Dear Reader, I woke up this morning to a notification that nearly made me spit out my green smoothie. "The Porsche you're looking at just dropped in price. Now only $422,995." I laughed out loud. Bargain of the century, right? Honestly, let's buy three. Here's the backstory. When my husband and I bought our place in Utah, we needed a four-wheel-drive vehicle for the snow. I ended up with a Tesla Y, which I love so much I genuinely don't think I'll ever own another car that isn't a Tesla. But...
20 days ago • 2 min read
Dear Reader, This weekend my best friend from High School, Donna, and I went to the open house at the new Lindon Temple in Utah. We almost didn't go. They weren't doing tickets this year — first come, first served. We figured we'd hit traffic, hit a line, hit something. Showed up early anyway, parked easy, walked right in. I'm honestly so glad we did. The temple was breathtaking. But my favorite part was the stained glass. Every window was filled with flowers. And here's what I didn't catch...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, Taxes are done. Take a breath. Seriously… pause for a second. Now let me ask you something honestly… How did it feel this year? Was it calm?Or was it stressful? Did you already have the money set aside? Or were you scrambling at the last minute? Because here’s what I see over and over again: Smart. Successful. Hard-working entrepreneurs… Still feeling pressure every April. Not because they aren’t making money. But because they don’t have a system. They don’t have a plan And once...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, Let me ask you something… How much do you owe for taxes this year? And more importantly… Do you actually have it? This is the week where a lot of business owners feel the pressure. You open that email from your accountant…You see the number…And your stomach drops. Because even if you made great revenue… That money isn’t sitting there waiting for taxes. So what happens? You start moving money around.You delay things.You stress.You promise yourself: “Next year will be different.”...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, “Sometimes we run so fast we forget where we are going and why we are running.”— David Bednar Let me ask you something honestly… Why are you working 24/7? When I sit down with entrepreneurs, one answer comes up again and again. It’s not because they love the grind.It’s not because they want to be busy. It’s because the business isn’t quite working. There’s revenue.There are happy customers. But when it comes to cash flow? It’s tight.It’s stressful.And when you need money… it’s...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, As many of you know, in our family, we go to church every Sunday—and in our faith culture, that usually means ties for the men. Which means… my husband Brace has a lot of ties. And I mean a lot. About 10 years ago, I bought him one of those motorized tie racks. It sounded like a great idea at the time. It was not. The battery would die.The ties would fall off.You couldn’t really see anything. Everything was there… but nothing was usable. So even though he had close to 100 ties,...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, This week was glorious. My oldest daughter came to visit our new home with her three young children — ages 4, 2½, and 9 months. Naturally, we decided to do something ambitious. We attempted to hike up the famous “Y” mountain above Brigham Young University. The “Y” is enormous — 380 feet high and 130 feet wide, covering more than 32,000 square feet. It’s one of the largest school emblems of its kind in the United States. We started the hike feeling confident and optimistic. My two...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, As many of you know, both my husband Brace and I are cancer survivors. When you go through something like that, it changes how you see life. You learn pretty quickly what really matters. Three weeks ago, during my yearly breast MRI, the doctors saw a small nodule that wasn’t there last year. So today I found myself at the Huntsman Cancer Center in Salt Lake City for a closer look. First they did an ultrasound.Then they followed it with a mammogram. They just needed to answer one...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, A dear friend of mine, Robyn, recently sent me a video that may be the most powerful thing I’ve watched this year. It’s the story of Fatemah Khamenei, who publicly spoke out against the Iranian regime led by her own family. Listening to her describe what life is like under that system was eye-opening. Here is the video if you would like to watch it: It’s about an hour long. I listened to it in the car, and the time flew by. The visuals are lame, but the story itself is...
3 months ago • 1 min read