Monique Higginson, owner, and principal of Market Source Real Estate, is an 18-year real estate veteran who has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and invest in homes in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has a strong foundation of delighted clients who rave about her attention to detail, experience, knowledge of the industry, and the Utah market specifically.
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Monique always loved architecture and design, which married her art degree from the University of Utah with her love of homes. She got her real estate license and has been selling homes since 2002 through some of the best and the worst markets in recent history. Monique has experience with real estate sales, buyer representation, property management, corporate relocations, and investment real estate. Her team is experienced in staging, marketing, and negotiating on behalf of the Market Source clients.
Please join us as we sit down with Mo and learn about his journey through mental discipline, exercise, personal development and his experience in boxing! Mo is a great inspiration and we are excited to have him on our newest episode #13!
It’s easy to look at someone else’s achievements and think, “Why can’t I do that?” The reasons are strikingly universal. Most say time is the biggest constraint. You would reach your dreams, if you had more time. The second reason is always money. If you had an extra $1000 lying around, you would be able to invest in those special running shoes, software, attend the conference, or travel to your dream destination.
When my second child was born, I had a mini midlife crisis also known as turning 30. While I loved my kids, devoting every waking thought to their needs prevented me from creating dreams of my own. No matter what, those calendar pages kept turning regardless of what I did with the day. The time to accomplish amazing things while I still had my health and energy felt like it swiftly running out.
I had time. It was fragmented, erratic, and often disrupted time, but it was time. My needs weren’t expensive, all I required was my own overactive imagination and a library card.
That dream? Write a book.
I know how cliché it sounds. I also know just how important books have been in my life. Books filled my imagination as a child. They were friends during my very awkward teenage years. They granted me an escape when I was an adult.
The day came when I picked up a book everyone raved about and instead of finding escape, I found inspiration. I could do this. I could write a book that had all the things I loved; danger, adventure, noble heroes, magic, and secrets.
Turns out writing a book is easy. I had my first manuscript finished in little over a year all while being a full-time mom, and the book stunk. Writing a good book – that’s what’s hard. The thing I created had so many problems in it. Enough that it scared me to try to fix them. I took a break, had my third child, and did what lots of creative moms ended up doing in 2010, blogging.
It took years to summon up the courage to tear apart the book I had worked so hard to create and put it back together with the skills I had learned about the craft. The funny thing about time is that it changes you. I was a more mature, more confident person when I returned to my story. I was ready.
Another year of work, squeezed in the cracks of time between preschool drop offs and after school chaos, and my book was ready to find a home. Finding a publisher took a year. From contract to launch day took another year. Authors are the world’s most patient people in this regard.
Today, I look back and am nothing but proud. I have my book in my hands, sequels well underway, conference gigs booked, short stories in printed collections, and a whole lot of possibility before me.
Don’t wait for the perfect time to work for your dreams. If you want it enough, you will find the time.
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Jodi L. Milner is the author of the young adult noble dark fantasy Stonebearer’s Betrayal as well as speculative short stories appearing in numerous anthologies and SQ Magazine. She is a firm believer that life is what you make it and she intends to make it a good one. She is an avid student of the interesting and obscure and has an unhealthy fascination with medical science. This path led to her working professionally in both human and animal medicine. These days she raises a pair of cranky chickens and is interested in taking up exotic animal rescue, much to her husband’s horror. She makes her home in the mountains of Utah.
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Jodi L. Milner is the author of the YA noble dark fantasy Stonebearer’s Betrayal as well as several short stories appearing in numerous anthologies and SQ Magazine.
In her community, she holds a leadership position in the League of Utah Writers and teaches at chapter meetings and conferences. She’s a world traveler, married a magician, studied Kenpo karate, and performed reptile shows several times a week while in college.
When not putting her characters in dire peril, Jodi can be folding the children and feeding the laundry, often in that order. She can also be found crocheting cute character sidekicks, playing lame app-based games, and reading – always reading.
Jodi is a firm believer that life is what you make it and she intends to make it a good one. She is an avid student of the interesting and obscure and has an unhealthy fascination with medical science. This path led to her working professionally in both human and animal medicine. These days she raises a pair of cranky chickens and is interested in taking up exotic animal rescue, much to her husband’s horror.
She makes her home in the mountains of Utah.
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]]>This year I have a goals to do 50,000 push-ups which equates to 136.98 push-ups per day. To keep myself accountable I have been sending a daily Tweet (@jasonwoodland1) with my daily number. I figured for the sake of being able to see my numbers in one easy place, I would also update my blog here as well with the date and the number of push-ups completed. Feel free to follow my journey here. I may also take some fun pictures of different places I am doing push-ups to post here as well. Thank you for following my journey!
January 1st, 2019: 200
January 2nd, 2019: 200
January 3rd, 2019: 215
January 4th, 2019: 130
January 5th, 2019: 160
January 6th, 2019: 100
January 7th, 2019:
]]>The very first person I thought to call is my dear friend Linda Rawson, as she was already a published author and we had previously been talking about another book I’ll be writing. I figured she would make a great partner and she sure has. After a couple of months of us sharing some ideas about the project, I met another individual while I was out and about named Tim Rowberry. We set up a time to talk about doing a video for my business Woodland Advisors and as we spoke we immediately hit it off. He had also had quite a bit of background in the crypto world so I told him about our project. He was very excited about what we were doing and wanted to be a part of it. I spoke with Linda about him, we set up a meeting for us all to meet and it worked about very well for us all to become partners in the project.
Tim had also mentioned that his brother Ben Rowberry was an accomplished illustrator and had also done some illustrated contributions to the Dogecoin project. We asked to see some of his work and it was exactly what we were looking for! We contracted Ben to do our illustrations and we went straight to work.
For the next 4 and a half months we hashed out ideas, met, wrote and worked on our project. It was a wonderful growing experience as I had never written a children’s book before. After we had written the entire book, Tim had the idea to re-write to whole thing into a rhyme. Initially, I thought that would take a ton of extra time in which we didn’t have, but really liked the idea of the book rhyming. The three of us started sharing our ideas and before we knew it, four hours later the entire book was re-written into a rhyme format. We were all very excited, not only did we complete it in such a short time frame, but we were also still in line for our deadline coming up.
We chose Saturday, November 10th as our launch date and we had asked Marissa’s Books and Gifts located in Murray, Utah if they were interested in carrying it and they were more than excited to. Leading up to our launch date, we all brainstormed about how we were going to market our new book. A good friend James Leyba, offered to sponsor me at the World Crypto Con in Las Vegas. The same week it started, I made a decision to go on Halloween night. I called a friend of mine, Tony Reese and he was also down to rearrange his schedule and we took off that Wednesday evening.
The World Crypto Con was an amazing experience overall. I was able to meet a lot of wonderful people and also reconnect with some old friends. It was a great opportunity to share with people our new book “Toshi to the Moon”.
Our launch was an amazing success, we saw over 100 people come through that day to buy a book. We also had some limited edition certificates that accompanied each book that was bought that day. We are looking forward to creating more adventures with our character Toshi, so keep an eye out!
Welcome to episode number 10 of Always the Journey podcast! We have the opportunity to sit down with an amazing friend Jeff Evans. We speak about life, business, marketing, music and some important life lessons.
Jeff Evans has taken his passion for marketing into the relevant and constantly evolving world of
digital and social media. Creating brand awareness, brand advocates, and brand communities is a top emphasis in his boutique model of marketing.
In 2016 Jeff was pleased to share his social media strategies by speaking to audiences across the United States. Invitations to speak included: North American Home Furnishings Assoc., Salt Lake Board of Realtors, Vistage Worldwide, High Point Furniture and Design Market, World Market Center Las Vegas, International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association, Holodeck Lunch & Learn Series as well as the Salt Lake Entrepreneur’s Circle.
Jeff started his digital path in the music industry setting up online presence for artists. Next, Jeff
entered the automotive world and became one of the first in-house social media managers in the US for The Ken Garff Automotive Group creating a top-shelf experience for customers and the community. In October 2014, Jeff dove into the waters of entrepreneurship creating Social Dealer Connect where he provides digital marketing solutions and strategy on all levels to a wide range of businesses.
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Welcome back! Episode 9 is an interview conducted by Craton Edwards of The Clever Bean coffee shop with the host of the show Jason Woodland. We recorded live at The Clever Bean coffee shop located at 656 East 11400 South Suite J, Draper Utah (check this place out, great service and amazing people). In this episode we get personal with some of my past experiences growing up and life lessons I have learned. We also talk about the future, life, technology and business. Please join us!
Sincerely,
Craton Edwards & Jason Woodland
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