Episode 73: Kia Coquoz [Entrepreneurship and Pursuing a Vision – Part One]
During the month of October, we are excited to bring you a mini-series on Entrepreneurship and Pursuing a Vision! In this four-part series, you’ll hear from artists who are at different stages of bringing a God-given dream to life.
Kia Coquoz, founder of TeaJoy Daily Devotionals, joins us for part one of this series. TeaJoy Daily Devotionals is a monthly subscription service that pairs a wonderful selection of hand blended teas with a devotional. TeaJoy combines Kia’s love of tea, writing, and sharing the hope of Jesus with others.
Kia is also a professional dancer and a member of Open Sky Connecticut. She shares about her love for dance and missions, and her experiences dancing professionally. We spend a lot of the episode talking about what it was like for Kia stepping out in faith to start TeaJoy Daily Devotionals. I love her encouragement to have a support system of encouraging people around you as you pursue your God-given vision!
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About Kia:
Kia shares, “My name is Kia Coquoz and I am the founder and owner of TeaJoy Daily devotionals. Growing up in Colorado, passion was always a driving force in my life. Things that I would do or start I was deeply passionate about and would dedicate everything that I had towards it. In my early years, that was a passion for dance, drinking tea, and serving at my church in the children’s ministry. After graduating high school, I decided to go to Bible college and went on to receive a degree in Biblical Studies. I was blessed to do a lot of mission work and to do a semester in Europe. I found this passion for missions and bringing joy to people. I was ready to jump onto the mission field as soon as I graduated college, but the Lord had other plans for me. Soon after graduating college, I began dancing professionally with a Christian dance company based in Colorado. During that season the Lord blessed me incredibly with using my passion for His Word and for dance to bring joy to people and shine His light all over Colorado and the Mid West. During that time I met my incredible husband, Jordan, and right at the beginning of a worldwide pandemic, we got married. A year into marriage, Jordan and I decided to move to Connecticut so Jordan could pursue a Master’s degree. I knew that the Lord was leading and guiding me into something. I started thinking I could write a book or something like that, but I didn’t know what to write about. Then I thought about writing daily devotionals. My husband thought about pairing the devotionals with something cozy, like tea. As we kept thinking and praying, we thought what if we wrote devotionals and paired them with tea that we blended ourselves! Here in Connecticut, something that started as a daydream has blossomed into this wonderful combination of God’s Word, and tea that brings me so much joy.“
Links from the Show:
- TeaJoy Daily Devotionals
- “Ever Present Help” Tea
- Episode 70 with Jessie Winters
- Episode 11 with Jessie Winters
- Open Sky Connecticut
- Netflix
- Dance Revolution