We had the good fortune of connecting with Connie Reeves and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Connie, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I have a love and passion for music.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
My work, or project, product building started off as a vision. I had a vision for a new way of capturing sound off an acoustic instrument. It came in part, due to being in a dark place in my life. I was struggling with alcoholism and sobriety. The vision came out of pure desperation for something that could get me out of my head and into something I could call my own. It needed to be something that I was passion driven from and that was my love for music. I’ve always wanted to be a musician, but never had the funds as a kid to pay for for lessons let alone buy an instrument. The spark that drove the vision home was a photoshoot I was doing for a couple guys who were building guitars. I wanted to learn everything I could learn about guitar pickups, so I went on a crazy and intense research journey and found no one had an optical pickup for stringed instruments. Thats when my journey began, it has not been an easy one but my failures along the way have been my biggest gains.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
My favorite place on the entire planet is Lunada Bay, California. I grew up there, well I went to high school there. The view from Lunada Bay is like no other and this beautiful peninsula is known for the best kept secret for catching the perfect waves. There’s also a cute little plaza just down the road from there called Malaga Cove Plaza. They have a cute little market there that I use to go to when I was kid in high school. When you pull up to this plaza you feel like you’re somewhere in Europe. It’s amazing.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
My family, friends, mentors, advisors and sponsors have all contributed a great deal to the success of building my product.

Website: www.taffopticalpickups.com

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Image Credits
Russell Reeves

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