Jen Gottlieb

I needed a job.

The night before the audition, I Googled everything there was to know about heavy metal, learning all the band names.

I go in pretty much.

I felt like I bombed the audition because I kind of forgot all the things that I was memorizing.

They're like, what kind of music do you like?

I like everything from Beyonce to black Sabbath.

They could probably tell that I didn't know what the hell I was talking about.

At the end of the audition, they're like, oh, Jen, I noticed at the bottom of your resume, it says that you do a great Britney Spears impersonation.

So I'm like, yeah, okay, I do.

They're like, can we see your Britney?

And so I do my Britney Spears impersonation.

They're all laughing hysterically.

It's like an uproar.

Everyone finally is alive after being kind of bored with me because I didn't know what I was talking about.

They call me two weeks later and they're like, we want you to be Miss Box of Junk on that metal show.

And I'm like, really?

They're like, yes, you made everyone laugh.

Your Britney Spears imitation got you the role.

That was the first moment in time when I learned that being my most authentic self is always what's going to get people to lean in and pay attention.

It wasn't that I knew everything about heavy metal music.