Chad Gervich joins BREAKTHROUGH SUCCESS TALK for a 3-part series entitled, Breaking In and Breaking Through the TV Business. Chad is a television producer, published author and award-winning playwright. His credits include Style Network’s Foody Call, Fox Reality Channel’s Reality Binge and for the Weinstein Company, Spellbound: The Witches of Orange County. Chad has worked in development at NBC Studios, Sony and Twentieth Century Fox. His writing appears in Daily Variety, Writer’s Digest and Orange Coast and his new book is entitled Small Screen, Big Picture: A Writer’s Guide to the TV Business. They will discuss: How to break through the Blocks in the TV Business, Myth vs. Reality regarding the Hollywood rumor machine; The Business of TV; The most common mistakes aspiring TV writers make; How to deal with notes and criticism and how to find one’s unique voice as an artist.While the focus is television, the advice cuts through every industry to every person who has ever dreamed of expressing and creating their own vision.

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Learn how to keep your creative spark, your communication channel, your productivity profit alive and well. Judith has not one but 18 ways to slay brain freeze in this entertaining and enlightening interview.

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This is Part 2 of the 4-part series ‘Using Your Stories to Get What You Want’

In a 4-part series entitled, Using Your Stories to Get What You Want, Cultural Busters, Dr. Jo Ann Piña and Judith Parker Harris, take you through the basics of powering up your communication skills through mastering the stories that surround you. You’ll learn the fundamentals of busting through blocks and how to decode the secret language that keeps you and those around you stuck. Seven communication villains will be revealed along with the heroic path to their demise. Case studies from businesses and current events will prove most enlightening.

Get your two free chapters of our new experiential e-book today at www.BreakingThroughBlocks.com .

This is Part 1 of the 4-part series ‘Using Your Stories to Get What You Want’

In a 4-part series entitled, Using Your Stories to Get What You Want, Cultural Busters, Dr. Jo Ann Piña and Judith Parker Harris, take you through the basics of powering up your communication skills through mastering the stories that surround you. You’ll learn the fundamentals of busting through blocks and how to decode the secret language that keeps you and those around you stuck. Seven communication villains will be revealed along with the heroic path to their demise. Case studies from businesses and current events will prove most enlightening.

Get your two free chapters of our new experiential e-book today at www.BreakingThroughBlocks.com .

Last night, when CRASH won for Best Picture, I jumped off our living room sofa and screamed in jubilation. Why? Because that movie touched me deeply. I left the theatre disturbed and uncomfortable. I talked about the movie to my husband and friends. I questioned my own unconscious feelings of prejudice. But, is that enough? Is it enough that the movie made me uncomfortable and made me think?

My answer to that question is, “No.” The movie did what it was supposed to do. Now, it’s up to me. What do we do with unconscious fears and unspoken prejudices? If we don’t find them, understand them and deal with them, we end up repeating behavior we don’t respect. It comes out when we least suspect it as we draw away from a dark stranger on a street (as Sandra Bullock’s character did in the movie) or as we experience racism, ageism, wealthism, homophobism or any number of “isms” and can’t believe it’s happening to us, inside of us, around us, or worst case that it’s actually perpetrated by us.

Kenneth Turan, film critic for the LA Times, suggests that CRASH is a “feel-good movie about racism, a film you could see and feel like a better person, a film that could make you believe that you had done your moral duty and examined your soul when in fact you were just getting your buttons pushed.” He used this as a reason that “liberal” Academy voters chose CRASH over BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN for the Best Picture Academy Award.

Both movies made people distinctly uncomfortable. I submit that CRASH pushed more buttons. More people identified with the discomfort of CRASH. Now the job to be done is to understand and deal with the discomfort or the movie’s mission has been wasted and we will prove Kenneth Turan’s pessimistic view to be right.

Here’s what you can do: Listen to the prejudiced voices in your own head. Notice the way you interact with others. Pay attention to who you choose to be with. If you sense discomfort when close to another person that you perceive to be different from you, try for just a few moments to imagine what it would be like to live that person’s life. Notice what it feels like.

When you have done that for a day or two, write down all the sentences and feelings that make you uncomfortable, and then try to figure out where you learned to think and feel that way. Who taught you? Once you answer that question you can make a choice to give that thinking back to the source and change your own thinking, feeling and acting. This is an exercise you may use for the rest of your life. It will definitely keep you from CRASHING.

The bottom line for you, my block busters, is not to be discouraged by this news. The state of our health is in constant flux. Doctors and reserachers are coming up with new stuff every day. Some may affect you, some may not. The inportant thing is to have your own HEALTH PLAN and to follow it. I’m not talking about insurance, either althought that is important. I’m talking about your own plan for healthy living. That plan starts with a lot of common sense, listening to your own body, following a healthy diet that’s right for you, putting together a health team that includes medical and alternative resources, getting enough sleep, drinking plenty of water, not smoking and drinking in moderation only, and most importantly, taking charge of the one part of healing you can control — your thoughts and emotions.

Let’s face it. We all know when we have put on too many pounds. We also know that if we eat less, exercise more and cut out foods that are bad for us, we’ll lose weight. No magic there — just common sense. We all know when we’re not feeling well to get medical advice. Now we can also research that advice to our heart’s content on the internet. Then we can make our own decisions about what will work for us. In other words, you’ve got to lead your own healing team.

The answer to the question “Who Do You Believe?” is You believe yourself. Know your body, respect it and take care of it. Stop waiting for someone else to do it for you, because there are just too many conflicting opinions.
When I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 19985, the doctors told me there was nothing they could do and that I might spend the rest of my life in a wheel chair. If I had believed them, I might be in that wheelchair today. Instead, I’ve been symptom-fre since 1990. I led my own health team and found that I was BLOCKED by thoughts and emotions that were killing me. As I changed those thoughts and emotions, the symptoms of MS let go of me. I’ve been symptom free since 1990.

So, I would like you to think about this today. What thoughts and emotions are you holding inside that could be making you sick or could be sabotaging your success in life? What action can you take today that can strengthen your bones or improve your diet, or just make you feel better? Take an action everyday and you will not be at the mercy of the headlines. The conversations you have with your body are the most important conversations you will have in your life. For more on this topic, go to www.blockedtoblockbuster.com.