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But, I can’t sing, so, I ignored that childhood dream and kept going.
But then, in my mid-20’s, that dream came back.
Well, kind of (I still can’t sing, though I did sing on a Disney stage as part of the American Idol experience (pretty sure they were just desperate but whatever it was fun!)).
The Belle dream came back in the form of realizing what was at the root of that dream all along. I am an artist. I am a writer. I am a creative. I am a dreamer. There was a period of my life when I ignored those things.
Hi, I’m Isa, and my dream when I was a kid was to be Belle in Beauty in the Beast on Broadway.
The Little Book of Big Dreams is filled with true stories of dreamers who decided to try for their biggest dreams and kept going when things got hard (which they almost always do).
The dreamers in this book include Oscar winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Disney producer Don Hahn, Pensole Lewis College founder D’Wayne Edwards, Hamilton cast member Seth Stewart, Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant, actor and filmmaker Justin Baldoni, and more.
But the most important story in this book is yours.
The Little Book of Big Dreams: True Stories About People who Followed a Spark
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