Today we’d like to introduce you to Nicholas D. Monteilh.
Hi Nicholas, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I’ve been an actor practically my entire life, starting when I became the lead in my kindergarten play about Christopher Columbus. I started studying the craft at an arts high school in Denver, continued doing so in Los Angeles at USC, and I have been writing, producing, editing, and directing plays, short films, audiobooks, and web series throughout and ever since.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Getting to where I’m at has been both hard and easy at the same time. I feel life has been challenging when having to deal with the day-to-day things like rent and bills and day jobs and the grind to just get by. The pervasive feeling that you’re alone on a huge hamster wheel, just going round and round. And yet, when I’m working in my element and creating my art, everything is easy; everything comes naturally, and that makes all the hard times worth it. The good times give purpose to the bad times.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
My most recent project is CookEatLive (@cookeatliveshow, www.cookeatliveshow.com), a comedic cooking show about how making really good food is simple no matter what level you’re at and how it will enrich your life and all the lives whom you serve it to. From my lesson episodes teaching the basics and fundamentals of cooking onto my recipe videos where I don’t just make a dish (like popcorn or grilled cheese sandwiches) but also an ingredient used in that dish (like chili powder or mustard), to my ICANCOOK Series that expands culinary horizons by showing exactly how much wildly-varied food can be made in the common kitchen with common tools, there is something to motivate everyone to get in the kitchen and start cooking!
We’re always looking for the lessons that can be learned in any situation, including tragic ones like the Covid-19 crisis. Are there any lessons you’ve learned that you can share?
The COVID Crisis taught me the power and necessity of stillness. Before, I always felt like I was falling behind in achieving my dreams like I was constantly failing at getting to my goals. Then the COVID era came, and I suddenly realized (if a realization that happened over two years could be called “sudden”) that I didn’t have to worry about being left behind because everything everywhere had slowed to a stop. The stillness and silence that I was forced to live in during that time helped me realize that the reason I couldn’t see my goals in front of me was because they were already behind me – I had already achieved large chunks of my dream. I had been too busy missing the forest for the trees and then giving myself a hard time for “failing.” Acknowledging and accepting how I had already succeeded in many ways was a huge perspective shift on myself and my life.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.ndmonteilh.com; www.cookeatliveshow.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ndmonteilh; https://www.instagram.com/cookeatliveshow
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ndmonteilh; https://www.facebook.com/CookEatLiveShow
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/cookeatlive
Image Credits
Steve Sornbutnark
David Carlson
