Why This Work Exists
A Founder's Story
The Beginning
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ut of the Box Remedies was not created because I wanted to start a business. It was created because I recognized a gift and a gap.
See, from an early age, I’ve been both a builder and a helper. I was planning youth conferences and directing adult choirs while still a teenager, often working across generations, personalities, and aligning purpose even when I didn’t know my own purpose. I didn’t have the language for it then, but I instinctively knew how to organize people, anticipate needs, and bring structure to vision.
I wasn’t just helping things happen, I was helping hold things together, always with the direction of God!
That instinct stayed with me and the gift is without repentance.
Learning to Build With Intention
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raduate school gave me language and structure for what I had instinctively been doing for years. I learned how to think strategically, not just tactically, how systems function, how decisions ripple, and how leadership requires more than effort; it requires planning and alignment with purpose. A pivotal moment came in my very first class, where my professor, Brandon Smith, affirmed something my church had long taught me: purpose is not confined to spiritual spaces. It belongs in our work, our leadership, and the systems we build every day.
Soon after, I had the opportunity to work alongside leaders who affirmed my way of thinking. Working with a strong model of a woman business owner was a turning point. She saw my ability to build sustainable systems and helped me recognize that what came naturally to me was not common. It was a calling and a skill.
What I began to see clearly was this:
Many leaders have vision, but few have the structure and support to sustain it and even fewer have the capacity to really build with intention.
“Many leaders have vision, but few have the structure and support to sustain it and even fewer have the capacity to really build with intention.”
Why Out of the Box Remedies?
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OTB was born when I realized how many small business owners and leaders were carrying far more than they should, trying to scale, pivot, and survive without real support.
They didn’t need “a person.” and they couldn’t afford a team for all the multiple tasks that needed to be done. They needed a solution.
They needed support that could flex with the ebbs and flows of their work and they needed relief, not just a consultant to give them great ideas, they needed someone who could lift the weight of the responsibility to execute the ideas.
From the recognition of this gap that needed to be filled, Out of the Box Remedies was born in 2019 and for those first few years OOTB provided integrative, fluid support that met all small business owners and entrepreneurs where they were and helped them move forward with better clarity and made consistent support available and budget friendly.
A Shift Toward Purpose
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fter about three years, I felt a clear shift. At the core, the approach to the work wasn’t changing, but the people I was being called to serve were.
I sensed a clear direction toward purpose-driven leaders: nonprofit executives, ministry leaders, conference and program directors, women leading meaningful work while quietly carrying immense pressure. During that season, my love for writing, leadership development, and experience design deepened. My love for planning and supporting purpose driven events came alive in me again.
I returned to work I had always loved, supporting women in ministry, helping conference and retreat leaders curate experiences that were not just well-run, but meaningful and transformational while continuing to work alongside coaches and ministry leaders to help bring structure to their vision. At the same time, I was also walking alongside nonprofit leaders, helping them build the structure that would give them room to breathe and to step out of constant firefighting and back into the heart of their mission. Little did I know I would also become a non-profit leader in the process, giving me an even clearer idea of the needs in this sector.
This work brings me deep joy and deep purpose because when the OOTB team supports other purpose driven leaders it means that every single thing we do has a greater purpose.
Holding the Tension of Leadership
My role, as a leader and as a partner with all clients is not to force change. As we become a partner in person, we listen, build, communicate clearly what is being built and why, and then invite them to experience systems that allow them to lean into more freedom and flexibility.
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ike Noah, there have been seasons where I felt unsure why I was being asked to carry so much. To some, it likely looked excessive, or even unreasonable. Like how many roles I could hold, how many systems I could see at once, how much I could manage.
And yet, just like God brought Noah’s family alongside of him to help, God did the same with bringing people alongside of me to build a team of integral, purpose driven builders to do this work under my leadership. I get to do this with some great people who care about our clients and that is special.
I’ve also experienced the deep frustration of leadership: trying everything I knew to do and still feeling like needed change was just not happening. That was exhausted.
That tension taught me something essential. When the work has true purpose, nothing can be accomplished by effort alone. Some things require discernment, others require timing and all things require obedience.
Why Building Before the Storm Matters
The reality is that mission-driven organizations face steep odds. Research consistently shows that roughly half of small businesses do not survive beyond five years, and nonprofit organizations face similar challenges, often due to burnout, lack of infrastructure, lack of funds, unclear systems, and over-reliance on a few key leaders.
“Passion alone is not enough to sustain meaningful work.”
I’ve seen too many good missions struggle, not because the vision was wrong, but because the structure couldn’t support it. That’s why I believe so deeply in preparation.
Building before the storm means:
Remembering why you wre called to the work and that accepting the call was an act of obedience that must be continued
Clarifying process and policy before urgency dictates decisions keeps your focus on the mission not on emotions or fear.
Designing systems that support people, not exhaust them
Creating sustainability so leadership doesn't come at the cost of health
Ensuring the work can outlive the individual carrying it.
An Invitation
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ut of the Box Remedies exist to extend an invitation. An invitation to lead differently. An invitation to build with intention. An invitation to prepare before pressure forces change.
See, from an early age, I’ve been a builder and a helper. I was planning youth conferences and directing adult choirs while still a teenager, often working across generations, personalities, and expectations. I didn’t have the language for it then, but I instinctively knew how to organize people, anticipate needs, and bring structure to vision.
I wasn’t just helping things happen, I was helping hold things together, always with the help of God!
That instinct stayed with me and the gift is without repentance.
My hope is that the leaders and organizations we work with accept that invitation, so when challenges come (and they will), the foundation is already strong enough to carry them through the storms.
Let's Build With Intention
If you’re leading meaningful work and feel the weight of responsibility, complexity, or transition, Out of the Box Remedies would be honored to walk alongside you in purpose and in people, systems and technology alignment.