This is the story of how I manifested becoming a series lead on the Netflix show Degrassi. Some of you recognize me from the show and some of you don't. My character wore a hijab, so I sometimes slip under the radar, but I was on Degrassi for four seasons. What most people don't know is that I manifested that opportunity. I manifested it so hard, for four long years, trying every technique I could find. In the end, only one thing actually worked, and once I figured it out, it happened overnight. I want to share the whole story with you, because every lesson inside it is something you can use to manifest your own dream role.
Where It Started: A Big, Impossible Dream
When I was 12, I fell in love with Degrassi. It was huge at the time, and I was obsessed. I had just started taking a few acting classes, but I honestly had no idea what I was doing. My parents were an accountant and a nurse with zero ties to the entertainment industry, and I grew up in a suburb in Canada. Being on that show was completely outside my reality. I had done maybe one or two small commercials, so I had no logical reason to believe it could happen for me. But I wanted it anyway.
Lesson one: dream so big it feels impossible
This is lesson number one. Don't set your expectations at the level of where you currently are. Set them at the level of where you want to be. Stop manifesting things that merely seem possible, and start manifesting things that feel impossible. When you dream small, you get in your head and start overthinking the how. But when you dream so big that you genuinely can't see how it could happen, there's nothing to overthink, and you leave all that space for the universe to work. Shoot for the moon, and even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
My First Mistake: Obsession and Attachment
I started telling everyone I was going to be on Degrassi. I didn't care how. I said I'd be an extra, do background, be a prop, anything, as long as I was on that show. I scripted constantly, writing "I will be on Degrassi" in present tense hundreds and hundreds of times in my notebook. I'd write it through entire classes instead of paying attention. I'd write until my hand hurt, until I got so angry and frustrated that it wasn't happening yet that I'd scratch and tear the paper.
Lesson two: wanting it until it hurts is a warning sign
That obsession was a double-edged sword. It gave me something to focus on and look forward to, but it crossed into self-destruction. If you want something so badly that it physically hurts, that's a signal you're too attached, and attachment backfires. It means you're operating from scarcity, lack, and fear of not being good enough, instead of from abundance. When you manifest, notice the difference between excited desire and desperate attachment.
Eleven Auditions and a Lot of Heartbreak
At 14, I went to my first Degrassi audition through an open casting call. I didn't hear back, and I was crushed. So I doubled down. I took every acting class I could, ignored school, stopped talking to friends, and isolated myself trying to force it through hustle and beast mode. That was another mistake, because all that tension kept me completely out of alignment. As a 14-year-old, I was as stressed as a 50-year-old.
Eventually I got an agent and more auditions started coming. I got called back again and again. In total, I auditioned for that show around eleven times. One time I made it to the final round, down to just me and one other girl. They even brought me to set for a chemistry read with the actors, producers, and showrunners. And they picked the other girl.
I was devastated and furious, at the universe and at myself. I decided I was done. I was going to quit acting entirely. I was so bitter I didn't even want to watch the show anymore. When my cousins asked to put on Degrassi, I'd say I hated it.
The Shift: How Detachment Changed Everything
While I was drafting the email to tell my agent I was quitting, he sent me yet another Degrassi audition. I was over it, but he insisted. So I told myself I'd do this one last audition and then walk away for good.
By this point, something had changed. I was finally hanging out with friends again. I had a social life. I got my first boyfriend. I was enjoying being a teenager instead of letting acting have a chokehold on my identity and happiness. I was genuinely ready to let it all go. So I walked into that audition relaxed, chatting and laughing with the casting directors I knew so well. I made it to the next round. And the next. And the next. And then I booked the role. The exact moment I decided to quit was the moment it finally happened.
Lesson three: the law of detachment
This is the law of detachment, and it's the technique that actually worked for me. When you fully release your expectations around a desire, it manifests faster. The second I decided I didn't need this role to be happy, that I didn't need it to validate my worth, and I started finding fulfillment in my friends, my relationship, and just being a teenager, my biggest desire came through. I was barely even nervous at that final audition because I was more focused on getting home to see my boyfriend than on booking the part. That level of detachment is exactly what made my performance better.
The Fortune Cookie I'll Never Forget
Right after that final audition, I went to get Chinese food with my mom. My first fortune cookie was empty, so I asked for another from the bowl at the front. I opened it, and it read: "Get ready to become the star." I was 16. I still keep that fortune to this day, and I get chills every time I look at it.
That was when the lesson fully clicked. If you want to fast-track abundance and pull miracles into your life, you have to detach from the outcome and operate from a place where it truly doesn't matter whether the thing happens or not, because your happiness isn't riding on it. You focus on living your life, having fun, and following your bliss, and the manifestation catches up to you.
How You Can Manifest Your Own Dream Role
My story isn't unique to acting or to me. The same formula applies to your dream job, your dream relationship, or any goal that feels out of reach. Here's how to put these lessons to work in your own life.
Dream bigger than feels reasonable
Choose a desire that excites and slightly scares you. If it feels safely achievable, go bigger. The impossibility is what keeps your mind from micromanaging the how and leaves room for the universe to surprise you.
Watch your attachment
Pursue your goal with passion, but check in with yourself often. If wanting it starts to feel like anxiety, anger, or desperation, that's your cue to soften your grip. Abundance attracts. Desperation repels.
Build a full, happy life outside the goal
Detachment isn't about caring less. It's about being so fulfilled elsewhere that your happiness no longer depends on one specific outcome. Nurture your friendships, hobbies, and joys. That fullness is what finally let my manifestation land, and it will do the same for you.
Trust the timing and the signs
It took me four years and eleven auditions, and it still happened overnight in the end. Keep the faith, stay open to the signs the universe sends you, and remember that your "no" often clears the way for a much better "yes."
I could cry talking about how spiritually awakening that whole experience was. The second I detached, the second I took that desire off its pedestal, it came through. If a kid from a Canadian suburb with no industry connections can manifest a series lead role, you can absolutely manifest the dream that's calling you.
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