Session 1 – Personal
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Jennifer Arrington (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/07/01
Let’s talk a little bit about your personal background, what motivates you? What inspires you?
I am inspired by new experiences. That could be anything from skinny dipping in a new body of water to climbing on rooves to doing aerial circus tricks to getting in front of a bunch of people (never met before) and speaking publicly. I love a challenge. I used to identify myself as an excitement junky. As I grew older and wiser, I was able to pinpoint. I want to experience everything life has to offer.
I have a natural fearlessness. That doesn’t mean that I don’t experience fear or that I’m comfortable in the fear, but, of late, I am – with starting Karma Trik and stuff happening in personal life like divorce and having two kids, a lot of volunteer commitments – feeling pushed to limit and facing newer, deeper fears than ever before.
My natural fearlessness is being tests, which I only see as good because I am learning more about myself. I can draw on the lessons from mindfulness and yoga, and therapists. I really had to work to get through.
The fearlessness, excitement motivates me. It is probably why I am where I am today with starting this business, but, at the same time, it is making me face stuff about myself. I had never faced it before – deep stuff about worthiness and blocks on things. Sometimes, you have to wait until 40 to deal with it. I am turning 40 this July.
The volunteer stuff inspires me. Pushing boundaries, innovation, I think I see that with sustainable clothing in general. It is a new thing. It is thinking in a new way. It is pushing boundaries. It is asking people. it is asking other people to think in a new way. My motivation and inspiration are all tied together.
When it comes to work as a board member and a fundraiser for the Actor’s Gymnasium, the lessons that kids and adults learn in that because of taking risks and working hard. It is this grit. The teamwork and the trust is heightened because you’re above ground. It can be scary.
You’re doing all sorts of flips. You have to rely on your team and your muscles. You have to know when you’ve had enough. It is so graceful. It is so fucking hard. That’s pushing. I am working to bring that to everybody in our town – trying to make it accessible to everyone.
My latest thing is tiny homes, bringing tiny homes in our town for the homeless. What is different about that? It is new thing. There are people that will push against it. This NIMBY-ism, the not-in-my-backyard-ism is something that we’ll have to face. I find the things that I’m drawn to – whether volunteering, or Karma Trik – help.
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