There is this term (that I did not come up with) called terminal uniqueness. And I’m curious if you can diagnose yourself with this. It is the belief that when you see someone else be successful or you see someone else succeeding or you hear about the way someone went about their career or a step that they took to get where they’re going, you write against yourself. Like if that will work for them then it will never work for me or I am so different that it is impossible that path will work for me. Now this is not to discredit anything like systemic racism and lack of representation. I just want to make sure that we also don’t bring our own additional trauma to this conversation where I am so different that it is impossible for me to find success in any of the ways that other people have found it before me.
What I want to say to you is you are incredibly special and you’re not special.
And the reason why I say that is that when you make yourself special you start to exclude yourself from what might be in front of you. Why I bring this up today is because my guest is Migs Govea and he has a ton of credits behind him. It could be very easy to say to yourself whether you’re an actor, photographer, director, butcher, baker or candlestick maker – Yes, well they have that much success so this is why it works for them.
You’re going to hear in Migs’s story how he moved to a new city, suddenly decided he’s going to stay there and then suddenly decided he’s going to reach out and try to get representation there. It may sound a little like a Cinderella story, but you’re going to hear him share how, much more intimately, there was a wrestle going on inside of him.
You’ll learn that it isn’t as black and white as reps saying, “You’ve got a bunch going on already. I’m glad to meet with you.” That’s the place where I want you to root yourself. Instead of making Migs so special that any of his success cannot also be yours, the invitation I make to you today is to find where in Migs’s story the places you see yourself. And… Migs does not hold back. He is really vulnerable and honest with his experience.
I just know that you’re going to get that extra cuddle of intimacy where you can feel the same emotions that he experienced during the journey to find his great representation in Los Angeles.
Here are just a few takeaways:
- There is never a perfect time to reach out to reps
- A target list is the worst strategy you can use to find the right match
- Let go of the things you cannot control and take ownership of the things that you can
- You are more than enough
Let me run down some of his Migs super exciting credits: Currently he is recurring as Nick Vargas on the CBS series FBI: Most Wanted, he was on the Netflix series Inventing Anna opposite Julia Garner and then he also appeared opposite Julia Garner again in the Sundance hit The Assistant. He was on HBO’s City on a Hill and NBC’s Law & Order: SVU. His film credits include Motherless Brooklyn opposite Ed Norton and Ocean’s 8 opposite Anne Hathaway. So he certainly has all those fancy exciting things going for him that he’s worked really hard to accomplish. You’re going to hear Migs talk about even with that kind of resume there’s so much more story behind each of those credits than we might see on the outside.
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