We were lucky to catch up with Arye Campos recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Arye, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
I get my work ethic from two sides. One was from my childhood. I grew up doing probably too many things for my age. Between the ages of 7-11 I would go to school and after school would have tap, ballet, jazz, swimming, voice lessons, theater class, flamenco, piano… the list goes on. Besides being an actress and having auditions and filming. So I think in a way it forced me to learn to prioritize and time manage before I ever really understood what it was. And then later when I started working as a financial advisor, where you have to organize your own schedule and get your own clients, while I was trying to pursue an acting career at the time, I had to once again figure how to be the best advisor, so my boss wouldn’t fire me for pursuing acting, but also be the best actor so that I could grow and become successful enough to eventually quit finance and become an actor full time. Which I eventually did. 🙂
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I am an actress. I started acting when I was 4 years old back in my home in Brazil and by the time I was 8-9yrs old I was a series regular in a very famous show in Brazil with Silvio Santos and also had a CD as I had gotten into music as well. When I was 11yrs my mom made the decision for us to move to the US so I could learn english. The goal was to be here for a year, but a year turned into a lifetime. Once I was in the US, and after learning and becoming fluent in English, I started to get into Musical Theater where I stayed in for several years before moving to LA to go back to TV/Film. Since getting back to TV/Film I have done over 45 projects including roles in TV shows like “Workaholics”, “LA’s Finest” and “Family Time”, lead in films like Lifetime’s “Garage Sale Killer”, “My Husbands Ex”, and most recently series regular roles on two of Sony’s upcoming limited series “Passport to Freedom”- which is now available to stream on Amazon- and the lead female role in “Rio Connection”, which is currently available in multiple countries in South America, Europe, Canada and Asia, and coming soon to the USA. Next year I also will have my first Brazilian comedic feature- coproduced by Universal & Globo Filmes- coming out in the Theaters (in Brazil) in January. This will be my first project in my native language of Portuguese since I left Brazil when I was a child.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
I think in most artistic careers you have to have passion, ambition and most important grit. There’s this great Ted Talk I listed to a while ago that talks about Grit and I truly think it explains one of the most important qualities that you have to have because this career isn’t easy and you will get 178,980,989 “NOs” before you ever get your first yes. So you have to love it SO MUCH that you truly could not be happy doing anything else. You also have to be slightly delusional to truly believe you can make it and that will keep you going. The best advice I can give is to truly know why you want to do this, deep down understand your purpose and your why, so that when everything comes crashing down, you remember why you need to dust off and get back up again. And I do believe the people that stay in the game and continue pushing through and persevering, they always succeed. Sometimes not how they thought they would, but better.
To close, maybe we can chat about your parents and what they did that was particularly impactful for you?
My parents taught me two very valuable things. First their work ethic. My mom didn’t have to work when I was younger, financially my dad was doing well, but she chose to work because she always said “you never know what tomorrow may bring”. So her work ethic and always thinking about the future kept me very grounded regardless of my situation. And the second thing is respect. My parents were married for a very long time before my dad passed away, and I have NEVER seen my dad disrespect my mom or the other way around. Even when they argued, they still would respect each other and I will never forget that. How important respecting your partner is, even when times are rough.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.aryecampos.com
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Matt Kallish
