6 September 2014

Notes from Helen, after meeting number 2 (product prototyping).

Drivers of change…a heading I’ve used in many a document.

In the context of BunnyKat the drivers of change are:

• being more than a 9 to 5-er
• spending time with my dear friend, Inge
• using my brain creatively
• challenging myself to achieve more than the every day
• choosing a life I want to live.

I’ve been a corporate girl since the mid-90s, when I was in my mid-30s. At that time, I had three beautiful children (and still do) and an unpleasant marriage. The only way of escape was to earn money, so I took full-time work for the first time in 10 years, and began the journey.

I’ve experimented with employee-hood and contractor-hood. I’m quite a sensitive soul and along the way have suffered terribly about whether I’m good enough, smart enough, funny enough, talented enough…whether I’m enough.

And at the age of 53, having survived divorce, single motherhood, RSVP and the corporate world, I can finally say: Yes. I am enough.

BunnyKat is about deciding to create a product with a friend who loves bunnies…and well, actually, all creatures great and small. It’s about choosing to spend my days as I imagine my life should be lived. It’s about breaking free. I’ve conformed all my life.

Time to try a different way of being.

17 August 2014

Notes from Inge.

Today we got together for our first BunnyKat meeting. Of course we held it in Inge’s office with the bunnies fully present.

Sitting side by side in front of the computer with Scotty and Tulip running around our feet, we asked each other the basics:

• What was BunnyKat exactly?
• What would we focus on?
• Who would we involve?
• Where did we hope to find an audience?
• What would we give back?

This handy exercise helped us to think big while and confirm our values and hopes are  similar. It also provided an agreement on what our first steps should be. For example:

• We decided to set up a website and register a business name.
• We planned our first prototyping session and had research topics each.

Download our mind map to gain an insight into our thinking.

Since this meeting we have registered our business name, set up this website, researched some product information and planned our first prototyping session.