![]() All of the support I received from that “ Making the Leap” announcement were like the cups in the Innocent “yes” bin to me. I had a business plan and revenue equal to half the salary of my day job, but I struggled with actually making the decision to leap. I had been idling on the decision for a while. Twelve years ago this month, I made my own “leap of faith” decision to resign my day job and focus on it full-time. For the first eight years, it was a nights-and-weekends hobby. Last week I shared my 20-year cartooniversary of Marketoonist. But the decision to make the leap started it all. It took a long time for them to get funding and longer still to prove the business. Innocent later became a massive hit, but success was far from secure. The three founders all resigned from their day jobs to start working on Innocent full-time. By the end of the festival, the “yes” bin was full and the “no” bin had only 3 cups in it. One day they brought their new smoothies to Parsons Green in London for a jazz festival, with a sign over their booth that read, “Should we give up our jobs to make these smoothies?” There were two trash bins for the empty cups, one marked “yes” and one marked “no”. The three founders, Richard Reed, Adam Balon, and Jon Wright, spent six months in 1998 working on smoothie recipes while working day jobs in advertising and consulting. One my favorite “leap of faith” stories is the famous origin of Innocent Drinks. There’s always a leap of faith at some point. We can always analyze more data and write more decision trees, but we never have 100% confidence in how things are going to turn out after making a decision. Tickets and additional information can be found at /tour.“ If you choose not to decide, you still have made a decision,” is a truism strangely popularized both by René Descartes, the 17th century French philosopher, and Rush, the prog rock band. “People come up to me and tell me how important it is, you know, people say ‘Oh I haven’t laughed that hard in I don’t know when’ you know, and we got a lot of laugh about.” While the tour is still moving along, Poundstone urges fans to attend the performance as masked and as vaccinated as possible, so we don’t get stuck in another new wave.Įven if worms aren’t your cup of tea, you will have a great time at Paula Poundstone’s tour, this Friday and Saturday at the Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria. ![]() Since COVID interrupted everyone’s lives, she realized how lucky she is to be in this profession. The worm farm is far from Poundstone’s final goal in life. She sells the waste created by her worms for $4 a pound, or if you are looking for a personal experience, you can pay $30 for a pound of worm waste, a video of the farming process, and Poundstone will name one of her worms after you. She interviewed a vermicomposter on her podcast not too long ago who introduced her to the world of worm farming.Īfter volunteering at her local food bank during the stay at home order, Poundstone saw the amount of food waste being produced and decided to bring home the 20-gallon barrel to open her very own worm farm. “All I care about all day long is, you know, finding a wall I can lean on to sleep,” leaving little time for her pre-show routine of MSNBC and writing for her hit podcast, “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone.”Īside from her regular performances and podcasts, Poundstone has a unique hobby to help her pass the time. While Paula loves her job, touring leaves her with little to no free time. ![]() “My favorite part of the night is just talking to the audience.”īefore COVID cancelled her meet and greets, Poundstone had a set of fans attend three shows in a row and come to her after the last one singing praises for both her overall performance and her ability to deliver a constant rotation of fresh content. She discusses the usual hits, like current events and raising her (now “not fun at all”) children, but also likes to rely on good audience interaction. Her comedy routine has been evolving for 42 years, and despite her recent memory issues, Poundstone finds a way to create a unique experience for each audience, leaving the piece nearly entirely unscripted. While she hopes that a healing energy isn’t needed for this show, Poundstone is ready to deliver a fresh and funny show for her fans. ![]() “The Birchmere was the first job I did after Trump was elected, and I will never forget that experience, I hope, because it was so healing to be with this group of people and to feel free to say what I thought and felt in as comedic a way as I could,” said Poundstone.
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