I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up! follows a young girl in school who is assigned the career of sales to write a report on and must now figure out what sales is. What was the inspiration for your story?

My daughter started selling Girl Scout when she was 6 years old.  She wanted to sell the most cookies in her group so we talked about different sales strategies. We decided she would do a video “pitch” about why people should buy from her and then did a blog post about it and share it with my audience with a link to buy Girl Scout cookies.  She ended up having the most sales in the entire town.  The second year we took a similar approach and she was the top seller again.  Around this time I was traveling every week for work and I wanted to find a way to connect with my daughter and help her understand a little more about what daddy did for a living which is Sales Training.  With the Girl Scout experiences being directly related to sales we decided to write the book based on those experiences.   

What were some educational aspects that were important for you to include in this children’s book?

It educates kids on key values like hard work, curiosity and helping people.  

The art in this book is fantastic. What was the art collaboration process like with illustrator Juan Diaz?

I wrote the story and sent in some pictures of me and my family. Juan’s original depiction of the story was spot on and didn’t need much feedback from me.  it was a simple but effective process.

What is one thing you hope children take away from your book?

That Sales is a profession they could and should be proud of if they decided to eventually pursue it as a career. 

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Original source: https://literarytitan.com/2023/05/28/to-connect-with-my-daughter/