Be Honest & Real

Hi friends,

Another week down. Let’s get right to it. I hate playing favorites but the lineup of “Have You Met?” this week were so awesome. Just incredibly honest and real. I laughed, I cried {I didn’t cry!}. Meet Joanne Spataro, Kerri Flanigan and our Charlotte nonprofit of the week,Field to Fork’s Tyler Harding. I asked them each five questions. Click the links to read them.

Each month in collaboration with HappeningsCLT we have a gallery of a local artist on display at @809 where we hold the speaker series. This coming Thursday we are holding a closing reception for artist Anna Kenar. It’ll be held directly following Katie Levans talk. The talk is sold out but the closing reception will be open to everyone. It’ll be awesome.RSVP here.

I asked everyone that RSVP’d to Katie’s talk why they love Charlotte. Here’s three awesome responses.

• Johnny Wakefield said “Because it’s a city trying to figure out who she is.”
• Gregory Kurts said “The people. We come from everywhere. So much to learn and experience.”
• Lynn Caldwell said “The great people I get connected to every day!”

Thanks to Kerri for giving me the opportunity to talk about #WeLoveCLT this past Thursday at the AIR Social to a group who have never engaged it. I’m pumped that a handful of them subscribed. To them… Welcome and thanks for the support! I have video from it though that’ll go live soon! Stay tuned.

Here’s a couple quick Charlotte shoutouts to wrap things up.

• Remember Andrew Jenkins of Heart Meter, our first nonprofit we introduced you to? I’m pretty sure he’s taking over the world since then. Check him out here on WCNC talking Heart Meter. Well deserved. So awesome.
• The feature #weloveclt photo credit above goes to Kelli Eklund for that awesome sunset shot. Absolutely beautiful. Use the #weloveclt tag on Insta. I’ll feature one new awesome photo every week. P.S. Doesn’t need to be a skyline shot. It can be anything!
• Insta Takeovers are blowing up! We want everyone to show us one awesome day in the life. Sign up here.

That’s it! Be awesome,
Garrett