Motivation

I love the word motivation; I think it is a powerful thing especially when you need that bit of a push.  I love to be around people that motivate and even challenge me to do better. At this moment my biggest motivation are other entertainment entrepreneurs that are in the beginning stages of their career. I want to be able to snap my figures and be where I want to be right now. But I also want to be able to look back and say I worked hard to get what I wanted. I am not the type of person that likes getting things handed to me. I didn’t grow up that way. I rely on videos like the one below and people that motivate me to work harder. The video I have post really hit home, have you ever got so motivation you get goose bumps? That is what this video did for me. Enjoy!!

                                                                                By:Dream - Motivational Video- Mateusz M- Youtube

My Acting Career: To Act Or Not To Act

I told you guys about how I use to model, act, dance, and sing right? Well I want to actually go deeper into my acting career or what was my acting career at least. I done a little digging around and I found a little bit more information on what I did when I was acting. How I got started acting I was modeling and after I my horrible breakup with my talent agency I decided to find work on my own. Which started out hard because I didn’t know where to find modeling jobs or even who to ask. Thanks to the good old Internet I sat myself down and surfed it like I have never surfed it ever before. I found myself engulfed in a title wave of information and was completely overwhelmed. I found so much information and where to post my portfolio and forums so on and so forth. So I started posting my portfolio on different free website such as Modelmayhem and Musecube and many others. Then I started get invites to submit to online magazine websites suck as Hot Blocks Magazine and online radio station websites. With all the invites, business proposals, and being featured I really started to get over whelmed with everything that was thrown my way. So I kind of stuck with one website that I like the most which was model mayhem. I ended up meeting a photographer Merika Rock; she worked with many different names such as Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner to Celebrity Fit Club’s Harvey Waldon and American Idol’s Kimberly Locke. She is the main person that got me deep into the entertainment industry. She’s the one that made me stop and think about being a minority business owner. Now I am getting of topic, which is for another post.

 I got into acting through model mayhem when I got a job offer that was looking for models for a web show. At first I was hesitant because I have never acted before and I didn’t know anything about it, The only thing I could remember thinking was, OMG I don't know if I could remember lines; my head was overly thinking this. Well, with me the more confused and scared and overwhelmed I get I have to try it. So I messaged them back saying Ill doing as I’m freaking out. The people that messaged me were called DynaHunk and  they said Ill be on their web shows with my own little season. It was a very low budge but great if you’re a beginner like I was. The show was called Dare Doll Dilemma, which I thought was cool because I could be a superhero! Go me!! I ended up doing one episode (just the trailer) and found out that I was pregnant, bummer I know!! Honestly it is fine with me because it was hard to work with the lady, but you can’t win everything, and maybe it was just me since I didn’t have previous experience. It was fun but just for that one time. Then I got other invites to auditions and I went.

 I remember this one time I went to an audition...remember I never had experience before except for the dare dolls thing, which there was no audition for that. Anyway, I was really scared because the people where obviously more professional and had a higher budget to work with. So I decided to take a friend of mine with me. Drove 3 hours to Chicago and I couldn’t find a parking spot. I’m freaking out because it was close to the time I had to be there, I even left an hour earlier expecting traffic. I ended up being late, which I hate. I walk in and all eyes are on me. I hate looking very unprofessional and not being in control of whats going on, its just not me! Well I forgot my headshot in the car so I had my friend run out and get it as they called my name. They call me back and as I was walking down the hall to the audition room I see something that said have your monologue ready. A WHAT? Didn’t know what that was so of course I didn’t have one! Now your probably wondering, didn’t you look at your breakdown? Yes I did, I was just oblivious to the word monologue when I read through it. So I sat down, cameras in my face, lights in my eyes, and I answer the questions they ask and they asked me, if I got the part would I be able to make it to the set. I said yeah and my heart started racing because I was expecting them to tell me to do my monologue. They didn’t and it was the end of that. Handed them my headshot not expecting anything, and I was right, nothing! I learned so much between those two acting experiences as well as reading and talking to other actors on what to expect, that if I could do it all over again, I still wouldn’t. It’s not for me to be on that side of the industry. I was made to be on the other side, made to prevent that from happening to other talented people. So that is how I got into acting and that is how fast I ended my acting career!

My Three Main Goals

I recently did a video about My Entertainment Business: The Journey, and I mentioned three main goals that I wanted done by the end of this year (2015). I sat down and I really thought about what I want to happen and where I wanted to be by the end of this year, when it comes to my dreams. I wanted to use the SMART goal approach to make sure everything is done right, effectively and accurately.

For those who might not know what SMART goals are, it is (Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely). I want to make sure I understand exactly what is expected and I don't deviate from my main goals out of confusion.  I want to make sure I can actually do them and they are something that is realistic and not something that would awesome to do but not possible. I also want to set time limits for them, that way I will know that they are getting done, when they need to get done. I love marking things of lists. I am going to make my list on paper with sublist to help me out.

Okay! My three main personal goals are:

Learn and understand as much as I can about the Entertainment Business.

Start my Business

Be the best talent company out there for my talent (geez)!  ok that one may seem a little much considering everyone wants to be the best of the best. What I really meant was I want to be the best in my talents eyes as well as my eyes.

Let me remind you that these are my personal goals. Not my business goals but just goals that I have for myself personally to get to my business goals. Let's break each of these goals down and let me explain them better.

The first goal, learn and understand the entertainment business, is something that is going to be an on going process. That process is going to be on going until well after I start my business. I want to make sure I have at least the basic knowledge of the industry and that is why I am going to Full Sail University to get my feet wet and build my business portfolio as well as to learn what I need to learn.  Another way I will get to understand and learn about this industry is to go out and do interviews with mainly talent but as well as talent buyers, whether they are video interviews or not. The best way to learn is to physically go out and do it. I want to know what musicians, dancers, actor/actresses, and models are wanting, thinking and what needs to be done about some of their concerns, and how I can dive into the root of their problems and make it easier for them to pursue their career. Like I said before, " My mission is to minimize bad experiences and threats and maximize profit."

The second goal is to start the business. I read this article call, Why You Really Should Just Launch Your Business Already. Click Here For the article, but what I really held on to after I read it, was the author saying, "Your business is never going to be perfect in your eyes," and "You Won’t Know What Problems Need to Be Fixed Until it’s Out in the World."-By Megan Broussard, 2013. I think what Megan said is true. I could probably spend years trying to make everything perfect, just the way I want and it still wont be the exact way I want it to be, which is perfect. Another thought is how can I try to make it perfect if I don't get out there and put it to the test. I wouldn't know what is working and what need to be fix or flat out eliminated.

The third and final goal is to find what is wrong and fix it, which in my eyes is being the best company out there.  I want to try new things that other companies haven't tried. I have many ideas that I have not seen implemented that should seriously need to be or at least tried. After 5 years of research I finally figured out how I can apply them to my business. Trust me it wasn't easy but I mastered my ideas on paper, the real testament is to master it through my company. I have written every possible outcome down so I can be prepared for what could possible not work.

Those are my goals that I will be working towards. In my other coming post I will be breaking these down in to subgoals and putting time limits on them to make it easier to overcome. These goals and subgoals a put into place will lead up to completing my main goals.

Starting An Entertainment Business Company!

 Have you ever just sat down and thought about your life? I am talking just sat down and thought about where you’re at, where your headed, and how in the world do you get there? Well that is where I am at; I have always wanted to start my own business. I remember back in the early ages where I wanted to open my own car shop, then hair salon (doing everyone’s hair), dance group (I actually put a few together in grade school). I also put together countless number of girl bands (thanks to the influence of the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC). I look back now and realize that I was the main one managing the groups, managing what needed to be done. I was born to manage the entertainment industry, well the people looking for representation. I realized in high school that I was definitely made for the entertainment world. So I set out and found myself signed to a model agency and quickly got out of that. Never got any jobs and always had to pay to update my portfolio, thats when I learned about scams. I found that after I did a lot of research I ended up getting myself modeling jobs. 
I did that for awhile and was not satisfied, I wanted to be on the other side of modeling. I bought a good camera and started taking pictures of models but it wasn't enough. I still needed more so, I switched to acting, did a few web shows and went to a few auditions, I also was in a music video but again I wanted to be on the other side of it. I found one of the photographers that I had worked with and he wanted to start a modeling management company. Long story short I pretty took over and wanted to manage more than just models. I wanted to manage musicians and dancers and actors. I mean how hard can it be?  I found out pretty fast but I loved it. Since I was still knew and still learning I bumped down to just promoting them so I can network to build more contacts.

Malinda, Whitney, and Amy

(Picture and artwork done by Malinda)

Not going to lie it took me forever to do this, this was one of the first pictures I did with photoshop back in 2010. I am pretty proud of it!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sin-Crook/130868911624

Sin N Crook With CJ Amy and Malinda

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United Vibes With Amy (far left) and Malinda 

As well As promoting record labels such as BNE 

 I really didn’t know what I was doing but it was working and I kelp track of what was working and what was not. I loved that it was fasted paced and I was always busy. I also found out that I kind of like control, and in this industry you have to have a sense of control, have to be calm and work well under pressure (which is something that I seem to do well), and of course you have to have fun with something your passionate about. After awhile I got to the point where random artist would come up to me and ask if I could promote them. That’s when I realize I  still needed more and I didn’t know what it was until my husband join the army. I needed better knowledge; I needed to be more educated on this entertainment business industry so I went to school. I started at University of Phoenix and got my associates degree in business. I went back and realized that they were focused on just the general business aspect of the world. I wanted and needed more then just the general business aspect I wanted the entertainment business world. So half way through my bachelor’s degree, the sky opened, and I found Full Sail University. This is where the starting of my business journey begins!  

Look out my up coming post as well as my youtube channel that I will be using to document my journey! Also check out the other blog links that I have posted . They have some every interesting news and ideas and all around good information that is awesome!