My Disney Story

hi guys welcome back to my channel I am so excited it is finally fall and I can't wait for Halloween and all of the makeup tutorials I will be making I am so pumped so I hope you guys are excited to you if you are new to my channel my name is Mackenzie and I love makeup and Disney and today I am really excited because I'm going to tell you guys all about my Disney's story so it's going to be about how much I love Disney as a kid would that look like for me what it was like for me being a cast member and even why I left the company so I hope you guys are really excited to hear my Disney story and let's get started so the story starts when I was just 2 years old my very very very very very first memory was when I when I was 2 I remembered our cousins were over for some reason and I was asking her like Oh what are we gonna watch and she's just like oh you'll see just wait and I remember her you know sitting down the carpet watching the movie and I remember seeing all these dolphins and I was really excited I was like oh it's a veggie movie and you see the dolphins and you see a ship and then you see like these silhouettes so neither the water and you're just like what's that and then all of a sudden you see all these merpeople that was like the moment I fell in love with mermaids I have loved mermaids since I was two my favorite movie in the entire world is the Little Mermaid she was just my favorite and I just loved mermaids I grew up thinking if I was a marine I would have a pink tail just like her sister Alana it was love at first sight so I always loved a little mermaid my other two top favorite Disney characters when I was a kid or Bella jasmine now I would have to say it would probably be Rapunzel as well and onna I think they're both awesome but my top three were Ariel Belle and jasmine and yeah I just love mermaids when I was a kid I was that kid that had Princess Parties of course and then when I was doing this little ballet production at my Elle three school I somehow got to be Arial which was fantastic I just love Arial so I had I even like a mermaid room like I had a huge mural of me as a mermaid oh my room or in my room oh my wall and I just recently painted over it like within the past like six months I was born in California so I grew up having annual passes to Disneyland when I was a little kid and we would go there apparently like it was the park it was just a really magical place and it was fun and it was a great place to spend time with family some of my favorite memories with my family have been at Disneyland I just love all the rides I think my favorite ride has got to be slashed melon for sure and a cup of course loving Disney movies I am obsessed with Disney movies there's very few distant movies I haven't seen again obviously the little mermaids my favorite so yeah I just think this living at Disney movies that just gives you hope and teaches you to dream I've always loved Disney because it just gives you that ability to have dreams that just shows you these characters who triumph over all these obstacles and still like achieve their dreams and they're also driven and dedicated I know a lot of people these days will just kind of bash on Disney movies say oh they're sexist or they're terrible but honestly it's it's a I think they're all pretty good movies you kindly show you that like you can you have the ability to change where you're at you have the ability to pursue your dreams no one's holding you back with yourself and I've just always I've always loved that so that was kind of me growing up as a kid my family all love Disney a ton I got that love for my mom and my dad my mom worked for the company at the corporation so I have tons of like old like 80s Disney stuff and it's so cool and my grandpa also played on the band on opening day and when we go to the parks and the kid we'd always go with my family and then also my uncle as well so my dad's best friend he was like an uncle to us because we would always go to the parks with him and he would fly with us and it was just really special it was just a very special place so obviously my dream job since I was a kid was to be a Disney Princess I remember when I would go to the parks and my mom would like secretly like pass the character attendant like Oh like how old do they have to be and maybe look they look at me like oh how old is she and they say like Oh fifteen and yet but they would tell her look online that's where they show the auditions so that's something I've always wanted to do I just couldn't figure out how to fit it in my schedule when I was in high school applying for colleges I really wanted to go to a zoo specific that's a college in California it's maybe about half an hour to an hour away from Disneyland and I wanted to go there for a lot of reasons but one reason I wanted to go there and so I could work as a cast member to like I was like oh my gosh this is such a great idea I could go to school in California and I could be a cast member seasonally and that would just be the perfect idea world and then I decided to not move away far from hollow moves like maybe 20 minutes away from home we went to college in Washington State and that dream died but I still really wanted to go so when I was in high score sorry when I was in college I had heard about the Disney College Program and I thought this is perfect because I could still go to Disney and I could come back to college like it works but then it was really hard for me because every time I wanted to apply over the applications came out I was like oh this isn't sending my schedule because I would miss all these things like in the fall you would miss football I just didn't want to miss any college football or anything fun to happen in the fall and then the spring we do a lot of events was my sorority and I was like oh man I would be so bummed if I went there and missed out on all these different things so for me I always really wanted to do it but then I just couldn't figure out how to work in my schedule seeing year rolls around at this point I've kind of given up the idea of being a part of the college program then right before school starts my family had some stuff happen my dad basically he was going for a run and something didn't feel right and come to find out later one hit is like arteries was really really clogged and if they had to put like a stint in so for me this Coolio's artist her and then all that happened and I knew that that was nothing life-threatening but it was still kind of scary for us to have in my family my growing up I really didn't have anything major happen I think the biggest thing that ever happened was like my grandpa died when I was in high school and I was really close to him so that was really hard but other than that like I've never had anything like losing a parent or anything like that happened so that was pretty it wasn't scary for me but they would definitely open my eyes like oh my gosh like I guess my parents are going to page where they could start to have health problems and that is very concerning so um that happened and this is about almost three years ago now and within a week it was September 17th 2014 so we're actually about three years ago I've got some of the absolute worst news of my life my mom called me and she just sounded really upset and I could understand what was wrong and I kept asking like his dad okay cuz my dad just had those issues she's like oh that's fine she's like I just need you to come home and I'm like okay well I can figure out like what you need to come home this afternoon and I'm like okay so you been where they were driving home and she went to tell us what was up we kept trying to ask her like what's going on so he get home and he goes sell the couch and my mom and dad do not look very upset and they sit down that okay so oh there's something we need to tell you um you know there were some people over at your uncle's house today and they had found a body basically long story short they found out that the homeless kid that he had taken in had murdered him and it was it was extremely hard and it was one of those things where I had grown up in this perfect little bubble of a life and I just thought like oh if you're a good person nothing bad will ever happened to you and that just really really rocked my world and um it still does apparently happen and um now it was extremely hard for me senior because everyone's my age I was 21 or 22 the round bars how you find like I couldn't late to anyone my age anymore and it was it was extremely difficult because very few people my age have to come to this realization if you lose a parent or you lose someone close to you you understand that how fragile life is and I feel like it was a hard lesson I had to learn but now I'm grateful for it because I can appreciate things so much more now because I'm not just thinking oh I'll live forever everyone's gonna live forever like it made me realize like I'm not guaranteed any time with my family or my friends or I'm not guaranteed tomorrow you're really not like something something sudden could happen and so it made me just realize like how much I need to love people and that just became a big passion for me senior year it's just really cutting out I guess the bowl and just really being genuine and and just speaking my mind and not just sugarcoating things so that happened and it was really hard for me to relate to other people just because I was still grappling with that and senior year around January we had this new roommate move in and her name is Mandy and she had done the Disney call program and like oh my gosh that's so cool like I always wanted to do that I never got the chance to do that but that's really cool and she was talking to me about her experience with it and it just made me wish I had the chance to do that she was like well you still kind of like there's applications coming out they come out in January so you could still do it I'm like yeah like it was something I kind of gave up on the other point I was just like I was in a very different place in my life than it was even six months before that all happened so I was just not really thinking that was something I wanted to do at this point I was really depressed and I had really my relationship with God was really rocky because I was still grappling with like the holy like how could a good God allow these types of things to happen I remember going on a run and that run I was just having some meat time I was listening to worship music and I remember just praying and I hadn't really prayed in a while but I was just like you know it got it like I feel like I'm gonna write right now I don't know what I'm doing I don't know what I'm doing after college I don't know I'm doing for the rest my life like I just feel like I really need some guidance and I need you to give me some really bold guidance like if you want me to do something I really need to hear it loud and clear I just I'm not sure Moses to be doing so I go on the run and on the run I just kept thinking over and over again like I should apply for the program but I was just thinking now like I just don't I don't really have the time to do that but I got home and my friend Mandy who is mount my roommate Mandy was like oh my gosh you'll never guess what happened I'm like what happened she's like the applications for the college program just came out today and I'm like what's so weird coincidence and she's like that's not even the best part like what's the best part she's like they're having auditions for character performers in Seattle and they like never do that I'm like okay I guess I'm applying for the college for and I'm going to the audition so I was like well I guess it doesn't hurt to try so I applied online and then about a week later I got a phone interview and then I think like a couple except to the hot I did the phone interview and they were asking it like what would you want to do and I did makeup so I thought the ad Boppity boutique would be fun and I also loved acting I'm a really big character performer but I thought you know the character attendant role might be fun too so they were asking lots of questions about that how I would respond to things and like situations as a character attendant and I think it went really really well I tried to be the most happy and disney-esque cast performer ever I was just really trying to sell myself and actually it apparently it worked and about a I was a mother so later I got an email back saying congratulations you were selected as the character attendant role for the fall colors program so for that if you want to be a performer you have to go the audition so can't just like give you the performer roll over the phone you have to go the audition so I went to the audition and I made it through the first round and I made through the second round and then I didn't get it and I was so bummed do they almost didn't even do the call program because like I just wanted to be a performer like that's gonna really suck when I was like you know what like you've been to me have the opportunity to go to Disney World and work as a cast member and it's not forever it's only for four months so if you absolutely get it like you can just come home it's fine so I was like sure why not so I packed up all my things and moved to Florida and the best part - is that my roommate Mandy also got into the college program so she was sleeping their roommate in Florida which was a huge help because I am an inter her and I'm a homebody and having someone from home just made it so much easier for me and the idea moving across the country was so scary and it was still scary like there are days where I was just missed my home and I miss my boyfriend I miss my friends and it was really really hard but just having that person there who knew my boyfriend who knew my family knew my friends who knew where I went to school it was just so nice and it was just that piece of home it was a hard transition but she was there and I was so excited but I didn't notice when I started there that like again the whole reason I even bring up the whole thing would happen when my uncle is because I am just I see things a lot differently than most people my age would and so that really did affect my college program because there was a lot of like 18 and 19 year-olds they were really young I would definitely say they were either like freshmen or sophomores in college I was one of the older people there and the thing that they liked to do were different than things I like to do so I didn't really get to know a ton of other people outside my living situation or as other people did then they had a great time getting to know and make friends but my friends I made are wonderful I had to like interrupt my training to go home it was the one-year anniversary of my uncle passing away and it was also my boyfriend's birthday so I was able to like take a break for my training and fly home really quick and fly back but because I did that I had to take my like second-to-last training day differently and I was of three girls I only ended up becoming such great friends and they were some of my most best friends and I love them and it was just so cool that like because I did that I just happened to meet these people and they were just like my best friends while I was there college program I was a character attendant and at first I didn't want to do it but then once I got the hang of it I loved it it was so much fun I love telling stories so it was so fun to be with different characters and then just really you mixed it up a lot and because you're in the college program you get kind of the last ships that no one wants but you also get the more like random shifts like for the Halloween parties over the Christmas parties so I got to do all these different Halloween parties and it was so much fun cuz I got to work with these four characters and it was just so much fun like it was truly a childhood dream come true because at this point like I took him up on doing the college program I'm like I won't be able to do that while I'm in college but since I applied while I was still in college I had graduated so I didn't have to worry about classes and it was just the most amazing opportunity and I absolutely loved it I loved all my character attendant friends we all got super close and it was just a really fun community and I a hundred do not regret anything like I do not regret my time there whatsoever I loved it I still have this voice inside me though saying like oh my gosh you should be a character performer so I went to one a more college program audition and I went to the second round and then they got cut and then I went to a Tokyo I think audition or Shanghai and I got cut like the first round because I audition is like on steroids like you should be a really good dancer and people were at headshots and resumes and I didn't have anything so I was like well this is fun at least in this at least I tried it at least I saw what it was like but then there was one more audition and I almost didn't go because I'm like well what's that gonna look like because I'm such a homebody and change just freaks me out and so I'm like how would that even work like I would have to like find an apartment and shoot my car out and not just that those Jewish things that like I would have to happen for me to like get this job yeah it just doesn't make any sense for me so I almost didn't go but I was like you know what like why not why not just go oh the audition see what happens so I go to the care to a look-alike audition for full-time and part-time performers and I get there and there's just tons and tons of girls there's probably even like the most you would see sometimes you would see like 700 but there's still like you know like 400 girls there there's a lot of people so it takes a long time for me to like go in on the first round and I'm in the room of 30 other women and they line you up and rows a 10 and I think I was like the third person in the right hand side and they are playing to see music and you're just standing there and you're smiling like you're about ready to be Miss America like you were smiling like like just so excited and happy because like if you think about for the job like they want to see you smiling so so who aren't even smiling so we were just catching and they're like but I'm just standing there I'm trying to see it like tall and confident and smiling and and they Cassie Turner kept looking back at me and I'm like maybe I'm doing a good job I don't know but when she was going through the very end she sub row by row and then you switch rows so there's 30 people there's three rows of ten and at the very end in that room of 30 people she called two numbers and one of them happened to be mine but I was like oh my gosh like what are the chances I was picked out of like two plus thirty that's like less than 10% of the room so I was like shoot like that was a huge cut and then after that we went like this dancing animation portion for the second round and I was a room with like ten girls or so so I do the animation and I do the movement portion like okay so we decided we're to keep all of you guys into the third round I'm like there's around three me like I've never made it this far before and I was so excited and I'm like just sitting there like just pinching myself like this isn't real this is not a real situation like this is not happening right now and I could have died happy just from that like that was a fantastic experience and I it was I was on cloud nine it was so magical and then I got they'll saying like literally oh you've been put in the pool and like you've been selected and I was just so excited but then I'm like shoot okay so now I've done this like I just went to the audition just seeing what would happen and now I'm like great well now what am I gonna do because I I genuinely could not decide I was 50/50 on accepting it or not accepting it because the idea of living in Florida full time like living in an apartment and having my car there and like living there for an unsaid my time was just so scary it was so so so scary and I just didn't know if that was something I really wanted to do so I really create about it I thought about it I weighed the pros and cons like this is something everything you want to do um and I I almost didn't do it just because I was really afraid of the idea like what would happen but I just felt like God was telling me like Mackenzie like you need to do this like I would forever regret it if I did not do that like that was my biggest dream as a five year old or a two year old or like even a 17 year old like that was a biggest dream and it's like if I didn't do it like I would forever regret that so even if I did it for a couple months and I hated it and I just came home like I knew I had to do it so it just was so evident to me like this is what I'm supposed to do right now and I just loved my job I loved it so much and I I now know that like I don't care what job I have as long as I am loving people like it was just such a cool experience because I had the amazing opportunity just love people and hug them and tell them but then beautiful and that they are so loved and it was just so it was an amazing job and I ended up living and went out perfectly I was able to live with my one of my friends I met as a character attendant her roommate happen to move out it was a beautiful apartment and I loved living in Florida then you know the weather was really fun too in love thunder lightning and I just absolutely loved my time there I made some really amazing friends and I just felt like I was really living into what God wanted for me I feel like I was living into my purpose our lease is up in June so I told myself you know I gave myself six months I didn't I was relocated so I did have to sign a contract with Disney Orion fan fatso I could leave whenever I wanted to so at this point I've been there for about four months with the college program and then with being there for six months if I toes to leave in June that would mean I would be there for ten months so I wasn't even there for a year but by the time June came around I was I just turned 23 and I love my job but I would think about like what do I see myself doing like do I see myself staying here forever no I love Florida it's fun but I don't really see myself living here their culture is just so different than what I'm used to and living there really made me appreciate the Northwest like there's so many things you can do you could enjoy the lakes and then there's like the hiking and the skiing in the wintertime like there's just so much to love and enjoy about the Northwest and I just I really missed it and I felt like my heart was being pulled back there and so that was one thing and then I also working for Disney is hard to as a performer because you don't you're not guaranteed anything like you're guaranteed like your job like eventually they'll age you out and so you don't know when like I had a friend who is aged out basically at the age of 24 and I knew people there who are 32 who we're still working as the look-alike characters so you just don't really know it's not really in your control and I didn't want to wake up one day 25 and all of a sudden not have a job I have never worked anywhere else had this degree but I don't have any other work experience and have a hard time finding a job or not know what I'm doing with my life like that really scared me and a lot of the people there too that was a that was a great job or someone who is I want to say 19 or 20 you can still do that job at 27 but you're not guaranteed any other opportunities there's some girls that come in with three characters and there's girls who've been there for five years and they'll have one character so you're not guaranteed any opportunities and I I was the idea of staying there for like five years and not doing anything else like I would have loved that but like I wouldn't have been happy in that and so I finally got to the point where again because of what happened to me when I was in college it just made me really think about like where do I see myself in the long term like this is so much fun in the short term but how affect me my long-term and it was not an easy decision to make because I loved my job and that was the hardest thing because I left my job why I still loved it but I'm also kind of glad that happened because I can still you guys can tell like I still love my job like even when I talk about videos there's so many you that say like wow it's so cool to see being so positive and excited about your job because I still love dad left it while I loved it and it wasn't an easy decision to make but it was an adult decision it was a decision that I thought would be best for me and my future and my career and I wasn't sure what that was yet but I knew that it wasn't in Florida and that was really really hard to move home from but it's really special and it's something that will always be special to me and it's really fun for me to make these videos and talk to you guys about it because I feel like I'm still keeping all of that alive and it's just so cool for me to be able to do that so anyways that's my disney story now making videos for you guys all about Disney and what it was like working there and sharing fun experiences and I'm going back to visit in the fall and I'm so excited I can't wait to see my friends again I think I'm going to go to a Halloween party and I'm so excited to share with you guys like costume I'm not going to yet but I'm really excited to tell you guys with what my costume is going to be and yeah so that's my experience I always love the carry Rises Disney stories and how Disney has impacted you and so I find be fun to share my story and all about how Disney has changed my life and how the movies have meant so much to me and honestly like it's crazy it's really crazy for me to think about this two-year-old who had this dream and she just wanted more than anything and then just to see how things lined it out it's just really cool for me it's really cool and it kinda gives me a glowing stuff like how God sees our lives and it's like it's just cool to see kind of the big picture and be like wow like here's this kid who just has this dream and then like she has no idea seven years later like she'll actually get to do it and I know that doesn't always happen and I just feel so thankful that I had the opportunity because I know most people don't even have the opportunity at all and I am so thankful and it was such a wonderful wonderful wonderful experience so yeah that was just a brief synopsis that was like the sparknotes version buy something feel like it was really long of my Disney experience and what my Disney's story was so I hope you guys enjoyed it and I will see you guys in my next video bye

Channel: kenziemacbrown

Views: 44,348

Keywords: My Disney Story, Disney, Disney Story, Disney Cast Member, Disney Princess Stories, Disneyland, Walt Disney World

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Length: 25min 24sec (1524 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 20 2017