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It’s been a long time dream of mine to be in the business section of the New York Times, the ultimate authentication and validation for any entrepreneur. I have always visualized a big, splashy feature on how I built a business in a new, innovative way… perhaps that I sold it to a major company for unheard of amounts of money… maybe a little bit about it happening before I turn 40. And when I woke up yesterday morning, this is what I saw!

Believe me, I am dying and think it’s the most amazing thing on the planet and I live and die for Sharon for securing the placement, which is a major “get” in the PR world. MAJOR! I just never pictured the words “absend minded” in the title of the piece!

I love this column of the business section. It’s called Frequent Flier and it always showcases successful ones who travels often for business – best-selling authors, presidents of companies, producers of films.

Sharon had been pitching me to the editor for ages and one random day, finally got her on the phone. “The norm is people who miss their kids and how people are really organized on flights,” Joan Raymond, the reporter said, “I want something fresh and out of the box.”

Sharon immediately replied, “Karen has no kids and she’s not organized!”

To be clear: I would not say I’m an organized person but there is a method to my madness, some kind of order to my chaos. That said, I have had many a travel mishaps that Sharon generously shared to Joan, who wound up laughing so hard that she had to include me! (Luckily, I have a sense of humor and laugh at myself enough to not be self conscious!)

You have to read the story. It involves a missing phone twice in one hour, begging strangers to let me use their phones and bribing them with lip gloss, losing my carry-on, getting my cleanser and toner confiscated, holding up the security check line due to metal clips (a styling technique for curly hair, to be used when wet in order to create more body at the roots), and some ugly hives.

True story. I’ll never forget that day!

When my brother saw the paper, he called and said “why didn’t you tell them about the time you forgot your flight was Thursday and showed up on Friday?”

Thanks, Jay. Maybe I’ll save that for Fast Company!

Mwah!

Karen

Purple Lab Creatrix

Tags: Karen Robinovitz, New York Times

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