Ok guys its no secret that I have somehow just turned 60 ! Because of some circumstances that were beyond my control and some that were in my control, but I didn't see or realize at the time I am now starting over!
That's right from scratch. On my own. I have wonderful friends and a couple much loved cousins and my son and daughter in law but they have their lives.
So looking back I think "how did I get here" ??
My first mistake, and this is the one I didn't know not to do at the time, was listen to my Father, lawyer and bankers who all told me " Don't worry in your old age you will be well taken care of !" I asked a banker if I should have a 401k when I was running Pit Bull Tire Lock Corp. and the person said "Why ? You won't need it". This whole sordid story has been told in my book
Weezie A Palm Beach Story and you can read it there.
The moral to that story is never take for granted, no matter what the circumstances are that a promised inheritance will actually come your way. If it does great but TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!
I did but I didn't .. I started two and ran one excellent little businesses. Both of whom I walked away from without much financial reward (well none in the first instance as I gave it away in my divorce and the second I had found out I had Hep C and was taking Interferon Chemo and my biz partner had buzzed off into never never land... those are my excuses and I am sticking to them !)
The next thing that really knocked me off course was illness. I found out 14 years ago that when my son was born & I was given a blood transfusion they gave me the gift of Hep C !! I went 19 years not knowing I had it but wondering why others seemed to always have so much more energy then me! Two rounds of chemo, a major liver cancer scare, health deteriorating and a fiancee who got ice cold feet left me high and dry. Last winter I was able to take the first round of the new medicine and I am now cured.
For quite a few years now I wanted to get my Step Up Stirrup idea patented but due to the fact that I was living in England and I couldn't actually work there made me realize I had to come back to the good old USA ! And that is what I did.
Maybe the main reason to move back to the glorious Santa Fe is the sunshine. And my son and daughter in law are here. I had lived her for six years and started and ran Wilson-Ford, Corp which then morphed into Pit Bull Tire Lock Corp.
What has proved to be Step Up Stirrups' good luck is the team I had used with Pit Bull was still here and now all back on board. I was able to get the same wonderful, lovely Corp attorney Nikki Wells. Van Beahr who proved then and now to be an excellent fabricator and production manager ! Through Van I am working with the same foundry for the cast high Tensile Aluminum and the same pattern maker. All good.
I also found the most fantastic Patent Agent who wrote a fantastic comprehensive patent with 50 pages of explanations and 50 pages of drawings that some have said are the best they have ever seen. The US Patent office accept the application right away. So we are Patent Pending Protected !
I am so excited it is all coming together !! I am sleepless only because I have so much to do ! This kickstarter launch is really important because it will take us through the process of making moulds and the first run of production and also allow us to be able to look at producing a Western Stirrup and a Children's Step Up Stirrup ! It has actually also been fantastic kick off advertising for this great product !
The link is here... any help that anyone can give is appreciated. Buy your stirrups at a reduced cost, or a hat or a t shirt or just help crowdfund this venture !! Thank you !!
Happy Trails !!!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/21603260/step-up-stirrup-gives-you-a-leg-up-anywhere-you-ri
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