The Full Story

I started my career in publishing in a very unconventional way. 

I was a full-time middle school teacher when I had the idea for a children’s series to connect girls to the women of Scripture. Fresh out of my final cancer diagnosis (I battled it for five years and beat it, but that’s a totally different story!), newly married and starting down the traditional publishing path, I had no clue there was another way to get my book baby out into the world….

The traditional publishing route was not going to work for what Brent and I knew the world needed. We had to venture out on our own and do things differently.

We started with no experience. No connections.

No path forward.

When I say we built this thing from ‘below ground’ up, that’s exactly what we did. And here we are, years later, running a multimillion-dollar company and touching lives worldwide. 

We became parents as we built our companies, presenting a whole new set of challenges. We had our first daughter in 2014, and I learned how to be a loving, present mama while I worked my full-time teaching job and built our business on the side. I was stretched very thin in that season. I hit my it’s-time-for-risk-and-danger moment in 2016 when my husband challenged me to quit my teaching job (which was our only source of income) and give my all to pursue this work. 

After God showed up in the big and miraculous way that only He can, I walked into my principal’s office, quit my job, and dove headfirst into the world of entrepreneurship.