An Interview With Amelia Randolph Campbell - Inside The Process Of An Actor
Written by: Tricia Brouk, Executive Contributor
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Amelia has spent over a decade performing as a stage and screen Actor, based in New York, followed by years in Leadership and Sales Coaching, and has married her two unique careers to create a platform which elevates the personal development experience for leaders, positive disruptors, influencers, and communicators. She was recently named top motivational speaker to watch in 2022, she’s a TEDx speaker and Founder and CEO of ARC, Inc. Her book, currently in development, and subsequent courses empower people with her groundbreaking methodology to interrupt and completely reimagine behavioral habits, releasing all limits on life.
She is a potent source of inspiration that ignites others to receive information meant for them, to integrate it, and live an aligned life from it. Amelia paints an inspired path of access to people’s own individual superpowers of belief and connection and teaches them the knowledge that they can live from a place of fulfillment no matter what circumstances are.
Amelia, you’re a New York actor turned thought leader and speaker, what prompted you to open your world as an actor to the masses?
Realizing I had a unique platform that could really serve a lot of people formed a couple of years ago. It formed like a perfect storm, being made of the entirety of my life and work until that point, woven together to make something new. My decade in New York acting had beautifully evolved into entrepreneurship, leadership coaching, and starting a Family, all of which invited me to dive more deeply than ever into new levels of the study of mindset and personal growth. My favorite part of leadership coaching was helping people to bridge the gap between what they wanted and their limiting fears of getting there, and I began to realize that I had a wealth of knowledge from the way an Actor creates authentic shifts in belief and story to share that was begging to be taken off the stage and into people’s lives. So much of what I teach is how to be fully in the present moment and draw from every part of yourself to keep fostering new growth and new discovery…Actors are masters at this and much more, and many of those techniques when applied to real people in real daily life, are game changing to an extent that is ecstatically exciting.
You’ve recently shared this message with TEDxURI. What was your process of using your process on that stage?
It was a gift and an honor to be able to articulate the power of this work from such a stage as TEDx, and yes, I did put all of my process to work as I crafted the message, rehearsed it, and delivered it. I defined the story I wanted to share and made sure I knew all the reasons why I wanted to share it. I made sure my words and intentions were deeply connected to and understood by me so I could be very present within them and most importantly, present for the people in the room who the message was for. When limiting beliefs came up in the process, which they always will, I used my practices of focus to work with them as friends who were only trying to protect me, and was able to lessen their strength, widen my perspective, and direct my ability to choose other thoughts and feelings that were also true and far more helpful.
It worked for creating and giving an important talk that I hope will help, inspire, and equip a lot of people, but what really matters is that these processes work just as effectively to create small but mighty shifts within the life you’re engaging in daily. For example, anything and everything as routine as that conversation with your family member that always seems to be the same kind of frustrating. It can feel differently, and become differently, and all because of you independently, equipped with delightful tools.
What do you tell someone who’s terrified of “becoming an actor”?
I say please don’t worry, I am not teaching you to become an Actor, or to ‘act’ in any way at all. Working with me, you will not become what you’re not. There is no sense of pretending, of taking on a performance, doing something false, even having to be in front of people. Rather, it’s a deep dive into some incredibly effective core skills to approach and then re-imagine for the better, first your relationship with your own mind and heart, and then your relationship to the world around you. It’s the work of stripping away the noise, finding out how to be present with any thought and emotion you experience, realizing how much choice you have in what you experience, and gaining the ability to craft it with great influence moving forward. You will get to dissolve what you don’t want to be anymore and what’s not serving you. The best part is, it’s all self-powered and doesn’t rely on getting something different first, to create the shifts you require for the changes you want.
How do you see this work having a global impact?
I believe that if as many people as possible felt better without spending thousands of dollars and thousands of hours on what’s not been working, a lot of relief would be felt. If people experienced a daily life more centered in themselves, more keyed into how wide the range of their personal experience can be within any condition, and empowered about their level of choice within it, it would create ripple effects of inner and outer health so rich and rewarding that our heads would spin with joy. I jump out of bed with excitement, imagining it.
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Tricia Brouk, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Tricia Brouk is an international award-winning director. She has worked in theater, film, and television for three decades. Tricia founded The Big Talk Academy where she certifies speakers in the art of public speaking. She was the executive producer of Speakers Who Dare and TEDxLincolnSquare and now The Big Talk Live. She is currently being featured in a new documentary called Big Stages, which highlights the transformation of her speakers. Tricia’s commitment and devotion to inclusion are a priority as all of her shows, events, and communities are diverse. She curates and hosts the Speaker Salon in NYC, The Big Talk, an award-winning podcast on iTunes and YouTube. The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean for Lasting Legacy was a #1 New Release on Amazon in December 2020. She was awarded Top Director of 2019 by the International Association of Top Professionals and Top Ten Speaker Coaches in Yahoo Finance in 2021. Her documentaries have received critical acclaim—winning Best Documentary Short at The Olympus Film Festival and Los Angeles Movie Awards. Tricia has spoken at Forbes, Pride Global, New York Public Library, I Heart My Life Live, and The National Organization for Rare Disorders.
