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In searching for the proper words to thank you for your support, to welcome you to the site and to find a way that your experience here could be unique, I realized that I needed to truly share something about myself that most of you wouldn’t know. What I came up with is this: If I represent anything, it’s that dreams really can come true. I’m a living proof of it. It is my hope that by sharing some of my story with you that I will give any fellow dreamers out there the nudge needed to follow your own dreams. This is my way of thanking you for your constant support, which means so much in a business filled with uncertainty.
Some of you may know that I was born and grew up in the green mountains of northern Vermont. What you may not know is that more than just geography separated me from my dream of being an actress.
With scars on my body from surgeries I’d had as a child, gray teeth from the Tetracycline doctors had to give me to keep me alive, no connections in the entertainment business (I didn’t even know anyone from my state who had become an actress), and living in a small town that only put on one production a year, I couldn’t have been further from a sure thing. I spent years trying to get an agent, and years more being rejected by casting directors. I even had one of my first acting teachers tell me I had no talent and that I should get out of the business. (Since that time I’ve learned that Gene Hackman, Fred Astaire, Ellen Barkin and a host of other actors were told the same thing by other well meaning people.)
The point of telling you a few of the obstacles I faced (believe me there were many more) is this: With the exception of my parents and in later years my husband, no one thought my success was inevitable. However, I had something going for me that I learned all those years ago when I was a sick child: Don’t let your present circumstances determine your future success. And don’t let where you’ve been determine where you’re going to go.
Wherever you are right now doesn’t matter. If you have a dream, take a small step in the direction of that dream. Goethe said this: “What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” And, “There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” These are two of the three tools I used to achieve my dream, I boldly took the first step and I persevered. Believe me I persevered, I must have auditioned and screen tested for every role out there, always ending up second place. Finally, I had to accept that something more was needed.
That something
was a belief that I really deserved to be successful. Fortunately, I came
across a book entitled, “You Can Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay.
That book helped me believe that I did deserve my dream. And you deserve yours
too! So, if you’re a dreamer or if you’re discontented with your
life in some way, here’s my recipe for success: Dream, begin, persevere
and believe.
I hope you enjoy visiting this web site; it is intended as much for you as it is for me.
God bless you,
Beth