The Actor Breakthrough: Take Your Career to the Next Level
Your career is already in motion. This is where it gets exciting. The Actor Breakthrough is five focused sessions designed to take everything you already have, your talent, your instincts, your unique presence, and shape it into a clear, strategic career identity that the industry can't ignore. We're not starting from scratch. We're unlocking what's already there and pointing it in the right direction. Using my Actor DNA technique, we dig deep into who you are as a performer and what makes you uniquely, specifically, undeniably you. We pair that with a clear picture of the projects, roles, and spaces you want to be working in, so your materials and strategy aren't just telling the industry who you are, they're pointing directly at where you want to go. Because your materials shouldn't be a history lesson. They should be a roadmap that teaches the industry exactly how to cast you next. This is how you bring yourself to every role and make sure the right people know it. From there we build your personalized career plan. That might mean a strategy for new materials, updated headshots or reel, a networking strategy, building your fan database, or all of the above. Whatever your next level looks like, we map it out and start moving. You'll walk away excited to submit and ready to show the industry exactly how to cast you and what you innately bring to the table. No more guessing. No more spinning. Just clarity, strategy, and the momentum to back it up.
What's included
One hour sessions, one on one through the Leland platform, every other week over ten weeks. The real work happens between sessions. Any materials you need, headshots, reel, scenes or resume updates, will be created or updated by you.
- Actor DNA Discovery Guide, a downloadable PDF to help you uncover and define your unique actor brand
- Actor DNA to Breakdown worksheet to anchor and align all of your marketing materials
- Full materials audit including Actors Access, other submission sites and IMDb Pro as applicable
- Reusable outreach and networking communication template customizable for any opportunity
- Personalized career action plan covering your next steps across materials, strategy and outreach
Meet your expert
Laura B.
Award Winning Actor; Audition, Mindset & Business of Acting Coach
I work on what happens in your brain and nervous system when the pressure's on, backed by training: Yale's Science of Well-Being certificate and Stanford Medicine's Positive Psychology and Well-Being program, plus hypnotherapy certification and a healthy respect for how weird brains actually are. I've spent 25+ years as a professional actor, producer, and writer. Along the way I've also managed downloadable content for a video game company and ran digital media for Twrrl, a mobile app that let users insert themselves into animated stories using their own face and voice. So my experience spans screen, stage, and a fair number of platforms in between. Somewhere in all of that, I started coaching. First actors and creatives navigating the pressure of being judged in real time, then entrepreneurs and small business owners figuring out their next move, then just people who wanted to stop white-knuckling their way through big decisions. I grew up between Colorado, London, and Karachi, which taught me early on how differently people define stress, success, and "normal." That's probably where my curiosity about human behavior actually started.
