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January 29, 2024
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Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Arianna Fox. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Arianna, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What did your parents do right and how has that impacted you in your life and career?

Practically everything! Really, though—my parents did incredible things to help me to succeed from the start. Most importantly, they helped nourish my passion to write and inspire others.

To fully illustrate how much they have helped me and my careers, I must take you back to when I was about four and a half years old. I had a sufficiently big imagination and I loved creating characters, worlds, and storylines in what I called “production,” which was simply acting as a bunch of various characters. Even though I didn’t like to read, I then began to absolutely love to write. At one point, I told my parents dreamily, “I want to be an author when I grow up!”

But their response was not what you would expect.

Perhaps normal parents would think something like “That’s great, sweetheart. Let’s revisit it in some years when you’re older,” or might even expect that their child will grow out of it eventually. But that was not my parents. Instead, they asked me a series of questions that blew my mind.

“Why ‘when you’re older’? Why wait? Why not start now?”

Of course, I was astounded at this answer. Never before had I heard that one could become an author at such a young age. I did not even know it was possible to chase one’s dreams at a young age, because everyone else always asked me what I wanted to be “when I grew up.” But thanks to my parents, I now knew I was capable of great things at that age.

Thanks to that piece of advice, I started writing a children’s book, “The Princess Chronicles,” and wrote it at about six years old. That was one of many things my parents did right.

Another thing was when I was approximately eleven years old. I had always told my parents I wanted to inspire people despite not knowing how or where to do so. Inspiring others had always called to me, but most of my acquaintances at that time were businesspeople much older than I, and I didn’t know the best course of action. However, when I told this to my parents, they suggested the idea of launching a business and becoming a motivational speaker. I was elated. “Yes!” was my immediate response. The fact that they could see my passion and help me turn it into a feasible career path is something that still amazes me to this day. Instead of the two extreme opposites—a) trying to force one’s dreams or passions onto their child, or b) thinking their child’s dream was too unrealistic and thus disapproving of it—they found what I wanted to do in life and thought of career options that would spotlight it and nourish it.

There is no doubt whatsoever that my parents were the principal ones to help shape my life and career, and for that I am eternally grateful.

Arianna, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Well, hello there! I’m Arianna Fox, a teen entrepreneur, keynote speaker, actress, and voiceover talent. I’ve been working in the writing, business, and voiceover space for ten years already, and keynote speaking for five years. As mentioned previously when talking about my parents, I got into almost all of these career paths due to my parents’ encouragement and nourishment of my passions.

In continuation of my writing story, I now have three published books, one pastiche featured in a large anthology, and three inspirational stories published in non-fiction books. My three books are “The Princess Chronicles: Not Your Average Princesses” (to which I referred previously), “False Awakening: Is it a Dream or Reality” (a sci-fi novel for all ages about a man within a dream within a dream within a dream; he must join a rebellion and fight against an evil tyrant to save both the dream world and the real), and “Sabre Black” (a fantasy/sci-fi novel for teens and young adults about a winged race of both good and bad, and a main character who is stuck in between as she was raised with the bad yet fights for the good). My pastiche is a 10,000-word short story called “The Four Door-handles” based off of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books, and it was featured in an anthology called “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories: Volume XXXII (32).”

As far as voice-acting, I now have the honor of having recorded commercials for large companies like Amazon, Old Navy, Taco Bell, Plato’s Closet, Marriott Hotel, Sky Zone, Edible Arrangements, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Rita’s Italian Ice, SONIC, Roto-Rooter, the YMCA, and more. I am so blessed to have such success in this industry thanks to my amazing parents, who got into voice-acting first. When I first saw my parents doing voice-acting, I knew I wanted in. They taught me how to be a professional.

The thing that I most want people to take away from my voice-over journey is that I started from the ground up. I want people to see any success that I’ve gotten and to know that they can succeed at a young age too. I once knew a young person who saw all the things my family and I did and began to feel envious; I told her that she could do all of those things too if she just worked hard to do it, but of course, she wanted the results but did not want to work hard to succeed. Now, I know that the hard work ethic is almost such a cliché at this point, but clichés have a funny knack of often being true. When I started voice-acting, I was doing lowly jobs for no pay while I was just trying to gather experience and credit. I started off with no connections and slowly, my parents and I began to find ways to stick our foot in the door and apply to as many projects as we could.

It’s like that iceberg illustration: When we see an iceberg, we only see 10% of the iceberg. The other 90% is invisible on the surface, hidden below water. Success is the same way. When you see me touting names like Edible Arrangements, Taco Bell, or the YMCA, you may think that’s all there is to it, and we somehow had big connections who led us to those places. But those big names are only the 10% of the iceberg you see. The other 90% is the sweat and tears we poured into working as much as we could for infinitely less money than the project merited, and the time we spent making our voice-over careers as successful as we could.

The thing I am the most proud of is also what I think sets me apart: that instead of simply trying to climb that good old ladder of success we’re all climbing, I’m also doing my best to help the people climbing below me so they can follow along and hold on tight. We are all in this great race of life together, and my ultimate goal is helping and encouraging others to succeed, so that *they* can help the next person, and we can be an assembly line of inspiration. I do consider myself more of a *motivator* than an inspirer, however; inspiration makes us feel nice and warm inside, but motivation is what we always need but may not always want. Inspiration keeps us feeling good about ourselves but still stagnant, while motivation helps us plow forward even when we don’t want to. And as a realist more than an optimist, I consider it my job to *motivate* you to succeed, even during the times that you don’t feel like taking another step forward.

We live in a world that is so full of negativity, stagnation, and the lack of responsibility for one’s own life. So many of my peers expect the world handed to them on a silver platter, thinking they won’t have to work for their success. Other young people are being and have been fed lies about themselves that leads them into confusion, and we wonder why there are so many irresponsible adults today. That is one of the ultimate problems that I, little by little, am attempting to solve with a good dose of realistic optimism. We all have the ability to change our future by what actions we take in the present, and I consider it part of my job as a motivational speaker to help others recognize that. As I always say in my speaking events, “You Rock, Dream Big, and You Got This!”

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Certainly! There are many stories in my work life where I’ve had to learn resilience at a young age, and my acting journey was one of them. As I mentioned before, I did “production” ever since I was young (acting for kids, if I dare simplify it that way ;)), and it evolved into acting professionally. At about thirteen, we decided to take the step into acquiring all the materials that were required like headshots, demo reels, and more acting experience to use in my IMDb profile. I began to audition for roles and, though I got a few, struggled horribly with memorization. At one point, I had such trouble with the memorization process that I got incredibly frustrated and it took hours to even finish.

One day, I got a call from some talent agency that I was invited to a live Zoom audition for their agency. It was to take place at 6:00, and it was just a simple Kraft Mac & Cheese mock commercial. They told me that I didn’t have to memorize the audition but simply perform it in front of them and several other kid actors on Zoom. Of course, since it was a short monologue, we thought we would do the courtesy of memorizing it anyhow. So, I was working on the memorization earlier in the day while we were out, but I prematurely finished. By the time we got back home, it was almost time to hop on the Zoom meeting.

I got on the meeting, thinking I was completely prepared, and watched the other kids who were auditioning in front of the strict and rude judges. When it was finally my turn, the judges called my name and I gave my slate—that is, brief but relevant facts about you like your name, age, height, etc.—and was about to start.

“Start whenever you’re ready,” one of the judges said briskly.

I took a deep breath, and…

Nothing.

My mind went blank. I didn’t know what to say. I felt frozen in time like an icy statue. It felt surreal. I tried one more time to say my lines again, to fix things as I heard the judges mutter to each other, “Take note that this is the second take” in the background. Thankful for the opportunity to go again, I tried to calm myself and restart.

But once again, my mind blanked.

I eventually left the Zoom meeting, disappointed and frustrated with myself.

Over the next few months, my passion for acting declined. I stopped even wanting to do auditions. It was so terrible that not long after, I started asking my parents what they would think if I gave up acting. However, my parents helped me realize that it wasn’t that my passion had fizzled on its own; it was simply that I was feeling dismayed due to past circumstances and situations. I was letting my past define my future, instead of creating my own future. My parents helped me to realize that that happens all too often with us humans: We let our past determine our future. So, instead of lamenting about the past, I realized I could instead change the present by enhancing my memorization techniques and growing better at my craft.

You can do this as well! If you are having a hard time, try not to think about the things that happened in the past; you can’t change that. What you can change, however, is what happens in the future.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most rewarding part about being a creative is certainly in the name! Creativity—imagination—freedom to go about my job in a fun and innovative way. I do actually enjoy more logical things like figures and numbers, and am the only one of my family to appreciate Microsoft Excel sheets (they’re just so beautifully organized!), but when it comes to my jobs, I am so grateful to be able to approach them with creativity and add my own flair to them. This applies to acting, voice-over acting, speaking, writing, and all of the other things I do.

As for the most rewarding aspect of being a speaker, it of course must be inspiring others. I still recall my first speaking event, which was at a daycare, and in it I illustrated holding onto one’s dream while making sure others don’t “stomp” on it by giving everyone a balloon and trying to stomp on each other’s balloons while protecting their own. I told my audience that the balloons were like dreams and while they should never try to stomp on other people’s balloons, other people will try to stomp on theirs and they must protect them. At the end of the event, I was packing up to leave when one of the kids approached me, his balloon still un-popped in his hands. He told me very solemnly, “I’m never going to let anyone stomp on my dream.”

These moments are truly the reason why I do what I do. Being able to plant a seed and make a difference in even one person’s life is all I could ever hope to ask for.

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