What’s it really like working with Jenny? [makes dramatic sound effect like from a movie “dahn-dahn-da”] Well, she is my older sister, so, you know she always gets the last word, she always does boss me around, no.
But, but really it’s surprisingly easy to work with Jenny. We both came from careers where we were heavily edited and critiqued. She was in advertising, so she was used to presenting a whole bunch of ideas, and having them all be shot down, and being told how terrible they are, all were, and have to come up with something new.
I was in magazine publishing, and so I would write an article, it would go through five editors hands in the copy department, and come back to me, and there would be maybe one word left that was the same. So, I got used to things being changed by other people, and you start to realize that, oh, you know, if these are competent people, and they have good intentions, then if they have an idea, and they’re seeing something that’s not working, you should pay attention to that.
And they’re probably right. So, that’s sort of the attitude that Jenny and I have. If one of us has an objection to something, we’re like, yeah this isn’t working, we need to do something else here, we’re like ok, you’re probably right, let’s fix that. We don’t really say like, “No, this is how it should be, I know I have a vision.” We’re like, ok, I’m trying to get something across, I’m not getting it across, how do we communicate that better?