What’s your barometer for knowing if you’re winning — or failing? Deadlines? Bank account? Me? Once upon a time... I used my facial hair.

In the final episode of Chapter One: Putting the Cart Before the Horse, I'm going to take you from a shady “producer” promising cash in Malibu to squatting in a borrowed guest house under security cameras — and explain how a half-wild beard became the unofficial countdown clock for my first feature film, Vengeance Turns: The Motion Picture.

You’ll hear what happened when I gambled on shady money, how background acting turned into a self-made film school, why deadlines must be broken sometimes, and how losing a beard almost cost me a gig on The Mandalorian.

This is the last stop before Chapter Two: Everything Falls Apart! so if you’re just jumping in, you can start here, then binge back through Episode Zero and the rest of Chapter One.

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One beard, one dream, a mission and a plan that has everything out of order.
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