Adele James

When you are the host of a serious podcast for serious actors, but you yourself are lowkey unserious 🤣 I cannot believe we are halfway though Season 1 of the NEW @empoweredactors podcast!!! 5 whole eps are available to binge on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts🎙️ 🔗 If you haven’t caught up, the link is in my bio If you’re up to date, I’d love to know which episode has been your fave so far? 👇🏽

Your acting career is not meant to feel like this... Not the constant waiting. Not the second guessing. Not the quiet background hum of wondering if you’re already too late or not quite enough ❤️‍🩹 That’s not the price of admission, it’s what happens when you’ve been taught to build your career from the outside in, chasing external validation and calling it a strategy. In fact, I completely and whole heartedly refuse the idea that this career is meant to feel awful… it’s not. I know because I have lived both versions - the sh*tty one and the expansive one. When I chose a different way, everything changed ❤️‍🔥 And I promise you this... the actors building the careers you aspire to are NOT working harder than you. They’re working FROM somewhere different entirely. They’ve learned how to lead their career rather than follow it. And that is exactly what we’re doing inside L.E.A.D Actor. A 2-day livestream experience where we go beyond surface level advice and into what actually creates momentum in this industry: → the mindset → the energetics → the identity → and the practical strategy Because your career doesn’t just respond to what you do… it responds to who you are being while you build. (You can read that AGAIN!) Your life and your career get to be good. ✨ Not when you finally book the role. NOW. Because you decide. And if that feels hard to believe right now, you’re not broken. You’ve just never been shown how. This is where that changes. L.E.A.D Actor - 📍 5th + 7th May (Online) 🫶🏽 Pay what you feel (from £11) ⏮️ Replays included Comment “READY” and I will send you the link to save your seat! 👇🏽 (Shoutout to my mentor @xoamandafrances for this audio 🥹)

There is life before @nancy_zamit , and there is life after. You want after.

Her first ever @olivierawards ! ✨ Beyond honoured to attend as part of team @mischiefcomedy , nominated for @spiescomedy . An absolute dream come true… and then some! Oh how I love this family. You’ve added to my life in so many ways these last couple years. I can’t wait to throw myself about on stage again with you this summer 🫶🏽🥹✨

It’s. Finally Here!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭❤️‍🔥✨🥳🎉 The Empowered Actors Podcast is officially launching this Friday, 10th April 2026 – and I am sooooo excited to share it with you. If you’re an actor who’s tired of the hustle-and-hope approach, tired of measuring your worth in bookings, tired of burning out before you’ve even had your big break... this show is made for you With so much love from me (Adele James – HI!) We’re talking: Sustainable career strategy. Rejection and resilience. Audition technique. Agent relationships. And what success actually looks like when YOU define it. The first THREE episodes drop this Friday. Subscribe / Follow wherever you get your podcasts now so you don’t miss them. Comment the word PODCAST below and I’ll send you the links to follow on your fav platform. 🎙️ #EmpoweredActors #ActingPodcast #ActorLife #ActingCareer #WestEndActor UKActor PerformingArts

REAL TALK ⤵️ ✅ Shooting the LEAD in a Netflix series. ✅ Leading alongside some BIG BOYS in theatre in my West End debut. ✅ Being a POSTER GIRL for the National Theatre. ✅ Playing some of the most iconic women in all of human history. ✅ Gallivanting about the world on fabulous holidays when I’m “out of work” There was a version of me that thought that was the fantasy. The unattainable thing. The dream you hold privately because saying it out loud feels too bold, too much, too “who do you think you are?” And yet. Here’s what I know now that I didn’t know then: The fantasy was never really about the credits. It was about knowing — truly knowing — that I was capable of holding that level of success. That I belonged in those rooms. That I didn’t have to shrink, or hustle myself into the ground, or wait for someone to pick me before I started leading my own career. That knowing? That’s the work. And that’s exactly what we do inside Leading Lady Material. Not just the strategy. Not just the audition technique. But the identity shift and up-level that makes all of it actually land — and stick. Because the fantasy isn’t too big for you. You just need to lead yourself like someone who believes that they are worthy of it and take action accordingly. Doors close 3rd April to join this round of Leading Lady Material. We start on Monday, 6th April. Your whole strategy will be in the bag by the middle of the Summer and you’ll have everything you need to keep going… for life! Comment “LEAD” and I’ll send you everything you need to know so we can get to WERK!

The last birthday I spent in NYC was my 24th, in 2018. I was studying at Strasberg (despite being a few years into my career already) and I was broke, broke. But something big was shifting in me. It always does when I’m in this city. This was pre-Casualty, pre-Cleo, pre-National, pre-West End, pre- @empoweredactors . It was actually quite a desperately clueless time for me. But it was such an important and necessary chapter in preparing me for everything that came next. And being back here now as I turn 32 on the Spring Equinox - as a working actor, a successful business owner and coach who helps other actors, and a person who is stable and secure - it feels only right that I shout out this dancing-on-tables homie from 2018 who had no idea how she’d get there, but kept putting one foot in front of the other all the same. I appreciate you girlie! I can’t wait to see what we become over the next 8 years ✨✨✨

Accidentally co-ordinated with the @whatsonstage award… thank goodness WE WON!!!! Forever obsessed with every human that makes up team @spiescomedy and @mischiefcomedy . What a special thing it is to be a part of it all!! && Supppeeeeerrr excited to be bringing back the madness this Summer — see you at The Adelphi! ✨

Never did I ever think an audition for a comedy play WORKSHOP that I probably wouldn’t book anyway, would lead to all of this! 😭😭😭😭😭😭 GO TEAM @spiescomedy 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Nothing little about this life at all, my friend.

I’ll tell you this for free: I felt like it would get in my way for years too. I was TOLD it would get in my way. But it didn’t. I am frequently the only, or one of few on jobs without a drama school education. I also usually have some of the biggest credits of the bunch. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says or thinks. What are YOU deciding is possible for you? I’m already building a life I love, and a career that makes me pinch myself. Why don’t we do it together? Comment “MY TIME” and come work with me for the next 4.5 months via my new coaching program, Leading Lady Material. It’s gonna be sooooo much fun! (Seriously, career building doesn’t have to be all heartache and stress!) You deserve it all, my babe! Let’s set you on your path to all this and more in 2026 ❤️‍🔥 (Enrolment closes on Sat 31st Jan @ midnight) Comment “MY TIME”

For my good, responsible girls, doing everything “right” but feeling like it’s probably not going to happen at this point: I know it’s not fair. I know how much you care. I know how much it hurts when you hear “no”. Again. I’m sorry that it isn’t easier. I’m sorry that you weren’t born into better advantages. I’m sorry you don’t have all the control (and feel like you have none). I understand how isolating it can feel. I understand how unpredictable and stressful every new year feels. I understand you just want to be given the chance to show them you can do it. Just once. … AND I also know you are worthy of your desires (or else you wouldn’t have been given them). I know it’s possible for you, even though it seems impossible. And how do I know? Because I “shouldn’t” have been this successful without a formal drama school education, rich or industry connected parents, and a 🍆 Nor with brown skin and a neurospicy brain either. I know because I know I’m not anymore special than you. I know because I’ve seen how the work WORKS for people like you, who dared to leap and bet on themselves too (not just me!) And I think you know too. Even though it scares you. So let’s lean in, together? Comment “MY TIME” and I’ll tell you how I will support you to transform it all by the Summer of 2026. It’s time. Your time. I love you. I’ve got you! Comment “MY TIME”