Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

So a friend sent me a clip the other day, a social media clip and it got me thinking and I thought,

hmm, have we perhaps become a bit too proud?

What was the clip?

It was Ellen DeGenorous, interviewing Kevin Kostner.

I have no idea when this was, by way if it was old or new or newer and he shared how he got his start in Hollywood. It was wildly unglamorous. He somehow instinctively

knew that he had to go to Los Angeles if he wanted to work in Los Angeles

as an actor.

So he moved up there in his car.

That's all he had, a car.

And he parked that car near a pay phone, which he used as his phone and only he knew one person in Hollywood and he said

okay I've got one phone call a week I'm allowed to call this guy once a week and he called

him every Wednesday and he was very very specific about not wasting

this one phone call and he said look my friends were getting you know 40 K 60 K company car and here I was like in

this parking lot with this pay foam hoping for an opportunity and then as the universe would have it, he got a job as a stage hand making $3.50 an hour.

And he said, look, I was happy to take out the trash so long as it was

stage trash. I was in my field. And he's like, I was so happy. I was in the

industry. I was getting started. And he said I've got an audition in a month but I'm so excited

I kind of contrast this to behaviors that I see now and people who are almost starting out wanting everything

up front. Hoping everything just happens within five minutes, wanting, you know, almost even

podcasting a couple of times or blogging a couple of times or creating some content

and going, you know, why aren't I famous yet?

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