Sophie Maletsky is a renowned children's event planner and entertainer who’s always had a knack for working with kids. Trained as an actress, Sophie pursued an acting career through college, worked Off Broadway in New York, and had roles in television and film. One day while Sophie was working as a nanny, she helped plan a birthday party and that’s when things changed. The kids told Sophie what they wanted and together they made it come true. She turned garages into castles, back yards into train stations, and living rooms into ocean beds. Shortly thereafter the Sophie’s Stress Free Soiree business was born. Today, Sophie’s company designs and executes over 150 events a year for children and adults for Fortune 500 companies and Forbes 400 individuals. Sophie has over 70,000 subscribers on YouTube, and hundreds of crafts and product reviews on her website, sophie-world.com and has been featured on CNBC, NBC, ABC and CBS Radio, to name a few.
Tell us about that initial birthday party you helped plan when you were a nanny, and how that turned into a career and personal brand…
So first and foremost before I tell you anything about myself you should know that I never never never never never planned to be an entrepreneur I never never planned to be any of the stuff that I am today. What basically happened is everything that is what I do like a door opened and I was like “eh well I might as walk through”, you know. So it was one of these things where opportunities have like presented themselves and I just kind of gone with it but I never ever intended to do what I do now. But I love what I do now and so I’m like really completely blessed that I got to do what I get to do.
So anyway what happened is my husband and I lived in New York he got offered a job in San Francisco so we moved out and I literally had nothing to do so I was like well I need to do something or I’m going to go crazy. So I became a nanny on the nanny’s day off basically for this family and we were having a great time and I was basically that babysitter that would raid the recycling bin and we’d put on plays and we’d make like, you know, Pringles cans into like bow and arrow sheaves and all this kind of great stuff. So basically what happened is all these mom talk and you would get this look “get this girl for the nanny on the nanny’s day off because she’s like having a private tutor you’ve got to have her” so anyway I started working seven days a week and, you know, I was working Monday through Sunday with a different kid. And as it happens, you know, kids have birthdays so my first mom that I ever worked and I love her to this day she said “Sophie here’s five hundred dollars. Plan Emma’s party” and I was like “oh god”.
Now this was twenty-five years ago you guys so five hundred dollars was like I’m like holy I could put on a play I could do so many things with this money. So I sat down with Emma and I was like “Emma what do you want to do” and she’s like “I want to be a princess and I want to put all the boys in a dungeon and I want to slay a dragon and I want to have crowns with flowers” and I was like okay this is great so I said to the mom “so do you mind if we use the garage for the party and she was like “you want to use the garage for the party” I’m like “is it okay and we’ll cover it with papers” and she was like “Sophie you know what do whatever you want to do”. So Emma and I covered the entire garage with paper and spent the next four weeks painting it to make it look like a pink castle. And then we took, you know, the inner tubes of like wrapping paper and we put them together and made this – under the stairs we made an actual dungeon and put in it, which was the best thing ever. And the girls loved it because the boys were like finding ways to escape and then they do all this, you know, it was great. It was awesome. The best thing about it was that we had the dragon pinata, now this was the first pinata I ever made in my entire life and he thing I was worried about was that it would break too soon, right. So what do I do I make it with twelve layers of newspaper. The kids went to hit the pinata and it was literally like “dong” it was like on of these things where like you could hear it reverberating, nobody could open it. The dads tries, the moms tried, you know, the brother tried nobody – we had to literally get a saw to open it up.
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