Just 7 months ago.
It’s 5:03am. It’s the weekend. There is coffee. Life is good.
Hi friends,
I just realized as I’m writing this email that so many of y’all probably have never heard or experienced where #weloveclt started. It was a crazy, exhausting and awesome day. Exactly 7 months ago on January 15th two little babies were born. My daughter Olivia and the #weloveclt speaker series. Blair Primis kicked the whole thing off by talking about being passionate and pushing the line. If you haven’t heard it go here. This one line has stuck me ever since.
“I am a strong believer that it’s really difficult to step over the line if you spend your career pushing the line back.”
How can we all push the line just a little further? Something to think about. Now let’s get to it.
Photo by The Mint Museum
Did you miss Sherrell’s talk?
Don’t worry! The audio went live just a couple days ago. Listen to Sherrell talk The battles we face at the crossroads of conformity and the pursuit of what matters humanizes our purpose right here.
Have you met or supported?
The “have you met?” for the week are Tony Santoro, owner of Enderly Coffee. He’s leveraging his small business to enact change in the community. Next is Scott Queen of The Mint Museum. He’s doing awesome things to increase engagement in the arts.
Our feature Charlotte non-profit of the week is Wendy Shanahan of Beards Because. She’s doing awesome things to bring people together. Check out Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. It’s coming up very soon!
Do you know someone awesome and want to introduce them to all of We Love Charlotte? Let’s make it happen. I’ve laid out the instructions and guidelines here for you to make your own intro.
Photo by Rose
Who do you love Charlotte?
In collaboration with designer Sam White each week we’ll feature one Charlotteans reason they love CLT beautifully handwritten by Sam herself. This weeks Charlottean is Katie Levans. “Cool People Doing Cool Shit”
#weloveclt on Instagram
Each week I select one Instagram photo tagged with #weloveclt to be featured throughout my weekly update. This week I chose three because of how many awesome ones there were. In order top to bottom.
- The Mint Museum for the awesome human representation of the #weloveclt crown
- Rose for representing and promoting local artists.
- Ashleigh White for giving everyone the feels by sharing a little story of love.
Design by Sam White
Instagram takeovers
Takeover time! If you’re interested in taking our Instagram over please go to weloveclt.com/adventures, read the guidelines and fill out the form. Here’s the awesome people that did takeovers this past week.
- Jordan Dollard. Elsa Fine & fashion.
- Robin Mann. Name that dino, art & real estate
- Nourish Charlotte. Health eating in the QC
- The Mint Museum. #nextgenmint awesomeness
- E-Dreamz. Digital agency insights
- The House of Lemond. Straight Dapper
- Sarah Rasmusson. Today! Follow along.
The Wrap Up
Alright! We’re less than a week from Andrew Jenkin’s talk at #weloveclt. We’ll have NODA Brewing, Fit You Meals, HappeningsCLT & QC Independent out supporting us with all sorts of awesome.
The Creative League of Interventionists will be there doing #CreativeNinja things and really that’s all I know. I’m absolutely sure it’ll be awesome. Get ready.
That’s it. Be awesome.
-Garrett
Photo by Ashleigh White
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