'Field of Dreams' & Triple D & Your Fitness Business?!

It may not be Wednesday…& I wanted to pop briefly into your inbox with two random & lovely television moments (TV! of all things!) from the past 2 days...so here goes.

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The first: “Field of Dreams." As in, the American fantasy-film about baseball from 1989 with Kevin Costner & James Earl Jones. 

I am of a baseball family. Both my parents played the sport at UCLA, my mother as a young woman was convinced she'd be the first woman to play in the major leagues & my grandpa saved enough, specifically, to afford season tickets for the family when the Brooklyn Dodgers relocated to LA in 1958.

“Field of Dreams” was randomly on as my Dad was flipping channels & I insisted we watch.

We tuned-in towards the end; (luckily, it was playing on repeated loop!) as though it were planned; during the scene in which the main character, who had listened to a Voice compelling him to build a baseball field in the middle of his Iowa corn fields…

[“If you build it, he will come.” is the famous line from the film]

…was subject to a foreclosure of the property as a baseball field for ghosts was not as lucrative as crops of corn.

The main character's brother-in-law urges him repeatedly to sell the property to avoid foreclosure.

Simultaneously…he hears passionate pleas from his favorite author, that people WILL COME to the space he built.

This scene of dialogue goes back & forth for several minutes; the reasonable “no" from someone who, literally, could not see what was in front of him (ghost baseball players) & the reasonable “yes” from someone who could. 

If that scene does not encapsulate brick & mortar entrepreneurship…I don't know what does.

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The second: an episode of “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” from the Food Network, aka, Dad's favorite (non-sports) show.

The segment of note we caught yesterday, spotlighted a pizza food truck in Omaha, delivering a very specific Detroit-style deep-dish pizza.

Also featured briefly in the segment; another local pizza-maker, who makes pizza in an entirely different style of Italian-American pizza...who created the Metro Omaha Pizza Alliance; connecting pizza chefs with spaces around Omaha, so they may celebrate the craft & continue to build their niche-industry.

It reminded me somewhat of the Seattle Sweat Crawl, which I shared with you here last summer; opportunity for boutique small business owners to collaborate meaningfully with one another.

I hope these 2 random bits made you smile along your own journey. 

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Noël 

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