1. The name of my business, ThoughtsAlive, came out of a brainstorm in 2002 over the phone with friends Alanna Webb and Marnie Pehrson-Kuhns. Fun fact: they also pioneered the first online mall in 1996! True story.

ThoughtsAlive LLC is still my official business name, but a few years back I started using the DBA Rare Faith, and officially registered it as a trade name with the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2019–20.

The tagline, “making things happen,” refers to what God does when we have the faith required to qualify for His intervention. We invite it and allow it—but God gets the credit for what actually happens.

2. Portal to Genius was originally going to be called Hasenpfeffer in Munich, but my co-author Garrett Gunderson worried that Google wouldn’t have a “Did you mean…?” option if someone spelled it wrong.

3. In 2000, my husband showed me a letter from Bob Proctor asking if we’d ever thought about teaching what we’d learned. I HAD to do it! We invested about $9,000 for me to attend his training. I recently learned that Bob’s letter caught my husband’s eye because he wanted to become a facilitator too—but when he saw how badly I wanted to go, he kept his interest a secret.

4. In 2005, I asked Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) for an endorsement for Jackrabbit Factor. He said no, taking time off to be with family. I had just read his Success Principles chapter “Ask, Ask, Ask.” So I asked again. He politely declined. I tried one more time to impress him—and he finally had to be blunt. I apologized profusely and learned a hard lesson: you can achieve your goals without expecting a particular person to do a particular thing for you.

5. The 2005 TV interview above? Horrible. Three minutes to explain Jackrabbit Factor and I blanked out. Great photo, awful experience. The show aired across the Phoenix metro area and surrounding mountains, and I think I sold… one book.

6. While writing Portal to Genius in 2009, I hit a six-month writer’s block—until the events described in Chapter 35 happened to us. That got my creative juices flowing again. You can start reading chapters here.

7. I’ve lost count of how many times people have posted this video on my Facebook page. They call me the “crazy rabbit lady,” so this fits perfectly. It never gets old! If you haven’t seen it, you’ll probably enjoy it as much as I do.

8. The Jackrabbit Factor has been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, and Persian. Whether the translations are perfect… I may never know.

9. Hidden Treasures was originally intended for my LDS peers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), but it has since gone on to achieve Amazon best-seller status and received glowing reviews from people of Jewish, Buddhist, and other faiths. The principles are universal, and its message is unifying. Have you read it yet? It’s free.

10. In 2003, I gathered a decade of notes from over 100 seminars, filled with my biggest epiphanies, and started weaving them into a story. It was originally going to be about a sea creature evolving through life, learning important lessons along the way. Somehow it ended up being about Jackrabbits instead—and honestly, I’m kind of glad about that.