Mark Edwards
Financial Coach

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“An incredible mentor… lasting impact on both my professional and personal growth”

Marina Santamauro
Dance Supervisor, Toronto

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  • Mark and I have worked together at Disney Cruise Line for the past three years, and he’s become both a close friend and an incredible mentor. From the beginning, he believed in my potential and pushed me to step outside my comfort zone, always offering thoughtful guidance and honest advice.

    What truly sets Mark apart is how he balances mentorship with genuine friendship. He’s helped me not only grow within the company, but also understand what makes me unique and how to use that to become a stronger, more confident leader.

    I’m incredibly grateful for his support and the lasting impact he’s had on both my professional and personal growth. Anyone looking for a coach who is insightful, supportive, and truly invested in your success would be lucky to work with Mark.

You are a CREATIVE.

There’s a story you need to tell so badly it keeps you up at night, until is has no choice but to radiate from your soul in movement, in song, in poetry and prose. 

That is why you are here - to create!

And yet — you’re staring at a credit card statement. Juggling three survival jobs, struggling to find time to audition. Watching money move through your account like water through a sieve, never quite sure where it went or how to hold onto more of it. Feeling like you missed the class where they taught everyone around you how to figure this stuff out.

You didn't miss the class — there was no class. 👀

The GAP in Entertainment

The industry we love wasn’t designed to set us up for financial success. It was designed to produce and find talent. Supporting your creative life was supposed to be your problem to solve — with no roadmap.

So you did what Creatives do; you cobbled it together. You figured out enough to survive. And you got really good at not thinking about money, because thinking about money felt like standing at the edge of a cliff with no parachute.

If you’re just starting out in the industry, the words “financial success” might feel like a foreign concept to you. If you’ve been at this for a while, you may be feeling the same thing I felt - something akin to shame for “not having figured this out by now.” Or maybe you’ve already built an expansive body of work and a stellar reputation, but the way you feel about your money doesn’t match the pride you feel in your work.

You’re not alone.

What you’re feeling isn’t a character flaw. It’s a gap in your education that nobody warned you about.

Hi. I’m Mark.

I'm an actor, a voiceover artist, a connoisseur of Dad Jokes — and someone who spent almost two decades in this industry playing the same game of financial tennis you might be playing right now.

I’ve done Broadway runs, national tours, regional theaters, and cruise ships. I've been in the room where it happens — the audition room, the rehearsal room, the tour bus, and the 4am Non-Equity line. And through all of it, I rode the very real financial roller coaster — not because I was reckless, but because sustaining a creative career costs more money than anyone warns you about. Headshots, classes, workshops, rent in expensive cities, unpaid time between contracts — it adds up fast.

I racked up a mountain of debt. Slowly, then deliberately, then completely paying it off - teaching myself what I was never taught. And in the process, I stumbled into something I didn't expect: a way of thinking about money that actually made sense for the way artists live. Not the 9-to-5 framework. Something practical, shame-free, and built for people who think and earn and create differently.

I started sharing what I'd learned with friends — backstage, over coffee, over text. And every time, I watched the same thing happen: relief. Someone's shoulders coming down from around their ears. Wait, this makes sense. This is literally me!

That's what became Literally ME Coaching.

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  • If you’re an artist at the starting line, we build you a stable financial foundation before the chaos sets in.

    If you’re a grizzled veteran: you’ve been white-knuckling it for years, and maybe you are quite ready for different way, we figure out where you are spinning your wheels and get you the traction you need to start moving forward again.

    If you’re already on solid footing, we look at ways to make sure your money is just as hard-working as you’ve been. 

    The goal is never to make you feel bad for what you don't know.

    The goal is to give you the tools, language, and structure you were never taught — meeting you exactly where you are, in the life you’re actually living.

    So, we look at the whole picture together:

    • Banking Systems

    • Income

    • Spending Habits and Debts

    • Student Loans

    • Credit Cards

    • Taxes

    • Investing Basics

    • Emergency Funds

    • Long-Term Career Sustainability

    • Your Goals

    • Your Fears

    … and we build systems that fit your life, not someone else’s. Yours. 

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  • The “starving artist” narrative has been romanticized for so long that we forget: it doesn’t need to be a badge of honor. It’s a story that keeps extraordinary people from building the lives their talent deserves.

    When you walk into an audition room carrying the weight of a credit card balance, a tax debt you don't understand, or just the low-grade terror of financial uncertainty — it changes the energy in the room. It shifts you from Creative-mode to Desperation-mode. And your creative freedom, your ability to say “yes" to the right thing at the right time, and do your best work is directly connected to whether or not you have a financial life that actually works.

    And when your financial life actually works, you’re able to focus on the thing you were meant to do in the first place … create. 

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  • Whenever you’re ready, I created this space because I wish someone had done it for me.

    Someone to sit down with me and say:

    Here's how this works. Here's how to make sense of it — for your life, the way you actually live it.

    If you're reading this and something in you is shifting — like maybe this is the thing you've been waiting to find — then I would love to speak with you.

    You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to be ready to start.

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Ways to Work with Literally ME

Hear the ROI for Artists

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    "Pragmatic, active, honest, and gracious mentor... guidance regarding niche and personal choices"

    Mat Blasio
    Actor, NYC

  • Close-up of a woman smiling with straight, shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a yellow and white shirt with a denim jacket, against a light background.

    “Without this jumpstart of knowledge, I wouldn’t be where I am in the industry today. I’m so grateful for Mark’s insight and advice”

    Victoria Newhuis
    Actor & VO Artist, Boston

  • A young woman with long, dark brown hair, smiling with white teeth, wearing subtle makeup and diamond earrings, against a plain grey background.

    “An incredible mentor… lasting impact on both my professional and personal growth”

    Marina Santamauro
    Dance Supervisor, Toronto

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