What consistently comes up in our career-coaching sessions and dialogues with actors is the question of how to get seen in this business—how to get in front of the decision makers. While these are valid questions, we ask you to slow down and start with an exploration of you. The questions to ask are really how you can bring yourself fully, authentically, and confidently to all of your materials, your connections with the industry, your social media, the work you create—all of it. It’s one thing to have a plan of action. Absolutely have a plan. But what you are bringing to that plan is where you need to begin. Start with you. The answers lie in you. How do you bring you to everything you do? Just like your acting work (which requires you showing up fully), your career tools and industry engagement have to have the same quality of you showing up. That is first and foremost in creating a complete and dynamic presence.
You start with you. You ask yourself: What are all of the things that make up you? What you like and don’t like, what you care about, what your core values are, what is unique about you to the universe, what you have to share and express, what you want to do genuinely as an artist.
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