Jamie McRoberts: Learning To Trust Your Journey And The Power Of Your Authenticity

Do you get frustrated when the creative process isn’t going as planned? Do you get impatient when another artist is not going in the same direction as you hoped?

Patience isn’t easy, it requires constant effort and awareness to shift our mindset to remind ourselves that everyone has a different creative approach to art. Musician/Actor/Singer Jamie McRoberts will remind us in this week’s episode that our minds are unique and work differently than everyone else’s. Everyone has their own magic or something that they’re good at, that’s why we can’t expect everyone to be in the same page every single time. Even if someone’s creative process is different, we all have the same goal which is to provide the best art we could give at that moment.

In this episode:

How the pandemic allowed Jamie to discover other passions outside of her artistic identity.
In order to stay grounded in the ups and downs of the creative lifestyle, Jamie tries to remember that she has so many things outside of the artistic world that matter.
Be who you are because you are interesting, you have a story to tell, stop being what people are telling you they think of you because they’re coming from the outside in and that’s not who people are.
Artists are storytellers and community leaders, we can tell stories anywhere and that is why we’ve survived for so long; people need to hear about other people going through similar things and having that connection.

by Chelsea Johnson | Cue to Cue

A little about Jamie:

Jamie McRoberts is a singer, actor, dancer and musician from Oakville, Ontario. She is a classically trained pianist and vocalist having completed her Grade 8 Royal Conservatory for Voice and her Grade 10 Royal Conservatory for Piano. She has been training as an actor/performer since the age of 5 and as a professional performer has not only performed Canada wide, but has performed Internationally. She graduated George Brown Theatre School’s Classical Theatre Conservatory Program and was immediately launched into a professional career predominantly as musical theatre performer. She has received awards and accolades along the way such as the Second City Comedy Award from her theatre school, A Dora Mavor Moore Award as part of the ensemble of The Wizard of Oz at Young People’s Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, and has received several nominations for her work on stage. Some of her favourite credits include Rock of Ages at Stage West Calgary, All Shook Up at Stage West Mississauga, The Baker’s Wife with Talk Is Free Theatre performed at the iconic Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, April Fools at the Segal Center in Montreal where she was able to put her musician skills to work as an actor/musician and her performance in For Both Resting and Breeding which was performed in Adelaide, Australia. She is currently in Maggie, a new Canadian Musical created and co-written by Johnny Reid and Matt Murray.

She recently decided to dive back into her musician roots, and try her hand at song writing and has found the missing piece to her puzzle.

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