May Member of The Month, Kari Williams

What is the greatest success you’ve had since joining LWP?

Meeting my office income goal in April, 2017, and being well on track to meet it in May! I’m learning to be confident in my abilities which is always a personal success. Also, helping families find a bit of peace, when there is ofttimes little peace for them to find.

What is your favorite LWP tool?

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Personal Care Plan. I think it should be packaged with every plan and included. We are having a discussion about whether we should charge extra for it in the base plan, or just raise the base plan a bit.

How has being part of LWP impacted your team and your practice? 

LWP is so much more than just a forms practice. I LOVE having the support of the whole LWP team behind me. Without having coaching, mentoring, and questions answered (even the dumb ones), I would have given up quite some time ago!

Share something about yourself that most people don’t know about you.  

Oh, gosh, I’m pretty much an open book.  Okay, a few cool things:

• I won a basketball signed by the Harlem Globetrotters when I was in 6^thgrade by shooting the most freethrows.
• I graduated with my associate’s degree two weeks before graduating from high school.
• I trained my then 11-year-old son (now 13) to ride a century bike ride 100 miles in a day.  We trained an entire summer, and both finished together. I still get emotional when I tell that story.  I rode my first and only other bike ten years before.
• I have the coolest husband, kids and car (2013 BMW Series 1 convertible) in the universe, but many of you all already know that!

What is your favorite book and how did it impact your life?  

Oh, there are so many…The obvious choice is “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which I first read when I was in law school. I was raised in a family where money and status were the measure of success. TKAM clarified all those obscure feelings that being a lawyer was as much of a calling as a profession; how justice didn’t always prevail; all the other clichés that every other lawyer has heard and felt a million times when talking about this book. Less trite, The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis and Silence by Shusako Endo. Both of them have affected my spirituality deeply.