"Shawn's coaching contains a potent mixture of industry smarts and intuitiveness that has made a huge difference in my career. If you commit yourself and take on what she gives you, there's no limit to what you can do."

"Shawn Tolleson took my career to the next level AND created mind-blowing breakthroughs in my personal development! I am blessed to have a true industry-family that supports my goals and pushes me to new heights I never knew I could reach."

"What to do when you're stuck? I did the Advance Team™ with Shawn Tolleson. The great support of the small group was incredible to keep me on the path to the goals I had set for the intense 3 month period. Shawn was able to get me over more than one hump that had stopped me. I talked to numerous agents who I hadn't approached before, got back into the business habits that I had been neglecting and learned the very important lesson of saying 'NO!' I finally realized that all the little insignificant projects that were keeping me 'busy', were actually just keeping me from the more significant, notable work I desired. By the end of the Advance Team™ I was working on a Hallmark movie, writing the dramatic underscore I had envisioned. The Team opened me up to many ways that I was thinking small and stopping myself rather than doing what I really wanted – and needed. I highly recommend Shawn Tolleson's Advance Team™ – and take it to the next level!"

"My Advanced Team™ experience continues to resonate for me on a daily basis; not only did I learn to dream bigger, but I gained the tools to wrangle the daily minutiae necessary to realize those dreams. Shawn Tolleson's savvy and experience in the entertainment trenches combined with her sensitive guidance helped me to merge the artist and businessman in me."

"Shawn Tolleson is a powerhouse. In an industry that is constantly moving forward, Shawn is in step with how to take actors from zero to sixty or from sixty to six hundred on the freeway of acting."

"When I get stuck in my career I take one of Shawn's workshops to get back on track.  I recently completed Jump Start™, and I am more excited and motivated about my career than in the 5 years I've been in L.A.  With Shawn's guidance, I was able to narrow down my goals, get focused, and now I finally have direction with my career. Shawn helped me create a map of what I am going to achieve in 2010 and HOW I will accomplish it.  Everything you learn in these workshops you can take with you for the REST OF YOUR CAREER!" 

"The more success I've achieved in my career the more I've craved high-level coaching. Shawn Tolleson's insight, intuition, and strategic understanding of the industry have helped me to soar."

"The Advance Team™ is an excellent resource for clarifying, pursuing and manifesting your goals. Shawn Tolleson blends inspiration and out-of-the-box thinking to help her team reach their goals. My Advance Team™ paid off 100%."

"The Advance Team™ experience created exactly what I'd hoped-- a new way of being. The meetings and individual interactions bring prodding, brainstorming, role-playing, accountability and overwhelming support. Shawn Tolleson builds a zone of love and growth and change with her incredible coaching and unfailing instinct for recognizing and illuminating our inner blocks. There is no negativity here, only belief in each person's unique strengths. Surprisingly, the structure itself brings a way to develop and cultivate powerful new habits and modes of working.

"I've done more in the last three months than I've done in years. I've grown more in the last three months than in years of therapy. I've broken the chains that had always stopped me and moved forward in my career in ways I never expected. Through the Advance Team™ I've uncovered a much more powerful Self. No goal is too big, only too small."

"About five years ago I was coaching movement on the set of a major motion picture for one of the studios. I was supposed to be on that film for potentially three months, and, due to a few major mistakes I made on set, was told not to come back after only three days. I was devastated and left the industry for three years.

"A year and a half ago, I started attending Strategy for Actors & Filmmakers™. Shortly after Shawn delivered her 'Pitching Yourself Powerfully,' workshop, I saw the director of that film in the grocery store. Using what I learned from the 'Pitching Yourself Powerfully' workshop at SFAF, I felt totally empowered to walk right up to him, reintroduce myself, apologize for the mistakes I made on his set, acknowledge his incredible work...and walk away. I was not the guy anymore who didn't know what he was doing, and that director sensed it. During our brief conversation he asked me what I was doing now, chatted about creature performer work, accepted my apology and thanked me very much for coming over. That episode on his set all those years ago had completely knocked me off my game, but after presenting myself so powerfully in the grocery store, I felt like I had a fresh start.

"Using the tools that Shawn teaches in her Strategy for Actors and Filmmakers™ workshop, I went on to pitch myself three times to MTV and booked every time. You see, those appearances on MTV weren't based on auditions but conversations and presentations I had to make to the segmet producers. I use the 'Pitching Yourself Powerfully' tools ALL THE TIME.

"Also, since completing The Advance Team™ recently, I now have commercial representation! The commercial workshop with Brando Olech was so helpful in getting me ready for my meetings and conversations with both agents. It was amazing having multiple offers, and I felt like I knew just how to handle those offers because of everything I've learned in SFAF. As I've shared about, I had been in a position of some power before, and I blew it. This experience made me realize that it's not enough to be in that position--you have to know what to do in that position; you have to know how to conduct yourself. I really feel that, because of SFAF, I knew just how to communicate and work powerfully with these two agents, and it turned out better than I could have imagined. Thank you so much!"