Preposterous Pop-up…how “super-couple” defied the odds and journeyed through the messy middle of Love!
Episode 7 — Andrew and Liz Hunt
What does a pop-up store, a campaign championing “Love Can”, all the plants in the area’s nurseries, and entrepreneurship have to do with Complexity…
“you must be a little crazy to really make it all work”- 17:23
Well, Lean In today and hear from Andrew and Liz Hunt-entrepreneur couple-as we talk about the complexity of a unique project Day Cloud Studios took on across the city of Omaha.
Complexity is constant in this world. Yet many of us just don’t realize it affects us each and every day. Andrew and Liz Hunt, super couple, do…
“we had to think scrappy”- 34:25
In this interview, we really dive into how complexity is just part of everything in life. There are some great insights from Andrew and Liz about how to approach your relationship while pursuing your individual dreams. Both Andrew and Liz are entrepreneurs in their own right, but put all of their talent, heart, and energy into a unique project called “Love Can.” The project culminated with an ambitious endeavor to build a pop-up experience that would engage the city of Omaha with a message of hope, unity, and love.
In 6 weeks, Andrew and Liz designed, organized, and built a complete, immersive experience for the community of Omaha to participate in as a message to bring unity to our city. Hundreds of volunteers, difficult challenges, and hard choices had to be made to achieve the vision of the space. Nothing like this has been done in our city and they took on the challenge and hit a home run (yes that baseball metaphor was on purpose…Omaha is the home of the College World Series).
“Anything worthwhile takes time and effort” — 14:05
Andrew and Liz’s story to entrepreneurship is different than most. Additionally, they both run separate businesses, while maintaining a supportive and loving relationship. It was great to hear how they navigate those challenges each and every day and in the context of the Love Can project.
Key Takeaways
- Dynamics within relationships; Dealing with complexity as a couple.
- Similar blue-collar background; Aware of what it means to work hard long hours- speaks to sacrifice- speaks to the idea of commitment.
- Team-work makes the dream-work.
- Find the common ground; seek to understand the level of stress and problems your partner is facing!
- Accept the sacrifice and think positive!
- Map your strengths! Focus on complementing each other strengths.
- The first step when solving “Complexity” is admitting your boundaries and to pull people into your network.
- Stick to your roots and what led you to success.
- As your resources grow/expand, maintain your ingenuity that led to your creative solutions.
- DO NOT BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR MORE MONEY!
- As a small-business owner, you must have the ability to grit, grind, and be tenacious
- Find depth in your relationship; these struggles either make or break people/relationships.
- Get scrappy! Scrappy = Creative solutions!
- Define what is critical? what is not? (Mission command left and right limits)
- Develop and practice a wealthy mindset vs. poor mindset
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