Meet the face
behind the posts:
Erik Mario Austin

Businessman, Actor, Director, Set Designer, Accountability Coach, Artist, Author, and Philanthropist.   Austin hails from Portage Indiana, where he began his career at 5, dressing up family members and putting on “basement shows. ”  After graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, Erik and his theater company. Kelrik Productions, took the plunge to the big city of Los Angeles in 1997 where Kelrik was voted “best children’s theater” by LA Parent magazine.  When not producing shows, you might find Erik busy teaching theatrical workshops throughout the state of California, decorating houses for Christmas  or touring his art collection  Angels and Rainbows. Erik is the author of Stripped, a memoir, Popular Toothpaste, The Sadness and the proud owner of The Straight T blog  where he uses his accountability coaching efforts to make the world a better place.

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Erik is a strong believer in owning and embracing everything that has happened to you. He believes that if people want you to say nice things about them, they should be nice and respectful. Your experiences are your own, and you should be able to mold them into stories that belong uniquely to you. Erik believes it is a real strength to own something horrible that has happened to you; to go from hiding a shameful secret to being able to say, “hey, this is my story, I got through it and I’m okay.” He  finds bravery in people who are able to talk about their experiences openly. He finds courage and beauty in being honest and talking about things that happened to them.

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