Cheryl Hines

And at that time you would send out your headshot and resume to all of the agents in town and hope that somebody would be interested in, just from looking at your picture, be interested in meeting with you.

And I didn't do it.

I wasn't ready for the rejection because I thought, what if I send out a picture and resume to every agent in this town and none of them want me?

I wasn't ready.

I didn't have a plan.

What would be the plan?

So until I was ready with that form of rejection, I couldn't bring myself to do it.

A lot of self pep talks.

You know, I would just say, okay, what's going to happen?

This is probably going to happen.

Probably not one person is going to respond.

And who are you going to be?

Is it going to change you if nobody responds?

And for the first year of my life there, I thought, yeah, it'll change me.

It'll break me.

This is the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

But after I was there for a while, I realized, okay, my self-worth doesn't depend on if somebody looks at my picture and decides they want to

represent me or not.

I finally got to that place where I realized, okay, life is going to go on.

I'm going to be the same person.