What Drives You?
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Janet Mock
Janet Mock, Editor of PEOPLE.com, is a writer, journalist and transgender advocate. Her forthcoming memoir "Fish Food" is about her adolescent journey beyond genders
Wilson Cruz
Wilson Cruz is an actor and LGBT activist known for playing the gay teen Rickie Vasquez on TV’s My So-Called Life as well as roles on ER, The West Wing, Grey's Anatomy and Angel on Broadway in RENT.
Del Shores
Del Shores has written, directed and produced for film, television and stage. He’s best known for his play, film and LOGO television series Sordid Lives.
What do you do - and why?
My official title is "The Image Guru". What does that mean, well it's a "Pandora's Box" question.
I thrive on creating and nurturing the arts, in fashion, beauty, entertainment, society, philanthropy and now especially politics. What do I do? I help to make things happen, or as described by The New York Observer, I am "a catalyst for change", or for the evolution of a person, place or thing.
I'm a completely hybrid professional who loves to see the efforts of his endeavors FLOURISH. A svengali-like professional who loves to discover and cultivate emerging talent and or helpt tpo relaunch and reposition established talent or legends in whatever vein of lifestyle.
Which quality or talent makes you most successful?
Vision and my ability to see what can be! My tolerance and acceptance of BRILLIANCE and those hard-to-handle GENIUSES. My nurturing disposition for those who were blessed with so much, but who think they have so little. My ability to see past my own ego and my own nose! lol
Who are the three people who most inspire you - and why?
Bill Clinton: For being the ultimate statesman. For leading this country to a renewed sense of prominence and self esteem, although he was his own untimely undoing, ultimately he was still only human. But he came out of it like a "rock star" and will probably go down in history as one of our greatest American Presidents, of my lifetime at least!
Barbra Streisand: For getting to where she wanted to go, although she was no great beauty, she worked with what God gave her ( her God-given talent) and she blew it out of the ballpark. She made it solely on her amazing talent and her strength of character in a male dominated world and she's still thriving to this day. She's didn't implode, or die tragically, or die a cliche because she couldn't cope, she existed and has endured and has become a living legend!
Steven Spielberg: His genius in filmmaking. For making such great classic movies and helping to expand and open our minds about things that we simply do not understand. His good natured, ego! His GENIUS!
What are you most passionate about?
Talent! I live for talented people, of all kinds, in all colors, of all nationalities and dispositions.
To err is human, to CREATE divine and the divinity that I help to bring out of the people that inpsire me, is what is most rewarding for me....much to my own detriment sometimes.
Although I too sometimes tend to be a muse for geniuses!
What drives you to succeed?
The knowledge that I have so much more to accomplish in my life. To give back to life and make it more beautiful, serene and kind! To teach people to realize their own dreams and to maximize their own potential, not as a life coach, but as a guru who sees the potential in everybody! We all have some form of talent, whether it be own brainpower, our physical strength, our natural artistic ability, our charisma to captivate audiences, or our kind and generous souls! But do things for everyone and not just for yourself. If you come from a pure heart and your motives are pure, then your results will be even purer.
To be exemplary in all that I do... in whatever I can do!
TRULY, I live by this philosophy!
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