Before becoming an actress, June pursued several career paths in entertainment through college internships, believing that she wanted to become a reporter. The thought of acting never occurred to her, although June had enjoyed acting in skits in grade school and high school. Somehow being a respectable and professional reporter like Connie Chung seemed more attainable and doable. But when June took an acting class just to see how she would look on camera for her reporting demo tape, she knew immediately that acting was something she loved and wanted to pursue professionally.
Abruptly quitting her job at Fox News LA, she immediately immersed herself in the acting world and studied full-time at the Estelle Harman Acting Studio in Hollywood where she read a book by Sanford Meisner that changed her life. She applied to his program and as part of the application process went to Bequia for one month of acting training. After she returned, she cried with joy on the day she found out she had been accepted into his two-year program in L.A.
Meisner taught June that “acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances,” and this approach to acting radically shifted her life from the inside out. She examined everything in her life to discern what was truthful and what was not so that she could become a better actress on stage, on TV, and in film, which in turn began an organizing, simplifying, and decluttering journey that continues to this day.
Meisner used to say that “it takes twenty years to be a master.” As an impatient and ambitious actress, June never quite understood what he meant. Now, however, twenty years later, June gets it. Becoming a master means having the life experience in your body-mind-spirit-soul—within and without—to be a great actress.
Now that she has completed her first book, Behind the Clutter, which documents the journey of how the concept of TruthLoveMeaningPurpose was born from her acting experience, June is once again taking on the role of actress to use the gifts she believes were planted within her heart from the time she was born. Ever since she was five years old, June has known that acting is what she was brought on Earth to do. However, at age seven, that desire was squashed suddenly when she tried out for Cinderella and was told she couldn’t be Cinderella because Cinderella has blonde hair. Now, having decluttered the pain and disappointment associated with that experience, she is free and clear to play Cinderella in real life and make all of her dreams come true.
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