If I was going to continue working on Mother Succa, I would like to delve further into the history of Caitlin’s family as successful business owners and how that has shaped her own work ethic. I would do this by filming footage of her working for her family business and asking her dad some questions in regards to what advice or guidance he might have given over the years and what he thinks the pros and cons to being your own boss entails. I wasn’t able to draw this out of her during her own interview so I think going straight to the source would work better. 

I would also like to further explore side hustles in general and why they’ve become such a big phenomena, particularly with millennials, in recent years. I imagine this would lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole of minimal wage woes and dreams of one day sticking it to the man which could create a bit more depth and structure for the project overall. There is quite a large plant community up in Cairns of propagators who are doing similar things to Caitlin in regards to business opportunities, so reaching out to them could be an option as well. 

To give the project the ability to explore these two considerations, I think extending it to a 10 minute piece would suffice, with some restructuring of the current project. Or perhaps three 5 minute segments with clearly defined narrative beats. For example, episode 1 could explore side hustles and their popularity, episode 2 could explore an introduction to Real Neat Plants and Caitlin’s family business success and episode 3 could follow her around over a month or so to see all the aspects, highs and lows, of her business as opposed to small snippets of it.