The Landen and Jen Lish Family
Giving an introduction online without a handshake or the opportunity for eye contact is always a little awkward... so let's digitally shake hands and introduce ourselves to get that out of the way. We can pretend we are looking into each other's eyes. :)
Hi! My name is Jennifer Lish. I go by Jen. It's fewer syllables and easier to remember. :)
I grew up in a small town in Idaho and I married a guy from a small town in Utah. We are currently raising our three kids half the time in a small town, the other half of the time in a random city across the USA. Vivint life ya'all!
We have a six year old boy, a four year old girl and a two month old baby girl. We just started kindergarten with our six year old which makes our summers a little more... what's the word... interesting!
Landen and I started out our marriage with next to nothing. He was working a job where he had maxed out his raises and was paid a whopping total of 16 bucks an hour. Obviously this wasn't our life goal and we were always looking for something better.
Jared Fronk, one of Landen's friends from high school, had talked to him about "selling alarms" for two years and we had considered it but were afraid to leave what we had. We had recently purchased a home, we had a two year old with another baby on the way- due Sept 1. Not the most convenient timing. That, along with all the bad things we had heard about alarm sales guys having no integrity and companies not paying their employees, kept us from jumping aboard for the third year in a row. Or so we thought.
Mid march 2009 we realized we were not happy with where we were at in life and the direction things were heading for us. I've heard this analogy several times and I completely agree with it. If you are underwater and have run out of oxygen, what's on your mind? The rose ceremony?? I think not- it's Oxygen! Get me some freakin' AIR before I DIE, right?! Well, when you are above water, it is completely the opposite. You may not even be aware you are breathing, it is just happening and you are focusing on other things. That is how money is. When you have none, it's all you think about. When you have enough to cover your basic needs with a little extra, it's an after thought and you are able to focus on the things that really matter in life.
So...After lots of talking and praying we decided we were sick and drowning and said "what have we got to lose?" We jumped in and two weeks after deciding it was right, we packed up our little car and headed to St. Louis, MO. I was 6 months pregnant and had never lived outside of Utah and Idaho. I was nervous but excited for the adventure, and we made the most of that first summer. We had never felt closer together- being away from everything we knew and clinging to each other. We took a chance together, we made adjustments and we survived.
It's been almost five years since that day and I couldn't be happier about the decision we made to take the leap. We've seen so many more places and befriended all different kinds of people from every walk of life. Landen is an incredibly hard worker and has excelled with Vivint. Since we joined the company we have made the best of friends, seen all kinds of different places, watched this 'alarm company' evolve into a staggering 2 billion dollar technology powerhouse and bought into the life style of Vivint. By that I mean we are not perfect, but we are always looking to better ourselves and strive for something more. We want to emulate the company we work for by giving back to people who need it and giving our best to this life.
We love Vivint and all that it stands for.
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