Nine years ago today I wrote my first blog. It’s been an exciting journey and one I haven’t been enjoying enough of lately. Here’s a look back at my first post.

Excelling creatively in faith, family, community, and business
Nine years ago today I wrote my first blog. It’s been an exciting journey and one I haven’t been enjoying enough of lately. Here’s a look back at my first post.
In this fireside chat between Shell Vera and aspiring beauty influencer Delanie Garrett, we learn what it takes to become a beauty influncer in today’s social media culture and where the intersection in between beauty and faith.
In this first fireside chat, Shell of The Essential Creative talks with JRenee from No Honey Makeup about business, faith, and balancing priorities as a Kingdom entrepreneur. This chat will be helpful to all who have wanted to start a business but have been afraid to do so. JRenee had the idea for her business while home on maternity leave with her youngest son, at a very unlikely time most mothers would be thinking of launching a dream. But she did it and is here to tell us the real, raw details of what it takes to have faith for big, audacious goals and God-given callings.