I’m Jona Xiao and I booked a studio film and TV show within a few months through my direct connections. And my reps will be the first to tell you that my personal connections help me get more auditions.
And I wouldn’t even call myself a great ‘networker’. I used to think it was sleazy, so I’d hide inside pay to play workshops instead of building connections on my own terms.
Those workshops rarely paid off and left me feeling like a real outsider.