Conversations With...
Some Very Incredible People who are digging down deep, overcoming obstacles, and mustering the determination to live their dreams.
What's the definition of success?
The ideal career. The perfect job. Happiness. Fulfillment. Financial freedom. Leisure time.
Sound out of reach? Unrealistic? Maybe. Yet again...maybe not.
We hear a lot these days about the intersection where Passion, Talent, and Opportunity meet.
It's the sweet spot that can take years of navigation, introspection, and failed attempts to uncover.
Yet we see people every day who are living out their dreams, sometimes despite relentless adversity. And they don't have all the talent in the world. Or education. Or connections. Or money. Or even intense passion.
SO HOW DO THEY DO IT?!
Through my Conversations With... interview series, I'll share how some VIPs are finding their sweet spots and realizing their dreams. Allow their stories, experiences, and advice to guide you as you seek to discover what success means for you. Here's to following your dreams!
The ideal career. The perfect job. Happiness. Fulfillment. Financial freedom. Leisure time.
Sound out of reach? Unrealistic? Maybe. Yet again...maybe not.
We hear a lot these days about the intersection where Passion, Talent, and Opportunity meet.
It's the sweet spot that can take years of navigation, introspection, and failed attempts to uncover.
Yet we see people every day who are living out their dreams, sometimes despite relentless adversity. And they don't have all the talent in the world. Or education. Or connections. Or money. Or even intense passion.
SO HOW DO THEY DO IT?!
Through my Conversations With... interview series, I'll share how some VIPs are finding their sweet spots and realizing their dreams. Allow their stories, experiences, and advice to guide you as you seek to discover what success means for you. Here's to following your dreams!
JESSE CORBIN
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Photo permission courtesy of Jesse Corbin
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When Jesse Corbin isn’t doing an intense Freeletics workout or sipping on a café au lait, the 25-year-old stage performer busies himself blasting rays of positivity amongst the theater arts set around the country.
With roles in “Hairspray,” “Les Miserables,” and “Joseph and the…Dreamcoat,” to name a few, Jesse has dazzled audiences with goosebump-inducing vocals, an impressively toned physique, and his trademark ginger hair.
But it’s Jesse’s spirit that truly radiates from the stage, fueled by a desire to spread light wherever his peers see darkness. That he’s found his passion so young and already figured out a way to get paid for doing it is truly remarkable.
Yet for this Pittsburgh native, trying to make it in the cut-throat theater world is no stroll in Central Park. He hadn’t even considered acting as a career choice until he’d just about graduated college.
With humility and exquisite grace, he navigates rejection, competition, self-doubt and – more and more often – the taste of stardom. Now he’s about to begin rehearsals for his first off-Broadway show as an understudy in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”
I caught up with Jesse over the phone recently, just hours before his opening performance in “Hairspray” at the Mill Mountain Theater in Roanoke, VA, which runs through May 17th. He shared how he found his calling and how he’s determined to make his mark on the world.
Read the full interview here!
With roles in “Hairspray,” “Les Miserables,” and “Joseph and the…Dreamcoat,” to name a few, Jesse has dazzled audiences with goosebump-inducing vocals, an impressively toned physique, and his trademark ginger hair.
But it’s Jesse’s spirit that truly radiates from the stage, fueled by a desire to spread light wherever his peers see darkness. That he’s found his passion so young and already figured out a way to get paid for doing it is truly remarkable.
Yet for this Pittsburgh native, trying to make it in the cut-throat theater world is no stroll in Central Park. He hadn’t even considered acting as a career choice until he’d just about graduated college.
With humility and exquisite grace, he navigates rejection, competition, self-doubt and – more and more often – the taste of stardom. Now he’s about to begin rehearsals for his first off-Broadway show as an understudy in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”
I caught up with Jesse over the phone recently, just hours before his opening performance in “Hairspray” at the Mill Mountain Theater in Roanoke, VA, which runs through May 17th. He shared how he found his calling and how he’s determined to make his mark on the world.
Read the full interview here!
Author Eric Foley, the "E." in E.G. Foley
ERIC FOLEY
MIDDLE GRADE ADVENTURE AUTHOR
ON CO-WRITING, CONSPIRACY THEORIES,
MATH NERDERY & PLIÉS
Constructing imaginary worlds where ghosts, giants, aliens and werewolves roam free comes easy for E.G. Foley. The author duo was born out of the marriage, literally, between one self-described ex-math geek with a penchant for horror stories and one fairytale-weaving history buff with a passion for whimsy.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt when the latter half of this writing team also happens to be Gaelen Foley, the highly-respected New York Times bestselling author of over twenty historical romance novels.
But for Eric Foley, the “E” in the E.G. Foley pair, co-authoring the immensely popular middle grade adventure stories in “The Gryphon Chronicles” and the “50 States of Fear” books was something he never dreamed he’d be doing.
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MIDDLE GRADE ADVENTURE AUTHOR
ON CO-WRITING, CONSPIRACY THEORIES,
MATH NERDERY & PLIÉS
Constructing imaginary worlds where ghosts, giants, aliens and werewolves roam free comes easy for E.G. Foley. The author duo was born out of the marriage, literally, between one self-described ex-math geek with a penchant for horror stories and one fairytale-weaving history buff with a passion for whimsy.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt when the latter half of this writing team also happens to be Gaelen Foley, the highly-respected New York Times bestselling author of over twenty historical romance novels.
But for Eric Foley, the “E” in the E.G. Foley pair, co-authoring the immensely popular middle grade adventure stories in “The Gryphon Chronicles” and the “50 States of Fear” books was something he never dreamed he’d be doing.
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