Hey friend,

It's hard to believe that tomorrow is my 26th birthday. I’m not usually one to stir up chatter or fanfare about my birthday, instead preferring to be a bit of recluse about it. However, this year hasn’t been an ordinary year so what the hell?

This year has been inexplicably challenging. With the passing of my mother in January, I’ve been forced to come face to face with my life’s trajectory and my own mortality in ways that I never thought I would. And what I’ve learned over these last 8 months is that life is simply too short to waste it on things that aren’t adding joy or value to your life. For me, this has meant coming to face with the something I’ve known for a while – it’s time to close my wedding photography business.

This has been such a difficult decision to make & one I’ve been running from for a while. If I’m being honest, this business stopped being something I loved doing a long time ago. Weddings are stressful & I just don’t have the drive to deliver what engaged couples deserve. It’s also a hard market to navigate as someone with social anxiety.

Working in weddings really started to unfun, and by proxy of that, unfulfilling as well. And as special as a day is, couples deserve someone who is fired up and passionate about documenting their day. I lost that spark, and I don’t know if I forsee it coming back.

So that’s it – that’s my closed chapter for the year 2024, but what comes next? So, I work a full time job currently, but my goal is building & growing my YouTube channel. I am moving forward with renewed energy and want to create bigger and better videos going forward and I’m just getting started. I hope that one day I could do this for a living – but for now I’m taking it video by video, and day by day.

What is holding you back from doing the things you want to do? What’s preventing you from being happy? Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to make a change.

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Much love from Ohio,

Drew