Anything is Posh Able – leaving our fingerprints on Central Florida for 10 years. Starting a luxury service business from the floor of a living room, during a down economy seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing for a new-mother to do (at least it did to me in my mom-ish fog). In retrospect, my mommy muscles may have been slightly over inflated. I mean, building a human in your stomach combined with the whole business of giving life, this was hard! It made other things (like starting a business) seem easier somehow. I had this recurring feeling that just about anything was possible. I wasn’t sure exactly what I even wanted to be “possible” but was pretty sure that it had something to do with this thing called passion.
I remember the day my passion found me – it was Valentine’s Day 2008 and I was reading a book by Wayne Dyer who taught a lot about how people who were “living their purpose” would radiate an intoxicating energy that attracted people, places and things into their lives at exactly the right moment necessary for their growth. I loved the sound of this! But I wasn’t clear on what it had to do with my life. It was the next seven words that really stuck with me: “Don’t Die with Your Music Still Inside.” The notion of dying was sad enough, but to die without having ever “really” lived, well this seemed tragic. To die with your music inside meant living your entire existence without finding your purpose, following your dreams or expressing your true potential.
Then suddenly it came to me, from nowhere for no real reason, I just KNEW that not only did I want to be an Event Planner (even though my background was marketing and public relations) that I wanted to be the best event planner ever and I wanted to build my own business. Not just any business but a purposeful brand, with a narrative, I wanted a team, a luxury office. I wanted to tell a story about the work we were doing, and I wanted others to want to be a part of it. I wanted to meet interesting people and do exciting things (every day!) Plus, I wanted to become so good at what I did, that people would want to book me for speaking engagements. I wanted to start my own magazine column about Orlando, write a book, build community partnerships, give back. Then I could franchise the business and expand to other cities, my head was exploding with possibilities, many of which would come true over the next 10 years.
On February 14, 2008 I launched the brand Posh Able Events (under Anything is Posh Able), full service event planning – “From Concept to Clean Up” – “We do the work and you get the credit. Then literally, no one called for over a year. No worries, I was busy working for FREE, providing Event Planning and Public Relations services to Central Florida charities through my non-profit brand, Posh Abilities Then, the phone rang (thank you Karen for being my first paying customer.) As time went out the company was successful in developing a strong corporate and nonprofit client base by helping them to develop events for every stage of their organization’s growth from ground breaking to 50th Anniversary.
After ten years of building excitement in Central Florida, I’m finding that now more than ever Anything is Posh Able. Thank you to the clients we serve, the vendors we trust and the charities we support. Much love to all the shining posh-team members who have helped build the brand over the years and to recognize the inspiration received from our Advisory Panel and the energy provided by our tribe of community volunteers.
