Fast forward, I ended up loving it and building a bond with the other performers so much so that I performed with them again for the next year's PCN.
(I'm a part of the 2nd duo from the right, clapping the bamboo sticks first, and then I switch to dancing in the second half of the dance)
By the end of the three years in the group, I wasn't just a visitor anymore.
And this brings me to what I've been thinking about since I started writing this series.
There's a version of my college experience where I walked into that first meeting, felt a little out of place, and quietly talked myself out of coming back. Where I stayed on the edges just long enough to say I tried it, and then moved on.
But if I did that, I would have missed everything.
Yes, I would've missed out on learning a really cool dance and the amazing friendships, but I would have missed out on something even bigger that came after. And I'll tell you what that is next week 👀
All of it required that I didn't just show up. It required that I go all in on something before I could see where it was going.
And here comes the ~Pinterest connection~
This is the part of the Pinterest strategy that I think gets undersold.
Most conversations about Pinterest focus on whether to start. Should I be on Pinterest? Is it worth it for my business? And those are fair questions because they're exactly what a strategy call is for.
But the business owners who see the biggest results are the ones who stick with it even when they don't see the results right away.
Pinterest compounds.
A pin you create today might drive consistent traffic six months from now.
A strategy you build this quarter might not show its full impact until next year.
The platform rewards depth and consistency * before * you see the payoff in a way that most social media simply doesn't.
But that means there's an uncomfortable middle period. You're putting in the work. You're not seeing the payoff yet. And every instinct you have is saying maybe this isn't working, maybe this isn't for me, maybe I should pull back.
The people who make it to the stage are the ones who stayed in the room when they could have left.
I don't know what your version of "staying in the room" looks like for your business right now.
Maybe it's Pinterest. Maybe it's something else entirely.
But if you've been standing in that doorway, curious, a little unsure, doing the mental math on whether this is really for someone like you, I'd love to have that conversation with you.
A strategy call is 60 minutes to look at your business specifically and figure out what adding Pinterest to your marketing strategy could actually mean for you.
