Reinventing Myself. I found the treasure trove.

This morning I got up just a little too fast. My head was a little woozy, but I got up because I couldn’t wait to get the thoughts out of my head. Whether talking to my phone or just writing it out or tapping it with text into my phone. A lot happened yesterday. And that’s what happens I wake up with these ideas that just are climbing from the inside of my skull to get out. I am way too excited to just get up like it’s another day. What happened yesterday was life-changing

I hosted this event at Panera, with women I connected with at my gym. This is the second event, breakfast really not so much an event, but I needed to collect mobile numbers to get the invitation out.

My first effort was quite successful with four of us. Yesterday they were seven which is almost double.  Because we all had fitness in common, I thought about the reason why I loved putting groups together. I thought back to group fitness which seemed like the likely reason. That was way back in my past when I was fresh out of high school back in college. A lot has happened since then, was this the real reason that I was able to do some thing so successfully? Getting a group of like-minded people together?

Then it hit me. Because I have been in marketing throughout my career, that’s what I went to school for after all, I had a big love for it. Trying to understand what makes people buy. I loved consumer research and understanding the mind when it comes to being interested to take an action.

At my last stop in my career before I had my son, I was an online marketer for a tradeshow exhibit company locally. The owner of the company found me through my social media efforts and he latched on and tried a couple of times to get me on board, and it wasn’t until he wanted me full-time that I agreed. I did event marketing getting people into the tradeshow show room they had, and I did the back end Constant contact event marketing with emails for potential attendees.

Before that I was a vocalist, jazz was my love, and I would book myself, a four piece band, a seven piece band, whatever they need. I put the shows together, the set lists, made them marketable by having a story, and I booked myself. I absolutely loved filling seats. The feedback that I got from performing was amazing. That was the end result. But I always was so proud to have filled those seats. To get bodies to be in seats. not just to move people to make them sit somewhere, but to be able to make them happy by partaking in something special, and knowing that I was able to share that happiness with my event marketing.

OMG, this is such a revelation, forgive me for being brief, but I have to get to the gym now because I’m already five minutes late getting in. Thank you for letting me get this off my chest! More later