Verity's Blog

Lucky Packet is getting an MBA...

I have had a great day being interviewed by journalist Peta Krost Maunder (who produced the Carte Blanche insert last year) for Wits Business School who are going to be using my story as their case study for viral marketing for their MBA students! She has kept my story on a backburner ever since we finished Carte Blanche, so it was a wonderful surprise to have her call me up and say that they want to use it as a case study.

It has been amazing to go through how I started the Lucky Packet Project back in 2005 and how much showed up along the way and what I have learned about business, internet marketing and perseverance! It is a huge priviledge to have my story and business model used by Wits for their students to analyse - another amazing milestone on this crazy road I have been travelling...

Awesome August News...

I have just come back from a great meeting with the owners of Fine Women SA and it look like I will be speaking and singing at some exciting Women's Month events in August. It is awesome to meet like-minded women who are dedicated to uplifting women in this country through enterprise and innovation and I think there is going to be wonderful synergy between my music and message and the various iniatives they organise around South Africa. This is what it is all about at the end of the day - networking with people who share similar visions for themselves and this country and then seeing how together you can do more. Next month is going to rock!!!

Thought for the week...

The only place you find success before work,

Is in the dictionary...

    

       - May V. Smith

Thought for the week...

The supreme happiness of life

Is the conviction that we are loved;

Loved for ourselves, or rather,

Loved in spite of outselves...

    - Victor Hugo

Thought for the week...

We make a living by what we get
We make a life by what we give

- Winston Churchill

Getting YOU up & dancing at On Broadway...

Thought for the week...

If we could just remember that life is a symphony and each of us plays our part. Some lead the tune, while others keep the time or lend their voices to the harmony. It helps to remember that an orchestra is made up of its many players and each counts in weaving the melody and telling the story with many voices.

Find your part, play your piece and SHINE!

Another great week!

I am just home from an amazing 3 hours rehearsal with the guys - officially known now as "TheShades". We were joined again by a very talented young guitarist - Aldert Du Toit - who is trying his hand at the songs and seeing how it goes. So far so good (very good in fact)! It is awesome to hear the tunes with guitar back in them and we had a very productive afternoon working on some old favourites and also shaping the new songs "One Of These Days" and "Find My Heart" into seriously rocking tunes.

It feels like we have found our groove and are definitely ready for big concerts with a good hours worth of "get up and shake what you mamma gave you" songs! After Sunday's success with the crowd at On Broadway we are also keen to get into studio and start recording the new material - especially "You You You" that seems to be an instant hit with audiences.

All in all another productive and inspiring week with lots of look forward to and lots of legwork still to do in this journey of sharing our music with the world. I can't wait!

For my father...

Today would have been my fathers' 81st birthday. I woke up with a heavy heart this morning and have just realised why. It is amazing how we adjust to someone being gone from our lives when enough time passes, but on days like to today I find myself missing him with all my heart. It is hard not to wonder what the last 10 years would have been like had he been here. There is so much I would have loved to share with him, yet ironically alot of what I achieved is because of how much I grew through the experience of losing him and realising that life is too short not to make the most of it.

Happy Birthday Dad. I love and miss you so much!

Thought for the week...

Wisdom outweighs any wealth

      -  Sophocoles