Actors do the strangest things.
Believe it or not, I knew an actor back East who changed his name from Schneiderman to Schneider because he wanted to seem less Jewish. And I’ve had clients attend classes like self-branding workshops and networking seminars. I even heard about a woman who insists on auditioning with a service dog because it helps calm her anxieties about auditioning.
Strange is as strange does, but none of that is as weird as the story I heard from an actor friend I ran into at a café last week.
Poor Ryan was frazzled. His uncle had just died in a tragic amusement park accident and he’d inherited $50,000—but with a weird stipulation. Ryan had to use the money to advance his acting career, and he had to spend all of it in less than a week. If he didn’t, Ryan would have to return every remaining dollar and he would also be liable for the money he had already spent.
It was day six and my friend had already blown through $45,000 in smart, career-advancing ways. One of his dreams was to mount his own waiver production with a real budget, so a large chunk of the money went toward renting a space and hiring a crew. The rest went to a new website, an expensive class, improved headshots,
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