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Can L.A. Dash Your Hollywood Dream?! Lessons to Learn! Life Lessons, Dreams & Travel

EP McKnight, MEd
6 min readOct 24, 2019

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Many migrate from all over the World in the pursuit of their dreams namely to Los Angeles! Looking at the success of a mighty few, thousands seek to do the same and migrate to Los Angeles with little resources to pursue their dream and support themselves in the interim.

I have had many associates who migrated from the east coast to the west coast in pursuit of their dreams. Some died, some became homeless and many returned to the east coast. Their stories is a story they goes back decades from home to Hollywood and back home.

When I took the leap to migrate to L.A. upon the urging of a longtime friend who had moved out years prior, I constructed a Plan A, to ensure my finances were adequate, Plan B, to acquire an agent before arriving and Plan C how to survive in a unknown city. Initially, I arrived with an East coast Actors Company that brought actors out to L.A. for two or more weeks to experience LA before migrating. Upon this trip, I learned that my longtime friend was not going to help me so I resorted to Plan B. He came up with excuses after excuses. I moved on eventually.

Long story short, got a place in a seedy hotel in Hollywood for one day and then contacted my Godmother’s classmate, contacted her and she advised to come stay with her and I…

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EP McKnight, MEd
EP McKnight, MEd

Written by EP McKnight, MEd

Actress, Stage playwright, Author, Motivational Speaker, Teacher Fitness Coach. www.epmcknight.wixsite.epfitspiration Follow me: Tiktok, imdb.me/epmcknight

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