Maddie McGuire

Welcome to Get Messy, the mindset space for creatives who are building sustainable and successful careers without losing their sanity.

I'm Maddie, professional performer of over a decade.

I'm currently in grad school to become a therapist, and I am the friend who will never BS you about what it takes to actually stay in the game.

Today on the miniseries inside of Get Messy called The Grind, I'm sitting down with Seattle-based actor and filmmaker Ruchi Loomba, 14 years into her acting journey, and 11 weeks postpartum at the time of this recording.

Like, it's almost like these two things that don't sometimes sit well together, but they're necessary to, I guess, like, really build a professional career.

So how has that been like for you, being able to look at the last 10 years or so and balance the responsibilities of your craft and the responsibilities that you have as, like, Ruchi the professional actor to the business side of things?

I mean, just like you said, Maddie, it, it is really tough because as someone who also has another career and mainly, like, full-time job, it's hard to juggle.

Like, there'll be seasons where I'm like, "Okay, well, for the next month or so, I need to just focus on building my website or planning for my next headshot shoot," you know, whatever.

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I'm Maddie.

I've earned over seven figures as a commercial voiceover actor, and I'm currently in grad school to become a therapist.

And I will never BS you about what it takes to actually stay in the game.

A lot of times, most of the time, everybody's good.

You know, if like you're out here and you're pursuing it and you're getting auditions for TV shows or movies, like you are good.

And so now it's just like finding like the finesse of like, oh, how do we really make you like live in this world or like the point of view you, Maddie, have for this character? You know, that's what I think is exciting.

I'm getting excited as like you're even talking about it because I feel like that is the part that you love.