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...
15 days 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,...
22 days 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...
29 days 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, Last week I told you about going to the opera for Valentine’s Day with my husband, Brace — the beautiful Cinderella production streamed from the Metropolitan Opera. And here’s a funny behind-the-scenes moment. When I was drafting that email, I told ChatGPT the opera was La Cenerentola, the Italian Rossini version I’ve always loved. But the email came back calling it Cendrillon. And honestly, I thought, “Well… I guess ChatGPT just doesn’t really know opera.” 😄 But then I started...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, For Valentine’s Day, Brace and I went to see the opera Cendrillon — Cinderella — streamed from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to our local movie theater here in Utah. The costumes were stunning.The singing was incredible.And the sets were unbelievably creative. The whole production was built around books and literature — layers of stories stacked like towering pages. And at the climax of the show, the fairy godmother appeared, rising on a massive stack of books, probably six...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, Several years ago we were in Hurricane, Utah, spending time with our cousins. My husband, my two daughters, and I went ATV-ing with our favorite cousins. If you’ve never been to that part of Utah, everything is red.Red dirt. Red sand. Red rocks. I made one critical mistake:I wore a cute shirt I actually liked. That shirt is now permanently stained red. Lesson learned — don’t wear nice clothes when you’re riding ATVs in southern Utah. After the ride, we parked the ATVs in the...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, When I was growing up, church activities were our entertainment — especially in middle school and high school. And the big event every weekend was a dance. I grew up in Southern California, in Riverside. My dad was a professor at UCR, so we went wherever the dances were happening — Riverside, Costa Mesa, Corona, Irvine — whatever church gym was hosting that week. Now here’s the funny part. My background was ballet. Serious ballet.Nutcracker every year. Pointe shoes.Three to five...
2 months ago • 1 min read