The Wonder Jam Before Everything Changed

A year ago The Wonder Jam's world was just starting to stabilize.

In 2019, Allie and I invested back a lot of our personal cash (which had come from The Wonder Jam in the first place) into our business in order to fund growth and expansion.

March 1st, 2020 - boy, does that feel like a thousand years ago - we turned a "profit" and established correct pricing, and started to operate profitably after that deliberate investment.

From a math standpoint, 2019 looked a lot "worse" than 2020. From the outside, 2019 looked much sexier.

We all know how pandemic concerns rocked small businesses and ours was a trickle-down effect, for sure.

On 9.1.2020, we announced the Family of Businesses and on Monday we celebrated our half-birthday.

Ashli Nixon, Allie Lehman, Matt Hart, Dayna De Leon, and I re-aligned ourselves very intentionally. Our clients and partners and pals all cheerleading and playing along and letting us operate. We implemented paid time off, parental leave, and changed the entirety of our day-to-day work.

Most of these changes have happened behind-the-scenes and would fit in the "operations" and "finance" and "HR" portions of business school. As those foundational back-of-house practices have gotten stronger, it's hard not to expand on a strong foundation.

There will be a time where you'll see hiring and expansion and other things happening and you might be tempted to pull one of us aside and say "wow, you're really doing something special" but we've been down that road before...

That being said, I'm putting together our "hiring" plans for the future, and while I'm ironing out specific job responsibilities and compensations, and budgets I realized something about the people who were tagged in this list:

Each person on our team currently has - at one point - ran their own small business successfully but - as we collaborated together - realized that they enjoyed The Wonder Jam's version of teamwork more than "doing their own thing." And each person can easily run a project or meeting or handle their work without much oversight.

Each person is better experienced at their individual role and can lead the rest of our team in their area of expertise

Before I go drop job listings out on random websites, I'll put out a notice:

If you check the below 3, I'd love to hear from you:

(A) a freelancer or one-person-business who is very good at what you do and

(B) you might be "tired" with many of the non-sexy pieces of doing-your-own-thing and

(C) you love small business owners more than having a big list of big-time brands sitting in your portfolio.

If you check all 3 of these boxes and find yourself curious about exploring joining our team or at least curious about the idea, I'd have an intro chat with you. Send me DM. (Also if you know a freelancer who is in our industry and is amazing and you've heard them vent about frustrations feel free to pass along).

***We are NOT hiring anyone immediately but I've got my eyeballs on what we look like by the end of this year and we'll have some more teammates, for sure. If you need a job NOW, this isn't the move.