Hollywood isn't just who you know. It's whether you're worth knowing.

$599 includes one year of access to The Proven Path, The Seed Skills™, our Library of additional resources, all course updates during that year, and the community, including monthly office hours and in-person LA gatherings.

After your first year, you can keep access to everything for $24.99 per month or $199 per year. Payment plans through Klarna and Afterpay are also available for the initial purchase.

Then don’t buy it right now. Seriously. One of the lessons is about building a financial safety net before moving to Los Angeles. It would be ridiculous to encourage you to create more financial stress to buy a career course.

Payment plans can help spread out the cost. But if buying this would put you in a tough spot, keep learning through free resources and come back when it’s an investment you can responsibly make. The course should help you build your future, not make it harder to pay for the present.

Yoni and Jesse believe in this material because they’ve spent years putting it into practice in their own lives and helping others do the same. They’ve seen people take the advice, do the work, and move their careers forward. They want you to give it a real shot, and they’re willing to stand behind it.

Here’s what that means: work through the lessons, complete the accompanying exercises, and spend your first 90 days putting what you’re learning into practice. Keep a daily journal using the course’s journaling guidance. Document what you tried, what happened, and what you’re noticing about yourself. You don’t have to do it perfectly. You just have to do it.

If you’ve done that and don’t feel the course has been worth it, email us at refund@cuttohollywood.com within 14 days of completing the 90-day journaling challenge. Include a short account of what you put into practice, along with excerpts from your journal showing that work, and you’ll receive a full refund.

Yes. Get the free Course Preview by creating a free account.

The preview includes four short lessons, about 45 minutes total, that you can watch at your own pace. Start with Writing a Cold Email That Gets Answered, a lesson that teaches you an immediate and powerful skill. Then explore the approach behind the course, see what’s in the curriculum and resource Library, and take a tour of our Community.

If you’re on the fence, the Course Preview will help you decide if this course is right for you.

Let’s start with who this is not for. If you’re consistently employed, working with people who create an environment for you to do your best work, and you feel good about where your career is headed, this isn’t for you.

But if you’re like most people trying to build a career in one of the most competitive industries in the world, there’s likely a gap between where you are right now and where you want to be. Maybe you’re thinking of moving to LA but don’t know how to take that first step. Maybe you’re already here, but uncertain how to break in. Or maybe you’re well into your career but feeling stuck or looking to pivot into another area of the industry, and “just keep networking” isn’t really cutting it (pun absolutely intended). If any of those sound like they could be you, then CUT TO: Hollywood is for you.

For those of you just starting out, The Proven Path walks you through practical steps, from figuring out what you actually want to preparing for your first day on the job. If you’re already working, some of those steps may be behind you. But knowing the steps and seeing where you might have taken a wrong turn along the way are very different things. The Seed Skills™ teach you how to stand out, while the community provides a space to practice, people to ask, and honest feedback that people in professional settings often won’t give you.

No. Yoni and Jesse are both editors, so naturally, many of their stories come from their personal experiences. But the underlying lessons go beyond post-production.

The practical skills of knowing how to reach out to professionals organically, build trust, explain what you bring to a project, and then be the kind of person people want to work with all matter whether you’re editing, directing, producing, writing, acting, or anything else.

No. You can start from anywhere. Some of The Proven Path is specifically designed to happen before you move, so you don’t land in LA with no plan.

The course, community discussions, and monthly office hours are online. The in-person LA gatherings are there for people who can make them.

But this is CUT TO: Hollywood. The first portion of The Proven Path is about navigating Los Angeles and the film and television industry here. If you’re building a career somewhere else, the principles of relationship building, opportunity creation, and working with others still apply. They are universal.

No course can promise that. But there is a difference between waiting for a lucky break and doing things that give opportunities a chance to find you. That’s what we call Built Luck.

CUT TO: Hollywood helps you work on the parts you can influence: making better decisions, getting in front of people, making a stronger impression when you do, and building a reputation people want to pass along. And when somebody says, ‘Send me your resume’ or ‘Can you jump on a call?’ you’re actually prepared instead of scrambling.

You can’t control when someone has an opening or who else is being considered. But you can learn how to create more opportunities and get better at making something of them.

CUT TO: Hollywood has two pillars: The Seed Skills™ and The Proven Path.

The Seed Skills™: 10 lessons on everything besides your craft. Film school teaches you how to edit, write, shoot, or produce. That’s the technical part of the job. But in Hollywood, almost everyone in the room is talented. Talent gets you considered. It’s rarely what gets you hired, and it’s almost never what gets you hired again.

What does? How you work with people. How you handle pressure. How you take a note, own a mistake, or explain an idea. Most people call these “soft skills” and assume you either have them or you don’t. We call them The Seed Skills™, because they’re where opportunities grow from. And they can be learned.

You’ll learn how to frame your story so people understand the value you bring to a project. How to notice the subtle shifts in energy during a coffee meeting or interview that tell you whether your story is landing. How to take responsibility for mistakes in a way that builds trust instead of eroding it. And how to make people comfortable enough around you that they want to hire you, and work with you again and again.

When you master The Seed Skills™, you gain control over the subconscious signals you send in every interaction, whether virtual or in person.

The Proven Path: 17 lessons on what to do next. This pillar puts The Seed Skills™ to work, taking you from wherever you are right now to your first day on the job. It starts by asking whether you’re chasing a dream you actually want to build your life around. Then walks you through practical steps toward breaking into Hollywood: preparing for the move, finding people to reach out to and figuring out what to say, navigating coffee meetings, getting ready for interviews, and showing up for your first day.

But the goal isn’t just to take each step. It’s to take each one in a way that creates more opportunity. Every step along The Proven Path includes an underlying principle that does exactly that, and teaches you how to use it. The result? You expand your surface area for luck.

For example, where you live. You can choose to live anywhere in Los Angeles, but only some neighborhoods put you close to the studios, the jobs, and the people you want to meet. Live there, and it’s easy to say yes to a last-minute coffee or a day-of gig. Or money. A financial safety net isn’t just about comfort or survival. It’s about options. It means you can afford the unpaid shadowing day or the short-notice trial shift, and say yes with confidence, because you’ve built a life that works for you instead of against you.

And these lessons go beyond any particular moment in your career. You only have one first day on your first Hollywood job. But building relationships, asking peers and mentors for help, and preparing for opportunities? You’ll do those on loop throughout your career.

Lessons include videos, text, and exercises to help you immediately put what you’re learning into practice. The point is to recognize where you’re at, see where you’re getting stuck, and know what to do differently.

Film school can teach you the craft and still leave you wondering how to build a career. Who do you reach out to? What do you say? What does a coffee meeting actually look like? How do you make a good impression where someone will remember you in three weeks when a job comes up? Or answer “Tell me about yourself” without reciting your life as a series of sterile dates and bullet points? CUT TO: Hollywood gives you practical ways to approach those situations, with exercises to help you prepare. You will always need to learn and practice your craft. But you’ll also need to learn and practice building a career around it.

You can learn a lot for free, and you absolutely should. Yoni and Jesse have, too. Books, videos, conversations, and courses (both free and paid) have all shaped what they teach. The challenge is filtering and distilling all of that information into what’s actually useful, how it fits together, and what to do with it.

With CUT TO: Hollywood, you’re standing on the shoulders of everything they’ve learned, including what they’ve learned the hard way. They’ve sorted through it, connected it to their experience in Hollywood, and organized it into something you can use. The Proven Path gives you a sequence to follow. The Seed Skills™ give you behaviors to practice. And the community gives you somewhere to bring the question that a video can’t answer: “Okay, here’s what happened when I tried it. What am I missing?”

We recommend roughly one lesson a day, which takes you through the curriculum in about a month. You could power through the course videos in a few hours, but why? You’re not cramming for an exam on Friday. You’re practicing for situations you’ll keep encountering for the rest of your career. Plan on 90 days of practice and daily journaling to give yourself time to soak it in and put it to work.

It’s hard to plan your next move when every headline makes you wonder if the career you’re working toward will even exist. Nobody knows exactly where this is all headed. We won’t pretend we do. It’s not only reasonable to be worried, it’s almost necessary.

But the only real question is: what do you do with that worry? How do you harness it into something actionable?

You stay a student.

Learn the tools. Study what’s working and why. Question your assumptions.

When opportunities are harder to come by, knowing how to build real human relationships, communicate what you bring to a situation, and prepare for your shot with a thought-through strategy matters even more. That’s what CUT TO: Hollywood helps you practice. But whether you learn here or somewhere else, just keep learning.

It’s natural to be frustrated about a system that feels broken. Just don’t let it become an excuse to stop investing in your career, your education, and your life.

The community is a private online space for people who want to build a life in film and television and help each other get better at it. Bring the lesson you’re wrestling with, the outreach email you haven’t sent, or the interview you walked away from thinking, “What just happened?” Through discussions, monthly office hours, and in-person LA gatherings, you can work through those questions with Yoni, Jesse, their special industry guests, and other members.

Most professional interactions don’t come with an honest debrief. People move on, and you’re left guessing. Here, you can practice an interview, hear how your answer landed, and try it again. You’re surrounded by people learning the same material, so you can watch how they approach things, practice together, and help each other figure out what’s working. Yoni and Jesse have been giving each other candid feedback for years. So they built a place where you can ask for that honesty, make mistakes, and come back for another go.

And yes, you can talk about something besides work. Find the people who want to make a short film, go mountain biking, play board games, or get everyone together for dinner. The people you spend time with shape your life. This is a chance to build relationships with people who care about creating things and are willing to keep learning.

Yes. Yoni and Jesse respond to lesson comments, participate in forum discussions, and hold monthly office hours where you can bring questions and things you’re working through. One or both of them will also be at the in-person LA gatherings, occasionally with special industry guests.

Any of those interactions could mean helping you make sense of a lesson, talking through your next move, or giving you an outside perspective on how you’re coming across. They built CUT TO: Hollywood because this kind of exchange has mattered in their own careers and they want to be part of it in yours.

CUT TO: Hollywood is new, and our community is still being built. Joining now, while the group is small, means more chances to interact directly with Yoni and Jesse, for them to learn what you’re working toward, and for you to get to know them.

Joining early also means you’ll help shape what this community becomes. The questions you ask, the things you get stuck on, and the ideas you bring will help inform future discussions, exercises, and resources. If you like the idea of building the kind of creative community you’ve been looking for, this is a chance to be there from the beginning.