Confidence Builder: Passport to Success
#ReOpening #VoyanceTalentAgency tips for #confidencebuilder in business, auditions, film actors, modeling and brand ambassadors in Kansas City Fashion, wine promotions, event services, on premise, off premise, new product launch, advertising agency world to the runway model in Paris, France and beyond.
I hear this a lot: “Getting out of one’s comfort zone builds confidence. As Founder Director Voyance Talent Agency (and probably most service industries) reopening now is definitely uncomfortable! Starting, restarting a job or business takes CONFIDENCE. How do we muster up the confidence to put on a fashionable Hazmat suit, respirator and go meet and greet in a crowded event? Answer: Knowledge, Change, Act.
According to Psychology Today, “Confidence is a belief in oneself, the conviction that one has the ability to meet life’s challenges and succeed-and the willingness to act accordingly. Being confident requires the sense of one’s capabilities and feeling secure in that knowledge. Plan (A) Action Plan Plan (B) Bio Plan (C) Construct from Previous Experiences
1) Desire to Fix: Realize discomfort (start small)
2) Change mode (build on pass success)
3) Rise to challenge (implement plan A, plan B and makeup plan C)
#Re Opening Business #Model Audition #Business Branding
1) Write a list of what’s happening to make us uncomfortable.
2) Write a list of pass successes.
3) Listen to critiques without judging.
4) Build change based on pass successes.
5) Implement little by little
Personal Passport to Success
Use my experience as an example to build your own pathway for a Confidence Builder:
Your passport to SUCCESS!
1) Plan A Action-My Desire: Coming from the Fields of Kansas to the Paris Runway to work in the Mecca of Couture Fashion for with the best fashion design houses of the world. The summer I graduated, 21 years old, I saved money from fashion modeling and gave myself a college graduation present visiting a few European countries: England, Germany, Switzerland and France.
2) Plan B-Change Mode: Building on past success. My mother was a fashion model for Kodak and I was modeling at age two, first paid fashion show age 9. By Age 13, talent scouts recruited me and signed with talent agencies. My experience included television commercials, film acting, radio voice over commercials, catalogs, and promotional event services. With this success I thought it would be easy stepping off the plane to the runway. I did not have a talent scout, did not speak French, nor have a talent scout to help me with modeling auditions for Paris agency representation. With two days left in Paris, I contacted and made appointments with the top three Paris Modeling Agencies. The first agent looked thru my big, stuffed to the brim Kansas City fashion portfolio (mostly advertising agencies, newspaper, catalog, editorial, functional new product launch.)
3) Plan C- Listen to Critiques without Judging: In Kansas City fashion advertising my auditions models portfolio critique was often, “Too high Fashion”, (which became my confidence builder.) With this confidence builder I proudly presented my Kansas City model portfolio to the Paris Agent. After quickly glancing and thumbing through my model portfolio, the agent said, “This is HORRIBLE!” I listened without judging this critique and asked politely with a smile, “Is there anything in my (Kansas City model portfolio) of value?”
She looked at me, and then slowly reopened my model portfolio book with patience and study picked three fashion model photographer photos, stating, “This one is nice."
The same Kansas City fashion model photographer shot each three-fashion model photographer photo.
4) Rise to the Challenge: (Make up Plan C) The Paris Agent picked out three model fashion photos that were shot by the same model photographer. That Kansas City model photographer changed my life in an instance. I went back to my hotel, trashed my Kansas City model photographer portfolio, took out a large envelope from my model photographer portfolio that was used for extra photos and brought these three photos to with me to my next two agent model interview/audition appointments that afternoon. I said as I handed her my envelope, “I am here on vacation and did not bring my portfolio, however I have three sample photos to show.” I received callbacks from both agents that afternoon.
5) Confidence Builder/Passport to Success Achieved: I signed with the first modeling agent that called me back that evening, working the next best Paris modeling photographer on test shots stay, living in Europe for the next five plus years!
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