June 9, 2025 • 35 mins
From singing to trees as a kid to signing with multiple modeling agencies as an adult… this episode dives into the real behind-the-scenes of what happens when you finally stop waiting and start showing up for your dreams.
I share the moment everything shifted—one inspired action I took back in January that completely changed the course of my year. Spoiler: it wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t glamorous. But it was mine. And it set something in motion I couldn’t have predicted.
You’ll hear the full story of my latest agency meetings—including one with super weird energy and an even weirder elevator—and the unexpected outcome that reminded me why authenticity > perfection every time.
I also share a big birthday investment I made in my future (!!!), the mindset shifts that got me here, and how grief and growth collided to push me out of the sidelines and back into the spotlight.
If you're craving a creative glow-up of your own, or just need a reminder that your next breakthrough could be one decision away—this one’s for you.
🎙 Listen to the full episode now, and come hang with me on socials @MegSalisburyOfficial to follow the journey in real time. Let’s glow up together.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey there and welcome to the Glow Up Year.
I'm Meg, an actress and modeland your go-to guide for what it
really takes to make big dreamshappen.
After six years in theentertainment world on camera,
behind the scenes and everythingin between I'm declaring this
year my glow-up year.
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This podcast is your front rowseat to my journey.
As I hustle, I learn and Ilevel up in real time, From
auditions to photo shoots toscript breakdowns and behind the
scenes chaos.
We're diving into the ups, thedowns and everything in between.
If you're ready to chase yourown dreams, fuel your passion
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and see if you have what ittakes to rise to the top, you're
in the right place.
So grab a coffee or a tea, getcomfy and let's glow up together
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So grab a coffee or a tea, getcomfy and let's glow up together
.
Hi guys, I'm back today.
I got a ton of updates for youguys.
It's going to be awesome.
So it seems to be that thispodcast is becoming biweekly and
let me give you a few quickupdates, and then I have
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exciting news.
I have a ton of stuff to sharewith you today.
I cannot wait.
Without further ado, let's getstarted.
In the last episode, we talkedabout submitting to three
agencies.
I heard back from two.
I am officially signed withAgency A, the first agency that
I went and had a meeting with,and let me just give you an
update real quick on what'sgoing on with my agency meetings
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.
So Agency A already had mymeeting with.
It went fantastic and I'mofficially signed Yahoo.
So next steps moving forwardwith them is to get my page up
and running, which is all stuffthat they take care of, and I
just had my final meeting withagency guidelines and what to
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expect, which was really awesome, very fun, pretty typical
information.
I guess the most importantthings to note were, like
preferred contact methods.
This agent preferred that Icontact them via email and then
save calls and texts foranything that's urgent or on the
day important of a booking.
We talked about, you know, nottalking about your pay rate on
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the job, which is so superimportant and seems very obvious
, but I think you know.
If you're new, how would youknow that?
Why would you know that?
We talked about professionalismand making sure we're
responding to emails andcastings quickly, in a good time
manner, so they can submit thepackage that they want to submit
as soon as possible to theclient.
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And now I'm at the point whereI'm just really gathering all my
materials so I can submit themover to the agent, so they have
everything they can pick andchoose what they want to use for
my headshot, what they want touse for my comp card just
gathering all that informationand submitting it over and
seeing what they say and seeingwhat comes of it.
So that's what's been happeningwith agency A.
Agency B originally was mymeeting that I had to book out
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about a month and I had it y'all.
I had it y'all, and we'll talkabout it in a minute because I
have interesting information foryou.
I'd love to hear your thoughtsin the comments, Let me know
what you think of this agentmeeting.
And then agency C was four tosix months out for actually
signing talent.
That's just how their processworks.
So we're still waiting to hearback from them, which is
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absolutely fantastic.
So that's where I am with mythree agency meetings and,
without further ado, let's talkabout agency B meeting.
Okay, this agency meeting wascompletely different than agency
A meeting, like so different.
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And I think over the lastcouple weeks, as I've had these
new agency meetings you know,with my first agent.
That was a couple years ago andit was my first time going in
and experiencing these meetings.
As I was moving forward here, Iwanted to be really strategic
and really smart with how I wentto these meetings.
So it's really feels like thesemeetings are the first time
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that I'm going in prepared andknowing what to expect, and that
went all out the window.
Let me tell you, like I'm justlike out of loss for words for
how different these meetingshave gone.
I drove down to the agency'sbrick and mortar and I was there
about a half hour early, whichis what I like.
I drove down to the agency'sbrick and mortar and I was there
about a half hour early, whichis what I like.
I had time to do my makeup, hadtime to do a few little social
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media posts, which we will touchon in a little bit, but I was
instructed to let them know whenI got there, wait downstairs in
the lobby and then, when theywere ready, they would call me
up.
And this lobby I don't know.
This is not really importantinformation, but I'm going to
tell you so that you can paint apicture in your brain of what I
was experiencing.
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So this lobby had one of thoseold fashioned elevators where
you like pull the cage to theside and I'm laughing because I
did not really know how to usethis elevator and each each like
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okay, so let me explain alittle better.
So on the lobby floor you had topull the elevator door, like
the part that usually opens andcloses like on its own.
You had to pull that door andthen pull the cage.
So the elevator came all theway down to the first floor and
I saw the elevator through thewindow, because there's a window
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with the cage ones.
I saw the elevator through thewindow hit the ground floor and
then I just stood there becauseI was expecting, like, the door
to open or something to happenor a ding or I don't.
I don't know, I don't know, I,I don't know.
So I just stood there for 30seconds and I was like I'm
supposed to do something rightnow and I don't know what that
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something is.
So I, you know, I pushed thedoor was like a pocket door and
so I pushed it into the sidelike a typical elevator pocket
door.
So I pushed it to the side andI pushed the cage to the side.
But these, these doors werelike spring-loaded right so
they're not easy to like pushopen.
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So I wasn't sure if I wasbreaking the elevator while I
was getting on the elevator,which was hilarious in its own
right.
So I get in the elevator,finally I push the button and
the thing doesn't move and I waslike, oh shit, what am I doing
wrong?
And there was also, likerandomly, another like floor
number was lit up.
I was like, oh my God, I don'tknow, what am I actually?
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Am I just going to get lockedin this elevator and not even
make it to my agent meeting andlike what the fuck is happening?
I was all worked up just withthis whole elevator experience,
not to mention oh, not tomention important detail I had
to pee so bad.
I had been holding my pee forlike an hour already.
I had to be so bad.
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So not only am I like dancing inthis elevator with like my
knees crossed, like trying notto fucking pee, but I also can't
figure out how to work thefucking elevator.
Oh God, okay.
So I pushed the button againand finally it brings me up to
the my desired floor.
And when I get to the desiredfloor I'm like, okay, I got on,
now I know how to get off, notgoing to be a big deal, exact
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same way you get on Nope, nope,nope.
So when I get off this elevator, this door, the cage door is
the same right.
The cage door traveled with me,but the door to get off the
elevator was not a pocket door,it's a push door, like a door,
like, like like a door to go in,like a normal fucking door
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without a knob, just like a pushdoor.
So I'm like looking at this,seeing the receptionist through
the window, like trying tofigure out how to slide this
door, and then finally I justpushed it like a tiny bit and it
moved and I was like, oh shit,that's how I do it.
So I pushed it all the way andwhen I get out of it, when I get
out of the elevator, there'slike three people staring at me
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and I was like, oh god, theyknow, they know I don't know how
to use this elevator.
Do you think, actually, sidenote?
Do you think they find thatcomical, like when new people
come into the office who havenever been in there before?
Do you think, actually, sidenote, do you think they find
that comical, like when newpeople come into the office who
have never been in there before.
Do you think like they wait andcomically see, like that's
actually really funny?
I hope that they do that.
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That would be so funny.
Anyways, okay, wow, we haven'teven gotten to the story yet,
like we've only talked about theelevator.
So I get off the elevator andstill got to pee.
The agent invites me into theiroffice and I'm like can I just
use your bathroom real quick?
And he's like, absolutely.
So I go into the office, I setmy stuff down, I run to the, the
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go to the bathroom.
But I had this like underlyingfeeling that I was annoying him
by asking to go to the bathroomand I was like, oh shit, okay,
this is not the way we want tostart our day out.
So we go to the bathroom.
You know, the bathroom isnormal.
Okay, the bathroom was normal,everything was normal in the
bathroom.
Can I just get that out of theway?
So I finished in the bathroom.
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I'm quick.
I try to like take a secondbecause I feel so flustered
while I'm in the bathroom, tolike take a deep breath and like
center myself and ground myself.
But honestly, I was just kind oflike a little jumpy and excited
to be there, because thisagency is an agency that I have
submitted to no joke four times.
Let me be clear with this.
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I'm not like submitting everyday, four days in a row.
I'm submitting like every sixto 10 months to this agency,
hoping that they would take abite.
And the reason why I havesubmitted to this agency so many
times is because so, because Iwork behind the scenes and I
work crew jobs.
I've worked like four or fivecrew jobs where the talent has
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been booked by this agency in myarea and I was like, oh shit,
so this agent has like themarket in my area, so this would
be a great opportunity for meto be signed with somebody who
not only has work in my area,but every model and every actor
that I had talked to that hadbeen booked on jobs were like
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really happy and proud to saywho their agent was, and so they
had like a really good trackrecord in my mind before I even
had gotten there to like have ameeting.
So I go into into the office.
I'm feeling like this guy's alittle annoyed and I sit down in
the chair and the chair isreally awkwardly far away from
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the desk.
I felt so far away from likethe agent.
It was a.
I got the feeling that it wasless of having a conversation
and more like I was beinginterrogated a little bit, and
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not in like a torturous way, butin like like, in a way that
maybe that agent was having abad day.
He asked me you know, give me alittle bit of background on
yourself.
And so what I said was you know, I went to school for musical
theater and for acting.
I did a couple years in New York, a couple years in LA, really
kind of truncating my story, andI lived in LA for a couple
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years, really started taking mycareer seriously about two years
ago, and the question thatthrew me off a little bit was
well, why didn't you take yourcareer seriously before?
In that moment that I got thatquestion, I instantly got that
little ting of like disapproval.
So what I decided to do wasjust to stay calm and remain
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honest, and my honest answer tothat was I grew up in a
household where feeling safe,being seen, was not a priority
and really not conducive to thiscareer, and so I needed to take
a little bit of time to heal mybrain and grow my mental health
so that I could take thiscareer seriously and really
enjoy it in the process.
And I felt really authenticsaying that, because that's my
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story, that's the truth is.
I just needed time to heal.
And I felt really authenticsaying that because that's my
story, that's the truth is.
I just needed time to heal.
And then the next question I gotwas well, what did you do when
you were in New York and LA?
That's when I said well, thosewere times where I didn't feel
safe being seen for the mostpart, but when I was in LA,
pre-pandemic, I was making allmy money doing background work
and then when pandemic hit, itdidn't really fit anymore.
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And then I moved back to Maine,to the area where I grew up, so
that I could recoup and reallyget everything straight in my
mind and my body and my health.
You know I had.
I had been so excited becauseoh, I guess this is new for you
guys too I built my physicalportfolio after going to that
first agent meeting and nothaving a resource that I felt
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like was really important tohave with me, I took it
seriously and I built myportfolio and I brought it with
me, obviously because I want toshowcase what I have, and I had
only submitted you know threepictures to this agency.
So I didn't feel like theyunderstood my range that I have
within my portfolio andprimarily, I'm signing with this
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agency for modeling work.
That's more of what they do.
So I casually brought up inconversation that I had my
portfolio with me if the agentwanted to look at it, and the
response was no, everything'sdigital now, so we don't really
need to look at it, and I feltlike that was a lost opportunity
for them.
Honestly, it just felt likeit's something that takes a
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little, very little time andvery little effort, and I had
already worked so hard on it.
So maybe it was me getting inmy feels about the amount of
effort I had put into buildingthat portfolio.
But whatever, you know, I leftthe meeting feeling like I
represented myself and I wasauthentic in who I was, which
has not always been easy for me.
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And secondly, I left themeeting feeling like the energy
on their end was a little off,and so I wasn't really sure what
to do with those two things,because they're kind of
competing.
I felt good about how Irepresented myself, but didn't
feel great about the actualphysical energy in the room and
I'm so super sensitive to thatstuff, like it's so easy for me
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to tell if somebody's having abad day and in my day to day
life when that's happening, it'seasy for me to just bring it up
casually in conversation so Ican have a conversation with
that person about it and maybehelp and relief.
But that's not an appropriateand in this sort of situation.
So it it just it kind of felt alittle strange to me, which is
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fine, and did I mention thatthis meeting was on my birthday?
It was my birthday meeting,yeah, yeah, yeah.
So then I got home and I talkedto my husband about it and I was
saying, you know, like thisfelt a little bit off.
That felt a little bit off.
And I was telling him about thespecific conversation where he
said you know, why weren't youtaking this seriously before?
And my husband blurted out soquickly your dad died.
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And I was like, oh my God, thatwould have been the perfect
thing to say.
That would have been theperfect thing to say my dad died
.
He did.
That's the truth.
That's, wow, I can't believe.
Strange.
Um, it's.
How do I put this in words?
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It's not that I forgot that mydad died.
It's that I am such a differentperson than I was a couple
years ago that I almost forgotabout this part of my life.
I used to really be focused onthe past.
What's happening in the past,what was going on in the past,
what was holding me back,holding me back, holding me back
.
And now I'm so future focusedand so excited to live in the
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present moment that I sometimesforget about the things that
happened in the past, becausethere's a lot.
There's a lot that I've workedthrough to get to this amazing
point that I'm at now, and myhusband reminding me of that was
such a great reminder of howfar I've come, how great my life
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is now compared to then, andthat's something I've created
and I've built and I've takenthe time to like, foster and
nurture, and I've built and I'vetaken the time to like, foster
and nurture, and I'm just soproud of myself.
And two days later, this is theemail that I received Hi, megan,
it was a sincere pleasuremeeting you and we'd be thrilled
to represent you.
Y'all that's two out of threeagents that I just signed with.
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I did it, I did it, I fuckingdid it.
I have worked so hard to gethere and I am so deeply, deeply,
deeply proud and thankful andgrateful to not just myself for
putting in this like hard workthat I put in before the support
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system that is around me myhusband, my mother in law and my
best friend, and just all theseamazing people have supported
me and making me feel like mydreams could and will be my
reality.
I'm just so thankful and Ihaven't even met with a third
agent yet.
This might be a three out ofthree agency hall.
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And all of this, all of thisstarted with me booking that
model workshop photo shoot inJanuary, the one where I was
biting my nails and couldn'treally afford and wasn't sure if
I wanted to do it All.
That one thing that I did, thatI had intuition to say this
feels like it's the right thingto do, that one thing has
changed the direction of mycareer entirely.
That's the power of inspiredaction and of manifesting what
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you truly want and putting theaction into the manifestation.
Oh, I'm just beyond thrilled,I'm just beyond excited.
I'm so excited.
So, for agency B, now the nextsteps are gathering all the
materials, filling out thepaperwork and sending everything
over, and then I'm sure we'llhave some sort of agency
guidelines set up meeting aswell.
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Wow, y'all, it has been such awild ride 2025.
So far it really has been suchan amazing glow up year at this
point and the best is still yetto come.
I really believe that and Ihave a few more things I want to
touch on really quickly andthen we will move on to the most
amazing, exciting piece of newsI have coming.
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I am yeah, OK, let's get to theother stuff.
First, the test shoot that Idid not received photos back yet
, so there's my update on that.
As soon as they come in, youknow what I'll do I'll share
them with you.
I'm excited.
So that's my update on that.
I have been playing around withsocial media.
I've been having so much fun.
I've been having so much fun,like I've really found the joy
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and I've unblocked, like theblock that I had inside my self.
I'm becoming this newpersonality and this new persona
and that is so exciting.
So, after playing around withit for a couple weeks, I started
a journey to 10k and I'm on dayfour and I've already tripled
my following and it has beensuch a fantastic way to get my
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stuff out there and getrecognized and market myself,
and so if you haven't followedor joined in, I'm starting all
of this stuff out on TikTok.
I'm trying to figure out whatis a strategy for this and then
I'll move it over to Instagram.
So if you're not following onTikTok, please check it out.
I'm at Meg Salisbury Official.
So, as far as my website goes,let me tell you a little bit
about the process, and then I'mgoing to read you some copy.
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I'm so excited.
So the process of this startedwith Ruthann sending me a sheet
that explains to me all the copythat I need to provide, and
it's really detailed and shemakes it so easy to fill this
out.
And, honestly, the hardest partabout this has been like
writing about myself, which itdoesn't really come super
comfortable to me, but I thinkthis is something that I can
work on, is like self-promoting,self-promoting, self-promoting.
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I think it's a great exercisefor me.
So we've started this wholeprocess with copy, and next week
I meet with a copywriter to goover all of the copy that I
provided and see if there's anyway that we can improve it and
make it better.
And so let me talk about how mywebsite's going to be laid out
in a general way.
So there's going to be ahomepage, like normal, there's
going to be an about page, likenormal, and then I'm going to
have four service pages.
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My services that I can provideis acting, modeling, voice
acting and then there's going tobe a page for this podcast yeah
, and a blog for this podcast,which I'm so excited for.
I've written like four blogposts and I can't wait to have
them out somewhere where peoplecan see them.
Today, what I wanted to readyou was my mission statement for
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my website and this is stuffI've all been working on and my
about page for my website, andI'd love to hear your feedback,
tell me what you think in thecomments about this, if there's
some way that you think I canimprove it.
But I just want to share withyou what I'm, what I'm thinking
and what I'm feeling in my heart, and this was not easy for me
to write and I might get alittle emotional.
I'm not gonna lie, because as Iread this stuff, it really, it
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really reminds me of how farI've come, and all of this is
subject to change, but this iswhere I'm at right now.
So my introduction to who I amis hey, there I'm Meg.
Natural talent meetshardworking homie, glowing up
one day at a time on my podcast.
I think that's great.
Oh, that's so me, so me.
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And then my mission statement isI've always believed that
stories have the power to changeus, the ones that make us feel
seen, crack us open or remind usthat we're not alone.
Through the characters I play,I hope to spark something in
others courage, reflection,maybe even a little healing.
I want people to walk away frommy work feeling more connected
to themselves, to others or tothe bigger picture.
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Acting and modeling isn't justa performance.
To me, it's about a creativespace for real emotions,
important conversations and thekind of growth that starts from
the inside out.
And the kind of growth thatstarts from the inside out.
My goal is to inspire people toreclaim their own narrative,
because when we see ourselves ina story, we start to believe in
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new possibilities for ourselves.
I truly believe that, y'all.
I truly believe that when wesee ourselves in stories, it
gives us the ability to change,because when we are watching a
character that's similar to usand we're watching them go
through the hard struggles andthey're coming out at the end
and you're getting like a littleteary-eyed by watching their
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hero's arc.
It makes you believe that youcan do it too.
So good, so good, so good.
Here's my about page, and thisis where I might get a little
emotional.
And if I don't, no shade onthat too, I'm a strong woman.
Yeah, this was really hard forme to write and it really
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encapsulates a lot of my fullstory, without going too deep
and leaving it vague enough foran audience to connect to, and I
really wanted my about page tofeel like a story.
Here's my story Becoming thewoman I used to dream about.
When I was little, I used towander around.
Oh, I really did do this.
Seriously, like none of this islies, I really did do this.
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Here we go.
When I was little, I used towander through the woods singing
to the trees no joke, totalreal life, princess vibes.
At eight, I'd get completelylost in my own world, dreaming
of what it would be like to bein a movie or to perform on
Broadway.
Sometimes I still get so caughtup in it I cry Happy tears, but
still Fast forward to college.
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I enrolled at AMDA for musicaltheater and honestly thought
this is it.
I mean getting to sing, danceand act every single day.
Come on, dreams come true,right.
But halfway through somethingstarted to feel off and I
stumbled into film acting andsomething just clicked.
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From that moment I realizedthis this is what I want Now.
I've never been the mostnaturally confident person, but
I took the leap anyways.
And wow, it was way harder thanI expected.
So I tried a different approachand I figured that if I had
worked behind the scenes for awhile, maybe I'd get comfortable
being on set.
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So I got a PA job and fivefilms later I'd learned so much.
But I'd also boxed myself in.
People started seeing me ascrew, not talent.
My knowledge grew, but myconfidence took a nosedive.
I kept thinking who do I thinkI am?
I'm just a girl from small town, maine.
Being a big time actor probablyunrealistic.
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And that became the loop in myhead Not soon after my dad
passed away at 67 and everythingchanged.
It hit me If life is that short,then what the hell am I waiting
for?
I started asking differentquestions, not the fear-based
what ifs, but the hopeful kind.
What if I could leave a legacy?
What if I could inspire otherdreamers to go for it?
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What if I documented thejourney and that's how my
podcast, the Glow Up Year, cameto life.
It held me accountable, itpushed me creatively and it gave
me the space to grow into thatnext version of myself, the one
who's ready to be seen to showup fully, to chase the joy that
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comes with the dream.
And then my reality started toshift.
I actually started booking paidacting work.
I got signed by one agent, thentwo and then three.
When I changed my mindset, mywhole life began to shift.
Listen, at my core, I'm just acreative person with a big heart
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, a lot of grit and stories thatI can't wait to tell.
I'm not just here to say thelines.
I want to co-create somethingreal.
I love working with directorsto build performances that feel
grounded and powerful andunforgettable.
And if there's one thing that Ihope to be known for, it's for
showing up honestly, telling thetruth through my work and
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living inside the story, notjust performing it, because I
really do believe stories canchange us and me.
That's my kind of magicApplause, please, applause,
please.
That was hard to write for me,but that's how I feel and I'll
share with you this one lastsection on my about page.
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The prompt to this was whatmakes you different from every
other small business out there.
And here's the copy I wrote forwhat makes me different?
What makes me different?
I'm big on collaboration.
I don't just show up with myown ideas.
I come ready to build somethingalongside the director that
feels alive and layered.
I think my lived experiencesgive me a different lens.
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I approach every role with realempathy and a willingness to go
deep and, yeah, I bring therawness.
I want people to feel somethingwhen they watch.
But I'm also reliable.
I show up on time, I know mylines and I bring good energy to
set.
Not to mention, I'm not just inthis.
For me, I share everythingthrough my podcast the good, the
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messy, the stuff that peopledon't usually talk about,
because I actually wanna helpother people grow too.
Don't believe in gatekeeping.
If I learn something that couldhelp someone else glow up in
their own way, I'm sharing it.
At the end of the day, I justreally care about the work, the
people, the story, thecharacters, because for me, this
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isn't just about building acareer.
It's about creating somethingmeaningful, leaving people
better than I found them andproving that even big dreams
from small towns are worthchasing.
I'm here to do the work, tellthe truth and light the way for
others while I'm doing it.
Well, now that I've spilled myguts to you, that's me at the
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core.
That's who I am, and what Iwanted for this website was for
people to feel like they werejust having a conversation with
me.
I want and I know that thiswebsite is going to feel so
unique to who I am, at my core,and I'm just so excited to share
that with everyone.
As I have more updates, as wego through more of the process,
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I'll let you know how thewebsite's going.
I'll let you know how my copymeeting went, but for now,
that's where I'm at and let'sget on to the big, the exciting,
the news of the day.
The news of the day.
It was my birthday this pastweek and I really thought long
and hard about what I wanted formy birthday Sorry, what I
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wanted to give myself for mybirthday, not get from other
people.
I'd been saving up some moneyand I decided that I was going
to do Coco Rocha's model camp.
I'm going to do Coco Rocha'smodel camp.
I'm going to Coco Rocha's modelcamp.
I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
Oh my God, I'm so fuckingexcited.
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This was on my list of goals forthe year and I was like what
better opportunity than to pullthe plug on this and pay for it
and book a date?
So I'm going to Coco Rocha'smodel camp on June 14th through
the 17th.
It's going to be so amazing.
I'm so excited.
I got all the details.
I know where I'm going.
We're going to work on runway.
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We're going to work on posing.
I'm going to get to leave withtwo digitals that are one's
going to be beauty and one'sgoing to be like a full body
fashion shot.
There was opportunity to book asecond shoot, and so I booked a
second shoot.
It's just gonna be so great I'mgonna have so like there is
possibility that I'm gonna have20 new high fashion images to
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add to my book.
For those of you who like knowme outside of, this, high
fashion while I'm only 5'4 is aridiculous want, but it's what I
want to do.
I want to play those crazycharacters that are like in
worlds that don't fucking existin real life.
I want to like create storieswith the modeling and I just I
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am so excited to go, get to bein the presence of somebody who
has created such amazing resultsand learn from her, and there's
going to be a ton of socialmedia content.
So come see that Also I shouldmention too Quickly off topic.
I asked my audience on socialmedia this week To vote on
whether they wanted to see meprep for Coco Roche's model camp
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, or whether they wanted to see,or whether they wanted to learn
how to build a DIY portfolioFrom scratch, no booking
required and by that I meanportfolio Real and a modeling
portfolio required, and by thatI mean portfolio real and a
modeling portfolio.
And it was a relatively closevote but the majority ruled that
they wanted to see how to builda DIY portfolio from scratch
and we're going to start withmodeling.
So that's happening this weekand by the time this comes out
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we'll already be on social media.
So if you want to go over andsee that, absolutely please
check out my social media.
We'll go more in depth on ithere as soon as there's like a
break in craziness of awesomestuff happening.
Never mind, there won't be abreak in craziness and awesome
stuff happening, but we still goover it at some point in the
very near future, because nextmonth.
One of my goals is to startworking on my reel Back to Coco
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Rocha.
I have to bring two curatedoutfits and then for my shoot
they're offering us a rack ofclothing, but I get six outfit
options because this is such alevel up and a quantum leap for
me.
I'm talking with a stylist.
Styling is not included.
You know, hair makeup isincluded, but styling is not,
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and I want to go to Coco Rocha'smodel camp and feel like I am
the flyest bitch there, becauseI am.
I might not have the bestskills going in, but I want to
look and feel like I am fly, andso I have a stylist meeting
next week to talk about whatthis would potentially cost and
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all of those things.
So I'll let you know how thatgoes, but I'm excited to work
with somebody else to help mecurate some fucking high fashion
sexy bitch looks for this.
You know it's one thing to likeinvest money to go to like a
retreat like this and easy toskimp on the small things.
I don't want to skimp on thesmall things.
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Skimp on the small things.
I don't want to skimp on thesmall things.
I want to go in there and rockit and have these incredible
photos.
I feel so confident about goingin.
The only thing that I'm going towork on over the next month is
my runway walk.
Oh girl, I need to work on myrunway walk, but if I'm being
real, that's not what I want todo.
I don't want to go walk onrunway.
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I want to pose in photos andalso like I'm five real.
That's not what I want to do.
I don't want to go walk onrunway.
I want to pose in photos andalso like I'm 5'4, like who's
gonna hire me to walk on arunway unless it's like a petite
show, I guess, but whatever.
So that is the really fuckingexciting news that I have today,
besides all the other fuckingexciting news.
Also, one last thing I didn'ttalk about with the agency
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agency B was that they talkedabout how they have a lot of
fitness clients in their roster,and so this is something that's
actually been on my mind for acouple weeks now is wanting to
tone up my body so I can dofitness photography if I want,
because that sounds and lookslike something that would be
really exciting, and I want tofeel strong and confident, and I
already feel confident in mybody, but I want to feel strong
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and fit and active and reallygreat, and so I started going to
the gym and, with my amazinghusband's work gym, they give
you an opportunity to work witha personal trainer to develop a
plan.
You don't get to work with themlike all the time, but you get
to develop a plan with them andthen they'll check in with you
as you're growing and doing theexercises you know throughout,
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like a six-week program, and soI started doing that as well.
I'm really trying to take allaspects of this career seriously
and it's working because lookat all the amazing success I've
had in just the past coupleweeks since I talked to you last
.
So just to recap all the winsfrom this episode I went and I
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had my agency B meeting and Igot signed.
Yeah, I built my physicalportfolio and I actually, for
the first time, feel like a realmodel.
Yeah, I am still waiting onphotos coming back from the test
shoot.
I started my social media andhave found a real rhythm that's
fun and enjoyable and brings mea lot of joy.
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My website is coming togetherand building the copy for it
right now.
I'll let you know as I haveupdates for that and I signed up
for Coco Rocha's model camp andI made it.
We're really having a quantumleap over the next month.
I cannot wait.
It's going to be so fuckingfantastic.
Thank you guys so much forlistening to this episode.
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It's quite a bit longer thanour normal episodes, but when
you have amazing news, you haveamazing news.
Man, you have amazing news.
I hope you have a wonderfulcouple of weeks and we'll talk
to you in two weeks.
Bye, that's it for today'sepisode of the glow up year.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
I'm seriously so excited tohave you along the ride, and
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we're only getting started andthe best is yet to come.
If you felt fired up orinspired today, hit that
subscribe button, leave a quickreview and pass this episode
along to a fellow dreamer inyour circle.
Want more BTS pep talks orupdates?
Come find me over on social atMeg Salisbury official.
I'll be sharing more of myjourney there.
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Links are in the show notes.
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time.
Keep showing up, keep dreamingbigger and I'll catch you on the
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Hey there and welcome to the Glow Up Year.
I'm Meg, an actress and modeland your go-to guide for what it
really takes to make big dreamshappen.
After six years in theentertainment world on camera,
behind the scenes and everythingin between I'm declaring this
year my glow-up year.
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As I hustle, I learn and Ilevel up in real time, From
auditions to photo shoots toscript breakdowns and behind the
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We're diving into the ups, thedowns and everything in between.
If you're ready to chase yourown dreams, fuel your passion
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So grab a coffee or a tea, getcomfy and let's glow up together
.
Hi guys, I'm back today.
I got a ton of updates for youguys.
It's going to be awesome.
So it seems to be that thispodcast is becoming biweekly and
let me give you a few quickupdates, and then I have
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exciting news.
I have a ton of stuff to sharewith you today.
I cannot wait.
Without further ado, let's getstarted.
In the last episode, we talkedabout submitting to three
agencies.
I heard back from two.
I am officially signed withAgency A, the first agency that
I went and had a meeting with,and let me just give you an
update real quick on what'sgoing on with my agency meetings
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.
So Agency A already had mymeeting with.
It went fantastic and I'mofficially signed Yahoo.
So next steps moving forwardwith them is to get my page up
and running, which is all stuffthat they take care of, and I
just had my final meeting withagency guidelines and what to
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expect, which was really awesome, very fun, pretty typical
information.
I guess the most importantthings to note were, like
preferred contact methods.
This agent preferred that Icontact them via email and then
save calls and texts foranything that's urgent or on the
day important of a booking.
We talked about, you know, nottalking about your pay rate on
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the job, which is so superimportant and seems very obvious
, but I think you know.
If you're new, how would youknow that?
Why would you know that?
We talked about professionalismand making sure we're
responding to emails andcastings quickly, in a good time
manner, so they can submit thepackage that they want to submit
as soon as possible to theclient.
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And now I'm at the point whereI'm just really gathering all my
materials so I can submit themover to the agent, so they have
everything they can pick andchoose what they want to use for
my headshot, what they want touse for my comp card just
gathering all that informationand submitting it over and
seeing what they say and seeingwhat comes of it.
So that's what's been happeningwith agency A.
Agency B originally was mymeeting that I had to book out
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about a month and I had it y'all.
I had it y'all, and we'll talkabout it in a minute because I
have interesting information foryou.
I'd love to hear your thoughtsin the comments, Let me know
what you think of this agentmeeting.
And then agency C was four tosix months out for actually
signing talent.
That's just how their processworks.
So we're still waiting to hearback from them, which is
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absolutely fantastic.
So that's where I am with mythree agency meetings and,
without further ado, let's talkabout agency B meeting.
Okay, this agency meeting wascompletely different than agency
A meeting, like so different.
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And I think over the lastcouple weeks, as I've had these
new agency meetings you know,with my first agent.
That was a couple years ago andit was my first time going in
and experiencing these meetings.
As I was moving forward here, Iwanted to be really strategic
and really smart with how I wentto these meetings.
So it's really feels like thesemeetings are the first time
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that I'm going in prepared andknowing what to expect, and that
went all out the window.
Let me tell you, like I'm justlike out of loss for words for
how different these meetingshave gone.
I drove down to the agency'sbrick and mortar and I was there
about a half hour early, whichis what I like.
I drove down to the agency'sbrick and mortar and I was there
about a half hour early, whichis what I like.
I had time to do my makeup, hadtime to do a few little social
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media posts, which we will touchon in a little bit, but I was
instructed to let them know whenI got there, wait downstairs in
the lobby and then, when theywere ready, they would call me
up.
And this lobby I don't know.
This is not really importantinformation, but I'm going to
tell you so that you can paint apicture in your brain of what I
was experiencing.
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So this lobby had one of thoseold fashioned elevators where
you like pull the cage to theside and I'm laughing because I
did not really know how to usethis elevator and each each like
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okay, so let me explain alittle better.
So on the lobby floor you had topull the elevator door, like
the part that usually opens andcloses like on its own.
You had to pull that door andthen pull the cage.
So the elevator came all theway down to the first floor and
I saw the elevator through thewindow, because there's a window
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with the cage ones.
I saw the elevator through thewindow hit the ground floor and
then I just stood there becauseI was expecting, like, the door
to open or something to happenor a ding or I don't.
I don't know, I don't know, I,I don't know.
So I just stood there for 30seconds and I was like I'm
supposed to do something rightnow and I don't know what that
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something is.
So I, you know, I pushed thedoor was like a pocket door and
so I pushed it into the sidelike a typical elevator pocket
door.
So I pushed it to the side andI pushed the cage to the side.
But these, these doors werelike spring-loaded right so
they're not easy to like pushopen.
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So I wasn't sure if I wasbreaking the elevator while I
was getting on the elevator,which was hilarious in its own
right.
So I get in the elevator,finally I push the button and
the thing doesn't move and I waslike, oh shit, what am I doing
wrong?
And there was also, likerandomly, another like floor
number was lit up.
I was like, oh my God, I don'tknow, what am I actually?
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Am I just going to get lockedin this elevator and not even
make it to my agent meeting andlike what the fuck is happening?
I was all worked up just withthis whole elevator experience,
not to mention oh, not tomention important detail I had
to pee so bad.
I had been holding my pee forlike an hour already.
I had to be so bad.
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So not only am I like dancing inthis elevator with like my
knees crossed, like trying notto fucking pee, but I also can't
figure out how to work thefucking elevator.
Oh God, okay.
So I pushed the button againand finally it brings me up to
the my desired floor.
And when I get to the desiredfloor I'm like, okay, I got on,
now I know how to get off, notgoing to be a big deal, exact
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same way you get on Nope, nope,nope.
So when I get off this elevator, this door, the cage door is
the same right.
The cage door traveled with me,but the door to get off the
elevator was not a pocket door,it's a push door, like a door,
like, like like a door to go in,like a normal fucking door
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without a knob, just like a pushdoor.
So I'm like looking at this,seeing the receptionist through
the window, like trying tofigure out how to slide this
door, and then finally I justpushed it like a tiny bit and it
moved and I was like, oh shit,that's how I do it.
So I pushed it all the way andwhen I get out of it, when I get
out of the elevator, there'slike three people staring at me
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and I was like, oh god, theyknow, they know I don't know how
to use this elevator.
Do you think, actually, sidenote?
Do you think they find thatcomical, like when new people
come into the office who havenever been in there before?
Do you think, actually, sidenote, do you think they find
that comical, like when newpeople come into the office who
have never been in there before.
Do you think like they wait andcomically see, like that's
actually really funny?
I hope that they do that.
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That would be so funny.
Anyways, okay, wow, we haven'teven gotten to the story yet,
like we've only talked about theelevator.
So I get off the elevator andstill got to pee.
The agent invites me into theiroffice and I'm like can I just
use your bathroom real quick?
And he's like, absolutely.
So I go into the office, I setmy stuff down, I run to the, the
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go to the bathroom.
But I had this like underlyingfeeling that I was annoying him
by asking to go to the bathroomand I was like, oh shit, okay,
this is not the way we want tostart our day out.
So we go to the bathroom.
You know, the bathroom isnormal.
Okay, the bathroom was normal,everything was normal in the
bathroom.
Can I just get that out of theway?
So I finished in the bathroom.
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I'm quick.
I try to like take a secondbecause I feel so flustered
while I'm in the bathroom, tolike take a deep breath and like
center myself and ground myself.
But honestly, I was just kind oflike a little jumpy and excited
to be there, because thisagency is an agency that I have
submitted to no joke four times.
Let me be clear with this.
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I'm not like submitting everyday, four days in a row.
I'm submitting like every sixto 10 months to this agency,
hoping that they would take abite.
And the reason why I havesubmitted to this agency so many
times is because so, because Iwork behind the scenes and I
work crew jobs.
I've worked like four or fivecrew jobs where the talent has
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been booked by this agency in myarea and I was like, oh shit,
so this agent has like themarket in my area, so this would
be a great opportunity for meto be signed with somebody who
not only has work in my area,but every model and every actor
that I had talked to that hadbeen booked on jobs were like
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really happy and proud to saywho their agent was, and so they
had like a really good trackrecord in my mind before I even
had gotten there to like have ameeting.
So I go into into the office.
I'm feeling like this guy's alittle annoyed and I sit down in
the chair and the chair isreally awkwardly far away from
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the desk.
I felt so far away from likethe agent.
It was a.
I got the feeling that it wasless of having a conversation
and more like I was beinginterrogated a little bit, and
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not in like a torturous way, butin like like, in a way that
maybe that agent was having abad day.
He asked me you know, give me alittle bit of background on
yourself.
And so what I said was you know, I went to school for musical
theater and for acting.
I did a couple years in New York, a couple years in LA, really
kind of truncating my story, andI lived in LA for a couple
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years, really started taking mycareer seriously about two years
ago, and the question thatthrew me off a little bit was
well, why didn't you take yourcareer seriously before?
In that moment that I got thatquestion, I instantly got that
little ting of like disapproval.
So what I decided to do wasjust to stay calm and remain
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honest, and my honest answer tothat was I grew up in a
household where feeling safe,being seen, was not a priority
and really not conducive to thiscareer, and so I needed to take
a little bit of time to heal mybrain and grow my mental health
so that I could take thiscareer seriously and really
enjoy it in the process.
And I felt really authenticsaying that, because that's my
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story, that's the truth is.
I just needed time to heal.
And I felt really authenticsaying that because that's my
story, that's the truth is.
I just needed time to heal.
And then the next question I gotwas well, what did you do when
you were in New York and LA?
That's when I said well, thosewere times where I didn't feel
safe being seen for the mostpart, but when I was in LA,
pre-pandemic, I was making allmy money doing background work
and then when pandemic hit, itdidn't really fit anymore.
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And then I moved back to Maine,to the area where I grew up, so
that I could recoup and reallyget everything straight in my
mind and my body and my health.
You know I had.
I had been so excited becauseoh, I guess this is new for you
guys too I built my physicalportfolio after going to that
first agent meeting and nothaving a resource that I felt
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like was really important tohave with me, I took it
seriously and I built myportfolio and I brought it with
me, obviously because I want toshowcase what I have, and I had
only submitted you know threepictures to this agency.
So I didn't feel like theyunderstood my range that I have
within my portfolio andprimarily, I'm signing with this
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agency for modeling work.
That's more of what they do.
So I casually brought up inconversation that I had my
portfolio with me if the agentwanted to look at it, and the
response was no, everything'sdigital now, so we don't really
need to look at it, and I feltlike that was a lost opportunity
for them.
Honestly, it just felt likeit's something that takes a
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little, very little time andvery little effort, and I had
already worked so hard on it.
So maybe it was me getting inmy feels about the amount of
effort I had put into buildingthat portfolio.
But whatever, you know, I leftthe meeting feeling like I
represented myself and I wasauthentic in who I was, which
has not always been easy for me.
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And secondly, I left themeeting feeling like the energy
on their end was a little off,and so I wasn't really sure what
to do with those two things,because they're kind of
competing.
I felt good about how Irepresented myself, but didn't
feel great about the actualphysical energy in the room and
I'm so super sensitive to thatstuff, like it's so easy for me
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to tell if somebody's having abad day and in my day to day
life when that's happening, it'seasy for me to just bring it up
casually in conversation so Ican have a conversation with
that person about it and maybehelp and relief.
But that's not an appropriateand in this sort of situation.
So it it just it kind of felt alittle strange to me, which is
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fine, and did I mention thatthis meeting was on my birthday?
It was my birthday meeting,yeah, yeah, yeah.
So then I got home and I talkedto my husband about it and I was
saying, you know, like thisfelt a little bit off.
That felt a little bit off.
And I was telling him about thespecific conversation where he
said you know, why weren't youtaking this seriously before?
And my husband blurted out soquickly your dad died.
(15:04):
And I was like, oh my God, thatwould have been the perfect
thing to say.
That would have been theperfect thing to say my dad died
.
He did.
That's the truth.
That's, wow, I can't believe.
Strange.
Um, it's.
How do I put this in words?
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It's not that I forgot that mydad died.
It's that I am such a differentperson than I was a couple
years ago that I almost forgotabout this part of my life.
I used to really be focused onthe past.
What's happening in the past,what was going on in the past,
what was holding me back,holding me back, holding me back
.
And now I'm so future focusedand so excited to live in the
(15:49):
present moment that I sometimesforget about the things that
happened in the past, becausethere's a lot.
There's a lot that I've workedthrough to get to this amazing
point that I'm at now, and myhusband reminding me of that was
such a great reminder of howfar I've come, how great my life
(16:10):
is now compared to then, andthat's something I've created
and I've built and I've takenthe time to like, foster and
nurture, and I've built and I'vetaken the time to like, foster
and nurture, and I'm just soproud of myself.
And two days later, this is theemail that I received Hi, megan,
it was a sincere pleasuremeeting you and we'd be thrilled
to represent you.
Y'all that's two out of threeagents that I just signed with.
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I did it, I did it, I fuckingdid it.
I have worked so hard to gethere and I am so deeply, deeply,
deeply proud and thankful andgrateful to not just myself for
putting in this like hard workthat I put in before the support
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system that is around me myhusband, my mother in law and my
best friend, and just all theseamazing people have supported
me and making me feel like mydreams could and will be my
reality.
I'm just so thankful and Ihaven't even met with a third
agent yet.
This might be a three out ofthree agency hall.
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And all of this, all of thisstarted with me booking that
model workshop photo shoot inJanuary, the one where I was
biting my nails and couldn'treally afford and wasn't sure if
I wanted to do it All.
That one thing that I did, thatI had intuition to say this
feels like it's the right thingto do, that one thing has
changed the direction of mycareer entirely.
That's the power of inspiredaction and of manifesting what
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you truly want and putting theaction into the manifestation.
Oh, I'm just beyond thrilled,I'm just beyond excited.
I'm so excited.
So, for agency B, now the nextsteps are gathering all the
materials, filling out thepaperwork and sending everything
over, and then I'm sure we'llhave some sort of agency
guidelines set up meeting aswell.
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Wow, y'all, it has been such awild ride 2025.
So far it really has been suchan amazing glow up year at this
point and the best is still yetto come.
I really believe that and Ihave a few more things I want to
touch on really quickly andthen we will move on to the most
amazing, exciting piece of newsI have coming.
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I am yeah, OK, let's get to theother stuff.
First, the test shoot that Idid not received photos back yet
, so there's my update on that.
As soon as they come in, youknow what I'll do I'll share
them with you.
I'm excited.
So that's my update on that.
I have been playing around withsocial media.
I've been having so much fun.
I've been having so much fun,like I've really found the joy
(18:48):
and I've unblocked, like theblock that I had inside my self.
I'm becoming this newpersonality and this new persona
and that is so exciting.
So, after playing around withit for a couple weeks, I started
a journey to 10k and I'm on dayfour and I've already tripled
my following and it has beensuch a fantastic way to get my
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stuff out there and getrecognized and market myself,
and so if you haven't followedor joined in, I'm starting all
of this stuff out on TikTok.
I'm trying to figure out whatis a strategy for this and then
I'll move it over to Instagram.
So if you're not following onTikTok, please check it out.
I'm at Meg Salisbury Official.
So, as far as my website goes,let me tell you a little bit
about the process, and then I'mgoing to read you some copy.
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I'm so excited.
So the process of this startedwith Ruthann sending me a sheet
that explains to me all the copythat I need to provide, and
it's really detailed and shemakes it so easy to fill this
out.
And, honestly, the hardest partabout this has been like
writing about myself, which itdoesn't really come super
comfortable to me, but I thinkthis is something that I can
work on, is like self-promoting,self-promoting, self-promoting.
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I think it's a great exercisefor me.
So we've started this wholeprocess with copy, and next week
I meet with a copywriter to goover all of the copy that I
provided and see if there's anyway that we can improve it and
make it better.
And so let me talk about how mywebsite's going to be laid out
in a general way.
So there's going to be ahomepage, like normal, there's
going to be an about page, likenormal, and then I'm going to
have four service pages.
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My services that I can provideis acting, modeling, voice
acting and then there's going tobe a page for this podcast yeah
, and a blog for this podcast,which I'm so excited for.
I've written like four blogposts and I can't wait to have
them out somewhere where peoplecan see them.
Today, what I wanted to readyou was my mission statement for
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my website and this is stuffI've all been working on and my
about page for my website, andI'd love to hear your feedback,
tell me what you think in thecomments about this, if there's
some way that you think I canimprove it.
But I just want to share withyou what I'm, what I'm thinking
and what I'm feeling in my heart, and this was not easy for me
to write and I might get alittle emotional.
I'm not gonna lie, because as Iread this stuff, it really, it
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really reminds me of how farI've come, and all of this is
subject to change, but this iswhere I'm at right now.
So my introduction to who I amis hey, there I'm Meg.
Natural talent meetshardworking homie, glowing up
one day at a time on my podcast.
I think that's great.
Oh, that's so me, so me.
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And then my mission statement isI've always believed that
stories have the power to changeus, the ones that make us feel
seen, crack us open or remind usthat we're not alone.
Through the characters I play,I hope to spark something in
others courage, reflection,maybe even a little healing.
I want people to walk away frommy work feeling more connected
to themselves, to others or tothe bigger picture.
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Acting and modeling isn't justa performance.
To me, it's about a creativespace for real emotions,
important conversations and thekind of growth that starts from
the inside out.
And the kind of growth thatstarts from the inside out.
My goal is to inspire people toreclaim their own narrative,
because when we see ourselves ina story, we start to believe in
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new possibilities for ourselves.
I truly believe that, y'all.
I truly believe that when wesee ourselves in stories, it
gives us the ability to change,because when we are watching a
character that's similar to usand we're watching them go
through the hard struggles andthey're coming out at the end
and you're getting like a littleteary-eyed by watching their
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hero's arc.
It makes you believe that youcan do it too.
So good, so good, so good.
Here's my about page, and thisis where I might get a little
emotional.
And if I don't, no shade onthat too, I'm a strong woman.
Yeah, this was really hard forme to write and it really
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encapsulates a lot of my fullstory, without going too deep
and leaving it vague enough foran audience to connect to, and I
really wanted my about page tofeel like a story.
Here's my story Becoming thewoman I used to dream about.
When I was little, I used towander around.
Oh, I really did do this.
Seriously, like none of this islies, I really did do this.
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Here we go.
When I was little, I used towander through the woods singing
to the trees no joke, totalreal life, princess vibes.
At eight, I'd get completelylost in my own world, dreaming
of what it would be like to bein a movie or to perform on
Broadway.
Sometimes I still get so caughtup in it I cry Happy tears, but
still Fast forward to college.
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I enrolled at AMDA for musicaltheater and honestly thought
this is it.
I mean getting to sing, danceand act every single day.
Come on, dreams come true,right.
But halfway through somethingstarted to feel off and I
stumbled into film acting andsomething just clicked.
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From that moment I realizedthis this is what I want Now.
I've never been the mostnaturally confident person, but
I took the leap anyways.
And wow, it was way harder thanI expected.
So I tried a different approachand I figured that if I had
worked behind the scenes for awhile, maybe I'd get comfortable
being on set.
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So I got a PA job and fivefilms later I'd learned so much.
But I'd also boxed myself in.
People started seeing me ascrew, not talent.
My knowledge grew, but myconfidence took a nosedive.
I kept thinking who do I thinkI am?
I'm just a girl from small town, maine.
Being a big time actor probablyunrealistic.
(24:40):
And that became the loop in myhead Not soon after my dad
passed away at 67 and everythingchanged.
It hit me If life is that short,then what the hell am I waiting
for?
I started asking differentquestions, not the fear-based
what ifs, but the hopeful kind.
What if I could leave a legacy?
What if I could inspire otherdreamers to go for it?
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What if I documented thejourney and that's how my
podcast, the Glow Up Year, cameto life.
It held me accountable, itpushed me creatively and it gave
me the space to grow into thatnext version of myself, the one
who's ready to be seen to showup fully, to chase the joy that
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comes with the dream.
And then my reality started toshift.
I actually started booking paidacting work.
I got signed by one agent, thentwo and then three.
When I changed my mindset, mywhole life began to shift.
Listen, at my core, I'm just acreative person with a big heart
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, a lot of grit and stories thatI can't wait to tell.
I'm not just here to say thelines.
I want to co-create somethingreal.
I love working with directorsto build performances that feel
grounded and powerful andunforgettable.
And if there's one thing that Ihope to be known for, it's for
showing up honestly, telling thetruth through my work and
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living inside the story, notjust performing it, because I
really do believe stories canchange us and me.
That's my kind of magicApplause, please, applause,
please.
That was hard to write for me,but that's how I feel and I'll
share with you this one lastsection on my about page.
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The prompt to this was whatmakes you different from every
other small business out there.
And here's the copy I wrote forwhat makes me different?
What makes me different?
I'm big on collaboration.
I don't just show up with myown ideas.
I come ready to build somethingalongside the director that
feels alive and layered.
I think my lived experiencesgive me a different lens.
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I approach every role with realempathy and a willingness to go
deep and, yeah, I bring therawness.
I want people to feel somethingwhen they watch.
But I'm also reliable.
I show up on time, I know mylines and I bring good energy to
set.
Not to mention, I'm not just inthis.
For me, I share everythingthrough my podcast the good, the
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messy, the stuff that peopledon't usually talk about,
because I actually wanna helpother people grow too.
Don't believe in gatekeeping.
If I learn something that couldhelp someone else glow up in
their own way, I'm sharing it.
At the end of the day, I justreally care about the work, the
people, the story, thecharacters, because for me, this
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isn't just about building acareer.
It's about creating somethingmeaningful, leaving people
better than I found them andproving that even big dreams
from small towns are worthchasing.
I'm here to do the work, tellthe truth and light the way for
others while I'm doing it.
Well, now that I've spilled myguts to you, that's me at the
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core.
That's who I am, and what Iwanted for this website was for
people to feel like they werejust having a conversation with
me.
I want and I know that thiswebsite is going to feel so
unique to who I am, at my core,and I'm just so excited to share
that with everyone.
As I have more updates, as wego through more of the process,
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I'll let you know how thewebsite's going.
I'll let you know how my copymeeting went, but for now,
that's where I'm at and let'sget on to the big, the exciting,
the news of the day.
The news of the day.
It was my birthday this pastweek and I really thought long
and hard about what I wanted formy birthday Sorry, what I
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wanted to give myself for mybirthday, not get from other
people.
I'd been saving up some moneyand I decided that I was going
to do Coco Rocha's model camp.
I'm going to do Coco Rocha'smodel camp.
I'm going to Coco Rocha's modelcamp.
I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
Oh my God, I'm so fuckingexcited.
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This was on my list of goals forthe year and I was like what
better opportunity than to pullthe plug on this and pay for it
and book a date?
So I'm going to Coco Rocha'smodel camp on June 14th through
the 17th.
It's going to be so amazing.
I'm so excited.
I got all the details.
I know where I'm going.
We're going to work on runway.
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We're going to work on posing.
I'm going to get to leave withtwo digitals that are one's
going to be beauty and one'sgoing to be like a full body
fashion shot.
There was opportunity to book asecond shoot, and so I booked a
second shoot.
It's just gonna be so great I'mgonna have so like there is
possibility that I'm gonna have20 new high fashion images to
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add to my book.
For those of you who like knowme outside of, this, high
fashion while I'm only 5'4 is aridiculous want, but it's what I
want to do.
I want to play those crazycharacters that are like in
worlds that don't fucking existin real life.
I want to like create storieswith the modeling and I just I
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am so excited to go, get to bein the presence of somebody who
has created such amazing resultsand learn from her, and there's
going to be a ton of socialmedia content.
So come see that Also I shouldmention too Quickly off topic.
I asked my audience on socialmedia this week To vote on
whether they wanted to see meprep for Coco Roche's model camp
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, or whether they wanted to see,or whether they wanted to learn
how to build a DIY portfolioFrom scratch, no booking
required and by that I meanportfolio Real and a modeling
portfolio required, and by thatI mean portfolio real and a
modeling portfolio.
And it was a relatively closevote but the majority ruled that
they wanted to see how to builda DIY portfolio from scratch
and we're going to start withmodeling.
So that's happening this weekand by the time this comes out
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we'll already be on social media.
So if you want to go over andsee that, absolutely please
check out my social media.
We'll go more in depth on ithere as soon as there's like a
break in craziness of awesomestuff happening.
Never mind, there won't be abreak in craziness and awesome
stuff happening, but we still goover it at some point in the
very near future, because nextmonth.
One of my goals is to startworking on my reel Back to Coco
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Rocha.
I have to bring two curatedoutfits and then for my shoot
they're offering us a rack ofclothing, but I get six outfit
options because this is such alevel up and a quantum leap for
me.
I'm talking with a stylist.
Styling is not included.
You know, hair makeup isincluded, but styling is not,
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and I want to go to Coco Rocha'smodel camp and feel like I am
the flyest bitch there, becauseI am.
I might not have the bestskills going in, but I want to
look and feel like I am fly, andso I have a stylist meeting
next week to talk about whatthis would potentially cost and
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all of those things.
So I'll let you know how thatgoes, but I'm excited to work
with somebody else to help mecurate some fucking high fashion
sexy bitch looks for this.
You know it's one thing to likeinvest money to go to like a
retreat like this and easy toskimp on the small things.
I don't want to skimp on thesmall things.
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Skimp on the small things.
I don't want to skimp on thesmall things.
I want to go in there and rockit and have these incredible
photos.
I feel so confident about goingin.
The only thing that I'm going towork on over the next month is
my runway walk.
Oh girl, I need to work on myrunway walk, but if I'm being
real, that's not what I want todo.
I don't want to go walk onrunway.
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I want to pose in photos andalso like I'm five real.
That's not what I want to do.
I don't want to go walk onrunway.
I want to pose in photos andalso like I'm 5'4, like who's
gonna hire me to walk on arunway unless it's like a petite
show, I guess, but whatever.
So that is the really fuckingexciting news that I have today,
besides all the other fuckingexciting news.
Also, one last thing I didn'ttalk about with the agency
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agency B was that they talkedabout how they have a lot of
fitness clients in their roster,and so this is something that's
actually been on my mind for acouple weeks now is wanting to
tone up my body so I can dofitness photography if I want,
because that sounds and lookslike something that would be
really exciting, and I want tofeel strong and confident, and I
already feel confident in mybody, but I want to feel strong
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and fit and active and reallygreat, and so I started going to
the gym and, with my amazinghusband's work gym, they give
you an opportunity to work witha personal trainer to develop a
plan.
You don't get to work with themlike all the time, but you get
to develop a plan with them andthen they'll check in with you
as you're growing and doing theexercises you know throughout,
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like a six-week program, and soI started doing that as well.
I'm really trying to take allaspects of this career seriously
and it's working because lookat all the amazing success I've
had in just the past coupleweeks since I talked to you last
.
So just to recap all the winsfrom this episode I went and I
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had my agency B meeting and Igot signed.
Yeah, I built my physicalportfolio and I actually, for
the first time, feel like a realmodel.
Yeah, I am still waiting onphotos coming back from the test
shoot.
I started my social media andhave found a real rhythm that's
fun and enjoyable and brings mea lot of joy.
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My website is coming togetherand building the copy for it
right now.
I'll let you know as I haveupdates for that and I signed up
for Coco Rocha's model camp andI made it.
We're really having a quantumleap over the next month.
I cannot wait.
It's going to be so fuckingfantastic.
Thank you guys so much forlistening to this episode.
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It's quite a bit longer thanour normal episodes, but when
you have amazing news, you haveamazing news.
Man, you have amazing news.
I hope you have a wonderfulcouple of weeks and we'll talk
to you in two weeks.
Bye, that's it for today'sepisode of the glow up year.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
I'm seriously so excited tohave you along the ride, and
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we're only getting started andthe best is yet to come.
If you felt fired up orinspired today, hit that
subscribe button, leave a quickreview and pass this episode
along to a fellow dreamer inyour circle.
Want more BTS pep talks orupdates?
Come find me over on social atMeg Salisbury official.
I'll be sharing more of myjourney there.
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Links are in the show notes.
Remember your glow up isunfolding, one bold move at a
time.
Keep showing up, keep dreamingbigger and I'll catch you on the
next one.
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