Shannon Wentworth Mar 9
It’s easy to have values when times are good. It’s when times are tough that people demonstrate their true natures. Enter Sweet traveler Crista Luedtke (yeah, call her Crista).
Among other things, Crista is a mortgage broker. While the whole mortgage market is collapsing, Crista’s business is growing. Why? She’s got the key ingredient to weathering any storm: Integrity.
She believes that you should “do something you love, do it differently, have fun and give back.” The other day Crista called me with an idea: Partner with Sweet to help the projects we’re working on all over the world. Of course, I said YES! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Shannon Wentworth, Sweet Somethings
Sweet Feb 5
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. — Edmund Burke
Live Sweet is about putting our passions and good ideas into action in our communities. It’s about bringing the Sweet community together between trips to celebrate our lives. On our November 2009 Caribbean cruise, we changed hearts and minds in Belize, Mexico and Honduras by being ourselves and letting people know us as individuals while in the safety of community. Live Sweet is about doing that in our own backyards, where it seems like every other day there’s a new referendum on our human rights. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: live sweet, mission
Shannon Wentworth Feb 3
Like Chicken Little, since the late-80s I’ve been running around telling people, “The sky is falling.” When I saw “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006, it was a profound visualization of that very thing. Watching polar bears drown, I felt powerless. The problem was so big. What could one little chicken do? It was overwhelming.
I hate feeling powerless. It pisses me off. If we’re going to solve these huge global problems, we need to feel empowered, inspired and energized. That’s how Sweet co-founder Jen Rainin and I struck upon the idea for Sweet. We asked ourselves: How can we make solving these problems fun? How can we get more people involved? Voila! Let’s travel the world and do simple community service projects where we can see a difference in a few hours. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Live Sweet Voluntour 2010, Shannon Wentworth, volunteer
Shannon Wentworth Feb 3
When I met DJ Trina Johnson in February 2009, I knew Sweet would be working with her a lot. She’s dynamic, driven and compassionate. In addition to keeping 2,000 women dancing all night long at Babes Around Denver’s phenomenal First Friday event each month, she’s an accomplished business woman who loves music and making people’s bodies move.
What really struck me about Trina was her heart. She leads with it. All the proceeds from her DJ career go toward her No. 1 passion: Taking care of stray dogs. That’s why she’s totally Sweet.
One of the most popular DJs on our maiden voyage in November, Trina is looking forward to filling our Cozumel resort with music and organizing a community service project to help dogs on the island this September. We’re so proud to have her on our Sweet team. Brava, Trina. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: DJ Trina, Shannon Wentworth, Sweet Somethings
Sweet Jan 31
Starting with our wetlands restoration project in New Orleans, Sweeties gave back in every port.
New Orleans: Sweeties planted 600 new grasses in a marsh devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Costa Maya, Mexico: 150 Sweeties pulled over 200 giant bags of garbage from Uvero Beach in a 45-minute contest. We pulled a sink, a television, vacuum cleaner parts and tons of other oddities one should never see in the ocean. We found trash from Greece, China and many parts in between. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Jen Rainin, Shannon Wentworth, Sweet Caribbean Cruise, video, voluntourism
