Today we’d like to introduce you to Jules Palton.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Jules. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I started off as an actor and a model where it all started for me as a kid. I got my first major print ads with Weiner’s and Foley’s as well as being the face of the billboard for a First Colony neighborhood in Sugarland, TX.
My first TV gig was on Barney and began shooting commercials for Academy Sports & Outdoors, ABC 13, Nextel, and so forth. 27 years of age, I graduated in December 2015, from Texas Southern University with my Bachelor’s degree in Art studying broadcast journalism. My goal was to pursue a career as a TV host, a news anchorman or just a media reporter from ESPN to interviewing people for the Grammy’s. Life happened and it became so hard to find an actual career in my field, even with my experience. I continued to pursue my career in entertainment as an actor and a model where it all started for me as a kid.
I took several breaks on and off in my life to refocus on what was important. When work stopped coming in consistently, I began to go through a point of mild depression, constantly questioning myself asking, “Is this really worth it?” I had to re-discover my purpose and understand if acting and entertainment were really my passion as I thought they were. I always had trouble keeping a job because I was always thinking about my next gig, or what would I have to do next to make it to the next level. Acting was always on my mind and I have an “I only have one life to live so what am I wasting time for,” motto. Enough was enough. I prayed on everything and told God, that if it’s meant for me, to show me the way.
Since then, I have made it as an extra and supporting role on shows such as Dallas in TNT, Salem on WGN, a recent TV pilot named Manny starring TsMadison, and recent commercial shoots for the Golden Nugget Casino and for the Home Depot, with my Budweiser commercial currently airing. Magazine publishing’s from 2Loud to Element Magazines, to shooting for stores clothing and retail stores such as Express, to Macy’s and Hollister, I have done almost everything with many more plans and projects coming up. One of my short-term goals is to land a lead role in a major film, episodic series, or another national commercial gig.
With a new team, my publicist, and agencies backing me up, I’m making the necessary steps and getting closer to my goals each and every day and don’t plan on slowing down anytime soon. Los Angeles or maybe even Atlanta, are looking like my next destinations.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
It has never been the easiest of roads. Entrepreneurship has never been easy, primarily, because of financial stability. Waiting for the next big gig has led me to want to open more revenues of income for myself so that I can invest more in myself, businesses, and to avoid going back to corporate America, working under another individual. Everything costs money. Casting calls, pictures, photo shoots, traveling fees, etc., all cost money. You have to spend money to make it, and that was always a problem so I had to make a way out of no way.
My mother and have family have supported my career path for the most part, and my mother even helped along the way. Me accepting or getting over what others may think of me, my craft, or what I want to do with my life, was always an obstacle that I had to overcome. Hearing people in my ear saying things like, “Oh this won’t go anywhere, get a job doing this, you’ll be just like the rest,” etc,” which is what made me stray away from my pursuing my dream and passion some years back.
Eventually, I overcame most of the mental stages of failure and not having the funds to accommodate my dream, lifestyle and/or bills to help me elevate to the next level. I am just now getting to a place in my life where I have discovered my purpose and how to create multiple revenues of income for myself without returning to the ideal 9-5 in corporate America. At the end of the day, you only have one life to live and every opportunity cannot be passed up because of the opinions of sheep.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Bodied story. Tell us more about the business.
Aside from my acting and modeling career, I began personally training a little over a year ago. I started off doing boot camps around the Houston area and it opened up more doors for me. Cardio, bodybuilding, and toning are my specialties in this field of business. I work outside, in multiple gyms, and travel to my clients as needed, hence, making me more reliable than many other trainers. I am very realistic and relatable when it comes to training with my clients, and very affordable. I have been rather lenient in the past, but I stay with my clients to make sure that they are getting the results that they need to be great.
It started off as a side hustle, and ever since, I have turned my journey to fitness, into a lifestyle. I decided to share my secrets and techniques with others on how I have maintained and kept my size and in good health by becoming a certified personal trainer. Me and a good friend of mine began doing boot camps here in Houston around the summer of 2017. We had so much success that we decided that our brand, “Bodied w/ M.J.” fitness, will be resuming boot camps around May of 2018 once the weather has become consistently feasible to work outside in. Fitness and personal training have become my bread and butter and I just love helping people feel better about themselves, raising their self-esteem and helping them reach that goal or dream body that they desire without going under the knife.
Although I have been athletic and have worked out my entire life, fitness has become a scapegoat and a lifestyle for me. It has really made me feel that I should share that knowledge with someone who really needs it and has become a major investment of mine. I just want people to embrace fitness to the point that it becomes a lifestyle for them, so if you’re looking to tone up, lose some unnecessary body fat, or even just to lose weight or bulking up in general for an affordable grip, I’m your guy. It will require strenuous work, dedication and a lot of discipline, but the outcome will be epic and last you a lifetime if you’re serious. I mean, who doesn’t want to be healthy and fit though? Lol.
Has luck played a meaningful role in your life and business?
Me and luck haven’t really mesh too well. I believe in hard work and consistently grinding it out to get what you want, and where you want to be. However, being in the right place at the right time has been a major key in the world of entertainment and many other aspects of life.
The quote, “It’s all about who you know,” is VERY real and I have seen this for myself on several occasions. I personally have not made all of the necessary connects or that one really huge one just yet to thoroughly elevate myself in that realm just yet, but I have made several connects over time from constant networking, that has me going in the right direction and it’s only up from here.
Pricing:
- Boot Camp prices are ideally $10 to attend, usually on Saturday afternoons.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.julespalton.com
- Email: iam_juelz@yahoo.com
- Instagram: @Iam_juelz
- Facebook: Jules Palton personal page/ Jules Palton Fan Page
Image Credit:
Jared Gilmore – jralphphotos, Charming Charlton – charmingcharltonphotos, Scott Hebert – travelwithscott, Ty Beal – Foto119
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