What happens when your biggest dream slips through your fingers? In this powerful conversation, actress Kelly Lamor Wilson (A Man Called Otto, Anything’s Possible, HBO’s Mrs. Fletcher) joins Denise Love Hewett to talk about professional heartbreak, resilience, and the messy process of rebuilding after a career setback.
Kelly shares her journey from child performer to Hollywood and Broadway, the lessons she’s learned from rejection, and how she found strength, joy, and purpose after losing out on a role that felt like destiny. This episode dives deep into:
The emotional toll of career heartbreak and rejection
Why resilience is built through failure, loss, and redirection
How to heal after professional disappointments
The role of intuition, spirituality, and mindset in recovery
What it really means to surrender and keep dreaming
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, artist, or professional navigating rejection, this conversation offers tools, comfort, and perspective for anyone who’s faced a dream deferred.
Kelly Lamor Wilson an American stage and screen actor and producer. As an actor, She is best known for her role opposite Tom Hanks in Sony Pictures' A Man Called Otto (2022), directed by Marc Forster, in which she plays social media journalist Shari Kenzie. Kelly is also widely recognized from her work in Billy Porter's directorial debut for MGM, Anything's Possible (2022), along with her roles in the horror cult-hit Freaky (2020), Summer '03 (2018), and HBO's "Mrs. Fletcher" (2019). In 2024, Kelly made her Broadway producing debut with The Hills of California, a new play by Jez Butterworth, directed by Sam Mendes. She also created, produced and performed I AM WOMAN: A Concert For Female Empowerment, a benefit concert for women's rights which debuted Off-Broadway at Feinstein's 54 Below in February 2020 and was revived at The Green Room 42 in November 2022. Most recently, Kelly produced and performed in Reach For The Stars: A Cabaret For A BroaderWay, a benefit concert in partnership with Idina Menzel’s Charity Organization. She currently serves as Executive Producer of the SAG Short-Film Pickleback, premiering at LA Shorts this summer, and is the producer and star of F***ing Swans, a new play premiering in London this fall. Kelly is repped by Authentic Talent and Literary Management.
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Kelly’s photo was taken by Brandon Martinez
