The Daily Joyride with Robyn Cohen
The Daily Joyride with Robyn Cohen
Podcast Description
Welcome to The Daily Joyride! Are you ready to ignite your life? To feel joy and peace in your heart? To get motivated to go out and crush it or just to smile a little more often? This podcast exists to help encourage and inspire you to create a life that you ACTUALLY LOVE LIVING! Your host Robyn Cohen is an award-winning actor, director, high-performance coach and founder of The Cohen Acting Studio. The show was created in honor of her late brother, Adam Cohen, and focuses on finding authentic joy, healing, happiness, transformation, and living a life of integrity and FUN while navigating life's challenges. Each week you'll hear some gob-smacking stories from celebs, inspirations from the experts, guidance from the gurus as well as ongoing "Hoorays & Shouts of Jubilee!" that will cheer you ON and cheer you UP to meet and unleash the once in a cosmos YOU into power, freedom and full self-expression! So if that's your jam, contact her at https://www.cohenactingstudio.com/ and connect on Instagram: @RobynCohenactingstudio ...Fasten your seat belts and get ready to ride into the aliveness of life on The Daily Joyride Podcast!
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The show focuses on themes of personal growth, resilience, and creativity, with episodes exploring topics like overcoming family expectations, community support after disasters, and transforming through art. For instance, Roger Wolfson discusses breaking free from societal pressures, while Stephanie Wilson shares insights on rebuilding after loss.
Ready to go from “starving artist” to thriving creative?
Curious how to build a meaningful career without sacrificing your soul?
What if the path to thriving starts when you stop trying to be perfect and show up in your art with your whole heart?
You’re in the right place.
Welcome to Thriving Artists: The Daily Joyride with Robyn Cohen — the podcast for actors, artists, and creatively courageous humans who are ready to ditch the starving artist story and step fully into their power, purpose and full self-expression.
Hosted by award-winning actor, director, and high-performance coach Robyn Cohen, this show is a bold, loving, joy-fueled rebellion against the myth that you have to suffer to succeed.
Each week, you’ll hear raw, real, soul-stirring conversations with industry powerhouses, creative visionaries, celebs and working artists who have built fulfilling, sustainable, thriving careers — on their own terms. It’s a spirited reminder that your creativity isn’t a curse — it’s your greatest asset. And you can dare to dream BIG and live even BIGGER.
You’ll walk away with:
– The unshakable belief that YES — you can thrive as an artist
– Powerful tools to calm your nerves, own the room, and book more work
– Guidance from artists who alchemized struggle into stardust
– A fierce creative tribe to remind you: you’re not just built for this — you were born for it
We’re building a new story here. One where artists rise. One where joy is strategy. One where thriving isn’t the exception — it’s the expectation.
Let’s ride. Let’s thrive. Together.
Follow Robyn on Instagram @RobynCohenactingstudio for daily inspiration.
For Acting Classes and Free Trainings connect with Robyn at her Studio: https://www.cohenactingstudio.com
This podcast will encourage you to create a life that you ACTUALLY LOVE LIVING!
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What if you could get out of your head and into your body on command?
What if the emotional life of a character didn’t have to be something you hoped would arrive, but something you could actually access, embody, and repeat, take after take?
And what if the experiences that once knocked you off course could become part of the very instrument you use to create?
On this episode of Thriving Artists: The Daily Joyride, I sit down with actor, director, acting coach, author, and creative force Murisa Harba to explore what happens when energy becomes craft and life becomes material.
Murisa is the founder of About The Work Actors Studio and creator of The Chakra Approach® and The Macro Method. Her book, Acting With Energy, asks a tantalizing question: What if actors could learn to play the body’s energy centers like notes, building emotional “chords” that remain spontaneous, specific, and gloriously repeatable?
We travel from Boston University and Grotowski training through heartbreak, PTSD, teaching, and the discovery of a technique that could reach places emotional recall couldn’t, including the astonishing story of how Murisa stayedfully alive through 42 takes of the film’s crucial emotional turning point, without sacrificing its truth or spontaneity.
But then the conversation cracks open.
We talk about her family’s war-refugee roots, creativity and oneness, communication beyond words, fear, faith, Dirty Dancing, stepping beyond the comfort zone, and the question humming underneath it all:
How do we turn what life gives us into something we can give back?
And then there’s MattBeth, Murisa’s audacious reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which she directed, produced, acted in, and brought to life alongside dozens of her own acting students.
This one’s about ENERGY. EMBODIMENT. COURAGE. CRAFT.
And just how much life we’re willing to let move through us.
CONNECT WITH MURISA
Explore Murisa’s work, Acting With Energy, The Chakra Approach®, and follow her film, MattBeth
Murisa Harba on Instagram: @murisaharba
Learn more at Murisa’s studio: About The Work Actors Studio
WANT TO PUT SOME OF THIS INTO PRACTICE? 🎭
Come play with me.
Mondays at 11 AM PT, we meet LIVE in the Zoom room at The Cohen Acting Studio, and you’re invited to audit a class as my guest.
Come experience what happens when a roomful of artist-citizens gets curious about just how much life can move through us.
DM me on Instagram at @RobynCohenActingStudio and I’ll send you the Zoom link.
Or email me at [email protected], and I’ll send you everything you need.
Your first audit is free. ✨
And if this episode makes you think of someone who’s hungry to feel a little more ALIVE, send it their way.
If you know an artist wondering what they might do with all that imagination, sensitivity, heartbreak, hilarity, courage, and creative voltage they’re carrying around, send them to me.
There’s room in the playground and I’d love to welcome you there. 🎭
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Meet Cute Intro
01:10 Join the Acting Classes
02:22 Guest Bio Spotlight
04:11 Pre-Show Dance Medicine
05:33 Origins & Training
08:32 LA Move & Heartbreak
10:26 Discovering the Chakra “Notes”
12:41 Rock Bottom to Teaching
16:17 About The Work Is Born
16:55 Acting With Energy
19:15 Making Emotion Repeatable
22:19 The 42-Take Test
27:54 Stamina, Energy & Life Force
31:14 Choosing Faith Early
32:48 Artistry & Oneness
35:19 War Refugee Roots
37:21 Communication Beyond Words
39:24 The Chakra Approach®
40:51 Ballroom, Fear & Going for It
43:14 The Body Remembers
45:41 Dirty Dancing & Creative Influence
49:05 Bold Choices Beyond the Comfort Zone
51:25 MattBeth: Taking the Work to Film
53:40 The Joyride Home
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