This year has been a real doozy. In July 2020, I accepted a full time design job offer that moved me from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree. It was amazing and I learned so much during that time. Plus all auditions were virtual, so for the first time I could be somewhere besides LA for acting work. It was the best of both worlds for me. Then in July of 2021, almost a year to the date, I was let go from the company (for reasons I won’t go into here but we are on good terms! 🤍). As I worked my last day with them, I was sitting in the Home Depot parking lot and got a call from my acting reps, who I had been with for 5 years. I was being dropped by both my manager and my agent simultaneously. I felt like everything was slipping away from me. I had worked for 15 years trying to build up a body of work as an actor and finally had my dream team, and now I felt like my lifeline to acting work was completely severed. I was told that I should start over with some co-stars and build back up to guest stars again (after being a recurring character on 2 shows). It was such an ego gut punch. I don’t have the bandwidth I did in my early 20s to beg a new team to take a chance on me, and not only that, but now I have a mortgage and a family depending on me. I sat in my car and had a good rage cry for about 10 minutes, and then I got to work. The past six months, I’ve poured everything I have into building up @hidezmgmt + my private design clients + this house flip project. I’m not sure who saved who here on this house renovation, but I do know that we have both undergone some major changes. Thanks to Mom and Dad for taking a chance on this project with me. Today we take listing photos and soon she will be someone else’s to love, so pardon my sentimentals 🤍