Bench School Week 1 Update

Man - Week 1 of New Approach School’s Graduate Program and I feel like an entirely new person.

I have learned skills already I’ve dreamed of learning - and I have 11 weeks left.

Let’s start from the beginning. 

In June, I decided I needed to leave my full-time job. That this little side hustle had grown big enough to be my main hustle. My full-time business. 

Since that day in June, things have moved so quickly and nothing seems to be slowing down.

Guess what?

I don’t want them to.

Last year my business tripled in revenue from the previous year.

This year, 30% growth.

My boss and I decided August would be the month I would leave working full-time and Wearing Hope became my main source of income. 

August 2022 quadrupled August 2021.

It’s not about the money. 

Money is just an easier way to show growth.

Before I left my job, I cried more tears than I knew I could about not knowing what to do. 

I had this dream - but it needed all my working hours. 

This school would also take up all of my working hours.

You’ll never guess what happened when I quit: 

God took care of me. 

I feel so taken aback at the way Wearing Hope has grown apart from anything I have done - and I am so beyond humbled by the people who support my company.

You are changing my life.

Now, let’s talk about this jewelry school I’ve been attending.

It’s a bench program.

“What’s a bench program?” 

A bench worker is someone who works in a bench, “usually in a laboratory” Google tells us.

Jewelers are also bench workers because we too, work at a bench, in some kind of laboratory you could say.

The program will teach me endless skills.

Soldering, sawing, filing, stone setting, torch, sizing rings, to name a few. There are skills I don’t yet know exist that I will get to learn.

This first week we learned sawing, drilling, filing, down-sizing, up-sizing, and torch.

It was awesome.

In one week, I would feel comfortable creating simple wedding bands.

IN ONE WEEK.

Never would I have guessed.

Well, that’s my update.

More to share at the end of next week.