Mental Rehearsal

Albert Bramante

Mental Rehearsal is about the psychology of performance for actors. Not another acting podcast. A show about what actually gets in the way of your best work: fear, self-doubt, identity conflicts, and the patterns you can't see because you're standing inside them. I'm Albert Bramante, Ph.D. I'm a Talent Agent, Hypnotist, and NLP Practitioner and for twenty years I've watched brilliant, trained actors get in their own way, and I've helped them stop. The difference between the people who perform close to their potential and the people who don't is rarely talent. It's rarely training. Most of the time...

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Mental Rehearsal

Episodes (5)

Mon Aug 17th The Self-Tape Saboteur: Overcoming Perfectionism and Take 47
Jul 31st Getting Out of Character: Stop Taking Your Role Home With You
Jul 13th The Identity of a Working Professional

Mental Rehearsal

Aug 17, 2026
27¾ minutes
21 MB

Forty-seven takes. One scene. Four hours. And when it was over, the actor genuinely could not tell which take was good. If you have ever stared at your screen late at night, unable to tell whether Take 12 was better than Take 44, you are not alone. It is not a lack of talent or imposter syndrome—it is a predictable psychological trap that happens when actors lose an outside director and become their own quality-control inspectors. In this episode of Mental Rehearsal, talent agent and NLP practitioner Dr. Albert Bramante breaks down the cognitive science of au...

Mental Rehearsal

The Self-Tape Saboteur: Overcoming Perfectionism and Take 47

Albert Bramante

00:00 -25:58