00:00I did go to New York City at 19 and I worked in a very glitzy high-rise at a
00:06very fancy
00:07international talent agency and they represented so many celebrities that were household names and
00:13musicians and it was very like fun to go to work and exciting and I started exercise training
00:20private exercise training for people and Barbara Walters became my client so I knocked on her
00:25door one day at 7 a.m. for our session and she said Susan get in here what is going
00:31on with you I
00:31had been harassed in the workplace the day before by my boss and I was having post-traumatic stress
00:39so I showed up at work and I did confront him that afternoon and he said do you have everything
00:46you
00:46need and I said yes and he said great you're fired leave I was in New York City 25 years
00:52old I had
00:53just gotten sober so I decided that day I was going to open my own talent brokerage firm matching
01:00celebrities to brands I didn't know anybody but I had that same tenacity I had in my house
01:06somehow I was going to get out of that house and be successful and from that I went on to
01:11become
01:12a pretty successful producer in tv and in film I still felt not enough inside I'm still missing a piece
01:21of me
01:21called
01:21so
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