I grew up in a small town called Idaho Falls. It was great to grow up there because I learned to work hard and respect traditional family values. My father is an entrepreneur and I have been an entrepreneur ever since I was 5 years old when I sold lemonade ☺. We ate dinner together as a family, weeded the garden together, laughed and joked together. My best friends growing up were my family. My mom helped me to grow up very balanced working with music, piano, voice, animals, sports, etc. Both she and my dad sacrificed a lot so I could grow up with a lot of skills to offer the world. I am extremely blest to part of a great heritage.
After high school I went to college and soon there after left for a religious mission to St. Petersburg Russia. I spent 1 ½ years there and they were some of the best years of my life. I learned Russian fluently and loved the people with all my heart.
When I returned from there I came home and went to massage therapy school. I had my own massage therapy business for about 3 years and worked with physical therapists, doctors, post surgery patients, psychologists and various others. It gave me a great foundation of understand the important of peace, stress management and connection with God in a professional atmosphere. Building my own business gave me a great foundation for understanding how to build a balanced business including marketing, communications, media, advertising, accounting, etc. I didn’t master all those areas, but I appreciate them all the more because of that business.
When I physically was tired I decided to go back to college. I finished my degree in Organizational Communications and a minor in Performing from BYU-Idaho. To get me through school I kept up my massage also taught voice and piano lessons. I took 18 credits or more each semester and graduated with honors. I had a fantastic experience while I was there, especially working with various projects and programs. Among those were going to Chicago as the director of an inner city youth camp, establishing a professional training program to prepare college students for the professional world, volunteered with many student service programs, traveling to Washington DC, Tennessee and Florida representing the school and others.
After I graduated I moved to St. George Utah to work at a residential treatment center for youth. I was there to establish and build the girls side of their program. Within 3 years they doubled in size. Being there working with those youth was a great reminder of patience working with many kinds of personalities in crazy situations! After living in St. George I met my husband, Brent. I was getting ready to move when we met and we were married a year later. I received my real estate license and worked with a real estate, asset management firm. During this time in St. George I also established private clientele in small business development, consulting various business owners on how to grow their business and being project manager of various expansion projects.
I love life and I love new challenges! I enjoy leading and training a group of people to reach new goals together. For my own personal life I remain happy because of my faith in God and Jesus Christ. Taking time to know them and meditate each day makes all the difference in the world to me. After that loving my family and keeping a smile on my face is the best way to live!
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