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Escape Artist of the Month: Christi Smith Scofield
President and Founder, PFF Entertainment and creator of Sexy Slang
Christi Smith Scofield went from playing corporate games to creating sexy board games that are sold at Barnes & Noble and other national retailers.
Corporate Life
Before she escaped from Corporate America, Christi worked as a technology executive at companies including Hewlett Packard for more than ten years. But she never really felt like her heart was in her work.
A Career-Changing Party
The inspiration for Christi's new career as an entrepreneur came from her always-active social life. Looking for a way to liven up a party she was hosting for friends at an Aspen ski house, she came up with the idea for an adult version of charades. That game eventually became Sexy Slang, the first product produced by Christi's company, PFF Entertainment.
Sexy Slang Leads to Financial Freedom
Today, Sexy Slang is available in more than 1,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada and has inspired additional games and a line of apparel featuring pictograms from the game (this one's my favorite so far). Christi has been featured in publications from BusinessWeek to Playboy and she even had the opportunity to play Sexy Slang on-air with CNBC's Donny Deutsch.
Escape Can Be Fun
Christi originally named her company PFF Entertainment after her early mission as an entrepreneur, "Project Financial Freedom." With a lot of creativity and hard work, she has achieved that goal and is having a blast setting new ones as she expands her business in new directions.
Remember Christi's story the next time somebody tells you that work isn't supposed to be fun or that playing games is a waste of time.
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