Finding Your Purpose and Taking The Leap | Nick Sagar | Ryan Nile Show

Ryan Nile Show

This is Nick Sagar’s most in-depth interview he has ever done

This podcast is all about Powerful Life Stories that Motivate & Inspire and todays episode is exactly that. Im joined by Nick Sagar, a british born Actor based out of Los Angeles who you may have seen in movies and shows like Tyler Perrys The haves and the have nots, Shadowhunters, Queen of the south, Supergirl, Ill Manors & The Princess Switch with Vanessa Hudgens on Netflix

I got to sit down with Nick to explore his incredible journey into acting. We also happen to be cousins, so naturally, we get DEEP!

This episode is all about finding your purpose, taking the leap and going with the flow… which Nick has continuously done. We recorded this in LA 2 hours before my flight departed back to UK..but we still had a great wide-ranging relaxed conversation I’m sure you’ll get a lot from.

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Show notes:

- Starting in acting

- Recreating scenes from the Real McCoy

- Getting into Streetdancing, Breakdancing & starting a dance crew

- How breakdancing got him into Martial Arts (Taekwon Do)

- Getting influenced by older brother & uncle, dad

- Being exposed to culture easier back in the 90s (Physicals collections)

- Growing up mixed. Jamaican & Guyanese heritage.. not fitting in but that being a blessing. Bonding with his brothers and sister

- Knowing when Acting was the path, falling in love with it

- Gravitating towards a dangerous model of ‘success’

- Having an amazing support system

- Going from Football into Dance, being misinterpreted as a pushover

- Stopping dancing because of the perception

- Hearing an inner voice ’STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND GET BACK ACTING!’

- Why he had to be tunnel vision in getting to his goal

- Wanting to be a doctor initially, to find a cure to sickle cell, to cure his older brother

- Why he wanted a free life and why acting could help him achieve that

- Being broke, Why having something to lose helped him pick the right path

- Not earning anything he could live off for 10 years

- Being very specific in his goals helped him achieve his goals. Digging deep

- Getting his first movie credit in 2009 in an independent movie

- Taking part in iPop a competition in LA for actors

- Training in acting and martial arts

- How you do anything is how you do everything

- Getting back into Martial Arts

- The reality of living in LA as a working actor

- First experience of being known from acting. Being in popular shows

- Learning lessons from Tyler Perry

- Meeting Oprah on the first day of ‘Have and the have nots’

- Having his first scene watched by Tyler Perry & Oprah

- Knowing your purpose and plan your assault, know what’s for you

- Learning from Vanessa Hudgens, how she operates on set and always being prepared

- Being Nice & Professional takes you far

- How ambition can takeover your peace when it manifests as desperation

- Going with the flow, why coincidences are signs