Simple Sugars Scrubs

Simple Sugars’ MSNBC shoot.

Last Thursday Lisa Everson, who produces “Your Business” for MSNBC, and film crew came to my house to film me for a story they are doing on young entrepreneurs. Wow! What an exciting and crazy day. Lisa, Jared (camera man) and Thom (sound guy) arrived at 9am and the filming went on until 6pm. It was very cool and I have to admit, very exhausting too!

The day started at my house, aka Simple Sugars HQ. They interviewed me and my mom, and then filmed me making some scrubs and packing up some orders and various other things. Then we went to my rowing club, Steel City Rowing, where they even shot footage of me rowing my single at crew practice! We finished up the shoot on location at Whole Foods. It was an all around awesome day and I can’t wait until the piece airs, which should be sometime in August. Lisa, Jared and Thom were so cool to hang with too, they totally made the whole day fun and not stressful at all.

Oh and for those of you that are wondering how the heck MSNBC found out about me and Simple Sugars in the first place? Well, a couple of years ago, my mom and I attended a women’s  business conference put on by Entrepreneur Magazine in Miami and I met Lisa there. We stayed in touch and then she just emailed me saying that the timing was finally right for her to do a story on me and could she come to Pittsburgh to shoot it! Of course, I said, “YES!”

So, you never know when something is going to bounce your way – it pays to make contacts and keep in touch with them

Stay Smooth~
Lani