Speaker 1: Hi people, welcome back to my channel. If you've been here before, you might know who I am. My name is Brittany Person. Previously, this channel has been geared towards my life with my daughter, vlogs, kind of how we live our mommy-daughter life, how I live as a single mom, the Incredible Life Shorts. But I have decided to kind of reintroduce myself and switch gears on this channel to something I'm super passionate about, something that affects my day-to-day life, and something that I have a lot, a lot, a lot of knowledge about, and I get a ton of questions on. And so, in an effort to not gatekeep all this information because there is truly room for everybody, I felt like, why not start sharing this information for free with whoever is looking for the information. So, with that being said, allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Brittany Person. I am the Director of Commercials and Lifestyle Print at an agency here in Atlanta, Georgia. I work alongside many, many, many, many, many clients to get my talent booked on print work, commercial work, e-commerce work, catalog work, social media work, any kind of work there is out there to get, mainly in the Southeast, but I've also done some bookings across the country. That's kind of where I'm gearing this channel to. I get questions all the time on, like, how do I get my child booked? How do I get an agent? Do I need an agent? What do I need? Should I be spending all of this money to get an agent? Just countless, countless questions. So, a little background about me. I have been in the industry for a very long time. I started off as a dancer and kind of danced my way through life. My mother is a dancer, so I kind of just came by that honestly. In high school, I started to go on my first tours. I got opportunities really young that I'm so blessed I've had to start touring the country with different artists and getting these experiences and soaking up so much industry information from the artist's point of view, from, you know, backstage talent. Just all eyes. I've had really interesting perspectives at a young age. I then moved to New York, where I kind of pursued dance more, but ended up falling into the teaching realm and ended up teaching at a performing arts college for two years. I moved back to Atlanta, where I grew up, and started teaching dance again and met my agent. I was teaching her daughter dance, and she was like, you and your daughter? My daughter at the time was like three months old. She was like, you guys are so cute. There's opportunities to be booking his family. You know, we could be booking you. So I kind of started, that was in 2015, 16. Started booking little jobs here and there. If you hear squeaking, I promise it won't happen next video, I promise. Anyway, so I booked my first kind of national commercial in 2016 as an on-camera principal. My daughter didn't really start booking immediately. She had, if you've watched our channel before, Carter has been missing her two front teeth since she was about, I don't know, maybe she was about 20. Also, a lot of clients aren't booking two and three year olds, but we'll get to that in another video. So we started booking, and as Carter got older, she started to see more opportunities, and then I felt a shift. Like, okay, I'm ready to, I'm done with teaching dance. Like, I was making no money. I was so poor, and I just felt this shift. I felt God saying, there's more. So at that time, my agent and I had become like really good friends. I was teaching her daughter dance, and, you know, we just would talk all the time, and there became an opportunity, and I expressed to her that I felt like I was ready to move on and do something different, and she said, well, there's a space for you at the agency. And at the time, I didn't realize how perfect it was because I have so many perspectives in this industry, right? I've been talent. I'm a mom of talent. I have worked in production. I, you know, have done all of these things, and so I have a different point of view than a lot of agents because a lot of agents are just agents. They've never been on the other side. They've never auditioned. They've never had to work as a crew member, all these things, so I have such a unique perspective because I can see it from all sides and all angles. So that was in 2019. The summer of 2019, I became an agent, really a booking agent, and from there, I kind of just soaked in the business and learned so much so quickly and started to teach workshops on, you know, print and commercial modeling, what that means, what that entails, but now I was promoted to director of commercial and lifestyle print, so I oversee all things commercial and lifestyle print, and we can get into what lifestyle print versus regular print versus fashion versus commercial, what that means in another video, but I say all that to say I am super excited to just share the information I have. There are so many parents out there who don't know what a credible agency is, don't know if they should be putting up these $2,500 investments towards getting your child in an agency or seen by casting, and it's not that hard, and it certainly is not that expensive. Actually, it's not expensive at all. A good agency is going to tell you we don't make money until you make money, and the only investment you should ever really be making in the beginning is quality images. Again, another video, but I say all that to say I'm reintroducing myself. I'm reintroducing this channel, and moving forward, I'm going to be releasing series, answering a ton of questions that you have as a parent or as an adult or a teenager looking to break into this industry, learning all of my secrets, all of my tips and my tricks, what agents look for, what casting looks for, what clients look for, how much you make in this industry, what's sad, what's non-union, all these questions I get all the time. I'm about to open the gates and give you all that information. So if you are interested, if you're looking to break into the entertainment industry as a dancer, as an actor, as a model, whatever it is, I'm your girl. So go ahead and comment, subscribe, like this video. Leave in the comments if there's anything in particular you want me to answer, any questions you might have. I would love to answer your questions, so don't be afraid. I also post a ton of things on my Instagram, a lot of behind the scenes, when I'm on set with clients working, with my daughters working. I post a ton of castings all the time if you're in the Southeast area, a ton of castings for babies, kids, teenagers, adults, seniors. Families are a huge thing right now, so follow my Instagram. I'm going to put that somewhere down below. I'm still learning all the editing things, you guys. Follow me on Instagram, have a ton of fun on TikTok. I'm going to kind of rebrand all of my social media, but right now everything is super new, super fresh. All of my handles are the same, Yes, that is Brittany, not Brittany, not Brittany. Just Brittany person on all social media handles. And I really, really look forward to sharing all of the information I have with you guys. Until next video, see you later, peoples.