Take the Leap by Sara Bliss

Author:Sara Bliss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone

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LISTEN, HEAL,

EMPOWER

TERRI COLE

FROM

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TALENT AGENT

TO

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PSYCHOTHERAPIST

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WORKING WITH SUPERMODELS One of my early jobs was working at a commercial agency. I kept booking blond moms from Connecticut for detergent ads. It wasn’t my thing. Then a talent agency hired me to work in its modeling division. It was a lot of negotiating contracts, thinking of everything that could happen and go wrong.

HELPING PEOPLE GET HEALTHY I stopped drinking when I was 21. So I had all these things happening in my life that made me know that there were more important things than a campaign for Pantene. What was I most lit up about? Getting someone into a drug treatment clinic, helping people with eating disorders, getting people help for depression. I referred dozens of models to therapy, trying to empower them. I was always trying to empower models, because it’s such a horribly misogynistic business.

WANTING SOMETHING MORE MEANINGFUL I was dealing with divas like Naomi Campbell. That was the last deal that I did at the agency. I was like, Okay, there has to be something better I could do with my life than making Naomi Campbell richer than she already is. This can’t be my dharma. It can’t be.

GETTING A MASTER’S DEGREE I applied to NYU for my master’s in clinical social work. I had gone to a bad undergraduate school to be a cheerleader. I did have good grades, though, and I knew I could get the school to understand the connection between what I was doing as a modeling agent and being a therapist. At the interview, I was able to tell stories of different interventions I had done and how I wanted to help women to have better lives. I think that’s what got me in; I was super passionate about it.

BECOMING A THERAPIST My business was 90 percent actors, directors, sound people, lighting people, Broadway crew, and performers. I had the specialty of having been in entertainment, so I understood their lives. As a therapist, I could help them try to draw boundaries, teach them to speak authentically, teach them how to meditate.

REACHING MORE WOMEN Relatively early on, I also became a coach, because I just didn’t fit into the therapy box. I work retainer-only now with a small group of clients, but I also run online courses. My work is all about female empowerment and really giving hope. One of my courses is Boundary Bootcamp, because this is such a huge issue, especially with women. I put out weekly videos and blogs. I do a lot of free stuff, really trying to reach people who can’t afford to take my course. I want to reach as many women as I can.

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