Okay, I admit it, I’ve gone from blogging daily to slacking off and blogging just a few days a week. I’ve let my TRAVEL THERAPY Twitter and Facebook take over. I’ve been cheating on my blog! Sure, I have all the right excuses, traveling, deadlines, working on developing the TRAVEL THERAPY TV show, a screenplay, blah, blah, blah. But what makes this really pathetic is that I’ve spent the last few days lecturing all my friends, who are new to blogging, about how important it is to blog daily. So now I’m not just a slacker, I’m also a hypocrite, that’s so NOT cool.
So here I am. I’m back.
Truth is, there has never been a more exciting time for me to blog about all the exciting things that are happening with the TRAVEL THERAPY project.
Top on the list, I’ve just gotten back from a week in Los Angeles where I was working on developing the TRAVEL THERAPY concept into a quality reality television series. I’ve partnered with the award-winning Wolper Organization ( Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, Peabodys) and just wrapped up several days on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank fine tuning the dynamics of the show and the different episodes we’re looking to produce.
I would like to say with my TV background doing the TRAVEL THERAPY show was my idea… but the truth is, I had barely come up with the concept when Hollywood started calling me.
From the moment the announcement was made in Publisher’s Weekly about my TRAVEL THERAPY book being picked up for publishing the phone calls started flooding in from producers who wanted to do the show.
I wanted to wait until the book came before making any final decisions about who to partner with. Still I took meetings and met some key people to help narrow down my options and I’m thrilled to be working with an organization as qualified and passionate about the realilty tv industry as the Wolper Organization. The president of the company, Mark Wolper, will executive produce and I’ll host and co-executive produce.
The first thing people ask me when I tell them about the show is how I think it’s going to survive in this wretched economy.
I always tell them the same thing. Now more than ever people need TRAVEL THERAPY and this show is all about inspiring and empowering people to pick the best trips based on what they’re going through in life. If we ever needed TRAVEL THERAPY it’s now because with our limited time and money who can afford to take the wrong trip?
So that’s a big project on the table right now but just one of the projects I’ve been diving into.
I read a great article last night that actually came out in the spring issue of MovieMaker magazine where the editor-in-chief, Tim Rhys talked about starting his magazine in the early 90’s, also during tough economic times and the lessons he learned about going for it when things are at their bleakest.
I loved this part of Rhy’s article:
“Take the risk, Go all in….Do what you need to do, and do it now because as Rahm Emanuel said recently, “ I’m not pro recession, but you never want to let a series crisis go to waste.” And as the new director of the Sundance Film Festival, John Cooper, recently put it… “In this business having too much caution doesn’t get you on top. It’s taking chances that pays off. That’s how you succeed.”
Cheers to that!
I’m all in….are you?
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