On this episode of A Little Foresight which I recorded in late 2021 I chat to Angeline Ball a fabulous Actor and Singer who is currently on our screens starring in Deadly Cuts and Hidden Assets both of which are amazing and have started 2022 by being taken on by International channels and streaming services giving them the massive reach they deserve. 

Angeline has a huge body of work and is very well known in Ireland particularly for starring in The Commitments and The General. She chats about how now she likes being recognises as Imelda her character from The Commitments even 30 years later but when she was younger she found it harder and tried to shake that character slightly. 

Angeline tells me loads of things she would say to her younger self including never say never, that it is never too late to do something you want to. To have more confidence in herself, to be less of a people pleaser and not to be afraid to speak her mind. Keep following your dream and don't give up, if you fall off a horse 9 times get back on 10. How she always calls singing a vocal gin and tonic.

How she encourages her kids to talk. How scary social media can be. That is can be ok to shut the curtains both literally in your house and figuratively on social media, that you don't have to share everything with the world if you don't want to.

That we should turn the volume down on the negative inner dialogue we have with ourselves. 

She talks about how that it doesn't matter wherever your name is on a cast list be it 1st or 50th it takes everyone in the cast and crew to make a production work. 

How awful us women can be to ourselves and how it is so important for us to compliment and give credit to other women. That she wishes we would learn how to accept ourselves much younger in life and many other things. 

I absolutely loved talking to Angeline and could have done it for hours!

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