from veterans and their families that span from the Revolution through the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is touring throughout the country and has performed in over 34 cities. Including notable spaces like The Kennedy Center in 2016 and 2019, The Library of Congress, and Off-Broadway at 59east59th street. It earned four out of 5 stars at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and The Huffington Post said the play was "Flawless and powerful ." It's been mentioned featured in The Washington Post, Washington Times, DC Metro, US Veteran Magazine, Austin Chronicle, Broadway World, The Military Times, Playbill, and Time Out, to name a few.  As a writer, he was commissioned by the Library of Congress to write, create and perform his second solo show, An American Soldier's Journey Home. It commemorates the ending of the First World War and tells the story of Irving Greenwald, a soldier in the 308 Regiment and part of the Lost Battalion. He has performed the play twice at the Library of Congress and the Hoboken Museum.  In addition, he's been nominated for the Innovative Theatre Award. He has performed in numerous Off-Broadway productions in some of New York's most established theaters, and The New York Times said his work as George in Of Mice and Men. "Douglas Taurel is a fine actor." Other Off-Broadway plays include Hard Rain (Cherry Lane Theatre), An Enemy of the People (Barrow Group Theatre), (The Shakespeare Project), Gloria(Playwrights Horizons), The Deputy (Theatre for a New Audience), and King Lear (Houston Shakespeare Festival). He reversed both roles of Lee & Austin in True West at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Three Weeks Daily, saying his portrayal of Austin was "a moving and stunning work by an actor."   Douglas grew up in Houston, Texas, and is the son of Latin American parents. His mother is from Colombia, and his father is from Argentina and is fluent in Spanish. Constantly challenging himself mentally and physically, Douglas boxed in college, has run two marathons (New York & Philadelphia), bagged all 10 Scottish Munros, and ran with the bulls in Spain on his honeymoon, and in 2012 climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. He's lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, loves a good bourbon, and is an Ole Miss alumni. www.DouglasTaurel.com  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviemakingpod/support

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER - A One-man Play About Veterans For Everyone Season 7 of The Scuttlebutt kicks off with non-veteran actor and producer Douglas Taurel. Inspired by his experience in NYC during 9/11, Douglas wrote a play titled The American Soldier to give a sincere thank you to all of our veterans and their families for their incredible sacrifice throughout American History. From Scotland to across the United States, The American Soldier has garnered praise from both veterans and non-veterans alike. Join us to hear more of Douglas's story.   The American Soldier website: https://www.theamericansoldiersoloshow.com/   The American Soldier Off-Broadway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnP-sU9pnd8   Douglas Taurel Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmDMEd7xkIA   To watch this episode, please visit our website at www.veteransbreakfastclub.org/scuttlebutt   For more about AER, check out our previous episode with former Spouse Ambassador of AER and Gold Star Wife, Krista Anderson - https://bit.ly/3AekNIB   Thank you to our sponsors: D and D Auto Salvage and Tobacco Free Adagio Health!   https://danddautosalvage.com/   https://tobaccofree.adagiohealth.org/   http://www.veteransbreakfastclub.org/   #podcast #zoom #scuttlebutt #thescuttlebutt #humor #storytelling #headlines #news #oralhistory #militaryhistory #roundtable #navy #army #airforce #marinecorps #marines #military #coastguard #veteran #veterans #veteransbreakfastclub #vbc #nonprofit #501c3

In today's episode, James and Todd are down a man as Kenny went off to visit an old friend and an old friend of Antioch, former police chief, Tammany Brooks.  At a certain point in the show, we receive a call from Douglas Taurel, creator and performer in the one-man show, "The American Soldier". The interview ran a long time and we didn't want to overload the episode so we broke it in two.  Please forgive the stream of consciousness as we go. We'll sort out the best way to do things, so please hang in there.  This is a lighter episode coming in just under an hour.  We hope you enjoy it!   Articles From The Show: Twitter Accepts Elon Musk's Buyout | Armstrong & Getty (armstrongandgetty.com) US unveils plans to ramp up censorship — RT World News Fictosexual man who married hologram says he can't communicate with her anymore (fox5ny.com) Metallic Wreckage Discovered On Mars By NASA | Armstrong & Getty (armstrongandgetty.com) "The American Soldier" Website: The American Soldier (theamericansoldiersoloshow.com)

In this special bonus episode, James and Todd sit down for an interview with Douglas Taurel, the creator of the one-man play, "The American Soldier".  The performance is on May 14th at 7:00 PM in Tracy at the Grande Theatre Center for the Arts.  In this time of political division among just about everyone we know, Douglas has made it clear that this show has the ability to unify those divisions.  It has the ability to bring everyone together with the same camaraderie that we shared not that long ago.  We hope that you like the interview and we hope to see you at the show!   The American Soldier (theamericansoldiersoloshow.com)

Douglas Taurel is the Writer, Director, and Actor of the play American Soldier. Douglas turned his play into an episodic on Amazon Prime. It is called Landing Home and it is a fantastic story about veterans. Check it out. www.douglastaurel.comwww.rebelsageperspectives.comhttp://tinyurl.com/RebelSagePerspectivesPodcastListen on Spotify

I interviewed Douglas Taurel, an accomplished playwright and actor that is using his platform to bring attention to the challenges of being a service member for the United States. His focus is on bringing attention and help to those service members that need help with medical, financial and job prospects. lets do better by the people we ask to fight our wars!

Whether it’s performing his one-man show to audiences around the country or his appearances on some of television’s most acclaimed series, Douglas Taurel, always gives his best

Whether it’s performing his one-man show to audiences around the country or his appearances on some of television’s most acclaimed series, Douglas Taurel, always gives his best

Douglas Taurel & Foster Davis talked about what actors are interested in today. Whether they want to learn the craft of acting or is simply learning how to audition is all that matters now. And a few suggestions that can help young actors pursuing a career as an actor in New York.

Welcome back to the Fuel Your Legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, Fuel Your Legacy: The 9 Pillars To Build a Meaningful Legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, samknickerbocker.comWelcome back to Fuel Your Legacy bringing you another incredible guest, Douglas Taurel. And he's actually out from in New Jersey. I Love New Jersey. I love Pennsylvania, the whole area out there so when I saw that that's where it's from. Somebody, I wanted to be in around and get to know. But his mission and his passion are even more incredible than where he's from, in my opinion. He's a TV actor, right so he's been on the affair Mr. Robot, the American blue blood. So the Americans bluebloods person of interest. And he is in the cobbler. If you haven't seen the cobbler by Adam Sandler, I think one of Adam Sandler's best movies honestly, just an incredible movie, and so you've got to be in that. But now even he's a producer and he's produced a one-man play. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it's a one-man play, called the American soldiers journey home, which commemorates any of the First World War, and he's finished filming the Web TV series, a landing home, in which he wrote and directed and tells the story of a veteran having a hard time adjusting military life, and that everybody has different reasons for doing what they do. I work with a lot of veterans, veterans, and people who are actively serving in the military and my company. That's a lot of the people who are my business partners. And so I have, a natural desire to want to help them also my sister, Denise, she was like three or four months, maybe six months away from being commissioned as an ROTC officer. And then she got diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia and was discharged. She wasn't able to fulfill her dream in the military. So I got to see firsthand kind of the adjustment of somebody whose dream had just been altered by the reality of needing to come home per se, although she never left. She still had to come home mentally from that lifestyle and now readjusted to we'll call it civilian life. So I'm excited to be able to share this with you because I think it's every one of us. If we don't know somebody who's serving in the military, we should know somebody who's serving the Military, and this is a very real concern, a real thing about most people who have served. So I'm excited to have you on here, Douglas and go ahead and share a little bit of your background how you got into acting and why the American soldier What about that, as are you so passionate about?So Hi, everyone. Thanks for having me on the podcast. So I got into I've been acting professionally here in New York for about 20 years. I'm originally from Texas from Houston. But I came to New York, trying to pursue the dream and I got into acting in college. It was very cliche was over a girl that I had a crush on and I wanted to impress her and I thought being part of a school play would be would do the thing and the 10 cent version is I got bit by the acting bug and I never got, I never got rid of it. So I went to Ole Miss. I graduated from there with a double major business in the theater.And I've been pursuing acting ever since I came Since I graduated, andI am as being here in New York, I was, I came out of the Twin Towers probably 10 minutes before the first plane hit. So I was kind of I was in the financial district when I was working there when I was a young actor. And so I was really, as the rest of the nation was that was affected by the event and like a lot of young men did. They wanted to, you know, they wanted to join, they wanted to come part of the military. I couldn't join the military because of being blind and when I so I decided to kind of do something with my talents, so I wrote this play, called the American soldier. And I at the time, you know, we were reading a lot of the time we were heavy in the Middle East, I guess around 2005 2006 I were reading a lot in the newspapers about what veterans were going through and how they were struggling either suit through a suicide or financial problems or just challenges they were having. And I just thought it was kind of unfair. So I would, I wanted to kind of create a project to kind of give a true awareness of what they were coming from and calculus, people understand what sacrifice meant. So I went to the New York Public Library, and I had this crazy idea of creating a planet based on the American Revolution. And I was going to remind people the bravery of how we became the country we are in and I started researching, like, books and books, there are so many books based digital, they're just filled with veteran letters. And the more I researched, the deeper I went into, and I kind of created this project from that nucleus, and since then, I've been you know what I thought it was just going to be a vanity project. You know, just a one-time thing is now been performing for six Seven years it's gone on. I've performed in notable spaces like the Kennedy Center Library of Congress, the American Legion national headquarters Off-Broadway twice. And the play is kind of it's become an artistic mission for me to kind of keep reminding people of what veterans and families go through and have gone through. And that's kind of where I'm at right now with the plane why I created it.That's awesome. So I'm curious how often I mean because it's been years since it was created initially. Are you updating it? Are you rewriting it little parts to make it more impactful for today's current issues? Or is it kind of just a snapshot of something in the past,so the play is taken on, it's not being updated anymore? You know, when I started creating it, Samuel, I created it about I guess I was I started about, you know, I mean, 1110 to 11 years ago, I kind of I start to lose track of diamonds. I've been part of it for so long. But when I had created it, I had a bunch of letters of veterans. And so in the very beginning stages, it was very malleable, so to say, and it was like, I had Shakespeare in and that didn't work I had, I had on it was the play wasn't balanced. And so over the time, it's been really shaped and really kind of sharpen and polish, so to say, and, and from what it is now, Tim, from where it first started. It's, I mean, it's very different. And it's a very different play. So now, there are a couple of letters that I want to put in there that I don't know when I'll be able to because I'm already like in November, I'm performing it twice. And then next year, I already have like six cities lined up so the play keeps it keeps so busy. That doesn't allow me to kind of rebake it in a way that makes sense.Sure. Now that's cool. And so what was the process like?And maybe I don't know if this lends to your childhood orwhatnot butwhat how did you get into acting? I know you said a girl but is that that the full story what about acting caught ahold of you? Because I got into cross country for girls. And as soon as the girls were gone, I was gone, right? Because nothing is exciting about it. Running cross is not exciting. What about acting took your interest and said no, this is exactly where I want to be. I feel like I can fulfill my legacy my purpose hereWell, I mean, I got into theworld Well,hello, I'm so when I got to college, and I got into acting once I fell in love with what acting was I was when I was a freshman year in college. I was just really kind of, you know, you know, rudderless, so to say, and didn't have a real direction to know what I was going to do. And then I remember very clearly an actor standing up saying hey, there's I'll just For this Children's Theatre, and at the time, you know, just coming out of high school I was I just broke up with my girlfriend and I said, You know, I want to do something to kind of impress her. So I became part of it. And so once I joined once I audition, I was always really good at being playful and kind of funny. And so the director liked what I was doing and she said, Hey, you know, you're pretty good at this, you know, if I like to cast you and I Institute and then she cast me in another plan, and she said, you know, if you major in theater, I'll give you a scholarship. And you can study theater, and I said, Well, that sounds like a good deal to me. And you know, you know, a lot of girls around so I said, Yeah, sure. Let's do it. So, and then I, I developed, I was able to develop a real passion for it and I was pretty good at it in college so they said the bug bit me and then that was pretty much once I graduated college. I knew what I was going Do and I knew that that was for me what it was going to do for me as I knew there was nothing else that I could do. At that time. I was a double major. So I had opportunities to go into business. I was doing an internship for life, north northwest mutual life, and they had offered me a real job paid you real money. And I just remember very clearly going into the interview in a tie and thinking I just, this is not something I want to do for the rest of my life. It's just not what I want to do. And I told my father says, I'm gonna turn the job down. At that time, they had these general auditions and I audition for this what they call summer stock theater, and you audition and you get cast for the summer. And I was given a job up in North Carolina and pay me 125 bucks a week to be an exercise dancer. And I took it and that was my first contract. That was my first real job and to this day, it's so One of the most blissful memories I think about as a young actor because I was free, I was open I had, you know, really No, no responsibility. I wasn't married, didn't have any kids. All I was doing is making 125 bucks a week and acting up in North Carolina and I was completely in love. And then, you know, that contract ended and, and I knew there was nothing else I could do. And a lot of times when people asked me, you know, could you do anything else I couldn't because it would be, to me personally would be spiritual suicide. There's not much else I could do. I could probably do another job, but I wouldn't. I just wouldn't be very happy at it. And, you know, to me, at the end of the day, what's important is that you're doing something that you love because it's never really beneficial to do anything for only the money. And that's when life kind of presents its problems towards you. Stress is happening and you're never feeling fulfilled and they leave Dark Places. And I know many people who have gone through those avenues and I just been very fortunate that I've always known instinctively pursue what I love. And it's been and it's paid me back. I mean, it's, it's, as I say, the acting God's been kind to me.That's incredible. I love that phrase. I don't think I've ever heard it in the context of this, but I think that's so true. Because legacy and this is kind of one of the purposes of this show is to help people get out of the box when they hear the word legacy. So many people think of legacy as a financial term.Yeah. Andit could be a financial term, I'm not ruling money out of it, right. But I think more importantly than the finance is the identity and you identifying who you are what really lights your soul on fire and, and helps you grow spiritually because if, for me, at least, my mission in life, I would align it by at least the four F's and there's five if you throw in fun Right, but faith, family fitness, finance, and then fun, right? Those are kind of the order in which I want my life to operate. And faith is number one. And faith isn't necessarily really a religious term, just as a legacy is not a financial term faith has to happen everywhere. And it's a very deeply personal I mean, yeah, and I think faith is an I mean, faith is really important and the one thing that I've always had I've always had confidence as a person as an individual and you know, once I made the decision that I was going to be an actor, it didn't matter. I mean, there were you know, there's always when you choose to become an actor when you grow up with friends who are not actresses, it can be challenging because they're making real money. Right? I mean, they're making real money they're buying cars are getting mortgages to starting to get married. And that necessarily, is not the journey that you're on as a young actor, you're waiting tables you're on you're doing odd jobs, you're doing crap films, crap, small projects, don't anything to kind of build your resume, so to say and you have to have An unbelievable iron will and iron constitution to believe in yourself and others which you want to do. And a lot of times when I coach young actors, and if I, if I give I give presentations, I always tell them, you know, if you're going to go into this business, do it because you love it. Because you're going to have a tremendous amount of downs. And if you don't love it, you're not going to be able to withstand the hardship that comes across when you're in the business. And I think Steven jobs said it, probably as clearly as anybody else could have said it, it says, you know, you have to be insane to do it, because it's hard. And if you had any sanity, you'll quit. And the rejection is so relentless and is so it comes actually in such high quantity that if you don't absolutely love this or whatever it else you're doing and believing in, you're not going to have the endurance to finish. And that is usually the thing that anybody can take away from this conversation. Is that You have to believe in what you want to do, to have the endurance to finish it, and to be fulfilled in life. Because if you're doing something that you're not fulfilled and it doesn't make you happy, then that's going to put you that's going to leave you in a very poor place spiritually. And you know, being rich, doesn't necessarily mean well that means you know, absolutely waking up in the morning, being excited about the things that are in front of you and not looking at your day, as you know, as complete drudgery every single day like Groundhog Day.Yeah, exactly what I love. And so this comes to mind because in my in a lot of my teaching, and when I coach people, and it comes down to value, I have a just a full conversation about value and how you say, your your friends, you went into acting and you're waiting tables and you're struggling, right. And they were making quote-unquote, real money. So what's interesting about that, from a financial perspective, I'm in the financial space. at a company much like Northwestern, but the interesting thing is, although they had, I would call it corporate value, their value is still being assigned to them. And there, in most cases, and this is not unanimously across everybody, in most cases, then there's a massive imposter syndrome feeling inside of corporate America, and a lot of people are being paid more than they think they're worth. And they couldn't go and transfer that value that they're getting paid maybe $100,000 a year, they could not transfer for that hundred thousand dollars your income to anywhere else except for that company because they think that's the only company willing to put it there. So where you are out building your value, and get into the point where you can create money because you're able to create you created a one-man play where you're going, you're going all by yourself, you're creating value. Those people who had real jobs quote-unquote in corporate America, they didn't get that opportunity of many of them, not all of them, but many of them don't have that ability to believe in themselves because it was never developed. Not that they can't have it, but they just don't have it. And I coach a lot of my clients through that who are coming in from corporate America jobs and say, Okay, I want to be an entrepreneur, I want to go do something on my own. But I just don't think that I have the value exchange there.AndI love that you said you have to be insane. Because every great person, they had a vision for what was going to come before it was ever a reality. And they chose keyword being chosen to live in their future to live in the vision of their future rather than where they were at today. And because nobody else can see your vision and your future other than you or at least as clearly as you can, then you appear as insane.Yet, I would argue you're the only sane person around because you're engaging in creation. Rather than reacting to your surroundings, but it's you know, it's it's really important because I mean, even when I created the play when I created the play, as I mentioned earlier, I had, you know, I had thousands of veteran letters for over a period of five, six years, and I just didn't know what to do with them. And I knew I wanted to tell a story. I just didn't know how I wanted to tell it. And, you know, at one point, I thought it was going to be full, that's going to be a play with multiple characters. And I would talk to many directors, and they were like, Well, what do you want to do with it? You know, and they were like, let's not really, I don't think people are interested in veteran letters. And, and I got a lot of no's. And then, you know, even when I found directors who were might be interested in and, you know, they had completely different ideas. And so, you know, I was already conditioned to understand that, you know, if I, if I want this, I'm gonna have to you know, squeeze it through the funnel. And I, I mean, I just, I took no for an answer. And I think, you know, what I was able to do is, I was, I knew I had it. I knew I needed to create a product to show people from it. And that sometimes is, you know, sometimes just focusing, they always say, you know, the journey of 1000 steps begins with the journey of without the journey of 1000 miles begins the first step. And so, so many people told me to know that if I would have listened to them, and not focused on the first step, which was actually to memorize your eyes, just one letter, the play would have never become what it is today. And I was able to just basically, you know, tune them out to them out and listen to my voice and just completely only listen to myself and said, You know what, no one knows what to do with it. Everyone is telling me No, I'm going to focus on one thing right now that I have control over. And I'm going to start showing people something that I can create with it. And then from there, the yeses started to come. And that's where that and then from there more than I got a director who was interested in the work and got a director and said, You know, that's really powerful stuff that you have. No, you anymore And then from there, it just fast forward to right now, I've had the opportunity now to you have to be, I've shared this before you have to be so stubborn because there was a period when I was creating the play that every single festival told me no even when I had a version of it, they told me like, ah, I don't know, that's something we're really interested in right now. And I only got my first yes to a festival because someone dropped out of a festival. And that first yes gave me an opening. And now people look at the plate. You know, being at the Kennedy Center a couple of times and touring and the response it gets and now I get invitations and people don't they think they think that that's where you start you started from with the play, but they don't see the incredible amount of knows that you're going to get in the beginning. And you just have to have that complete, insane, insane stubbornness to push through and whatever it is you're pushing through, not to focus on what other people Going to value and what people are going to think about it because it's never your job to judge it. It's your job to create it, and let other people judge it because they will always judge whatever you create, especially in the art, you know, in the art world. In sports, if you shoot if you make if you shoot 20 points, or you score 20 points is 20 points. In the art what someone thinks is beautiful the other person can think is trash. So you're always subjective to the to, you always immersed. It's a subjective art. So you're at the mercy of the audience. So it's really important that in anything you create, and in that goes into business as well because it takes it to create to make a business you have to be creative and how you're going to get over your obstacles is to really focus on on the task at hand and focusing on what you're creating, not worrying about if people are going to think what you're creating has any value if it's stupid or not. Or if you're going to get laughed at you know, it was that usually is when you start listening to your ego and then That's when you start making really bad decisions. And you don't follow through what you're trying to do. And you start second-guessing yourself, and you start saying that it's probably not a good idea anyway. And you talk yourself out of it.Yeah, absolutely. I think that it's interesting. This is this. I just talked to a friend about this. But the idea of know sometimes people either get discouraged by now or there, they hear the kind of three feet from gold perspective, which is like, just keep going, just keep going. And I think what's interesting that you mentioned is when you heard No, you didn't just keep trying to offer the same thing over and over and over and over, every time you heard a know or maybe not every time but you know, as you were hearing knows, you made adjustments to what you were offering to make it more appealing to accept and I think so many people think, well, three feet from gold just says keep doing the same thing. Like no, you keep doing the same thing that you know, nobody wants. That's right. Oculus that's insanity, right? That's insanity. That's insanity, right? But if you're going to get to know, the end goal is I'm going to be on Broadway, I'm going to be in the Kennedy Center, I'm going to be traveling the world doing this. But that's the goal. Now, that's the goal. Now how that shows up is really, as you said, dictated by your subjective audience. And so if somebody says no to the first version of it, then you just create a new version, you create a new version, brand new version, until somebody says, yes, that happens at family life, dating doesn't matter. Everything ever, you have tohave the ability to it's a, it's a fine balance, but you have to have the ability to be stubborn and the same time to listen. Right? So you know, you're pushing through to the end goal, but you have to have the flexibility and the ability to take criticism and feedback and say, Okay, I'm hearing the same note over and over and over and I should make I should turn 45 degrees, or I should adjust the combination of what I'm trying to create right now. 35 to left 27 to the right. 13 to the left. Okay. Try 27 to the right, you keep messing with that combination to finally figure it out. But it doesn't mean that you say just because you say no, you quit. You say, Well, you know, and I used to I, whenever I would get it, no, I would always I mean, I don't take any easily. So when people would tell me to know, when especially directors, I would always say, Well, I appreciate your time. If you don't know if you're not interested in it, do you know anybody else who might be interested in it? And a lot of times just by continually pushing through and asking for more yeses, right? You start finding enough people who believe in what you're doing to cultivate to get you to what your end goal is, but, you know, I know it's just a temporary opinion. It's not a definite answer. It's just a temporary opinion because a lot of the theaters who have told me to know are now calling me to come to perform, right? It's just a temporary answer and no, if you don't take it personally, then it allows you to be more if you can learn how to put your needs Go away and not worry about criticism and, and put it to the side you become more you have the ability to, to swim up upstream so to say you have the ability to withstand and keep going, but if you let people's nose affect you personally, then that's true whether in life or in business or creating anything that becomes really hard for you to keep pushing to your project is the ability basically to say, you know, I get it, they don't really okay. Let me take it, let me what let me take your criticism. Let me take your feedback. Let me digest it. And let me see if I resonate with it. My first performed play, the reviewers were kept saying, I got Forstall for I got really good reviews and I got some mixed reviews in the beginning and but all the reviewers had one like they had one no they kept saying the reviewers and add a playwright Really smart guy. And I said, You know, I don't know if I should listen to these reviewers of, or should I just kind of throw it away, you know? And he said, Well if they're all telling you the same thing there is, there is some. It's, it's worth paying attention to what that criticism is. And so they were saying like, the plague wasn't teaching them something. They kept saying that it gets it like the plague didn't educate me in a way but didn't teach me in a powerful voice. It was very emotionally, it was very well crafted, rather well-acted, that it didn't feel like I was learning anything. So I sat back and I started going through the play and going through all the monologues that I had, instead of realizing that I wasn't teaching the audience of what was going inside, with what a veteran sees, feels inside, internally. And so I went back to the drawing board with my director and I said, You know, I need to add some more stuff to it. And that's really when the plane took off. The play started to explode after that, but I would have never been able to get where I'm at today if I hadn't had the flexibility, and not have the ego to say, I'm right, you're wrong, they're wrong. I'm right. And ignore their responses and, and ignore their criticism. And that's a really, that's a very valuable thing for anybody to take. Because if you're doing business and if you're creating anything, you know, you have to be if you're getting the same note, listen to it. And you can adjust to it. And they're always and there are some notes that you feel so strongly about, like, there were some, you know, some things that people talked about, like, that particular monologue to my director didn't really like but I feel so passionate about it that I said, it's not staying in the play. Like I want it. This is part of the play. So yeah, it's really important to have that flexibilityI've seen so I've seen some kind of go both ways. And it's interesting, sometimes when you hear those complaints, or constructive feedback, whatever and sometimes the responses You need to actually, it's a good response becausealthoughI'm trying to figure out how to say this, but, in any endeavor, you need to create tribes, you need to create separation between the things that people like and things that people don't. And, as you said, identify if it resonates with you, but it's not resonated with other people, okay, and we're gonna put other people in a quote in quote marks because that just means that they're not your people. And sometimes you need to blow that thing that nobody likes, you need to blow that up and make it, even more, standing out so people understand why it's there. And rather than remove it, and not give somebody the contrast, but give somebody more of the contrast, and once somebody has more of a contrast, then they can gain that understanding. They can learn, oh, this is why that those lines are in there because it's literally how somebody's feeling, not just a story, but these are the feelings and feelings are rarely unanimous. There's almost Almost every feeling, there's going to be some contrast that that's just the nature of humanity. And so it is a delicate balance. I'm curious. For me, I've had to adopt forms of meditation. Thanks to getting past naysayers in the early years. How did youlearn toput down the naysayer and say, Look, I'm not going to worry about your negative feedback. Did you have meditations? Did you have practices or rituals that you use to bolster your confidence at the same time as taking their feedback and say, Okay, what can I alter?Well, I mean, tactically what I always did is I did this more when I was a younger actor, but I would write where my dreams are. I would always write when my dreams are. And I used to keep a diary, a physical diary and I would write you know, this is what these are my dreams, this is where I hope I I am in five years where I am in 10 years and I would try to foresee that But, you know, when you become an actor, you know, you have to really love it. And so I would just tell myself, this is worth every ounce of frustration that I'm going to get. Because this is what I want to do. And I would sit there and think, could I do anything else? Um, I remember when I was getting heavy into acting, and there was a girl that I was dating before, who was not my wife right now. And she said, What are you going to quit this kid thing and get a real job. And I remember what I and I only bring that up because it's one of those things that someone tells you in, in the history of your life that are always those things that someone tells you that you never forget, you know, and you'll always look back at it and I remember thinking, one I thought, Okay, I guess we're done. Right, it's over with, but then I thought, I thought I like it. And I thought, well, she sees this as a doing like a, like a kid thing like a hobby, where I'm looking at it as a life mission as a dream of mine, right? It's a much the definition that she had what I was doing and the definition that I had what I was doing was so opposites. You know, she thought I was like, you know, I don't know to go to a tailgating game or something where I was like, I'm on a this is my mission. This is I'm going to be an actor. I want to tell stories, telling stories makes me feel happy. I'm just nothing else I want to do. And I think from a very early age, I understood that and once you understand that, I guess many people talk about it is your why but you have to sit down and you have to know what it is that you're doing and why you're doing it. Because if you don't know why you're doing it, that's when you can, you can get knocked off the track. Because if you're doing it because if you're doing it for your wife, if you're doing it for your kids, if you're doing it for your Dad for your mom, if you're doing it for, for your friends, if you're doing it for the kid who picked on you in high school, if you're doing it for the girl who didn't ask you out to the prom, you're doing it all for the wrong reasons. And that is going to do that's going to, you're not going to have the the the fortitude to finish through. So you have to have the ability to understand, okay, this is why I'm doing this. And this is what it means to me. And once you understand that, then the rejections and the failures don't matter because you're on you understand why you're doing it. And that's it's really important that people are crystal clear, and how they get there and how you can do it by writing. You know, you can kind of sit down there and everyone tries to skin the cat in many different ways people have you writing journals, people have you meditate, people have you, you know, you know, think out loud, talk to friends about it, but at the end of the day, the goal is still the same, the answer is still the same. Why do you want to do what you want to do and what does it mean to you? And that has to be something very powerful. Very, has to be something almost. It has to be worth death, to be honest, because if it's not worth death, then you're not going to finish. And so if, if whatever it is you want to do is not worth dying over. I would I would. Second I would check what that is and reevaluate. Because once you can answer this is worth dying for. And I know it's cliche to say, but life is so short. It is and to not do something in this life that you love is a real travesty. And when you start looking at the perspective of life through those prisms, and start and I in this and I understand that there's art, you know, wherever, wherever you're at in life, you have real responsibilities, you have bills, you have, you know, mortgages and, but whatever it is, even when you're doing within that You can find ways to say, Okay, how can Ihelp? If I want to do something more? How can I do it? At night? when everyone's asleep? How can I get up at four o'clock in the morning to do it right? To pursue the dreams that I want to pursue while I do my day job, quote, you know, my day job, so to say. And if you don't have that really clear answer to that it's worth doing. Even if it means death, then you're not going to wake up at four o'clock in the morning to pursue that dream. You're not going to stay up at two o'clock in the morning to pursue that dream. And that's what you need to do it. You know, it's just really important that you get clear on that and that answer, and I mean, write it in a journal, you know, where you want to see your life in five years in 10 years. What do you want people to say about you? That to me was always really important to you. What, where do I want to see myself you know, and I constantly see myself still holding an Oscar. You know, and I dream about it all. The time you know, and I keep those dreams and I may not reach that dream, but I get closer and closer and closer and closer. And those goals and make someone told me once that, you know, having these artistic goals or any goal makes life worth living, you need a goal to live. And I think a lot of depression and a lot of failures that happen in life is that people don't give themselves really exciting goals. You know, they don't give themselves tangible, really vibrant, really compelling, hard goals to achieve, you know, and to make life more interesting. They get caught in the minutiae of life, which is easy to get caught, you know, I mean, I saw my parents go through it, and you get on this treadmill so to say and you wake up the same day you go to work the same day you wake up the same day, you go to work the same day you wake up and it becomes this repetitive thing and eventually life is like this, you know, you're 65 years old, you know you're sitting there, you're watching jeopardy. Oh, that'd be terrible. Yeah. So it's important to have that, it's going to be worth doing, you know, even if it means death.Yeah, absolutely. I love that because there's a book called The Hundred and 77 mental toughness Secrets of the world-class by Steve Siebold. He was that held the contract him and his consulting firm held the contract for training, navy seals that America's navy seals on mental toughness. And that's one of the questions that he asks. right at the beginning of the book is, Hey, what are you willing to die for? What do you want to fight for? What do you how do you want to be remembered? I think understanding that is so crucial. And it's one of the reasons I do again, feel your legacy podcast. This is why I brought Doug's on here. Understanding that legacy most people have lost even a glimpse of that legacy in early teens, if not late childhood at this point in life. We're conditioned to not think about that and that is what I would do. From I would say religiously but also known religiously that spiritual suicide, just as Douglas said, and that is that, that's the key to having that vision, having the desire to go out there and do something. And that's I found the same thing in my life when, when I started into what I do right now public speaking, and I'm an author now and working in the financial industry, people I get a lot of people asked me, hey, Sam, why don't you go over to that company or that company or that company, you can get paid way more working at another company doing what you're doing? And never wants it? I've been thought of going where I'm getting paid the most. I've always thought about where can I go have the greatest impact? Where can I have the biggest alteration? Like how can I alter more people's lives and that's what I've been using to dictate where I go, but then I still have people ask me, when are you going to get a real job? And what I found is it's that moment. One, everybody should ask yourself, that doesn't matter even if you have a question. quote-unquote, a real job, when are you gonna go get a real job makes you question what you're doing? And that's an awesome question. So without those questions that were would never have been able to say, that's not the right girl for me or whatever, it's important to have people who question you and your life. But that's the moment where it's like, okay, obviously, you don't quite yet understand what I'm doing. And so I need to blow up my intention and come at this with so much more enthusiasm, so much more exciting. So you can see the vision of what I've seen because I've been kind of half passing it thinking that you're catching the vision, and you're okay with the vision, but you haven't caught the vision. And so I've got to go so big to where you catch the vision and keep going until you do. And I love that that's kind of one of those things you've done. I'm curious if you were to say one specific habit, mindset or behavior that you've used over the years of creating your legacy. What would that be like one thing that we could all adopt into our lives? I think the world valuable thing to do is wake up before everybody else.You know, in sports, we have anything you want to beat people to the spot in basketball. You know, the crossover and basketball are designed to give you separation between the defender. When it's designed the crossover move, anybody who doesn't know basketball sports, it's a move that the basketball players work on to get a little bit of separation to beat someone to the spot. So when you wake up early in the morning, you don't even have to be the most talented person. But if if you get up at four o'clock in the morning at 430 in the morning, and you start working on your goals for a couple of hours, and you do that on a repetitive basis, five days a week, four weeks out of the month, every month out of the year, you're going to be exponentially further from anybody who has any more talent in you. You're going to get more work done, you're going to beat them to the spot. So they may be faster they may be a faster rider. They may be a faster type of Maybe a faster blogger than maybe a faster speaker. But if you're getting up, you're producing, you're producing more content, you're, you're creating more work, more leverage every morning by getting up in the morning. That value of you getting up before, you know, before they wake up, gives you so much more leverage in your life. And to me, I mean, I had so many other projects and you have life in front of you. And I did all my writing early in the morning because it was the only time that I would get up. And there was no phone, there was no text, there was no email there was it was just me and me. That was it. And everybody else and so I would do that for about an hour, an hour and a half. And I would always, to me it was one of the things my mother taught me as a student as a young kid. I remember I think I was in seventh grade or eighth grade and I had to memorize I think the capitals of the United States and I was like oh my gosh, I'll never get this done. You know, and she's once you get up early in the morning and memorize it off, it's too hard because if you get up early in the morning, your brain will be fresh. You'll be able to do it. And I did. And I took that lesson too hard. And now I wake up every pretty much consistently, five, six days a week and 445 in the morning. And I try to get all my writing and all my work in before everybody else. Because once life starts, and it becomes difficult, but anybody, whatever your goals are, if you can just condition yourself to get up early in the morning to work on your projects, and you're going to get them done. And that is, to me the most, that's the most personal I feel is been the biggest asset to my success as a writer and as a producer.Yeah, I love that. I think that that's something that I've also noticed in my life. And I go in and out of it. I'm not perfect. I wish I was more perfect. But definitely when I have a target or something that I'm going for and I've got a deadline, I want it I want to get something achieved a certain point and then I stay up later and I wake up earlier because that simply would want to get your stuff done.Yeah. And when you get up early in the morning and you're tiredFor our, for your listeners to listen iswhen that voice speaks to you as that warm comfy pillow starts talking to you and that you know that bed says no stay in bed. And you know, it's much more comfortable in here, you have to tell yourself now the reason why I'm getting up is not because of the short term goal is because of the long term goal. There's a lot you're getting up to achieve the long term goal is and so it's not just to immediately shift your focus from short term to long term. And if you can do that, that makes it easier to get out of bed. Because you know, discipline is hard. And it's hard for me and it's hard for everybody. And if it was easy, then everybody would have the discipline I think about people always say I wish I had more discipline, but what you do it just you have to realize that it's hard. It was easy, then everybody would have discipline is it's where you are it's where your focus is as a person. So when you get up in the morning and alarm goes off and you're like, I don't know if I want to do this focus on the long term goal. Don't focus on the short term goal which is I'm just getting up to date. Focus on today is going to give me You know, this much more freedom in my life, this much more creativity in my life, this much more happiness in my life.I love that focus on the focus on the long term, read your goals. And then as you said, you know you you wrote out your vision multiple times to kind of handle because some of those naysayers they're not outside of us that those naysayers are just as much or more so inside of us than they are outside your mom and dad.Yeah, that people who care about you the most who want you to succeed. Sometimes the loneliest things are doing things when people you care about the most or against you. And again, it goes back. That's why you have to have that answer this is worth doing, even if it means death. Because if you don't have that answer, it's going to be easy to get knocked off your block.Yeah, for sure. So I'm curious for people who maybe haven't heard of this play or want to see this play and give us a little bit more information on how we can get in touch with you if we want to watch the short series or whatever. How do we get in touch? How do we watch what you're doing? support your endeavors and help you share this message of, in my opinion, building your legacy and focusing on that the long term rather than the short term.Sure. And just to let everybody know that this play, everyone who's trying to create something plays very successful right now it's touring. It's, it's performing notable, beautiful venues that it started with a piece of paper and simply an idea. So everyone should know that, you know, you can take any idea you have, and if you chip at it, a day at a time, consistently, you can make it into something very special. So that's something that's an important lesson for everyone to kind of take away but so the place called the American soldiers based on letters from the American Revolution through Afghanistan. They've been written by veterans and their family members on the play gives awareness to what veterans go through when they come back home from combat and their families. And it gives a true appreciation for their sacrifice. And commitment. And most importantly, it says thank you to them. The website is called www the American soldier solo show.com, the American Soldier Soldier show.com. And in November, I'll be at the Kennedy Center on the 13th. And then I'll be in Cape Cod. And then in January, potentially supposed to go to LA. And then I will be in North Carolina, on Veterans Day and then Chicago on Memorial Day and a couple of other cities. But if you go to the website and you sign up and you're interested in the project, or if you're interested in the play coming to your city or your state, you know, you can go to my website and contact me there and and then we can begin a discussion about how I can bring the play to your area or your community. But it's been an incredible honor now because I mean like I said, I probably almost started as an idea. I've now performed this play for over 10,000 audience and veterans and I received letters from veteran runs all the time and become friends with a lot of veterans, they'll ask you to keep going. So something that started as just a simple idea on a piece of paper that I wanted to tell the story for veterans now it's become this artistic mission that I could have never, ever in a million years would have thought it would be giving me back so much in return.That's awesome. And are you on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, where'sTwitter, Twitter, Twitter, and Instagram are at Douglas Taurel. And then my Facebook page is Douglas drill.Okay, awesome. Just a random question because I'm, I'm thinking of this as a show solo show. Is it something that you do all by yourself? Or do you have supporting staff and stage set and stuff that take how many people that take to put on this play?It's just me, it's just me. And then I usually have a sound designer and a lighting designer and usually when I traveled to a different city that was whatever venue I'm at, they provide that they provide me a sound designer in the theater and lighting designer, with a place kind of already been designed so we get there to get to the space. It's me and an army trunk, a world war two authentic army trunk, a six by nine American flag, and I play 14 characters. I play men, women, and children. I play many different accents. And one cost, I use one costume and my kind of manipulate it into many different costume changes. And I tell stories, I tell 14 characters from every conflict, and I try to kind of give it a whole module of what been associated with a family member who's been in combat or being a veteran who's come back from combat.Wow, that's, that's awesome. I'm going to, hopefully, I'll be in a city where it's playing. That'd be fun to watch. So here's that. Here's the next section here. And I love these last two sections. This one's called legacy on rapid-fire, almost like a little game show. But it's five questions. And you're just going to give us one word to one sentence. answers. Now, this first question, I've been getting the same answer repeatedly. So it's okay to give that answer but I'm asking you to clarify it now. So I haven't been able to change it. I don't know how to change it to target the clarification, but I prepped people here. So the question is, what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy?It would be me. That's what everybody says. That's what I want you to clarify.What about you is holding you back? I mean,how much more work I can put into the day. Okay, I mean, it comes down. How much more work can I crank out in the day?Awesome. And what do you believe the hardest thing you've ever accomplished has been thehardest thing I've ever accomplished, then,you know, as an actor, there are so manyI mean, I would say this play. I mean, I had tremendous doubt in this play. I mean, I can't tell you how many know. I mean, just a side note, I threw the play in the trash can on one time. I was so frustrated because I was getting so many noses and I was just like, no one gets it. Everyone tells me No, all I have is a bunch of letters that over 1000 letters of veterans and my wife pulled it off to stop being a little girl. Do what you do memorize a piece of memorizing your favorite piece of text and start showing people where your passion is that and that. I think this play.I mean,From if I wish I could somehow in a three-hour film, I can crystallize where this place started more display is. It's been pretty magical in many different ways. It's I've been able to touch and speak to people that I could have never in 1000 years thought I would be telling And touching and speaking to,yeah, no, I love it. That's so I'm gonna break code here for a second, just because training my team on this just two days ago, two or three days ago. But it lends perfectly to this idea of he had to learn something and start showing people what he wants to do. So there's, in my opinion, there are four types of people who get on stage and do something, right, whether it's speaking or singing or whatever, right and, and I label them that as a talker, somebody who's just like, basically reading something, they're just talking. And they're no emotion, nothing almost monotone. They're just talking there can sure text conveying a message, then there's a speaker speaker a little bit better, because the speaker actually has intention behind like, they have a goal, they have a beginning endpoint. They know what they kind of know their structure. So they're structured but they're not there's no emotion in it. And then a presenter is somebody who's able to present with a little bit more fun Yes, so they're getting a little bit more buy-in. But what you want to achieve is somebody who gives somebody an experience. And as long as you're telling somebody something, or showing somebody something, you're not able to give them an experience. And so you have to infuse the emotion. And I love that your wife said, Go memorize a piece of it and show people what you love to do. Because at that point, that's when you're able to infuse the emotion into the script and show somebody. This is why it's important. Because I say the same words in my presentations to my clients as I as some of the other people that I work with. But our results are so different because of the emotion behind what I'm doing and what they're doing. They're presenting, which is decent, and they're showing people what they do. I'm allowing my clients to experience the transition between where they are and where they're going to be all in that meeting with me. So that experience they want it so much more because now they've experienced but they have that comment. The dissonance of it's not quite a reality. So let's do it. And they take that next step forward and they want to rather than me trying to drag somebody through a pushup, push a playthrough. You want them to watch your play notbe okay with your way. Yeah, well, we have a say in acting. show people don't tell people.Yeah, show people, you don't want to tell them. No one wants to be told anything.That's true on stage. So a lot of times when I'm if I'm directing actors, or I'm coaching actors is that you know, don't tell me Show me. Yeah, exactly. If you're in a scene, if you love her, show me, don't tell me that you love her. Like, how would you act? If you love that girl? Show me. What would you do? Get on your knees? Would you do you know? Pull her chair out for us. You know, we want to see you show us. We don't want to see you tell us much more interesting when you show us and you tell us?Yeah, absolutely. So what would you say your greatest success at this point in your life has been?I mean, I don't want to sound like a broken record again. But I meanHad this play at the Kennedy Center twice has been,you know, as a performer to get the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center is such a far fetched dream. You know, it's such a, it's like, you know, down the runway pipe dream when you're a kid that, you know, one day I'll be able to love to perform at the Kennedy Center. And to take this idea to be invited back at the Kennedy Center to me is I have to say, it goes back to the play at the Kennedy Center. I mean, it's awesome to be twice they're invited back. So I mean, I and I was at the Library of Congress. And so I mean, the stages that this venue has taken me to is just been mind-blowing.Cool. And so what's one more secret Do you believe what contributes to your success?stubbornness, you just you had? I have I think I was born with the ability to ignore other people's criticism.I've always had that ability not to be.And I've had friends told me that because I, I've had many friends have told me, I don't know how you're an actor, I would fail one audition and I couldn't do it anymore. And I just always could ignore people. I think, you know, you can develop that skill, but I think that's the one thing that I've always been blessed with that I can just focus on my voice and my mission and that to me, is all that matters.Yeah, that's awesome. So what are a few books that you recommend to the fuel your legacy audience may be to learn more about what you do or just books that have been a guiding light to you throughout your journey?I mean, I don't know if people will find this very powerful, but, you know, one of the most one of the books to change my life so pretty dramatically was during the race memory book. You know, as an actor, I was always trying to find how to how can have a strong memory and I think a strong memory can help you in any business in any in anything in life. And I would say for everyone to get that book so it'll tell you the tactical things of how to use your memory in a much more powerful way. And then what happens is that gives you confidence because you have a stronger memory and the more confidence you have you perform in with more confidence. So I that's one book and another great book that I've read isMaxwell,Psycho-Cybernetics by his last name is Maxwell Maxwell's book. Psycho. cybernetics is a really powerful book but it goes to the point of visualizing where you want to go and how when you visualize it, your body will, you will go there and he goes into research and studies where there's the famous one where like people who have the simple act of writing down your goal makes you like something like 60% more, gives you 60% more chance of actually achieving that goal, just by sliding it down. And by having a vision and people who have a vision and forward can go into the subconscious where your body your mind starts feeding the body, the body starts feeding the mind where you start performing the actions that you need to fulfill your vision. So I would say Psycho-Cybernetics and the head of the range memory book and Neuro-Linguistic processing. I've always been fascinated by the psychology of the mind because I've always been trying to find out how can I, what can I do to kind of tweak this muscle and get the most out of it? And so books on NLP will be really powerful. Your linguistic processing?Yeah. Now cool. Those three books, they're going to have show notes. They'll be some in the show notes for books for those. And then here's my favorite part of the show. This is like, probably one of the whole reasons I do this show. It's my favorite I get to pretend that you're dead. Um, so I guess I don't like it as much, but I do know. But really though the thing is legacy. And you alluded to this earlier in the show and I wanted to say yeah, that's we're going to talk about but I held off. Legacy is really about what are you being remembered? So we're going to pretend you're dead and you get to view your great great great great grandchildren six generations down, sitting around the table discussing your legacy. What do you want them to be saying six generations now?six generations away about Douglas. You went through his dreams.I love it. Simple, short, sweet direct, going after his dreams and you can do that's, that'swhat drives me. I have a dream that I'm still trying to fulfill. And so it's what I tell my children to go after your dreams.Just be willing to work on but go after him.Yeah, and that's all you need. So thank you so much, Douglas, for coming on the show and sharing this I'm excited to see where this goes and see as your career progresses the different types of opportunities that you get through being just absolutely determined I'm excited for you to see you are or hold your Oscar. Just know that you got that. And because I think it'll happen if you with as much focus and attention you're putting to it, I see no, no reason why it wouldn't happen.And I appreciate those happen over time. Thank you, man. Thank you for having the opportunity to share my story with you guys. Yeah,no problem. We'll catch youguys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us. 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Douglas Taurel discusses the journey of his one man show dedicated to the American Soldier.

Douglas Taurel talks Ian and Foster through the process of creating his one man show dedicated to the American Soldier. www.TheAmericanSoldierSoloShow.com

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Today we are interview Douglas Taurel the solo actor of The American Soldier. We find out where the play started and how it has evolved into what it is today. This is a great story about a long journey. Telling a story that needs to be told at this time in the history of our country. It literally starts at the Amercain Revolution and ends in Iraq. Listen in and find out more. Show opens in Modesto, CA May 1, 2019, with one show at the State Theater at 7:00 PM and closes with two shows in Stockton, CA at San Joaquin Delta College May 2nd and 3rd in the theater also showing at 7:00 PM. Tickets available on his website www.TheAmericanSoldierSoloShow.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourperfecthome/message