What we've done is we've basically pulled in about 10 people who I'm going to answer their questions live. Jimmy, do you want to go ahead and bring up the first guest? Hi, Layla. Hi, it's Soma. Soma, that's it. Very pretty. So you're the founder of Actor Academy. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, it sounds exactly like the name. It's an Academy for Actors. I myself am i myself am an actress been acting since i was

really little and i decided to start my own acting school really and yeah it's something a little

different than most people do because it's a very uncommoditized industry um and hollywood is very

tight-lipped and hard to break into and And that's something that I really wanted to change.

But in doing that, I faced a lot of, I guess, pushback from the industry.

So my question for you is, well, I mean, maybe I should give some background first.

I read $100 million offers and it really changed the way I was looking at my business.

So I decided to offer a guarantee. In offering a guarantee, it really changed the way I was looking at my business. So I decided to offer a guarantee.

In offering a guarantee, it really, it shook the industry, I guess, where people started saying that that scam-like behavior,

it's a red flag for a coach to be able to guarantee results or guarantee you a role, even though, of course, I have it in writing that I'll give a refund if I can't do what I do. And it's impacted my business a lot. And so I've gotten a defamation

lawyer. I'm trying to do what I can, but I guess I'm wondering, like, is this something that you

fight? Is this something that you stand up for yourself for? Is this something you just ignore and try

to elevate your business until it becomes white noise? Or how would how would you handle this? Let me ask you a few questions, which is do you believe that there's any truth to that? No, not at all. Oh my God, because all my customers are happy. They love me. Like they're so happy with what I do. Understood. Okay. That was the first question

I wanted to get out of. We don't know each other. So I'm trying to get to be. That's true. Are you a scam? I was like, is there any truth to that? No. I didn't think so, but I wanted to know. So the biggest thing that I will say is that, you know, there's people that say stuff about us. you know when we ran gym launch we would have smear campaigns we would have people literally

running ads about us and how we're a scam and we're this or that and all these things. Everyone says you're a scam until you get to the top. In many cases, like until you have gained trust with an audience, gained trust with your customers enough, like a broad enough customer base, people will assume if you are showing

like outsized results and maybe like you are something that people don't understand, they will

underestimate you, right? Or they will say, you're invalid, you're a fraud, you're these things,

whatever word you want to use, you're not real, you're not legit, right? And I think that the best

approach that you can take is completely ignoring it.

And I swear to God, every single person tells me, they're like, Layla, you don't understand.

They've got this, they've got that, they've got all these things. If you believe that you are in

the right and that you are not doing anything wrong and you're like, I'm not, then what good

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