Just Ignore Me
We’ve had a week at PJP that challenges even my extroversion…and it’s only Wednesday. And today I was thinking that I had been busy all day, but I couldn’t even recount with any interest what I had done. I think that’s the best short description of entrepreneurship that I could write.
Let’s talk about what we’ve been doing:
Yesterday, a photographer crew from Washington D.C. flew in for a quick photo shoot of Jeanne and I at West, plus some fun product photo shots. Truist Bank is creating a content series about gender bias in funding for female entrepreneurs. It will be a few weeks before we see final content, but we are excited. The crew couldn’t have been nicer, more prepared, or easier to work with.
And just as soon as we finished that project, we left to go meet Jason, Ellery, and Jessi at the Columbia Art League. They hosted an event last night that encouraged local chefs to create food based on a selected art piece and all the guests last night got to try each creation. We created a vanilla and chocolate tart with pie dough disks inspired by a wooden bowl called “Nature’s Nibbles”. We had a lot of fun and it was nice to work with a new idea in a different way.
And then today was super rainy and super slow and that just gave me ample time to overthink literally everything. And by everything, I literally mean everything we’ve done and all the things we want to do in the future. Charming.
Tomorrow we are hosting a 40 person Epic Pie Tasting. And oh, I’m going for a part of the early afternoon to record CEO Roundtable with Fred Parry on 93.9. I just Googled it to find out when it airs and then read the list of recent guests and now I’ve got low key anxiety. Not long ago, Fred welcomed Dr. Mun Choi, President of UM System. And now me. Gulp.
And Friday, we do a second round of Epic Pie Tasting because the first one sold out so quickly and we felt bad that so many people were still trying to buy tickets for the sold out event. Jason opened the Friday date and it sold out within an hour. It’s a pretty simple concept - we make six pie flavors we’ve never made before and each ticket holder picks up their tasting kit - but it’s always a significant amount of work. If you see me in Hyvee tomorrow morning buying root beer, peanuts, pistachios, and ricotta cheese, just ignore me. I think that’s what CEOs do before appearing on important radio talk shows…
