02/12/2025
I am a dreamer and that gives me hope, somehing to look forward too and focus on.
They say FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!! Well i did and SECOND CHANCE COFFEE SHOP was my dream!!
I already lost my first dream, NOSTALGIA COFFEE SHOP because of covid. So this was my SECOND CHANCE!!
I thought that this was the space God gave me to BLOOM WHERE I WAS PLANTED. It was my new born baby. Like with a new born baby there was many sleepless nights, lots of struggels and opsticules to overcome. But it was worth it, by giving it all the love and passion and to see it grow.
I took Gods hand and He walked with me every day. As i lovingly watered the garden i got to see it slowly come back to live, i felt happiness with every new flower that popped up everywhere.
I met so many new and interesting people that loved our food and our garden with playground where the kids could play while the adults took some "time out" to relax. It was wonderful to see clients and kids enjoying the space and atmoshere my staff and i created.
It was me and my staff's second home and clients also said it felt like their home and happy place. That was music to my ears.
During the 6 months of seeing my baby grow there was always that nagging force that wanted to let my baby die. Regardless of all the positive times i still had to deal with the negativity from outside the happy circle. By times it overwhelmed me and then I thought it will just make me stronger and fight harder.
That negativity was just draining all my energy and became to much. By that time my baby was already on live support.
The lesson i learned from this was to never go into business with family. My silent partner that signed the lease contract, cancelled the contract. I was not going to let my baby die and was willing to sign new contract, but the outside negativaty did not stop.
With Dec on the way everyone is getting ready for holiday, christmas and new year, happy times.
But not for me and my staff.
End Nov my baby died, the doors where closed with no new contract signed.
Everything that made SECOND CHANCE COFFEE SHOP a happy place was taken away, just the house and garden stayed behide. No sign that we where ever there was left behind just the beautiful garden.
Thank you for my amazing staff that stood by my side, even during the move. You will always be in my heart as part of SECOND CHANCE.
THANK YOU to all our customers and friends that supported us during these 6 months.