Shavers, My Sister and Radio

Just when I have no idea what I can write my blog about that won’t get my child kicked off a team or make my husband’s back hurt anymore something falls in my lap.  I opened my computer to write and saw an e-mail had come in from my sister Janet with a link to a download for a radio interview she did today.  It was a show out of Los Angeles called Tee It Up, which as you can guess is about golf.  Now my sister loves to play golf and has at one time or another been quite a good golfer, but not so much recently so I was really curious what she was being interviewed about on this radio show.

The download completed and the host started talking about shaving.  Ahhh…. I thought.  This is a show guys listen to; Janet owns a company that sells a shaver called ShaveTech, an electric shaver that plugs into a USB.  So for about ten minutes I listened to Janet talk to two men about shaving.  This was not normal radio, it was infomercial disguised as a conversation.  After all the shaving talk they spent a couple minutes talking about another one of her products, a knife sharpening tool called AnySharp.

Janet did a great job keeping the conversation casual about how men can keep this razor in their desk drawer at work in case they need to shave before a big meeting or a date.  These two radio hosts loved the USB charging capability since you did not need to carry adaptors and it works anywhere in the world.  On and on they went about Janet’s products and how they make great presents at $30.

How did my sister get in this business?  She went from telecom, to owning a women’s clothing store, to marketing consulting and now owns a business that sells all kinds of stuff from travel perfume sprayers called Travalo to Shavers.

All of a sudden a vision came to my mind of a time when Janet was about three and she practically cut her thumb off playing with my father’s razor.  I remember my mother screaming for me to get a towel to wrap her blood gushing hand in so she could drive her to the emergency room.  Little did any of us know she would grow up to sell electric shavers, which are much less dangerous than a razor with a straight blade.  What kid plays with razors anyway?

We just never know what path life is going to take.  If you asked me twenty years ago if I would ever hear my sister being interviewed about men shaving I would tell you absolutely not.  She’s really not that into men shaving.  But listening to her tonight I got a real charge, no pun intended, to hear carry on such an interesting conversation about something so mundane.

I wonder in Janet even remembers almost cutting off her thumb or her fascination with razors at a young age. I guess we should walk the path that is in front of us and eventually you are going to get somewhere.  It might not always be where you thought you were going, but it might be more fun than you expected.