Cally Beaton on transitioning from TV exec to standup comedian - a podcast by Steve Whiteley

In this conversation I chat to Cally Beaton, a stand-up comedian, writer, public speaker and executive coach (http://callybeaton.com).

Cally worked as a TV executive at MTV, UKTV and Viacom as a Senior Vice President, where she was responsible for shows including South Park. Cally is also a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP*), and a fully qualified coach with a successful private coaching practice, Road Trip Media. She is a BAFTA voting member and holds a seat on the Development Board of MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation.

While working at Comedy Central in 2015 she began performing as a stand-up comedian. She has since has appeared on BBC2’s QI and as a guest on Radio 4’s Museum Of Curiosity, as well as BBC Radio 6 Music and as a regular contributor on BBC London. For her solo show at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, Super Cally Fragile Lipstick, Cally received further 4 star reviews and won the Piccadilly Comedy Club "New Comedian Of The Year" 2017/8. 

Cally explains why she left her job as Vice President of Viacom, to pursue her career in public speaking and stand up comedy. She says that when reinventing yourself you can upsize rather than downsize, no matter what age you are. Cally explains why everyone who wants to perform should do their stint as a barista, or equivalent, in terms of a developing a work ethic. How marketing TV shows has given her instinct on how to market herself as a comedian and why perception is everything.

Cally also breaksdown what NLP is and how her curiosity of people and the world led her to study it and the impact it’s had on her. Why she writes projects at the last minute and why it’s so important to turn up everyday, even when you’re not feeling creatively inspired. She tells the story of how a group of working builders inspired Seinfeld to stick with his stand up career, at the point he was thinking of giving up. We talk about our addictions to our phone's and Cally describes her experiences of the Hoffman process, a retreat where she was cut off from all technology for a week.

Cally describes the experience of juggling being a single mother of two, with working full time and then becoming a stand up comedian. She breakdown the Eisenhower matrix and how she applies it to her time management and why time spent on the wrong thing, blocks you from allowing the right things or opportunities into your life. She talks about her debut Edinburgh Fringe Fesrival experience and the transition from being a TV exec, that everyone wanted at their party, to being a comedian that’s not getting to the same level of attention. We also discuss the struggle of dealing with Edinburgh Fringe, both emotionally and mentally. Cally also breaksdown the experience of being on panel shows such as QI and loads more!

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Steve - @offkeysteve

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