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Writer's pictureMichelle Leduc Catlin

Why I Just Quit The Actors’ Union and Got Serious About Reprogramming

A personal journey of reprogramming and the tragic failure of unions to stand up against medical discrimination.



I don’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor.


In fact, there was a time when I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to be anything else.


Looking back now with adult eyes, it probably started with longing for the lives of the people on my screen.


Life seemed so easy for them.


They were beautiful, funny, smart, successful, popular or all of the above.


Even when they had problems, they would solve them in 22 minutes. 


If relationships broke down, they patched them up.


If they were thin, they could eat anything.


In other words, life was charmed.


Among the fantasy worlds of ‘70s TV shows, my early perception of reality came from The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mary Tyler Moore, Welcome Back Kotter, Three’s Company, Gilligan’s Island and many more.


Even the people stranded on a desert island were perfectly happy, well-adjusted, and with no apparent need for anything other than what they packed for a 3-hour boat tour.


Meanwhile, my teenage years were spent in silent misery.


TV was my escape, so naturally, I would find a way to work in it.


When I moved from behind the camera to an on-camera career as a reporter/producer and then a television host, I made my way into the actors’ union and started pursuing an acting career.


When I got into the prestigious President’s Course at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, I thought I’d found my tribe.


In a way, I had.


These were serious creatives dedicated to their craft, to exploring human nature through art.


(One of my classmates went on to get an Academy Award nomination.)


It was a turning point that shifted the course of my life.


For the first time, I felt confident enough to pursue not what society deemed acceptable, but what I was drawn to.


I even wrote and performed a one-woman show about this transformative period.


(Unfortunately, I succumbed to exhaustion soon afterwards.)


Fast forward past nearly a decade of being unable to work due to chronic fatigue.


I had been living in the country, healing from years of health issues, when I moved back to Toronto to relaunch my acting career.


It was April 2020.


The industry shut down.


With the daily health research I’d been doing for 7 years, it didn’t take me too long to figure out that something was amiss.


Surely, the government would understand and promote activities to bolster our immune systems and make us less susceptible to any illness.


I wrote to my provincial Premiere.


Nothing.


When unscientific mandates grew to silly proportions in my condo (wear a mask if you’re alone in the elevator), I wrote to my building manager.


To his credit, he told me that he knew I was right but that he was a coward.


(His word.)


And when my acting union not only failed to protect its members from discriminatory practices based on medical choices, but actively participated in a coordinated coercion campaign to influence highly impressionable young actors to participate in a medical experiment with no risk assessment or informed consent, I wrote to my union.


No response.


Which was no surprise.


We all know (even those who haven’t yet processed or admitted it) that the world went mad.


We were subjected to the greatest psyop in history, and almost all of us bought into it to some degree.


But when film and television sets became “vax only,” and the national President of my union wrote to Trudeau to thank him for the variety of “vaccine” options, it was just too much.


I no longer felt part of or represented by people who would send out a DEI survey about whether we’d ever experienced discrimination, with no sense of irony at their overt discrimination. 


I went on sabbatical.


I turned my attention to sharing my health research, still thinking that if people just had the correct information, we could turn this nightmare around.


I sometimes wonder what kept my faith in this idea.


At the time, I thought it was just a belief in people’s inherent goodness.


Later, I could see my reluctance to face the harsh reality of nefarious players and agendas using the power of propaganda.


Now I can see that it was also the Pollyanna, it’ll-all-work-itself-out attitude impressed upon me by the programming of those ‘70s sitcoms, through a technology designed to dumb us down and distract us.


(More on that in another post.)


It was these and many more external factors that have influenced my thinking and behaviour.


The fact is, we are all programmed from all angles, right from the start.


By our parents, who are programmed (positively and negatively) by their parents.


By our schools, that teach us to follow rules.


By politics and sometimes religion, that train us to take sides.


By advertisers, who literally pay for our television programming.


And by every input we allow into our hearts and minds.


But I didn’t think much about all this when I started writing about the Covid years.


I didn’t fully understand the power of programming until I came across the work of Jason Christoff.


With a background in health and fitness, his commitment to wellness resonated with my own healing journey.


As a mind control expert, he was waking people up with explosive truth bombs I hadn’t yet uncovered.


And as a coach, he was empowering people to take charge of their lives in the face of all of it.


For me, it was a trifecta.


The 3 things I’m committed to building — health, awareness, and personal growth.


I registered for his coaching certification program in January 2024 and was not disappointed.


It was better than what I’d expected.


Not merely another coaching course (and I’ve been involved in many excellent ones over the decades), but a turn-key business with empowering information no one else is teaching.


Jason has tapped into a secret hidden in plain sight: 


We self-sabotage because we’re programmed to do so.


Previously, I understood bias, but I didn’t comprehend the degree to which we will reject positive behaviour, logic, or anything that will truly move us in the direction of our dreams, if the subconscious mind thinks it’s unsafe. 


While our conscious minds may want to be more healthy, successful, or wealthy, the subconscious is only looking to have us fit in with the crowd.


To make sure our heads aren’t above the parapet.


It’s been said that we are the average of the 5 people closest to us.


We have the average weight, the average attitudes and ideas, the average amount of money.


So how do we overcome the self-sabotage of our subconscious minds and move in the direction of our dreams — especially when Big Food, Big Pharma, and all the other Big Profit industries are paying to keep us dependent on their products and fulfilling their goals?


We shine a light on exactly how we’re designed and how those who don’t necessarily have our best interests in mind use programming to keep us average.


All of this, I have come to learn in great detail through the Christoff Overcoming Self-Sabotage Coaching Certification Program, starting up again this weekend on Sunday, October 27th.


I recommend it not just for people wanting to leave a job (or organization) with which they no longer align, but for anyone interested in getting out of their own way and being empowered to deal with whatever is next.


We all sense that something wicked this way comes.


Jason’s courses focus on building the 5 pillars of physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and financial strength.


Even if you have a job or career you love, there’s never been a better time for a backup.


I never thought I’d stop wanting to be an actor, and I was proud to have earned my entry into ACTRA.


It wasn’t easy to get in, and it was, for me, a point of pride.


A badge of, well, if not honour, accomplishment.


But the past few years changed me, as they have changed so many of us.


The times have changed and I’ve turned away from the world of make-believe for something far more pressing and compelling.


Truth.


Freedom.


Empowerment.


These are the pillars of my raison d’être these days, and why I was drawn back to my personal growth roots where I first found the courage to pursue my acting career.


I will use my skills and talents to forward my own agenda -- to help people build their strengths and mine their wisdom.


The programming that matters to me now is that which empowers.


After decades of personal growth and coaching on the side, I’ve drawn a line in the sand.


Today, I resigned from my union.


To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I would never want to belong to a club that would ignore me as a member. 


The fact is, our rights have been ignored.


Our government, our unions, and sometimes our friends, colleagues, and even families ignored our right to make different decisions from theirs.


To think and choose differently and stand out from the herd.


This is now my badge of honour. 


This is what I’m proud of.


I had and have the strength to stand up for what I believe is right, to hold true to my values and principles.


And this is what Jason teaches.


We are all capable of taking responsibility for our own lives by building those 5 pillars — if we understand the programming hindering our progress and thwarting our success.


It is why I am so moved by the Hopi Elders quote I share on my website:


"We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”


If you’re interested in building your pillars, or creating a side business helping people to build theirs, you can register for the Overcoming Self-Sabotage Coaching Certification Program and get access to all of Jason’s courses HERE.


If you want a very workable payment plan, you can register HERE.


One of the gifts of the past few years has been finding a new tribe.


You'll find many of its members in this course.


And of course if you just want a coach without going through certification yourself, I'm now available.


For those interested, here’s my open letter of resignation…



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Good for you for quitting a union obviously devoid of common sense integrity and humanity Enough of the unions in Canada showed their true character during COVID. Spineless fake characters.

In fact during the trucker protest the union asked members to go out and protest against the truckers. Too dangerous to go to work or live life but ok to listen to you clown leaders. Vincent Gircys in his lawsuit for freezing of his bank account needs to address this in Court. In fact the running joke is that government workers were working in the Caribbean. It's a charter violation to go back to the office. Kind of warped thinking eh. Shout out to many good union members who …


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