Performing Under Pressure - With Dr Steve Bull

Happy Holidays everyone! To keep you company between Christmas and New Year, Alexa is joined by an audience favourite (who also happens to be her Dad) performance psychologist Dr Steve Bull, to answer listener questions about confidence, pressure, and navigate the realities of the acting industry. In this episode Alexa and Steve explore self-tape pressure and perfectionism, managing nerves, developing sustainable processes, confidence in a highly subjective industry, how to work hard without burning out, and more. Blending psychological insight with lived experience, this discussion offers practical tools and grounded reassurance for actors navigating challenges, self-doubt, and high expectations. This conversation is reminiscent of the book Alexa and Steve have written together, Beyond The Spotlight: How to Survive and Thrive in the Real World of Acting and Performing Arts , which is now available to pre-order! Listen to more from Steve on The 98% podcast: S1E5 'We are made of frigging titanium.' S3E14 - 'You can make yourself a better CEO.' S5E29 - 'Your world is subjectivem you can't change it.' Links & resources: Be the first to hear when/where you can order Beyond The Spotlight : Explore Acting With Alexa (support, coaching & events): Visit The 98% website: Follow: @thepercentpod | @acting.with.alexa | @alexa_morden

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Performing Under Pressure - With Dr Steve Bull is an episode from The 98% by Alexa Morden.

This episode is 01:25:23 long.

This episode was published on Dec 29, 2025.

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