Surprise! Welcome to Everyday Edits (previously Not a Trophy Wife). I know, right. A huge change with user errors, technical glitches and late nights. And, a to-do list that will take the better part of a month. Please stick with me! But, if you skip the why behind my blog rebrand, will you leave a comment on what you think of the new name or follow me on Instagram?
I will share the details and the team behind the rebrand later (once I organize all my passwords. But, let me explain the why behind my blog rebrand. In a sentence, it started in a therapy session with my husband.
That’s right, I paid someone to listen to me talk about my blog.
Well, that is the short version.
I thank my therapist for my blog rebrand. In a monthly therapy/life coach/marriage counseling
I lit up talking about all the details I love about my blog. And, how my blog pushed my creative side (sometimes over the edge).
The Why Behind My Blog Rebrand
I shared the circumstances behind my blog name. It began with a telephone conversation with my sister in a parking lot at our tennis club. I was asked by a friend to sub for a daytime tennis match. I had primer on my elbow and ceiling paint on my baseball cap. And, I had a car with months old McDonald’s french fries in the back seat. I was a lot of things, but I was not a trophy wife.
With three small kids and a new Realtor’s license (to help fund my husband’s start-
“Some days, I just want to be a trophy wife.”
I continued to share with our therapist my blog was an expensive hobby. My blog was my own version of therapy. It was a distraction from my life as a Realtor where the adrenaline of contracts, dates, and deadlines, fueled by coffee, created noise in my head.
Looking at my husband’s face in that session, made me think he thought I had gone off the rails. I am sure he was counting the dollars per minute during that 50-minute session.
I called it passion. Except, except that, I was increasingly uncomfortable with the blog name. I suspected the blog name, Not a Trophy Wife, was judgy with undertones.
But, I was not ready for change. So I danced around my thoughts and persevered thru my DSLR camera. I continued to work on my writing skills with the help of this great article from an unlikely author.
When I ramped up my real estate business two years ago, I knew I had an opportunity to marry the two: the creative side of the blog with the decor and staging ideas I share with buyers and sellers.
It took me three years from those initial feelings of a blog rebrand to the actual decision to initiate a blog rebrand. A trip to Haven placed me in a small blogging group with this lady as the leader.
But, this lady had just rebranded her blog. I followed up with her after the conference about my dilemma. Leslie was a great sounding board.
And, that is the why behind my blog rebrand. I was not the same person when I started my blog. I was evolving and so were my thoughts and my stage of life and my goals. It was time to edit me and my blog. Thank you for sticking with me! If you are new, welcome! I would love social media follows below. laura
