The CosmiKids™
Connection
December
2008
Riding the
Wave
IT
ALL STARTED one recent morning en
route to Venice Beach, as I drove down Pacific Coast Highway with the wind
in my hair and the quietly lapping ocean on my right. It was much like any
other drive that I’d ever made to Rose’s Café for an early
morning breakfast meeting.
My friend, business colleague and networker extraordinaire,
Gigi Grose, had gotten us a prime table situated on the outside patio of the
popular Venice hangout. She greeted me in her usual manner, with that broad,
gleaming smile and dark eyes that often danced with expectancy of something
magical about to occur. Everything seemed pretty status quo up to that point,
as I remember it that morning, as we talked and caught up over our egg white
and spinach omelets.
“Gigi,” I said as we got our bill,
“I’d like to show you our latest PowerPoint presentation for
the CosmiKids TV proposal.” She looked up from her purse contents investigation
with those excited eyes of hers and retorted, “I’d love to see
it, let’s go inside where we’ll be able to view your computer
screen better.”
Gigi and I had really bonded
as friends during the LA premiere of Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual
Laws of Success movie. As the former head of the Learning Annex’s
west coast programming division, Gigi knew a thing or two about event planning,
synchronicities, building an impressive rolodex and the power of integrity
in business relationships. Both Gigi and our publicist, Gail Torr, were the
twin powerhouses behind Deepak’s bi-coastal movie promotion. CosmiKids
and I had been featured in the film and as a result of it’s international
distribution channels, the movie had become a wonderful branding platform
for both me and the ever-evolving entity we endearingly refer to as CosmiKids.
Starbucks was our usual meeting
place for catching up on business and personal stuff. This particular morning,
though, I suggested that Gigi and I meet at the famous café, as I knew
I had wanted a little more LA ambiance to bookend what I had to share. Perhaps
on some level, I felt it would be a morning to remember and maybe even celebrate.
And oh boy was it...
As the PowerPoint ended,
I closed my laptop and smiled at the pretty brunette and former showgirl across
the table from me. “Judy, you’ve really got something here!”
Gigi said excitedly as she took a deep breath and, without skipping a beat
or breaking that memorable, mystical stare of hers, she reached for her cell
phone.
The PowerPoint that my BFF
and business partner Jennifer and I had originally authored in Pittsburgh
had evolved substantially with input from my other soul sister/business partner/roommate
Sandie Sedgbeer, and Jennifer’s dogged determination to make it a stellar
pitch piece, revision byrevision. It was now evidently ready for prime time
and Gigi slipped quickly into her mogul-in-the-making business mode and began
the call process to set up meetings with TV executives, network-types and
her posse of movers and shakers in the field of entertainment on both coasts.
All Gigi needed was to see my two thumbs up go
ahead in response to her question, “Are you up for a trip to NYC tomorrow?”
She then set about doing what Gigi does best, and that is making things happen
with all the right people in just the right way, at simply the perfect time.
And she does it in a seemingly effortless manner. She was all aglow and I
knew to just step aside, watch in wonder and let her do her thing. It was
great to see her in all her glory and I knew it would result in something
great for us in moving our vision forward.
The wave had begun. It was palpable and I was
happy and ready to ride it. The air was electric and I could literally feel
events beginning to conspire around us.
All I can tell you is the
next six days were a fabulous and frenzied blur of pitch meetings, conference
calls, airports, subway rides, enthusiastic and monied listeners, power lunches
and a picture perfect cartwheel performed by yours truly in the lobby of a
high-rise office building on Sunset Avenue in Hollywood. We had just walked
out of an intro meeting with an A-list agent/manager/entertainment consultant
named Barry who is a treasured friend and trusted confidante of Gigi’s.
Apparently, she only takes him the best of the best and we were thrilled that
Gigi had the confidence in our CosmiKids concept to want to immediately share
it with such a well respected name in the industry. After Sandie finished
her pitch to Barry, who happened to be a fellow Brit, we knew we were in for
more surprises as he went into a trance-like state with his head tilted back
a bit, eyes closed, tapping his fingers on the printed pieces we’d supplied
him with and throwing out words like “Oprah,” “Merv Griffin
Entertainment” and “the next big thing.”
We left that meeting, hugging,
yelling and high-fiving it in the elevator. We knew that a tipping point had
been reached. People smiled at us as we exited the elevator and Sandie reminded
me that it was probably time for me to do my well rehearsed cartwheel. In
front of passers-by, the lobby security guards and my two camera wielding
colleagues, I proudly did the same cartwheel that I had seen myself doing
in a lucid dream, which I related in an article some months back, just after
we had finished a dream sequence pitch meeting with similar results. It was
now all coming true.
And here's the best part...
Just days before all these magical things unfolded, Sandie and I had been
having a discussion about riding the wave of heightened, positive energies
that sometimes come about as a result of love in bloom, joy-filled laughter
and/or unexpected windfalls of money, acknowledgement or industry accolades.
We had both been experiencing and feeling it at the time, and she had simply
said, “Judy, ride this wave and call in everything you want. Because
it is this very feeling; the joy of triumph, the exhilaration of success,
that feeling of soaring on the wings of love... this is the feeling that raises
your vibrational energy to a level where it literally flows out of you and
magnetizes to it whatever it is you most want. “It’s literally
a wave of attraction” she continued in her British accent . “Stay
in the energy and visualize it all coming true.”
So that’s exactly what
I did.
© Judy Julin, 2008
Child-enrichment specialist, Judy Julin, who is the Founder
and Creator of CosmiKids has drawn together a variety of remarkably creative
minds including enlightened educators, child psychiatrists, pediatricians,
authors and children to develop these inventive learning tools based upon
principles of empowerment. Ninety minutes in this thrilling environment is
designed to promote character development, expand awareness, and access untapped
resources of power, wisdom and imagination. The unique program, which incorporates
multicultural fabrics, playful décor, extraordinary lighting and healing sound,
integrates intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical development. CosmiKids
is likely to leave parents asking, “Where was this when I was growing up?
