#RealDeal: Cha ... cha .. changes ...
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Ah, bah, and yah - what a gnarly couple of days. So, happy few days after the 4th everyone! I spent my holiday over on the beach with my new friends from the Silicone Beach Fest. In the smallest world ever category, one of the guests at the party is the current roommate from a chick I went to middle school with in CT. I told her what I did for a living, and she goes OH! I know you!! You know Steph Belsky? She was in that stage show you guys do (The Dirty Truth About Nerdy Girls - next show August 3rd!!)!
Steph and I have known each other since we were 12 at King Philip Middle School. She was literally one of my first friends when I moved there in 8th grade, and now she just moved out to LA earlier this year so obvi we've been chatting again. That shit cray!
So yeah ... that was cool randomly meeting this guy at a bar and then a few weeks later finding out that his roommate works with your old friend's roommate. THE WORLD IS COMPRISED OF THREE PEOPLE THAT JUST KEEP DOING COSTUME CHANGES!!!
Outside of that, we're going through what they call in business a "hyper growth phase." The next step with TNTML is making this brand as mainstream as possible. I just started writing for GoFoBo.com, and also am branching out to a RIDICULOUSLY huge online brand (which has already been written so me thinks will be going live next week). For them, I'm going to be co-authoring a column on personal branding from the grass roots and corporate side (the other chickadee works for a major computer company, so she's corporate, I'm grass roots).
THEEENNNNNN, I'm also taking all of the popular stories on this site right now and revamping them a bit and will be submitting them through my management to big magazine companies (how 1999). The story of this brand has already been told, but it's my job right now to add structure to the business side of it regarding our advertising model, and then BUST MY ASS as much as possible to align with bigger brands to get the TNTML name out there more.
It's pretty cool, and again with anything in life - all about networking, and all about working your fanny off.
Also, one thing that came up this week in meetings a few times is the fact that I need to also learn when to step back. I set up the foundation of this brand on my personality - but this brand will one day be a lot bigger than me. I laid the structure, I'm opening the windows - but like with anything, you need to know when to step back so it doesn't dilute the product. We have a VERY specific niche, it's my job to also not only have a fabulous selection of other writers (we currently have over 75), but also build out the other lifecasters that will come on board. I don't know who those lifecasters are yet, but I'm confident I will find them. Producing and storytelling is in my soul, so I'm excited for what the future holds!!!!
We're also going through our site redesign right now ... and ahhhhh!! it looks so so PURRTY!!! I can't show you guys yet, but very very very soon it will all be up and running which makes me happy.
Oh! Oh! And next week I'll be at another TV network pitching one of the shows based on this brand. BAHH!!
I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am for all of you, and for this brand as a whole. This site is my life's work and the fact that so many of you read us, and respond - literally makes my life .... thank you. Thank you so so much.
I am not going to lie, this extreme hyper growth period is on an emotional level making me very uncomfortable - but knowing that you all are there cheering our team on makes me so unbelievably grateful.
More good news this weekend for all you Walking Dead fans that will be at Comic Con ... so stayyyy tuuuuunnneedddd!!! =)
#somuchfreakinglove
