Marketing Maven + Existing High-Performing Team → Changing the World
We are in need of a creative challenge seeker to find the sweet spot for a high-quality & ground-breaking product. You will be an equity partner, joining a collegial, four-person team of committed pioneers.
The Product:
Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving, interviews with a dying woman on living and dying well, is an iTunes podcast, launched in Sept 2006. The podcast is based on a series of recorded conversations between Ilene Kouzel, dying of ALS, and Carol Ross, a friend and professional coach. Ilene died in October 2006. Six episodes have been produced and released to the public, with another 12-15 episodes planned.
"The power of Ilene’s life giving message became so real through her voice and brought itself right into my living room. Through her experience we have been led closer to that sacred space between life and death. Her courageous spirit manifested itself through her message of wisdom and hope."--Leslie Flocchini
Infrastructure to support the product includes a blog, www.consciousleaving.com, a branded podcast site, www.consciousliving-leaving.com, and an extended production/support team. When first introduced to iTunes, this podcast was listed as New and Notable in the Religion and Spirituality section and has consistently been in the top 50 podcasts in its sub-category.
Shortly after the podcast was launched and less than a month before her death, Ilene wrote a poem about the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving project:
A Project Believed In
Amazing thing,
A project believed in
Coming to fruition.
Engaged souls showing up
Just when the next piece is needed.
Ideas, visions, hard work
Paying off,
Finished product, something tangible.
Music gifted when we dreamed it could be.
Friends, acquaintances ravenous . . .
For words and voices to wrap around this.
End of journey,
It faces us all.
Soften it. Make it palatable.
Tell the truth, your truth.
We are afraid and don’t want to be.
Each eventually creates their own ending.
A dying woman’s dream
To create something meaningful, joyful, inspiring
Of her transition experience.
This joyful, provocative journey
Given a home, in podcast form, “iTune land.”
There for others to find.
Grateful firelight fills my heart.
Hopeful legacy marks a life
Well lived, well died.
Amazing thing,
A life believed in
Coming to fruition.
Ilene Kouzel September 14, 2006
Who We Are Looking For:
• Savvy user of Internet social networking and viral marketing tools, including YouTube, Google Video, and Facebook. You regularly use these sites for both professional and personal needs and are an early adopter of new features on these sites.
• Experienced in marketing/promotional work within both conventional and emerging media. You know the ins and outs of getting noticed in a crowded market. Experience in growing an online business is a plus.
• Quintessential networker who delights in initiating relationships with thought leaders in many domains. Winning others over is a natural for you.
• Puts fun at the top of the priority list. If it’s not fun, why do it?
• Comfortable working virtually, over the phone and through the Internet.
• Team player who's both supportive, yet willing to speak his/her mind. You thrive on hearing all points of view and building off of the collective wisdom. You have an opinion AND you don’t take things personally when it comes to finding the best solution.
This is a freelance gig, not a full-time job. This team works virtually, so you can be located anywhere. However, we would prefer a US-based individual.
If you are interested in this unique opportunity for meaningful work with significant impact, please email contact@consciousleaving.com.
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What a great job you guys are doing - if you have hindsight and you really able to help someone you must make every effort to give them foresight.
My father fell in love with my mother she was all alone one night on a train and he saw her in the crowd and fell in love with her at first sight. He asked her if he could walk her home and she said yes. The odd thing was he walked her home 3 miles then he walked back home another as he lived opposite the station and so he had walked 6 miles to cross the road.
The moral of the story is that he always had been in love with her from the first moment he saw her and she grew to love him as he had a strength from within that she needed.
My father always thought love was about being prepared to go out of the way for the ones you love. He could not describe this thing he called love but he knew I had been unable to it and advised me not to walk down the aisle. I did as I loved my father so much I wanted photographs and memories of that day when I could make him so proud and happy as he had always gone out of the way for me in more ways than one.
When I had my son I had a haemorrage that nearly killed me with a blood pressure of 40/20 but as the blackness came to take me, I was saved by my as she had woken up in the middle of the night and said to my father somethings wrong with our daughter. Phone the hospital and so he did and as I heard the nurses say that my father was on the phone asking how his daughter was, I knew he was their for me as he had been my true love as I had always looked up to him. My mother and father had both been god that night as they saved the lives of me and my son abandoned at the side of the room this gave me strength to fight on.
I once ignored my father as he said do not marry until you have found what you have been looking for - as you know what your mother and I both have.
So in a sense I have never been married as I didn't find what I had been looking for when I went up the aisle.
I met a man in 1997, I heard his voice as he was coming along a dusty path and looked up from my little world and I was hooked as I found out that he was fun, exciting, interesting and challenging. I later found out that he had fallen in love with my face the instant he saw me. In a sense it was like my mother and father. One day it will all come together and we will make it reality.
I hope all this makes sense to you.
Posted by: Penny Knight | January 07, 2008 at 04:55 AM