Mandy is a seasoned entrepreneur who owns both Lighthouse Group (Insurance Business) & 3 Cord Meadows (Wedding Venue) in Colorado Springs. Lighthouse Group's mission is to help other families by providing high-quality, affordable health and wealth services; while 3 Cord Meadows is a chic venue that has a mission help you create the wedding or event that you have been dreaming of, while remaining budget friendly and stress free! 0:06 Intro 0:10 Mandy’s intro and why one of her business’ is called Lighthouse 1:35 Brand is important 2:12 Sponsors 2:55 What Mandy hopes people see in her insurance business 3:17 The wedding venue side hustle 3:30 Starting her own business and how it lead into the wedding venue 7:26 Do clients like the family environment and whats different? 9:50 How long have they been around and how did they adapt to covid? 12:33 Has the wedding business helped with the insurance business? 14:19 Which came first? Lighthouse or the wedding venue? 15:45 Referrals and branding lead to more business 20:40 Nature of the podcast 22:08 How do people fin health insurance and has owning the wedding venue brought in clients? 25:06 Sending off first kid to college and teaching them skills in life and business 28:00 Story of hardship 31:02 How Mandy got into insurance and the tale of adversity and persistence. 37:54 Being a good person in general helps business 41:00 Keeping the wedding venue but letting others run it. 43:19 Plans for Lighthouse insurance 46:00 Plans with the wedding venue 47:56 Making a good living with insurance but doing it with integrity 50:13 Outro with oktoberfest info for 2023 56:55 Outro