Hey, it's Louise from Team Forleo, back with the 4th Brightener Day Shorty.

Do you ever wonder if you really have what it takes to go for your dreams?

When rejection and doubt show up, and they do for all of us, it can be hard to stay motivated.

Award-winning actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard has a personal story that will inspire

you to persevere.

Listen and remember, the world needs what you have to share.

So my grandmother and I in particular were very, very, very close.

And when I was 16 years old, it's the age that you have to be in order to legally walk the

floors in Vegas.

You can't gamble yet, but you can actually be there.

And my grandmother was so excited because she just loved Vegas.

She would, she would, her cap would be $20.

So she would not spend more than $20 there during the entire trip.

And she would use it all just in the nickel slot.

So she would just, yeah, she would just get a big couple of nickels and she would play with it.

And I think it sort of symbolized, I think the whole notion of gambling overall,

symbolized sort of the industry that they had been in because they were actors.

And it's just a really kind of crazy, unwieldy, uncertain industry.

And so basically what happened was I went with them and my grandmother was playing

the slot machine and she was losing and yet she was still playing.

And she just out of nowhere, she, I think she had the hunch that I wanted to be an actor.

And she said to me, do you know how many auditions the average working actor needs to go on

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