I did what everyone told me was impossible.
I manifested the lead role in the sequel to the film that changed my life as a little girl. Now I'm on a mission to help you make your impossible possible too.
I saw Center Stage in a movie theater. It was the first dance film I'd ever seen, and I was going through a really traumatic time in my life. I sat there crying, praying, and feeling something I couldn't explain — like the film reached right into my chest and lit a match. I knew, with everything in me, that I was supposed to act, dance, and inspire people the way that movie had just inspired me.
That film took me from feeling deeply depressed to feeling on fire with a dream that lit up my whole soul. I bought the DVD and watched it over and over — when I was scared, lonely, homesick, terrified, and drowning in rejection and anxiety. It kept re-inspiring me. It kept reminding me why I was working so hard for something everyone else seemed to think was impossible.
Years later, I played the lead in Sony Pictures' Center Stage: Turn It Up — the sequel to the film that changed my life. Then it happened again with Bring It On: Fight to the Finish. And again with Legend of the White Dragon — in theaters nationwide, born from my childhood Power Rangers obsession.
Turns out the "impossible" thing wasn't impossible. It was just impatient with me. This pattern — playing hero characters on screen and helping real people become the hero of their own story — is the whole thing. It's why I do all of it.
Watch the video. Read the words. If any of it lands, we're going to get along.
