Welcome to It Starts With Coffee!
HI Friends! I bet you weren’t expecting to see a different site today were you? The term it takes a village could not mean more right now. So many people contributed to helping build this site for the past several months. Today I am launching my brand new blog. As you can tell the blog is called, It Starts With Coffee. Just like a lot of our days start with coffee, now your day can start with this new blog! All of my content is here and the blog posts will stay similar. Same girl, new blog! Take a look around the blog and get familiar with everything! Lot’s of new things!
This has been a work in progress for over a year. Before Andrew and I got married I knew I wanted a change. A Complete Waste of Makeup started in my mid-twenties. I was single and my life was very different. However, the timing never felt right. I knew it was going to be a huge undertaking and I wasn’t ready. Finally, a few months ago I pulled the plug. I found a fantastic blog designer, the amazing Lindsay with White Oak Creative. I had new headshots taken and ordered new business cards. There have been many late nights spent working on content, approving layout, sending Lindsay 1,000 emails, creating freebies for you guys(YAY!), and most of all setting up the new blog courses.
As many of you know, for the past year I have had monthly blog courses one Saturday a month covering a wide variety of topics in a 5 hour period. While that was great, and I still offer that main course, I now offer TWO ADDITIONAL COURSES! Those can be found here (the main course), here (new twice monthly course about monetizing) and here (new twice monthly course about growing your social media). I really hope you check them out! I think you will really love them. So much has gone into these courses. From now until Sunday night I am offering a discount of 15% on any of the courses. You will see a few date/time options for each so you should find something that works with your schedule. Use code: LAUNCH for 15% off any course! BONUS: Also through Sunday, if you sign up for a class you get a one-on-one session with me beforehand or after(your schedule depending). A one hour session that I usually charge $150 for! FREE! YEAHHH!
A lot of my posts coming up will also focus on blogging advice, which is something I love giving. I receive at least 20 emails a week asking questions and I have taken those questions and put them into my courses and blog posts. Want more? Sign up here for my email list and you will immediately get a daily blogging checklist with details of what you should be doing everyday, as well as tons of freebies to help grow your blog.
Now for the fun part! I have teamed up with my dear friend Lindzi who owns the shop, The Trendy Sparrow. I guarantee you have seen her bloggers gonna blog shirts and mugs as well as her you had me at pumpkin spice lattes sweatshirt. I own about 5 of her mugs plus a shirt. She is not only one of the sweetest people ever, but her talent is insane. How cute are her what would Blair Waldorf do mugs?
The Trendy Sparrow girl sips champagne any day of the week. She enjoys eating macarons for breakfast. She feels just as beautiful in sweats as she does in a party dress. She dreams of Paris and wears lots of polka dots. She loves fresh flowers and every Audrey Hepburn movie. She works hard for what she has and looks fabulous doing it. She is beautiful inside and out.
The Trendy Sparrow wasn’t born overnight. Creator & owner, Lindzi Shanks, started out as a psychology major with the intent to get a PhD & become a professor. She started TTS as a side job while in college; making a little extra money in addition to her other multiple jobs. She grew TTS so much that she was able to quit all of her other side jobs and only focus on school and her Etsy store. Keeping on her original path, Lindzi gained an MA in Psychology from The University of Chicago. However, while in graduate school she felt like something was off. She noticed that she answered Etsy emails and designed new products while in class; barely listening to her professors. She could tell that her heart was in TTS, not in her planned career path. In June 2014, Lindzi made a huge leap of faith. She postponed gaining a PhD to run TTS full time. Within a year, she grew TTS to include art prints, coffee mugs, apparel, and more! Now she has no intention of ever turning back to the life she thought she was supposed to have! Lindzi now runs The Trendy Sparrow and the conjoining blog full time, building it into a fabulous empire and constantly remembering that it is more important to do what you LOVE rather than what you think you are “supposed” to do.
This is what the winner will get:
$75 Starbucks gift card to make your pumpkin spice dreams come true
$75 Sephora gift card to get fall makeup ready
This amazing prize package from The Trendy Sparrow including: 1) Gold Bow Sweater, 2) Pink Blogger Tee, 3) Bloggers Gonna Blog Travel Mug
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Thank you for visiting my blog and supporting this new venture! I am so excited for what’s to come!
This giveaway will end on October 8th at midnight. The winner will be chosen on October 9th and emailed. It will also be announced who the winner is at the bottom of this post.
Want more? Check out Welcome to It Starts With Coffee + Giveaway for more details!