27-year-old magician shares 3 lessons behind her success
Anna DeGuzman started practicing magic as a way to keep herself entertained as a kid. Now, the 27-year-old has turned her hobby into a career and performs for star-studded audiences around the world.
DeGuzman is one of the few women in magic and got her start by performing for friends and posting videos of her card tricks on social media when she was a teenager. She got enough buzz to be featured on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us,” “Australia’s Got Talent,” and in 2023 was the runner-up of “America’s Got Talent,” becoming the first-ever female magician to make the finale.
She’s hit a few career highlights already, like performing with her idol David Blaine and working with Complex to host her own YouTube show.
DeGuzman says her success so far comes down to three big lessons:
Learn to fail in front of people
“The thing about magic is you can’t practice in front of a mirror,” she tells CNBC Make It. “It’s something you have to just go out and do and test and fail for real people. That’s the only way you learn what works.”
Make everything you do look like magic
The mindset isn’t just for magicians, she says: “Whether you’re a singer, an accountant, a lawyer, just live life that way, as if you have the opportunity [for] serendipity to happen.”
Stay humble, but confident
“I have so much respect for them, and we’re all in that same boat of feeling like we have a lot of young people, especially young girls, watching us,” DeGuzman says.
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