You have to start somewhere.
It all began with an idea. I wanted to start something that I could be proud of as opposed to being boastful about my status in the corporate world. After realizing that I despised my lifestyle in the job that I was in, I knew that I needed to find my next step to truly doing what I love.
In the beginning of 2020, I got a spontaneous phone call from a previous boss that I worked for at a summer camp. She offered me a job that I couldn’t refuse and in the beginning of February I move to the Santa Cruz Mountains and began working at Mount Hermon. I absolutely loved working there with kiddos and planning weekend retreats with a fun team. As we were in the process of planning our summer camp curriculum and activities, we went into a lockdown in the Bay Area because of COVID-19. After two months of praying and planning for things, we felt that it was not possible or safe to conduct summer camp.
We soon found out that we would be let go from our positions at work and I needed something to keep me busy and figured no better time to start my own business! So I mustered up the courage and found the perfect trailer to renovate into my own mobile coffee shop. After working hard to demolish the inside and create a blank slate, I realized that it was going to take a lot of time and money to jump right into the mobile coffee trailer. So, I was brainstorming with my dad about how to start the business sooner and get started working in the industry and we came up with the idea of creating a coffee cart.
So, with the coffee cart came a LOT of thinking because I didn’t have a large trailer to fit a long cart, and it wasn’t very tall either so we decided to buy a commercial kitchen cart and plate it with stainless steel. After spending more money than anticipating, we finally had the cart built and started marketing for private events and pop-up markets.
While we are still living in a pandemic, I have been able to serve socially distant, masked-up, and safely at weddings and pop-ups. I am looking forward to 2021 when I can book more events and finish building my trailer. I appreciate all of the love and support that I’ve received this year from family and friends, to the internet strangers turned coffee comrades. 2020 has been a year of unknowing growth in more ways than one, and I’ve been blessed by others even when so many of us need blessings.
At the end of this year, I received a grant from my friends Getchusomegear and their collaboration with big name coffee company, Royal Coffee Inc. With their hard work, I was a recipient of a $2,500 grant to help continue my business efforts. I am so looking forward to the painful but necessary growth that is undoubtedly going to show this next year. I hope you will follow along with my coffee journey and that you will be able to stop by one day to grab a drink!
Thanks for reading along with my rambling.
Moriah <3
