Jen Gottlieb

And they didn't see that.

We need to remember that when we find ourselves comparing and fearing judgment and fearing being imperfect and fearing starting from the beginning, everybody starts somewhere.

Beyonce started from zero.

I will never forget the moment that I knew I wanted to be on stage for the rest of my life.

I was in this children's touring company where we'd get up and sing different Broadway musicals.

It was always my dream to be Annie.

I never got to be Annie in the actual show.

Every birthday wish, I would blow out my candles.

I wish to be Annie.

I finally got the chance to sing one of the songs in a show where we sang a lot of different Broadway songs.

It wasn't really any, but I remember I was singing that song and I remember looking out into the audience and seeing like my mom and my dad and the lights and like singing Annie.

And I was just, there's nothing better than this.

This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Sometimes it's what you want, but sometimes it's so much better than you could have even imagined.

Because what I always thought, and even throughout my entire young adulthood auditioning for musicals, I thought that my future was going to be singing other people's songs, reading other people's lines, being in a show where I auditioned and waited for someone to pick me.

And that were, you know, being on television where I recited lines and played a part.

I didn't allow myself to really expand and say, well, maybe there's a different way to perform.

form.

And I remember when I quit acting and I started building my business, my parents said, Jen, are you sure you want to quit your dream?

I'm like, you guys, I'm not quitting my dream.