The Best Advice I've Ever Heard on Following Your Passion

Hey guys, Courtney here. If you’re someone who has struggled to not define your worth by your career and your professional contributions, I am totally with you. I would definitely consider myself to be a multi-passionate person. I currently work in marketing, but within the past five years, I’ve been genuinely serious about being an elementary school teacher, going to culinary school, writing a book, and becoming an actress.

All those things are virtually completely unrelated, but they are all things I consider myself passionate about.

I’ve tried to work through the anxiety of figuring out my career by listening to podcasts, taking career aptitude tests, and reading self-help books. In that process, here is the best advice I’ve heard about following your passion.

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6 Tips To Make Moving Simple and Easy

Moving is one of those things that I equally love and hate. On one hand there’s the joy of dreaming up all the new memories you’re going to make in your new place and imagining how you want each room to look, and on the other lies the all too familiar dread of inevitable stress, endless boxes of mystery items, and uprooting your life for weeks.

Kate here, and as most of you know my husband and I recently moved to a new place for the 5th time in 5 years. While I definitely don’t consider myself an extreme expert on the subject, I do think I’ve done this enough times to have some hopefully helpful advice to share.

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Kate's New Place: Before Photos

Like so many people during this crazy time, I have found myself constantly reevaluating nearly every aspect of my life recently. Kate here, and today I’m excited to share the news that I’m moving into a new place this month! As you can see from the pics in this post, we are currently living in a sea of cardboard boxes.

Today I’m sharing a few initial before photos of our new home, but soon I’ll be writing a much more in-depth post about all my best moving tips (plus the many mistakes we made!) so stay tuned for more coming soon.

Clearly you’ll notice that Nola, our rescue pup, is already making herself at home here. To be totally honest she’s pretty confused about the whole process given that we’ve only had her for about three months, but it’s been fun to introduce her to her new neighborhood and let her explore a little!

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Advice For Covid-19 Brides

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we live, work, travel, consume, and plan. How are we supposed to plan for the future when no one really knows how and when this will end?

Courtney here — as a bride who is currently dealing with wedding planning during COVID-19, I wanted to write something especially for other to-be Mrs. so we can all find a little comfort and solidarity during this time.

I think we could all use some comforting words and maybe a vent sesh or seven. Here are some things that have helped me throughout the past few months as I’ve nervously watched and waited.

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Meet Nola: Kate's New Rescue Pup

Despite all of the crazy uncertainty of this season, this week unexpectedly turned out to be one of the best ever. Why? Because my husband Brett and I finally found the rescue pup of our dreams!

Meet Nola - she is a Wheaten Terrier mix and a total sweetheart. We picked her up in San Diego this weekend and we are absolutely in love!

We’ve been excited about getting our first dog together since we met almost 11 years ago, and now finally felt like the right time to start looking.

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Courtney's Engagement Story: From Hinge To Hitched

Hey, guys — Courtney here! Today I’m writing about me and my fiancé, Lee’s, engagement story. It’s so fun to relive the moment and all the ones leading up to it <3.

I love telling people about our story because we met on a dating app — Hinge to be exact! I know some people who are shy or secretive about meeting on a dating app, and I’m the total opposite. I know that the dating landscape can be hard AF, and if you’ve been single and swiping for awhile, sometimes it doesn’t always feel like there’s anyone left out there that’s right (or good enough) for you.

For me, I ended up meeting my future hubby on Hinge.

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Kate's Engagement Story

As a lot of you probably know, me and my husband Brett got married years ago- but since we got engaged back before everyone posted every milestone of their lives on social media, I thought it would be fun to share our engagement story with you guys!

Another reason this is a timely post is that I just celebrated my birthday, and we happened to get engaged on my birthday- so it felt like a good time to share this much requested post.

Fast forward to December of 2011, during my birthday week. We were celebrating my birthday down in Cabo San Lucas, and on the morning of my birthday Brett basically told me to pack my bags up at the hotel and that we were going somewhere else for the day. Naturally, this made me somewhat suspicious, but I went with it and jumped into a cab to see where we were headed.

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