My friend Rachel Lubchansky (RELimpact.com) who moved from St. Louis to Denver started her own business coaching agency. She created her brand, website, services, support materials, and an "Impact Insiders" group on Facebook. I joined it mostly because I wanted to support her work, not because I thought I wanted to use a lot of her services. But I did enter her giveaway for some of her business crafting services, and I WON! Yay!! Hmm...last thing I won was a few hot kosher pizzas after a women's night out event! I'm just moving on up it seems. ;)
For the Impact Insiders group, I wrote this intro, when prompted. It was a good chance to crystallize some aspects of my "identity."
Hi everyone! I'm a solopreneur who has done a variety of different small "businesses" that are related to my passions and lifestyle. My professional background is in education and school sports management. I'm currently a SAHM (or maybe that's WAHM) with a baby and two girls under 7. I'm "my kids' mom and my husband's girlfriend-" i.e., I try to meet or exceed my family obligations/blessings while also pursing a lot of personal interests. In my years at home with my kids while they are young, I've spent a lot of time as a Hebrew language tutor, Judaics teacher, sewing teacher, basketball coach, garden building coach, and home-based camp director. I also LOVE being a community volunteer (on boards, events) and creating amazing indoor and outdoor play spaces. My passions overlap and cycle through priority level based on the season. Long term I plan to go back into teaching. Meanwhile, I'm trying to be ready to deliver "the goods" on the variety of things I love doing, when an opportunity arises. One of my challenges is continually wanting to do many different fulfilling activities and responsibilities, believing in the urgency of all at once! I know Rachel will help me distill out my mission, vision, etc!
To say more about my professional goals, and to entertain you, here are some completely 100% serious things I would do with my life if I had a few additional lives to live: be a playground designer, work for the CIA, be a doctor, go to school for like 20 more years...
I did get to help design the Epstein Hebrew Academy preschool playground last summer, so CHECK that one! It was a small dream come true. I like to recall how my mom helped design a new playground for our school in Oregon, Hiteon Elementary. Can't think of a cooler job!
Here are a few of my latest "creations." Click to view fliers in Google Drive in a new window.
(copy + paste bc blog links don't seem to be working...)
St. Louis Girls Basketball Club
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0-3JnX4tvg5SWFtbzlvam5nbFE
Garden Coach
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0-3JnX4tvg5OGpYYzgteVRQT3M
