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Ammon Childs

Utah Real Estate Professional · 17 Years Experience · New Construction, Luxury, Commercial & Residential Specialist

Ammon Childs is a 17-year Utah real estate professional with deep expertise in new construction (12 years with a builder), luxury residential, commercial leases, land development, and resale. He is married to Tasha Childs, who also works in real estate, and they have three children. Born in Wyoming and raised on the Wasatch Front, Ammon attended UVU and entered real estate after noticing a friend's career offered more freedom. His philosophy centers on full-service representation, lifelong learning, and long-term client relationships built through referrals, door knocking, and consistent work ethic.

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Andy Hadfield

Head Football Coach, Lehi High School · Business Owner · Lifelong Lehi Resident

Andy Hadfield is the head football coach at Lehi High School, named to the position in December 2024 after serving 10 years as an assistant under Coach Larson. He also owns a local lawn care company. A lifelong Lehi resident whose family roots in the community run generations deep, Andy came to coaching almost accidentally — invited by a friend to help with basketball, then recruited onto the football staff. His coaching philosophy centers on process over results, compassionate teaching, and community as a shared responsibility for raising young people.

Betsy Hell grew up in Provo and Lehi, Utah, rented for most of her adult life, and spent years searching for the right home alongside her husband Lynn. After inviting their daughter Nicole into a co-purchase, the family found their home in Eagle Mountain. Her advice: find people you trust.

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Charlene Freestone

Child Passenger Safety Technician, Former Boutique Owner, Parent Educator, Community Builder

Child Passenger Safety Technician at Primary Children's Hospital Lehi, former natural parenting boutique owner, parent educator, and community builder. Charlene turned early motherhood loneliness into a life of creating belonging for others — through playgroups, a babywearing nonprofit, a Main Street boutique, and eventually hospital-based safety work. She lives in Lehi with her husband Greg and their three children.

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Doug Webb

Former Principal, Lehi High School · Agriculture & Science Teacher · Lifelong Lehi Resident

Doug Webb is a lifelong Lehi resident who spent 25 years connected to Lehi High School — four as a student, eight as an agriculture and science teacher, seven as assistant principal, and several as principal. After teaching at Copper Hills High School and completing his career at Oak Canyon Junior High, he returned to lead the school he grew up in. He also served in faith leadership, becoming the same kind of mentor figure to others that Russ Fell had been to him.

Kaylee Kendall is a teacher and mother of five who, along with her husband Matthew, navigated credit challenges, a failed first home attempt, and USDA Rural Housing financing to purchase their forever home in Tremonton, Utah. Her advice to future buyers — 'You can't answer the what-ifs until you try' — has become one of the most quoted lines in the From Rents to Roots archive.

Lara Bangerter is the manager of the Lehi Historical Society & Archives, where she has spent over seven years preserving, organizing, and sharing the history of Lehi, Utah. A journalist by training, she joined the Society shortly after its founder passed away and has built it into a living archive of 7,000+ personal files, thousands of photographs, and one-of-a-kind community artifacts.

Lynn Hell is from Idaho, rented for most of his adult life across multiple states, and spent years searching for the right home with his wife Betsy. After they opened their back door one morning in Eagle Mountain and heard birds for the first time in years, he knew they had found what they had been looking for.

Mayor Mark Johnson is an engineer-turned-civic-leader who grew up in Pleasant Grove and chose Lehi as his home. After losing two City Council elections, he was appointed to the Planning Commission, eventually joined the Council, served 12+ years, then reluctantly ran for mayor — winning the general election by an 18-point swing from the primary.

Matthew Kendall is a husband and father of five who, alongside his wife Kaylee, pursued homeownership through credit rebuilding and USDA Rural Housing financing. Their journey from renting in Eden, Utah to owning in Tremonton is documented in Episode RR-037 of From Rents to Roots.

Mike O'Day specializes in helping aspiring real estate investors identify ideal properties, use systems to self-manage, and qualify for tax savings through accelerated depreciation. His goal is to turn clients into millionaires by building $1M/year in passive income from real estate portfolios over 15-30 years. His strategy is built on 50 years of data from his broker and centers on new construction townhomes in Utah’s path of progress.

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Naomi McClure

Realtor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices · Former Hollywood TV Professional

Naomi McClure is a Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices realtor based in Draper, Utah. Born in Kentucky to a Japanese mother and Arizona-born father, she grew up as an Army child with Utah as a second home since 1978. She spent over a decade in Hollywood television (11 years on Frasier as a standin) before entering real estate in 2017. She relocated from California to Utah after her husband’s retirement and rebuilt her business through open houses, networking, and a service-first philosophy that intentionally avoids calculating commissions until after the transaction.

Nicole Hell grew up in Montana and returned to Utah as an adult, spending years in expensive roommate situations before joining her parents Betsy and Lynn in a family co-purchase of a home in Eagle Mountain. She began the process believing homeownership was impossible for her. She ended it as the owner of her own basement apartment.

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Nikki Lemon

Realtor & Director of People and Culture, Presidio Real Estate

Nikki Lemon is a Utah real estate professional with 20+ years of experience, originally licensed in Vernal during the 2005 oil boom. She serves both rural Vernal and the Wasatch Front, and holds a leadership role as Director of People and Culture at Presidio Real Estate. She is known for her philosophy of thoughtful strategy over market fear, honest communication, and building careers and client relationships on trust.

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Paige Albrecht

Lehi City Council Member, Attorney, Community Advocate

Paige Albrecht is a Lehi City Council member, attorney, and passionate advocate for public service, historic preservation, and community building. A military family background that took her from Hawaii to Montana to Connecticut gave her a deep desire to give her own children a true hometown — which she found in Lehi, where she has lived for over 22 years.

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Phil Hanks

Grandson of Ephraim Hanks · Mission President (Samoa) · Temple President (Samoa) · Church Education System Leader · Stake President · Senior Missionary (Ukraine, Freiburg) · Lehi Resident

Phil Hanks is 92 years old and the grandson of pioneer rescuer Ephraim Hanks. He served a mission in Samoa, returned to teach there, and was called at age 28 to preside over the Samoa Mission. He spent decades in the Church Educational System, served as stake president, managed CES budgeting and facilities, and then — after retirement — served missions in the Church Office Building, Ukraine (twice), the Freiburg Germany Temple, and as temple president in Samoa. He settled in Lehi in 2011, near his son Alan and daughter Lisa.

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Savannah Romney

Realtor, The Perry Group · Podcast Host · Young Entrepreneur

Savannah Romney is a realtor at The Perry Group who graduated high school a year early with a goal of buying a home young. She began as a real estate assistant, got licensed approximately a year before this episode, and recently went solo. She hosts a podcast called Uncharted and has started a clothing line alongside her real estate career. She is known for reframing the age objection and for her philosophy that failure is the fastest path to growth.

Scott Clark bought his first investment property at age 23 and has been building his portfolio since. He works alongside Mike O'Day helping clients invest in new construction townhomes in Utah. His core philosophy: get-rich-slowly is the most reliable path to real wealth.

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Wylene Benson

Realtor, RE/MAX Lighthouse · Real Estate Investor · Breakthrough Mentor

Wylene Benson is a Realtor at RE/MAX Lighthouse with 30+ years of real estate involvement, including investing, referral work, and office management before getting licensed. She has lived in the same Mapleton home for 40 years, watched it grow from 3,000 to 10,000 residents, and built a career oriented around advising rather than selling. She is a former breakthrough mentor and approaches all client decisions through a lens of long-term benefit, faith, and possibility.