Life & Work with Athena Vas

Today we’d like to introduce you to Athena Vas.

Hi Athena, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I grew up as a competitive figure skater where I would perform showcases on the ice. This brought out my acting abilities and I fell in love with it since I was three years old. I would perform on the ice and at my local theater. As I got older, I performed off Broadway in New York City. Then I realized, my true passion is TV and Film so I have been working the past two years on transitioning from theater to film. This year I am proud to announce I have signed with Step Forward entertainment as my management in LA. I am also working with a few different agencies for my Theatrical Representation including Stephanie Talent and Entertainment and Hanns Wolters International Agency. I’m also a represented model with MWA Made Worldwide Agency. I am constantly going out on auditions virtually of course for network television roles and the lead in a few films. I am very grateful for each audition I receive and this is only the beginning of my journey.

One day I’m going to be as big as Angelina Jolie and we all start somewhere. The key is to never give up and I’m going to keep pushing each day until I live out my every dream because if you can’t make yourself happy then who will? We are put on this earth to achieve greatness and ultimate success and it’s a shame if we don’t pursue everything we ever wanted. During the pandemic, I was the host for Shockfest film festival in Times Square where I appeared on the Godzilla billboard. When the pandemic hit, I decided to change my life completely and use this extra time to not only help myself but help others as well and this is when I decided to become an influencer. When everyone told me it was impossible to become an influencer, that I started too late in the game and I needed to get into this industry years ago, all I heard was it is possible. My main goal why I became an influencer was to help motivate others to pursue their dreams and never give up. To show everyone that they are capable. They just have to start and believe in themselves.

Too often, we were told we can’t do something and we let it affect our inner confidence but I make daily posts reminding everyone that they are completely capable and everyone has the ability to succeed they just have to start by believing in themself first. Just to show you that anything is possible in June 2020, I said one year from now I will have 100,000 followers and aim to help each and every one of them through my captions and stories on Instagram. Within four months, I achieved my goal. Now here we are a year later and I reached over 200,000. My TikTok has 165,000 followers as well. This year I received my fitness certification so that I’m able to help reach more people achieve the body of their dreams and will be releasing a 90 day coaching program. This coaching program will be very unique where I will show you my secret ninja hacks to working out in less than 25.minutes a day with no cardio and still eating the foods you like! I just want to be able to help others achieve their dreams and be happy with themselves. I also do travel promotions for hotels to help gain tourism. I have been invited on Brian Sebastian show that receives 1 million daily views https://itube247.com/video/movie-reviews-more-edie-hand/. He particularly chose to interview me because he hasn’t seen anyone with such enormous growth on social media within one year. In addition to the Brian Sebastian show I was also recently interviewed on the Jimmy Kimmel show.

My Instagram page receives 14 million impressions and several of my videos have received 5 million views with over 100,000 likes and 2000+ comments. I also get invited to speak in universities in order to reach young women and motivate them to pursue all their dreams and goals in life. I truly enjoy helping people and it makes me happy that I can make a difference by simply sharing a few positive messages around the world. I get messages in my inbox daily telling me how I have help them overcome many obstacles in their life just by reading everything I have to say. I am 100% Greek American born in the USA. I speak and read and write Greek fluently. I love to greek dance and I am very family-oriented. I love all people equally and I am a firm believer that I will never judge anyone based on who you are where you came from. I just look at who you are on the inside.

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It has definitely been a very long journey. I hit rock-bottom in my life when my mother passed away a few years ago and everyone I’ve ever loved has disappeared from my life. It’s almost as if my mom was the glue that held everyone together and without her, I am completely alone. But oddly enough when she passed away all of a sudden fiends that I haven’t heard from in years, rekindled and I am so grateful for all of our new relationships.

I know what it’s like to struggle in life. I was taking care of both my sick parents at such a young age with absolutely no help in the world. I was going through it completely alone and it was a real tragedy. They were both in two different hospitals at the same time. I’m what you call a true ride or die. I would do anything for someone that I love and i mean ANYTHING. My mom really wanted to see my father while they were both in the two different hospitals, so I snuck her out of the hospital and wheeled her down the hill and walked her to the other hospital. It was only about a 20 minute walk but I made it happen because I believe that love is what keeps a sick person alive and I wasn’t going to stand in the way of that.

I realize that life is so difficult and the only way to succeed is to pick yourself up and never stop pushing. No matter what you go through in life, it is important to remember that it is OK to be down sometimes. It is OK to feel sad but one day you have to get up because if you don’t get up, you’re only going to get worse. The reason, I hustle and work my butt off is to make my mom in heaven proud. Everything I do, is for her. One day I’m going to be so huge she’ll be able to see me from heaven as a star.

Everyone is dealt different cards in their lives but it is up to us to win the game. Never make excuses, just make moves and you will go far. When they tel me it can’t be done, all I hear is it can be done. When they tell me it is not possible, all I hear is it is possible. In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, if you don’t have a clear vision or a clear plan for your life, you run around in circles and end up going nowhere. Have a clear vision, have a plan and never stop working towards that plan and it will happen.

This year I got into the best shape of my life all by doing home work outs, 25 minutes a day with no cardio and I aim to teach other busy bees exactly what I did. I am developing a coaching program that will be available to the public very soon. I used to work out two hours a day, one hour cardio and one hour strength training and prep all of my meals. I was on a strict diet where I would count all my calories and I never looked how I do now. It’s mind-boggling to me how I developed such a great plan that all you need is 25-minute home work outs and no cardio. Amazing.

Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
My number one is Wendy Alane Wright she is a talent Agent and Manager from Los Angeles who inspires actors to pursue their dreams and never give up. When my mom passed away, I started watching her YouTube videos and she is so encouraging and has a very similar personality to mine. I listened to her videos daily even while I was taking a shower or driving and she motivated me to stop feeling sad and just get up and crush my goals.

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.Athenany.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamathenany/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/athenavasny
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/athenavas
• Youtube: http://youtube.com/iamathenany
• Other: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm11137642/