EP 204: Meg Maguire: Talent Agent

I would love to know, because I think as actors, we don't understand at all what a day in your life looks like.

I feel very privileged in the fact that I've gifted myself this podcast and I've asked many donations who've been on have been like, tell me about your day.

And then I hear it and I'm like, oh, my God, people don't know.

So I would love to know a day in your life, a weekday in your life.

What does that look like? How do you organize your day when, to me, it looks like just pure chaos.

So much input, I feel.

Yeah, I think it's like there's no day is the same, right? So it's like, and I can only speak to myself, like I get up at 630 every morning and I like because my days, my mornings are different, right? Like I have two young children.

I got to get them out and get to school, but it's like, depending upon, I just, you're constantly reprioritizing.

So it's like sometimes at six, three, I'll get up like great.

I have tapes and I just start like watching and uploading, watching and uploading while I'm like making lunches and breakfast in between brushing teeth and all of that stuff.

And then, you know, I dropped them off.

I come home and then I like, again, that process of like, uploading like watching uploading all this stuff i try to watch you know all the tapes because i think especially for me a lot of my um rosters knew like i'm every i'm a lot of people's first agent and so it's really important to me that like we start developing um positive habits and we nip things in the bud as they go so they don't become bigger issues later on and a lot of times like notes that i give are quite small it's like i couldn't hear the audio i think just turn your head a Um, and then from there, it's just like, I was just like tackling emails, but somebody comes up.

So you're like, okay, this goes over here.

Let's deal with this.

Now it's really my whole day.

It's kind of hard to describe because it's literally just reprioritizing as things are coming in.

Like, what is the thing that needs to be dealt with right away? And then how do we get, and then getting to the other stuff and it's all up in here.

And if I were to write it down, I think I'd spend too much time.

writing and then i see way behind you know

this is like a lot of coffee

and the first thing and then going like okay let's

I think one of my favorite things I love to ask people who are like the industry folks I've had on my podcast is, again, most of the time, the people who are listening to the show are people who are, like you were saying, newer to the industry, maybe are with their first agent or have minimal experience working with industry folks because they're so new.

How can actors or people who are on your roster, just actors in general, how can we make your job easier as an agent? oh, reply to emails on time.

Open, clear communication.

You know, like, if I send an email, like, you good for this hold? Like, within a 15-minute window, being like, yep, that's like, what a dream, like letting me know what your schedule is ahead of time.