I was on a flight and met a model and host who you would recognize if you saw her face, but maybe not if I said her name. She is the kind of minor celebrity you meet all the time in LA. Like all minor celebrities, she wants to take the next step in her career.
We talked for the hour flight from Vegas to LA, and eventually I asked her who she wanted to be. Without blinking she said Guiliana Rancic, a host on E! who interviews celebrities. That’s what she wanted to be, an interviewer and host.
That might sound like a pipedream, but for somebody of her status and celebrity, it’s not that big a leap from where she was to celebrity interviewer, especially when you take into account that she knows lots of celebrities from hosting events at night clubs and around the world.
So I asked her. “What are you doing to move from where you are to where you want to be?”
She was stumped. It’s not uncommon, most people don’t even know where they want to be, let alone are making conscious choices to get the…
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