Jen Gottlieb

I know for sure that I'll end up back on stage.

I don't know how, I don't know in what capacity, but I'm going to end up back on stage.

And now that I'm a motivational speaker and I speak for a living and I teach and I get to use my own words and I get to pick myself instead of waiting for someone else to pick me.

And I'm on stage having those same moments that I had when I was a kid, but it's so much better and so much different.

I get to help people.

It's so freaking cool.

But

I could have never envisioned that when I was stuck in looking just inside the box of what it should be being an actress.

I didn't allow myself to expand.

And now that I look backwards, when I connect the dots, I'm like, oh, wow, it was what I wanted, but it's so much better than I could have ever imagined then.

It was really a lot of getting heard no.

I think that one of the most powerful tools that a successful entrepreneur can have is resiliency and the ability to be persistent even when you're getting heard no and you're getting rejected.

Many people, the second that they hear no, or they get rejected or the thing that they want doesn't work, they stop or they just like, Oh, I guess this isn't for me.

I'll go grocery shopping today and forget it.

I'm not going to try anymore.

Right.

I'm going to go binge Netflix or do something else that makes me feel good because I don't want to be rejected.

When I was an actress, I was a professional auditioner.

I got rejected probably 10 times a day.

Like no, no, no, no, no.