Introduction: FireFly Flow
Registered contestant: Rachel Degani. Born February 7, 1987
The Dream
Start a new business where people can:
• Learn to spin poi, staff, hoop, and various other props
• Gain independence from the boring norm through personal exploration
• Connect with enthusiastic, creative people from all walks of life
• Have a home away from home (that’s always stalked with coffee, food, beer, and entertainment)
The Future
• Best performers converge as a traveling troupe
• Once students reach the professional level, book them at music festivals, weddings, and parties
The Extra Benefits
• Fun, active, self expression
• Gain marketable skills
• Heightens coordination, agility, and like with any physical activity: amplifies your brain functionality as a result of the increased oxygen
and blood flow.
• Builds characters through a mixture of dance, martial arts, and circus performance
Our Qualifications
• Marissa has been spinning fire for 6 years and Rachel sped through the
learning process in only 1 year
• We are both connected in the fire spinning community
• Rachel has been teaching for 10 years so can assist instructors in communicating with students
• Marissa taught for 3 years and completed her masters in education
• Both of us have worked in the service industry
• We already have instructors ready and willing to work
Money, money, money, money
• Build a user friendly website
• Obtain a suitable building for lessons and performances
• Set up a coffee bar and beer bar
o Buy equipment for coffee bar
o Books, games, music
• Install mirrors
• Fire and various other insurances
• Buy props/materials
o Poi, hoops, staffs, etc
• Create merchandise
• Pay for kick off event
• Get business license
• Patent name
• Get fire insurance
• Beer and wine license
• Marketing
The Dream
Start a new business where people can:
• Learn to spin poi, staff, hoop, and various other props
• Gain independence from the boring norm through personal exploration
• Connect with enthusiastic, creative people from all walks of life
• Have a home away from home (that’s always stalked with coffee, food, beer, and entertainment)
The Future
• Best performers converge as a traveling troupe
• Once students reach the professional level, book them at music festivals, weddings, and parties
The Extra Benefits
• Fun, active, self expression
• Gain marketable skills
• Heightens coordination, agility, and like with any physical activity: amplifies your brain functionality as a result of the increased oxygen
and blood flow.
• Builds characters through a mixture of dance, martial arts, and circus performance
Our Qualifications
• Marissa has been spinning fire for 6 years and Rachel sped through the
learning process in only 1 year
• We are both connected in the fire spinning community
• Rachel has been teaching for 10 years so can assist instructors in communicating with students
• Marissa taught for 3 years and completed her masters in education
• Both of us have worked in the service industry
• We already have instructors ready and willing to work
Money, money, money, money
• Build a user friendly website
• Obtain a suitable building for lessons and performances
• Set up a coffee bar and beer bar
o Buy equipment for coffee bar
o Books, games, music
• Install mirrors
• Fire and various other insurances
• Buy props/materials
o Poi, hoops, staffs, etc
• Create merchandise
• Pay for kick off event
• Get business license
• Patent name
• Get fire insurance
• Beer and wine license
• Marketing
