Superbowl Puppets and GoDaddy

What do the Superbowl, Puppets and GoDaddy have in common with me and my work – A focus on the desire to help others create a life of success. I am not a person who watches the Superbowl for the game, but I do watch half-time and I do stop whatever else I am doing while the game is on and watch the commercials.

Like a lot of America, I fell in love with Guenevere Dean and her friends from PuppetsByGwen.com  Guenevere is the woman who did what many before her have only wished they had the backbone to do:  She informed her boss she was quitting her day job ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.   Once I realized she really did it, and it was not just a commercial, I sat imagining how many people envisioned, felt, and play-acted for just one minute, how good it would feel to do the same thing.

While everyone else was busy dreaming about what that moment would feel like, I – being me – started immediately researching Guenevere and PuppetsByGwen.  You see, I knew that 30 or even 60 seconds of fame was just that, 30 or 60 seconds.  I wanted to see if I professionally thought she was a flash in the “take this job and shove it” pan, or if she was a shining example of how to build a path to the life work you want to do.

I am pleased to report that if ever there was a model for how to do what you are doing AS you invest your time in building the life work you want, Guenevere would be that model.  From everything I can find, she was a good employee and performed her job well.  As she did the job that paid the bills, is also invested her time in creating a business living her dreams.  For Guenevere, it was creating puppets and creating puppet shows.  When she felt ready, and she knew she wanted to scale up her dream, it appears she faced a choice:  Continue to divide her time and do two both jobs well OR commit 100% to her dream job and see how well she can do.

It will take a while to know whether or not the risk was a financially viable alternative to her engineering career.  She already knows she loves the work she has created.  Now Guenevere has to live through the onslaught of the initial notoriety, she has to ground her business in its new form and then make sure she does not give up doing the parts of her business she loves because it’s grown in ways she may not have yet imagined.

What I do know so far, Guenevere created her new opportunity in a good way.  She feed her passion while she feed herself.  When she quit her job, she did not shame or blame her employer, she just explained what her next opportunity looked like (the fact it was on national television is a small detail).

Guenevere, it appears you are the puppet master of your life.  Thank you for creating your business and sharing your story in such a fun way.

Wishing you only success, Andrea