How hitting #2 globally within 48h on Prime has Led Me to Good-bye

I woke up after the lunar eclipse releasing an old chapter. It landed between my 11H and 10H and the sky could not be more literal.

After 14 years in Germany, where I launched my screenwriting career, and ended up achieving every single milestone I sought out, I’ve closed that chapter of my life and career with a #2 global hit Amazon MGM movie - and a decade worth of trial and errors, hits and misses, creating systems and strategies that gave me massive results, and pure wisdom that I now share with you. Because if every artist understood their worth and had agency over their careers, like entrepreneurs have over their businesses, the industry would look very differently.

And while it feels great to say good-bye to that version of myself, and hello to a new chapter, I’m grieving the parts of myself I’ve outgrown.

The parts that used to settle for less, that used to make itself small because it was afraid to be too much, the parts that softened its own power because it knew that it would trigger people and it was afraid of what that might do.

Living in the desert does that to you.

The heat, the scarcity, the beauty, the dryness, the energy that feels earned not given. All in its divine timing.

I’m sure you feel something shifting in your life, your  professional life too.

In this new chapter that hasn’t even started unfolding, I’ve decided I want to head a studio someday. A collective of amazing artists who make hit after hit and share in profits. Where working class and middle-class artists understand the rules of the game and use it to their advantage instead of repeating the cycles and patterns that keep them subconsciously tethered to longing but never achieving, people-pleasing and never setting real boundaries, scarcity thinking that there just isn’t enough to go around for everyone when in fact there is.

Here’s what the wealthy and successful already know, but never cared to share with the rest of us: opportunities depend entirely on your circle of relationships. Not your talent, not your hard work, but the people you know and who know you. Why? Because trust is the real currency. 

Let me repeat that: your opportunities depend entirely on your work and social circles.

It’s why we have an entire masterclass dedicated to auditing your network because the truth is: only 20% of your network actually brings you real career opportunities. And you might be leaking money, energy and time on 80% that never will.

Now I’m going to say the uncomfortable part out loud:

You don’t owe anyone anything. You owe yourself everything.

Don’t confuse this with negative sentiments that might pop up. You can still be loyal, kind, and a joy to be around and STILL put yourself first when something doesn’t feel right, when the math doesn’t math, when it’s clear that you get absolutely nothing or very little in return for the amount of effort you put in.

If reading any of this triggers you, because you think success and money mean you might lose your softness, your kindness, your emotional connection to people, or your integrity then take time to sit with all those feelings.

And then realize that none of those things are true. That is just how you were taught to perceive success and money.

We’ve been fed the false narrative that success changes people so that you never really, actually and honestly go after it. You may think you want it, but something keeps you in the safe corners of invisibility, because visibility is scary.

What I’ve learned:

Success amplifies who you already are, who you believe to be, the value you believe you contribute. It amplifies collective wins because you’re not the asshole in the room: you’re the artist who wants a thriving community you can fall back on and equally support. You’re the one who finds something positive to say when everyone around you has doubts, you’re someone who knows how to point out what’s not working without humiliating anyone, you’re the one who can hold a vision and still listen to criticism, concerns, or insecurities coming from the people meant to support your vision instead of getting defensive.

Success doesn’t change your essence. If anything, it allows you to be yourself because you have nothing to prove, only new challenges to overcome and new learnings to embody.

Take this email as permission to put yourself and your career first.

Relationships are partnerships, not hierarchal struggles, and your talent needs boundaries to flourish. Being a professional artist, means you're running a business (aka your career) you like it or not. 

If you don’t honor that career, nobody will do it for you.  

And if you need support getting there, you know where to find us. The mentorship community is the only place you get an education and actual strategies and systems to implement that get you results. If anything in being your most confident self. Confidence fast-tracks trust and trust is the real currency.

Wishing you all the success in the world, because none of us came here to sit on the sideline.

com amor,

Juliana