Victoria
Spriggs
"He's got no quit."
There I studied Industrial Product Design next to 10,000 leading industry professionals and other creative minds. I learned to balance artistry with practical design principles.
It was a creative person's mecca: a mass of focused painters, product, furniture and graphic designers, photographers, architects, sculptors, animators, sound designers, composers, and film-makers.
I learned to execute and present ideas, but more importantly how to think.
— Proverbs 27:17
I spent the next decade learning tough truths about business and making money. I built a career in Product Design, shipping software and consumer hardware for giant tech companies in Los Angeles.
Along the way I met highly-driven, ambitious, and intelligent individuals in leadership, sales, marketing, and engineering.
I saw that the key to success and building something GREAT requires the right people, working together, and relentless pursuit.
"Nobody who's above you ever has to put you down.
True confidence has nothing to prove."
"When the student is ready, the teacher appears."
— Lao Tzu, The Art of War
The tricky thing about growth is it always comes for what you're doing, sooner or later.
One day, I woke up in my nice little life and felt wildly unhappy.
Is this it?
It was at this time I saw the documentary Down the Fence. I sat in my living room, mouth hanging open, watching reined cowhorse trainer Erin Toarmino kick those 6'-something grown men's a**es up and down that arena.
Unbelievable.
Maybe that sort of thing is more common in Texas, but I wasn't born in a horse family or place. Until I saw that, I didn't know it was possible for young women to do that.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
— Mary Oliver
So naturally I sold the house, quit my job, and headed to the performance horse capital of the world.
I built a new career in capturing the stories of the bold, determined, at any cost people chasing big dreams.
I believe we all have a calling in life, but it might be a tough SOB that wants to kill you. You have to be brave enough to run it down and get it. Probably why I liked that documentary so much.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
— Jeremiah 29:11