The day after college graduation I jumped on a plane with two suitcases and moved to Los Angeles; not in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, but to increase the sales of 3M sandpaper, handmaskers and adhesives. I was a traveling sales women, which comes with alotta perks( car, cell phone, corporate credit card and gas card. However we all know the saying, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”-and there is no such thing as a small territory in California; I had customers from West Covina to Fresno( you know the place where K-Fed comes from) So, I spent the next year of my life in my Pontiac driving from construction site to construction site: throwing on hard hats, jumping on ladders, inspecting molding and solving paint-adhesion issues…let’s not get me started. I’ll admit I cried from time to time and “Lauren phoned home”.  I remember circling around a target parking lot explaining to my dad that I just couldn’t find the passion for tape within myself…the family likes to joke about this often. But what the job did provide was a stage or rather a ladder for me to find my voice…and  presenting, talking , connecting  to others is really my passion-

Needless to say I stopped slinging tape about a year in and started to explore alternative career paths. I started to train to become a yoga instructor, but was also working at news station in Santa Barbara. And I loved this segment they do called Friday Football Focus. It was fun, exciting and all about story telling… that’s moment I fell for the Hollywood dream…to be able to tell a story be it a character or myself I wanted to connect with people( or something of that context), hence the Hollywood dream was dreamt… and the rest, well a lot of classes in both acting and hosting, hard work and lots of moments of humility.

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