Today I sit down with star of the newly released "Law & Order: Organized Crime," Tamara Taylor. As a shy kid, Tamara started out in modeling school. It was there where she discovered how she came alive on a runway performing in front of an audience. With dreams of pursuing acting, Tamara credits her mother with helping her to set her creative priorities on track when she asked, "Do you want to do this because you want to be famous, or do you want to do this because you like it?"

After moving to Los Angeles with her best friend to pursue their entertainment industry dreams, Tamara studied with acting coaches Margie Haber and Howard Fine and describes her experience of first going out for commercial auditions. After landing a series of commercials as a spokesperson for AT&T, Tamara was able to launch her commercial success into securing theatrical agent representation.

Since then, Tamara has earned a list of credits that just keeps growing including her well-known role as Dr. Camille Saroyan on FOX's "Bones," ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," Netflix's "Altered Carbon" and "October Faction," FOX's "Party of Five", ABC's "Lost", Tyler Perry's "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," and many more. Today, Tamara candidly and openly discusses both the challenges and excitements that await actors at every new level in their career, from new actor to series regular. She shares her journey towards developing and embracing her own self-confidence, and shares how that confidence has allowed her to recover gracefully from on-set blunders, to fully show up in auditions even when feeling nervous or unprepared, and most of all, to always listen to her gut.

These are the unforgettable stories that landed Tamara Taylor right here.

Guest links:

• IMDB: Tamara Taylor
• INSTAGRAM: @iamtamarataylor
• TWITTER: @TamaraTaylor

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