Shelley and Jory Frances were married for 17 years. Together they created a million dollar company and had four beautiful children. She supported Jory through the challenges of entrepreneurship, parenting, severe depression and helped him with his political career. Shelley was Jory's rock. She providing stability, balance and unconditional love. Jory was physically and mentally abused and suffered from extreme neglect as a child and teen. He was- bounced around between relatives during most of his childhood, he was homeless in his early teens, became an emancipated minor from his biological mother and step-father at 16, and ended up begging for leftover food as he lived in a car while trying to work full time and attending high school.  

Jory committed suicide on November 9, 2016.  Leaving Shelley to raise their children ages 4 to 14 years old as a single parent. Shelley has picked up the pieces of their shattered lives by being brutally honest and sharing her love and laughter with their kids.  She said, "after looking into the tear-filled eyes of our oldest son and breaking his heart with news of his father's suicide....all the rest of our potentially awkward parent-child conversations became easy really fast. I can't imagine anything worse than the news I had to share the day Jory died."

This is only a glimpse into Shelley’s story....more episodes to come.

In this episode, Ryan and I interview Aeryun Hong. Aeryun moved to Utah to participate in the "English as a second language"(ESL) program sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Provo, Utah. 

After spending about a year and a half studying English, Aeryun returned to her native Korea to serve an 18-month service mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Seoul, Korea.

Aeryun is a graphic design major at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, Idaho. She will graduate from BYU-I in April 2020.

Tanner Hallows and Ryan Tran, two of the four partners, from Second North share lessons learned from past and current projects and their plans for the future. They took a real estate investment course and one month later closed on their first house.   

In this episode, we interview Benny Brown. He's the co-founder of Wise Headwear. He shares his experience creating a brand and manufacturing his product.

Fresh Start 2019. My solo debut!  Stay tuned, for tips and tricks to feel: Happy, Grateful and Blessed.

Introducing Tamara Tran and Victoria Ellington, Hosts of Yakety Yak Podcast. Join us for entertaining interviews and great conversations. 

Today I'm reposting one of my first episodes from 2018 with my sister Victoria.  I have two adopted younger sisters. Victoria and Natasha. 

Victoria Ellington is a survivor of Anorexia/Bulmia. She identified negatives beliefs, replaced them with postive emotions and created a healthy lifestyle.