A couple of days ago I received a mail from someone who wanted me to help them out with their business or more specific they wanted to do a rock it session with me. They seemed a bit on the dull side, so I pumped up the rockin’ questions I normally send out before a session – that I would love to have received back answered before the session (of course the more details there are on the answers the better I can help you out)…

Anyway both in the email and in the questions it seemed like, that this thing “to rock” wasn’t anything that they where really trying to do – it wasn’t something I could feel that they where burning to implement and to get going with. So I decided to ask them for a skypechat and it was exactly as my intuition told me. The person who was going to do the session wasn’t feeling it. He couldn’t see the value in the rock it sessions. When I asked him why he wanted to book one he said “my manager told me to do something new”.

I ended up telling him that I thought he should look for something else – and I didn’t believe I could help him if his heart was not in it. then he said something like “but I need to do something that’s not mainstream”. I asked him to reconsider or at least get someone to do the session that had a passion for creativity and building the business bigger. His manager got in touch with me after a while and told me that he would do the session with me instead.

So a good ending to the story.

The most helpful part I got out of it was the “I need something that’s not mainstream”. And I’m not mainstream. I don’t do mainstream very well. I like to be the person who inspire the people in the mainstream, but it’s just not for me. It wasn’t when I was in school and for sure isn’t now. I guess I like being a person that you consider. A person where you take a stand. A person other people thinks rock! or a person that other people think is a bit too much, a bit to geeky or too creative or too edgy to be mainstream.

So together with my “do epic shit” quote on my old computer. the next is “sorry – I don’t do mainstream” on my new… Maybe I should make a whole “Henriette Weber” quote page on this blog ? that would be amusing =) maybe stickers ? business cards? widget ?

So last week I had a competition for my new product ( the one on one skype sessions) here on henrietteweber.com, it’s a part of a major restructuring of the site/blog -where the blog as I write on and as you guys know it is going to be a fragment of it.
I have an excellent advisor that has told me that I really run two companies – toothlesstiger.com (my everyday strategic and creative playground) and henrietteweber.com – the speaking, thoughts and sessions site which is my outburst on everything in the life of Henriette Weber.
Anyway the winner of the contest is: Stéphanie Klebetsanis. Stéphanie has come up with a lot of original ideas for the name for the  sessions, both here on the blog, facebook and twitter. She has won a “rock it” session with me and I am looking so much forward to rockin her online and offline identity together with her. See the sessions are build up of a lot of research and questions from me that I need answering on before I can really get down and dirty in her business, then there’s around an hour worth of talking on skype, where we kick around ideas and put them into action.

So congrats Stéphanie =) and yey for me and the rock it sessions – an excellent name with a dimensional meaning =) and yeah, I will teach you how to rock =)…