|
Rate this video*
Inspiring (97)
Useful (32)
Funny (30)
|
Comments for this video
Good production quality and story-telling. Right away you identify the problem you experience, and have good personal footage. Good use of graphics with movement, although can be a little hard to read sometimes. The lady is a little hard to hear, however. It takes a while to get to the "solution" you offer, however. It would work better if the audio was all cleaner, so wireless lapel mics would help a lot.
Andria & Laland,
I am so proud of you both. You have a dream and you continue to work hard to achieve it. You inspire me!! You both are very good writers , very intertaining and uplifting.
I wish I had the guts to take on an adventurous life like this
Sweet! Keep livin the dream.
-Wade
Nice work, good luck!
Perfect, Perfect, Perfect!! Good Job!!
Awesome. You are living your dream!!
My wife and I have been using Yoga for Paddlers for several years and it helps keep us flexible - not a mean feat when you are in your mid-60s.
You guys are inspiring. Makes me think! Good luck
Leland and Andria:
Your video is great, you rellay deserve to win a grant. You have worked so hard to follow your passion and build a truly unique adventure.
Nice work Leeland and Andrea. I love the music, shots, words, and theme that all capture the "river gypsy" lifestyle. I liked the ending words most - wearing so many hats is truly entrepreneurial. I'm inspired.
I'm inspired by your flexibility - in body and spirit!
Good luck guys! I hope you get this grant and see you at the Noli HTTD this weekend...
Good job! See you on the river
You never know where the river will take you... But one thing is for sure, you don't go anywhere if you don't put on the river and keep trying new things. Awesome summary of sticking it out, staying flexible (or is that getting flexible?) and learning new skills at every turn to make it all happen. Your creativity and persistence shines through!
You guys are so amazing for evolving like this and creating a new job where there was none before. I'm really proud of ya'll. Keep seeking, doing, thinking... You guys are going somewhere special with this.
great video
These folks are great. Leland and Andria are mixing passion with business, and they're just like any other great new business owners, they just happen to wear sandals more than most.
Good luck guys!!! I'm envious of your lifestyle.
Great to see someone, in this economy, able to pursue and succeed with their dream job. A great marriage of diverse skills that produces results. Good luck to you both.
Excellent Vid Leland and Andrea!
Good luck, you guys really deserve this grant.
Great stuff! I am an avid whitewater kayaker and love all of your ideas and products. Best of luck in the future.
I love the yoga for cyclists videos!
As usual, it's always entertaining to see what you two are coming up with next- keep the ideas flowing.
I look forward to your next guide book!
Super-duper, and very inspiring! Well done sequencing at the end. You two are inspiring to others for sure! Inspiring because you are on a mission to live your dream and to be independent small business people using your own creativity and skills to carve out a little niche for yourselves. The guidebooks are truly excellent in production quality, as are the videos. Your expertise, your vision, and your talent shine through all your work. Bravo!!
Very inspiring. Makes me want to get out there and work through all the crap so I can get to the good stuff!
Entrepreneurship is about passion and the ability to create opportunities in adversities! This Team has done a great Video!
Great job. Cool video, and best wishes to the both of you. Hope to take your creek boating clinic one day.
AWESOME!
Thank you; great video!
Finalist story from RiverGypsy:
In 2003, my husband and I lived in a camper and worked unfulfilling odd jobs, not out of laziness, we're just adventurous types not satisfied with the status quo. We were entrepreneurs at heart, but just didn't know it yet. Our first idea was to travel the country in an old van, go kayaking, film our adventures, and make a movie to sell to the world. We spent the entire summer repairing the van and ended up in debt and with no video footage. In desperation, we got jobs selling pumpkins for Halloween in CA, but we ended up being laid off, and the van's motor had to be replaced in AZ on the way back to NC. Finally returning east, we rented a tiny room, my husband lost his web design job that we been scraping by on, he got appendicitis, and my Grandmother died.
While stranded in AZ, we worked on our next plan--to start a yoga adventure travel business named Yoga Ventures and to make a yoga DVD, "Yoga for Paddlers." We took the $2K my Grandmother left me and reproduced the video. We spent that spring traveling to paddling events and selling tons of DVDs. So, we decided to go for another market and made "Yoga for Cyclists" DVD, which also sold like hotcakes. So we dropped the yoga adventure travel idea and branded the DVDs Yoga Ventures.
During this time, we decided to buy a house since credit was available to unemployed people, but we stayed within our means. We set up our office and my husband finished his whitewater guide that he had been working on--North Carolina Rivers and Creeks came out in 2005. Now we had 3 products and were an actual business! We incorporated that year and became Brushy Mountain Publishing. We decided to have an entire line of yoga products for outdoor sports and created "Yoga for Hikers" DVD and book, Yoga for Cyclists book, and "Yoga for Climbers" DVD. Then we were approached by a fisherman to make a fly fishing guide, which was released in 2007, Western North Carolina Fly Guide. "Yoga for Cyclists" DVD sold so well that we created "Yoga for Cyclists 2, Road Edition." For another form of income, we added kayak instruction and adventure travel and branded the whitewater guides, instruction, and travel River Gypsies.
We have truly combined our abilities and passions to create a business. Our corporate mission is embedded in our souls--to inspire others through our products and services to be fit in mind and body and to explore and appreciate this amazing planet on which we live.
Don't get pigeon holed by your business plan--leave room for creativity. Don't create products without a solid and researched marketing and distribution plan. And most of all, have balance in your life--work is not everything--take time to enjoy life.
Very cool. I may be moving to Asheville next year - tired of living in the bubble of NY Metro. I'll look you guys up when I get there.
Now, how about Yoga for Entrepreneurs? Need to keep the body limber oand the blood moving while we're working these long-ass days (and nights).
Peace, possibility, and abundance,
Mike Jaffe
Life Empowerment Coach
www.jaffelifedesign.com