Today's woman of impact gives Eurocell and the Energizer Bunny a run for their money. From cheerleader to model, to actress to journalist, producer and news anchor, this woman has done it all. And literally guys, when I say done it all, I mean from getting slimed by John Stamos, to skydiving with Ferry Whop, to thumb-restling the rock and winning by the way, yet she's a beast of a personality. But to try and keep her in a box is just like telling Patrick Swayze that baby belongs in the corner. It just ain't gonna happen. From humble beginnings in Missouri, she moved to LA to pursue her dreams. Only to realize it was not gonna be easy. She barely scraped by with earning only $7,000 in her first year, teaching her that the difficulties and challenges of Hollywood were real. So hard work and hustle became the name of her game. Well, in case you were wondering, her persistence paid off. She called the Eye of William Morris and one of the world's top talent agencies and landed a role as an access Hollywood reporter, interviewing every a list of them you can possibly imagine, from George Clooney to Jennifer Lawrence to Tom Cruise and the one and only Oprah, earning her an Emmy nomination for multimedia journalism. It was safe to say it was a dream come true, until it wasn't. Staying true to her heart, she made a bulging move that almost unheard of in Hollywood Hollywood She left the high-profiled gig, followed her passion and started her own production company hybrid house So guys, please help me and welcome in this one badass mofo my homie Alex Hudgems I'm so weird to hear your entire life at once. And you're like, yeah, I did do all that.

You've done it. You're right. So much, girl. But the thing is, it hasn't come easy. Everyone couldn't look at you and see, I mean, in watching all your videos, in watching your interviews, your personality is huge. Knowing you off camera, you are exactly the same person. Yeah, good. So you are exactly the same person. so you are so authentically you.

But it hasn't been easy.

What made you move take that big risk in the first place from leaving your hometown to come into Hollywood? When you are from a flyover state, small town and you have big dreams, you kind of have to go. I'm not the first person to do that by any means. But you know, I thought I wanted to do local news forever and ever and I interned at a news station and I was a production at a news station at the, you know, NBC affiliate in St. Louis, which was awesome. And the thing is though, I realized that's actually not what I wanted to do. I interned out here in LA.A. and just fell in love and I was like all right I think I'm gonna move here. We get to do it? Oh was it like I just kind of live by just try it. If the worst that can happen is you have to come home that's really not not so bad. So you might as well try.

Yeah.

Worked out.

I love that if the worsts can happen.

I always do that.

I take every scenario.

Yeah. And just think, what is the worst that can happen? The worst thing that can happen. And when I think about in my entire life, what the worst things that can possibly ever happen to me is living on the street and not being able to feed myself, right?

A roof and a food.

And if it doesn't lead to that, then it's okay.

One thing that you said is no one knows what they are doing to just go for it. I think that's really true. And you know, as a 22 year old when I moved out here, I really, really didn't know what I was doing. But the higher you climb, whether it's in the corporate side of things on that. From the real side of things, freelancing, you start realizing, oh, everyone's just kind of figuring it out. And maybe they've been doing it for 50 years, but they were just figuring it out the whole time. So there's really no reason that I can't do that too. But what I love is people are going to listen to this and go, yeah, but she's got a really like outgoing personality, you know, I don't have that so to be able to take the risk.

Now the truth is you're a self... and listen to this and go, yeah, but she's got a really like outgoing personality.

You know, I don't have that. So to be able to take the risk. Now the truth is, you're a self-confessed introvert. I'm 100%. Guys, okay, let's talk about this. Introvert versus extrovert, really just means where do you draw energy from? Are you someone that being in groups of people, that being around your close friends, parties, That's where you're just like charging up from the ground and that's what you do. Or are you someone who needs pretty significant a long time? Would you prefer to be somewhat quiet or maybe you're listening to music, maybe reading a book and that's it. 100% on the alone time person. And very able to, I'm an ambivert technically. I can put on the extrovert hat frequently,

especially in a professional setting,

but I will fall off the face of the earth for like two weeks.

You just have to train to not,

and I'm being inauthentic in these situations,

but trained in a, what's more worth it?

Calling yourself shy, like it's a fixed personality trait,

or literally it's like putting on this outfit and saying I'm gonna go out here and do this because it's going to help me make better friends it's going to help further my career. How do you put that hat on though right? Because if you're at home and you think of yourself as shy I like the fact that you're saying don't identify yourself because that almost like reinforces it. Yeah but to take that step to be that shy person that looks up to someone like you is like, oh my god, I want that life. But they just paralyzed. Like how do you put that on? It's a choice. All of our circumstances are choices. There are situations that of course, maybe your victim of something and things happen to us, but 99% of the time, and even how we respond after those things, its choices, just is. And we want to act like things are fixed, but the reality is very few things about anyone whose personality are fixed traits. And some choices are harder to make than others, and it's going to take a little bit of work to put out that introvert hat or extrovert hat.

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