Stories

At Chick-fil-A trying to work while the kids played. One of them dumped my entire 32 oz. Diet Dr. Pepper across the table. Saved the laptop, grabbed a million napkins, stayed mostly calm.

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As we were leaving, another mom stopped me and said,

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“I saw how you handled that with your kids and you stayed so calm. You’re doing a great job.”

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I cried. She had no idea I’d spent the morning questioning a big decision we’re making for one of my kids and wondering whether I was doing the right thing as her mom.

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A stranger noticing something completely ordinary and saying it out loud. Exactly the words I needed that day.

When I photographed weddings, I used Love Your Story as my tagline.

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I was most drawn to weddings that felt like the couple — sometimes smaller or lower-budget, but deeply personal. I wanted my work to show them that the way God had written their love story was their own, and that it was worth celebrating.

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I still believe this — and somehow managed to carry that same heart into the business world. So many founders dismiss the things that make their businesses different as arbitrary or insignificant. But when we start peeling back the layers, those nuances are often the exact pieces of the story worth telling.

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Maybe Love Your Story has been the throughline all along.

I’ve had lots of questions about pricing and partnerships lately. Someone in my network offered to do a discovery call with me and followed up with an incredibly generous guidebook customized to the questions and challenges we'd talked about.

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But they were also really clear: walking me through all of it would require more time than they could commit right now.

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Here's the resource. Here's what you can do without me. Here's how to get to the next step. Generous and helpful, but with boundaries. Connection doesn't have to mean being available to everyone all the time.