Vol 10, No. 1 | Bonne Année!

Hey Ya’ll!

I know it feels like I fell off the face of the planet last year. It was a few things, the usual writer’s block for sure, but mainly work. I traveled more last year than I’ve ever traveled before with lots of emails and calls while on the road. I’ve been in Atlanta for about 45 days in the past 6 months. It had its highs, but it was extremely exhausting and writing was nowhere near my mind.

I’ve had a chance to sit in South Africa for the past two weeks and decompress while allowing new thoughts to come in. I came to the conclusion that I want to write. I know, I know…this is all very familiar. I say it every year. But, if LaGuardia can become a great airport, anything can change.

The real clarity began a few months ago when I decided not to do my annual dinner in Jamaica this February. It gave me a chance to figure out what “Holy Sip” actually is. I’d created a new website for the dinner, but something about it bothered me. By letting go of it in October, I was able to hear the answer in December. I’ve met so many great people over the last few weeks and I want to share their stories. I want to create content for people that want more authenticity in their lives. I want to show that drinking can be balanced and you can enjoy life, culture and people over cocktails, tea, wine, coffee and all other types of beverages.

This newsletter will remain mostly unchanged and now that I have more focus, I’ll write it weekly. The longer format pieces that I did sporadically will live on the Holy Sip website, but I’ll link to them from here.

I’m very excited about this next step and my new year reminder for you is to take the leap that you’ve been thinking about taking. If you don’t know the answer yet, deliberately sit with it and the answer will come…and then you have to listen and do.

I hope you all have an amazing year! See you next week.

Shannon