I got busy today. 1. Set up our holding company. 2. Opened our DAF so we can intentionally give, not emotionally donate. 3. Read up on LLC structures so we scale with sense—not vibes. 4. Met with my bookkeeper and saw our best profit year to date. 5. Found an oil & gas investment to reduce our tax liability. 6. Booked meetings with a tax strategy firm. 7. Read a book on advanced tax strategy. 8. Gave myself a salary raise like a real CEO. 9. Met with a new potential tenant for our rental property. 10. Debriefed Chris and built out our next steps. 11. Setup an automated webinar and ran ads to it. It took me ONE high tax bill to decide I would never be caught slipping again. You get me once. Because what I’m not going to do is keep feeding a system that has no interest in helping me build wealth. After going down this rabbit hole, here’s what I learned: This stuff is complicated, but it ain’t so complicated that you can blindly trust accountants and hope for the best. You can learn. You can read. You can ask better questions. You can become a student of your own money. And once you do that? You stop leaving thousands—sometimes hundreds of thousands—on the table just because “nobody told you.” We’re building wealth for years to come. On purpose. With strategy. And with our eyes open. Now the only reason I have to do all this is because we had a great year. To God be the glory. And this time next year I want YOU planning how bid of a donation you’re giving to your church and how much in bonuses you can give your team. So come to our Land Big Clients Challenge this year! Its our LAST event of the year: https://www.landbigclients.com/register

I used to say, “Chris and I left ministry…” but the truth is—we didn’t. It just looks different now. Chris was in seminary to be a pastor. Third-generation preacher’s kid. His dad pastors a historic apostolic church on the west side of Chicago. Me? I didn’t have that same call to the pulpit, but I was down to serve right alongside him. At 22 and 24, we were young and married—learning, growing, doing street ministry, feeding folks, running youth programs. We loved the people and the purpose. That heart to serve never left. It just evolved. When we started Speak Your Way To Cash®, we thought we were stepping away from ministry. Turns out, God was just giving us a new platform. Now, every event we host cording to @yolanda_k_churchwell feels like “business church.” People tell us they feel different after attending—and that’s because love, faith, and service are built into the DNA of everything we do. Our whole family’s involved—Chris, my mom, my brothers, my baby girl, my nieces and nephews. It’s a full-blown family mission. Ministry didn’t end. It expanded. So if you’ve ever felt called to serve but thought, “I’m not supposed to be in a pulpit,” hear me—ministry isn’t confined to a stage. It’s anywhere you love, lead, and lift people higher in the name of Jesus. It’s wear you surrender your plans to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. And hear me on this; whatever you put your hands to do you’re supposed to work as unto God. That means learning and executing in excellence. That includes investing to be the best at your craft and putting in as much time as it takes to be great. If your business is a gift from God treat it with the respect such a gift deserves. God can use your voice—right where you are. Maybe more of us are in ministry than we think. 😉

Y’all got time for a story?! 😭😭 I remember the day like it was yesterday. I was sitting at my desk at my $300,000-a-year corporate attorney job, staring at the life I had built and realizing God was nudging me toward something completely different. It made no sense. I had worked hard for this. Since I was a little girl I had one goal: to become a lawyer. And I loved it. The title. The salary. The “security.” But the whisper in my spirit was louder than my fear: Go. I left. I had no clue that decision would lead me here. No business plan that mapped out a multimillion-dollar company. No crystal ball showing me how we’d pay close to 20 people each month, the contractors, the employees with benefits, the global community of experts looking to us for guidance. All I had was the next step. We started in a small conference room with 10 people, answering the question everyone kept asking me: “How do you keep getting paid to speak?” That tiny workshop turned into Speak Your Way To Cash®. Now we train experts worldwide on how to sell their expertise to companies large and small. And we’re good at what we do. Our clients are winning! And that matters more than any award we could win! And for the second year in a row, we’ve made @incmagazine’s prestigious list of the fastest-growing companies in America—this year ranking in the top 24% of the list. Growing a company is not easy. It is hard, humbling, and self-less work. As the CEO you sacrifice first and are sometimes rewarded last. But being recognized alongside powerhouse companies reminds me why we keep going. To every expert, every entrepreneur reading this—maybe you do not know how to build what God has placed in your heart. Do not let that stop you. Take the next step. You never know where it might lead. It might just be a life you never even dreamed of. P.S. We’re hosting our night Speak Your Way To Cash live event and it’s not 10 people in a conference room anymore now it’ll be about 400+ experts in a ballroom learning sales, marketing and operations. You should be there!

Hey, yall! I just signed another $25K client for coaching over 3 months - CEO of a nonprofit org. A former client who came back around in crisis! And you know what??? Yesterday's prices are not today's prices. Praise HIM!