Passioneer® Candace Silvers, Celebrity Acting Coach, Philanthropist
On Wednesday July 14th, we’re interviewing Candace Silvers who has dedicated the past 15 years to coaching and nurturing the creative process. Known for unlocking the secrets of behavior and removing limitations, her students experience profound changes. Every student who works with Candace Silvers gains a new level of insight and inspiration that readily transform daily events into opportunities for purpose and success. As the mother of four children and a daughter of Emmy and Tony award winner Phil Silvers, Candace Silvers continues to coach students around the world transforming obstacles into opportunities, stress into joy and achievement into fulfillment. She can be reached at www.candacesilversstudios.com/site
Dial in live at 347-205-9038 or via streaming radio at 4pm PST at www.blogtalkradio.com/passionsandpossibilties
Candace’s Q&A
SO: What is your definition of passion?
My definition of passion “Passion: PASS-I(me)-ON”. When one is passing himself/herself on he/she becomes the vessel that information passes through. Passion is something we’re born with. One can see something pop out of the ethers that no one else can see. He/she has a direct visceral experience with it. Through the depth of that experience he/she spends his/her life giving that experience back. Whether he/she is a doctor, actor or plumber is irrelevant.
SO: What are your biggest passions for serving others and how are you expressing them? ( Also include hobbies and volunteering)
Taking care of my grandson and children. Watching people grow. Seeing where someone is missing something in their life. Seeing where a person has a desire to get on in their life and are missing the tools that take them from “hole” to “whole”. It’s my honor to serve on the board of the New Possibilities Children’s Foundation. The New Possibilities Children’s Foundation was founded as I took my first group to India four years ago. It currently cares for 200 children in Rishikesh , India . We did a heart transplant and a leg amputation. We’re building a school. All of this happens in such joy. None of this is raising money as work. What begins to happen is you start to want to give more and giving becomes a way of life. You begin to see how much you could be doing or how much more there is to do from a place of joy or fulfillment, not need or loss. My hobbies are what’s needed.
SO: Your biggest challenges in leaping into your passions for serving others and how have you addressed them?
Wow. I can’t say I have challenges. I have no challenges. There’s a vision of you, a sight, an activity, an investigation and a day. I can’t say I have challenges.
SO: What have been the key factors in your success?
I can’t say that I know what the key factors are because to know would be intellectual and to intellectualize something would be like playing tennis only catching the ball [instead of hitting it back]. I would “stop the ball” in the “I know what it is” which means I would be expecting it and want more of it, which is the beginning of the end. [The knowing] stops the ability to be available to what is, which is always new and coming over the fence. Expecting what you believe it to be and speaking about it would take possibility out of the equation and possibility is what sends the world into motion. That the possibility is always changing and always full of delight is what keeps presence present
SO: What one word or quality best describes your journey?
Magic.
SO: Your experience of prosperity, as you define it, in making the leap?
I don’t make a leap, I am a leap. The leap is me. Prosperity is totality. Living in the macrocosm of possibility, fully responsible and bowing head below heart. Prosperity is available and is present to what is, not the minds idea of what’s missing.
SO: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned in making the leap?
The leap and I are one. I am in the arch of that leap. The leap is called my life. To answer your questions, the biggest lesson is to bow and to keep my head below my heart no matter what.
SO: What does your support system look like and how did you create it?
It looks like the Lotus. I didn’t create it, it created me. As it looks in the cultural form right now, I have an assistant and a producer and a team who works for that team and a financial investor and students who all support this team because it’s a village. People don’t come to get, they come to give and in the giving they receive everything. The Lotus never stops moving, opening and closing as people move in and out. Each petal is held by grace.
SO: What wisdom do you have for someone who is scared or discouraged in their own leap.
“Wisdom” is “wise from being dumb.” “Dom” is “dumb” or wanting it to be different than it is. “Is” is the leap in the moment. It is what none of us want to do if our intellect is present and what all of us want to do if our enteloct is present. My guidance would be different in each individual according to what they energetically manifest and hold in front of them as true. It would be directly related against the surrender of what the mind is saying they cannot have or do. The activity can be an action against or it can be laying dormant. The activity is paradoxical according to how the energy manifests itself.
