Cheers to 32 Years!

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Very first Presentation April 1990

May 2022

This is our thirty-2nd year as KIZER & BENDER. 32 many years of Retail Adventures, there is under no circumstances a uninteresting instant close to right here!

We definitely under no circumstances considered that 1st time we walked onstage in Boston, Massachusetts to give our very very first “Retail Adventures in the Actual World” keynote presentation that it would be the beginning of matters to appear. For that make a difference who realized that “professional speaker” was a authentic occupation? Well, Prosperous did due to the fact it was a lifelong aim for him, but it was all new to Georganne. We never ever imagined we’d conclude up in this article, but listed here we are.

Thirty-two yrs is a long time. Those people couple situations we’ve been courageous more than enough to enjoy the video of that 1st seminar we see two people today who look type of common. Georganne has some Massive 90s hair, Large shoulder pads, and large glasses. All the things was huge again then. And she’s carrying a red suit, her trademark and the very first of many. Aside from the beard that he grew all over 1993, Prosperous appears to be rather substantially the identical. We’re blessed that he is thriving since the two open coronary heart surgeries (two in two times, he’s an overachiever) he experienced in December of 2019. For Loaded the pandemic shutdown was a gift because it gave him the time to recuperate that he under no circumstances would have taken on his have.

We still enjoy this quotation from previous Craftrends columnists Linda Queen and Wanda Zeagler that reads: “Many of you do not have partners. Which is fine if it functions for you. You definitely are not amongst the ‘Shared Brain People’ who inhabit this Earth. We are and we are quite comfortable, each of us, with our individual parts of our brains.” Some people who go through that estimate don’t recognize it, but we do, and that’s all that counts.

Partnership is a amazing detail. Just in circumstance you didn’t know, but were curious, we are married. Happily. Just not to every other, thank you extremely much. We get that “Are you married?” dilemma a good deal nevertheless a 30-two yr enterprise partnership is very little to sneeze at. It is pretty amazing considering the Beatles only lasted 8 years.

We’re polar opposites. Our latest place of work is in a 170+ yr old farmhouse that is loaded with individuality. (And a several spirits, but that’s another tale for another working day.) Rich’s function house is a inventive mess Georganne’s appears to be neat as very long as you really don’t open her desk drawers. Loaded is a Type A identity who is usually pondering of our subsequent huge transfer Georganne is all about the details, figuring out how to make that “next significant thing” materialize. Rich’s mind by no means turns off Georganne flips hers off like a mild swap the next she leaves the office. Wealthy reads business textbooks and publications like a madman, Georganne reads almost everything apart from business textbooks. Wealthy prefers to concentrate on 1 point at a time Georganne is the queen of multi-tasking.

We have performed the palace and we have performed nuts locations we’d truly fairly ignore, and some of our favored shows have been in the little back again rooms of retailers. The trials and tribulations of our 32 several years of everyday living on the street are priceless, and we truthfully would not modify a single point. We are privileged to work in so quite a few industries. Our purchasers incorporate large guys like IBM, NCR, and SEARS, as well as intensively imaginative independents. And with funeral administrators, wonderful persons who treatment for their consumers in strategies that go considerably outside of what is predicted.

Thank you for becoming a member of us on our continuing journey! We are grateful to everybody who has assisted us alongside the way, and we are thankful to all the individuals who call us every single day to share their stories or talk to for advice. Our door is often open!