Mile High Club Blogging

Southwest Realtime Flight Tracker

At an altitude of 39,001ft, this blog post is part of the mile-high club! Flying back to Tampa from Denver, I get to enjoy the luxury of wifi in the sky, thanks to Southwest for just $5. It’s not bad except it won’t allow my emails to come through my mac so instead of working I’m just surfing the internet. Catching up on Twitter, Pinterest, and online shopping.. well not really shopping, just adding items to the shopping cart and never making the full purchase. I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve added these black leather pumps to my shopping cart on Mango.com and never actually bought them! They would be perfect for work, a thick heel for more support and they’ll go with almost everything but I just haven’t bought them. Maybe it’s a good practice in self-control.

Excited to get home tonight. I’ve spent that last two days in Denver and had lots of good meetings! Every time I go to Denver and see the snow-capped mountains, I just want to go ski, hike, or bike. Unfortunately, there was no playing on this trip but I’ve been promised another trip back this summer to catch a Rockies game. 🙂 I did enjoy the local cuisine of bison burgers for lunch and rainbow trout for dinner.  Delicious!

It’s actually been a busy week, spending my weekend in St. Augustine seeing our friend Chef Jessica Bright and working, now Denver, and tomorrow morning I go to Orlando to speak at the American Pie Council. Funny enough, if you’re flying Southwest, like me, you can see a blurb on the American Pie Council in your Spirit magazine! In addition to the travel, we’ve been busy with radio shows and media. Check out my talk this morning on BlogTalkRadio with Apple Capital, and Kelapo’s mention in the Tampa Bay Times and Oxygen Magazine in this month’s edition on national news stands!

Mad Men is Finally Back!

Morning Playlist

We’re already three weeks into the new season of Mad Men. Can you believe it? Everyone is probably still talking about Megan’s sexy birthday dance for Don, signing Zou Bisou Bisou. It’s crazy how one show can effect popular media so much. On my way to work the other day, I heard Jessica Pare’s version of Zou Bisou Bisou on Sirius Satellite! She must be thrilled that she was virtually unheard of a month ago and has been thrust into the spotlight so quickly.

I enjoyed the whole first episode but there was one thing that did stick in my mind. Pete Campbell is highly successful, being a partner, married with a new baby, and living in the suburbs. However, he is shown as unhappy and no matter what he achieves, left unsatisfied. His wife Trudy understands his longing and as she puts it “Dissatisfaction is a product of Ambition.” Ding, ding, ding. Same here. It’s wonderful having ambition enough to start a business, go to school, and achieve more and more. I do find myself always wanting more though. Last year, it was if we can only get into Whole Foods. Now we’re in several regions of Whole Foods and I’m saying, if we can only get into Publix. That desire pushes me everyday to do more, to be better. At some point though, I do need to stop and enjoy myself, look around and appreciate how far we’ve come and accomplished. It has just been over 2 years since the company started and we are already nationwide, in Canada, and Puerto Rico.

There may never be a ‘cure’ for that dissatisfaction. But I’m going to work on it. And one things for sure, I’m glad that I was blessed with loads of ambition because there are so many people that have skills, talents, and potential, and don’t fulfill their destiny because of the lack of ambition. Maybe that is a greater tragedy than being dissatisfied. Anyways, can’t wait for the next episode to see what these crazy advertising execs do next!