SUPPORT for ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS and COUPLES

Because life behind the scenes of the red carpet can be anything but glamorous.

You’re not crazy. This is really, incredibly hard.

If you or your spouse work in the entertainment industry, you know that working in TV and film can be extremely challenging, both personally and relationally. You’ve weathered strikes, uncertainty about what your next job will be, and have probably considered leaving the industry at least a handful of times. At some point you’ve probably struggled to pay rent or plan your budget due to the constant ups and downs in income. You’ve worried about whether you’d have access to insurance, be able to afford joining the union, or be able to bank enough work hours to actually keep the insurance coverage you have. You’ve lived at the mercy of your circle of connections, depending on word of mouth to get you your next job, while having to placate unreasonable personalities who have somehow been allowed to run things but who have lost touch with what it means to treat other people humanely.

You’ve worked insane and unpredictable hours, and maybe you’ve even had to sleep at the office overnight more than a few times just so you wouldn’t fall asleep behind the wheel. You’ve missed out on social gatherings, come home to a household that’s already asleep, and never known whether you could count on a taking a real vacation, or ask for time off even to go to a dentist or doctor’s appointment without jeopardizing your job.

But something keeps you going

And yet you’ve put so much blood, sweat, and tears into this, because on some level you still believe in the creative vision that brought you down this path in the first place. How do you navigate this crazy, unpredictable, sometimes rewarding, thrilling, challenging, exhausting way of life?

And how do you make sure your relationship doesn’t ultimately pay the price? Especially when you and your partner are rarely available at the same times to schedule routine dates or time together, much less some preventative couples therapy sessions?

Time to call in the reinforcements

After more than a decade as both a TV industry wife and a marriage and family therapist, I have an enormous amount of respect and empathy for other couples who are doing life the hard way on purpose, and trying to find a sustainable way to live into their calling as individuals and as a couple.

That is a huge part of why I started the Married to the Industry Podcast, and began my coaching course for couples, the Revive Your Marriage Roadmap. It’s because I know that sometimes standard therapy isn’t feasible for the couples who need it most, because their schedules or finances don’t allow them to pencil in the kind of support that they need in order to keep going, and to keep their relationship strong.

I see you, industry couples. You are incredible. I want to help you keep running your race well.