Well, here I am…one week after the first visit in the beginning of my journey with the Everyday Edisons team and I still can’t believe it is happening.

They flew the East Coast inventors down for a 2 day meet and greet. I finally got to meet some of the other inventors and what their ideas are. Let me start out by saying I was very impressed not only with the staff of Enventys, but with the other inventors. I mean we run the gamut. Travel Agents, Graphic Designers, Engineers, etc…

I think Season 3 will be a very interesting show. They have given themselves some challenging problems to solve and it should be fun to watch and see how they solve them.

I can not explain how surreal it was to actually be standing in the rooms and meeting the people you see on the show. It was even more amazing to know that they were there to meet and speak with me…the lowly graphic designer with an idea. It was a little overwhelming at times. At one point they had all the employees come into a huge room they use for doing photo shoots and just walk around and mingle with us. There was no rhyme or reason to it, just walk around, introduce yourself and see where it goes. I met tons of people, all very nice and all very professional. I have to admit I really liked seeing the people who don’t always make it on camera. They are every bit committed to making our ideas succeed as everyone else on the show. I can only imagine how much fun it would be to work there full time. Louis are you listening??? I’d love to work for you!!

I really felt like they listened to me and cared about my insights on my invention and really wanted to hear my thoughts on it. My idea was just that, an idea. I managed to build a fairly descent set of prototypes but they were hand made. They were not really how I intended my product to look in the end but I think they managed to show the judges that it had potential. I guess so because they chose me for the show.

I feel like I actually had a chance to speak my mind and show them my vision for the product above and beyond what I could physically do myself. In other words, I think they got it.

One thing that really threw me was when we were on the initial tour of the building. They were leading us around to the different departments and when we got to the Industrial Design Department Daniel Bizzell the head industrial designer picked me out of the group…smiled knowingly and said I’ve been working for you for quite a while and you don’t even know it. He then proceeded to constantly smirk and knowingly nod whenever I had an idea regarding my product, or would make a suggestion. I realized that the team had been working on my idea for quite awhile at that point and being the experts that they are they probably already thought of and found a way around most of the problems I was bringing up.

That is truly the hardest part of this whole thing…letting go. I have to let go of my idea and let it grow and evolve and turn into an amazing product that everyone will want to own. I have to have faith in the staff at Enventys and understand that while it was my idea that got the ball rolling it’s going to take the experts to make that little snowball of an idea into a massive hurtling boulder of a product! I have every confidence in the team and know that in the end whatever ends up on the store shelves it’s there because of me and my idea. An idea that I had the courage to pitch to the experts at a casting call one day back in May of 08.

It could have been any one of us inventors that day. I was fortunate that they chose me.