We recently connected with Jeanne Scott and have shared our conversation below.

Jeanne, appreciate you joining us today. Risk taking is something we’re really interested in and we’d love to hear the story of a risk you’ve taken.

I’ve taken many risks. Some life changing, some could have been life ending. My first big risk was to enlist in the US Army. I wanted to get away from my small home town right after highschool and so the military seemed to be the best avenue to do that. And for only 4 years-I was young. There were times that I thought I had made the biggest mistake ever as women were not really respected or welcomed in the Army at that end of the Vietnam era. But more times I felt the reward and accomplishment and proud of being an outstanding soldier. The second and 3rd risks were getting married and having children. At times I felt the same, questioning what have I done? It all worked out and now I am happy to be a veteran and a parent of adult children. Taking risks that could have been life ending were skydiving and bungee jumping. Skydiving was without incident but I was seriously injured while bungee jumping. I healed but was much more cautious after that. One of my bigger career risks came when I was freelancing as a stage manager for corporate live-to-tape events and heard about MLB starting and they were looking for stage managers. I had never worked any live broadcasts before and when asked if I could keep score I said I could. Being hired, I promptly learned how to keep score for baseball and then listened and observed very carefully about what to do during a live broadcast and the rest is kind of history. One of the best risks I have ever taken.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I have always wanted to be involved somehow in television/broadcasting. Wasn’t sure if it was copywriting,becoming a Voice Overs artist or whatever position I could get in the Television Industry. So the first opportunity I got I jumped on it. I worked as a civil servant at an Army training base and learned everything about prodiction-we had our own studio and edit suite and made training videos for the G.I’.s who going through school there. From there I came back to California and continued working in the industry. I never had any discipline problems as I learned to follow instructions and use common sense in the Military. I’ve worked in almost every capacity of video and film production. By far, shooting 35mm film is the most difficult because it requires a lot larger crew and the fear of the unknown. What if a piece of dirt got in the gate and ruined the shots? What if there iwas something wong with the film? What if the film is lost in transit, what if…you don’t find out until it has been processed and a transfer has been made. But again, I am proud to say I successfully have produced many broadcast commercials and short films using 35mm. Now of course, we all use digital format, so life/work is much easier and less expensive. I keep my promises made to clients and do everything I can to make them happy.

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

I met my business partner while working at a Production Company in San Diego. He came in as a Freelance Director while I was the on-staff Production Manager. We worked together on almost every project, commercials, corporate videos, marketing and training videos, etc.which lead us to become great co-workers, great friends and then romantically involved. So, I married my husband writer, director Devin Scott. When Devin’s year contract was up I also left the company and I went to work with Devin’s Company, American Dream Cinema,. Now, 30 years later, we are co-owners.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

Right now we are pivoting our business from client based work to original work that we are creating and promoting. Our product is called, “Whiskers in the Galaxy” and it is a children’s series of animated short videos that follow 5 kittens on their adventures in space. Each program has this warm, gentle male voice over and has an important life lesson (sharing, working together, being kind…) while entertaining and calming children, so that the ending lullaby helps them to fall asleep. Ideally the child would watch the program on their tablet in bed before going to sleep. Parents can watch with them or in place of reading to them. We are very excited about this project and will be working hard to get it out to the world. Eventually we will replace the English voic with foreign languages.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://whiskersinthegalaxy.com
• Instagram: coming soon
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanneteveldahlscott/about
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-scott-aa7b26b
• Twitter: coming soon
• Youtube: coming soon

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