OK, so I'm going to switch things up a bit here. Instead of blogging as this vague being from the Ring Cling, I'm going to be myself.
Meredith Pike-Meher.
I am a mother, a wife, a Physician Assistant, and small business owner. So far I feel very successful from the first 3 descriptions of myself...however I still have yet to see success as a small business owner. And that is what I want to start blogging about: my experience going from being a PA and knowing only about medicine, to the successful entrepreneur that I hope to become.
I used to watch the Television Show "The Big Idea" with Donny Deutsch and there were a few prevailing themes of the show. In order to create a successful business you should:
1. Take a problem that you have in your own life and create a solution.
2. Be creative
3. Have perseverance!
I loved that show and I'm so sad that it is no longer on the air. But that's neither here nor there. The point is, it inspired me. And thus, the idea for Ring Cling was born.
It was conceived on a sunny day in late 2009 when I had left my wedding rings (the most valuable thing I owned) at work....AGAIN. I worked in Interventional Radiology, performing procedures on a daily basis. I would remove my wedding rings each time I performed a procedure as recommended by the CDC and the WHO to decrease the chances of spreading infection to your patients. Each time I would put my rings in a different place; my scrub pocket, my purse, the pocket on my lead vest. Each time I would almost lose my ring and I would go through a 5 minute heart-stopping search for where my rings were. Sometimes I would find them on the floor from bending over. A few times I threw them in the laundry with my scrubs. And I even left them at work more frequently that I care to admit. Either way, it was a problem...the head rush I experienced each time as my heart jumped into my throat and my blood pressure went skyrocketing was not enjoyable, to say the least.
I started asking around to see if this was something that other people were experiencing as well. Just from the people working in my
department, 6 people had either lost their wedding ring or came close at
some point. People had all sorts of crazy things they did with their
rings, but there was no one sure-fire, safe solution. So, while driving back to work one day to retrieve my rings from my lead, I called my husband and said, "I have a problem and we need to solve it." My husband replied, "I think it should be called the Ring Cling." And that is where it all began....
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