From Business Loss to Sovereign Rebirth

Our Journey into the Private, Powered by a PMA

I didn’t just stumble into entrepreneurship—I was born into it. I grew up around business owners, so by age 21, I had launched my first ventures: a liquor store and car wash. That was the start of my entrepreneurial journey—and what a wild ride it’s been.

After selling those, I took a “normal” job as a dental office manager while raising two young boys. But that creative fire didn’t stay quiet long. In 1995, I opened a bookstore—Beyond Your Dreams—because I had one. But by 1997, after working 10 AM to 10 PM six days a week while my boys were 3 and 11, I realized I was trapped behind four walls in the public. It felt like a cage, not a calling.

So I left. I chose my family. And I stepped out of the grind and into a deeper kind of freedom.

From Self-Employed Mom to Sovereign Entrepreneur

For the next 11 years, I homeschooled my boys and pursued passion projects. In 2000, I took an upholstery class and fell in love with the craft. That led to building and selling custom leather and cowhide furniture and eventually taking over a restaurant upholstery business in 2003. I was back in business—but this time on my terms.

In 2009, I joined LegalShield while still running my upholstery shop. That’s also when I met John, who had already been building a strong LegalShield business since 1998. We became friends, then partners, and married in Santa Fe on 11-11-11—because yeah, we’re numerology nerds who go big on alignment.

Together, we were about to hit a six-figure rank, working less than half the month. We thought we had found the dream business.

Then the hammer dropped.

On October 2, 2012, John’s LegalShield business was terminated without notice and without cause.

Happy Anniversary, right?

The Turning Point: We Went Private

That was our wake-up call. The network marketing system that promised freedom was tied to a public system designed to control and extort. And when they cut us off, they didn’t just destroy our income—they showed their true hand.

That’s when we made a hard pivot into sovereignty. In 2012, we founded our first Private Membership Association (PMA) and began restructuring everything we did outside the statutory public jurisdiction.

Every venture since then—web development, SEO, 360° photography at MountainHomeMarketing.com, and computer repair through MountainHomeComputerRepair.com—has operated through that PMA structure.

No more “playing nice” with alphabet agencies.
No more begging for permission to live free.
No more being shackled to codes that only apply to those who voluntarily elect into them.

We stopped asking for approval. We revoked the election.

A Life in the Private

We’ve spent the last decade helping others exit the public plantation and reclaim their birthright. Everything we do now is under the PMA:

• We serve those who know they’re not federal persons

• We educate those seeking to revoke their IRS election as nonresident aliens

• We’ve rebuilt from scratch, this time under natural law, not statutes written to enslave

Our computer services business is fully PMA-operated. We help others structure theirs the same way. We’ve experienced the fallout of the public system—and we’re never going back.

Because let’s be honest: the IRS isn’t a tax collection agency. It’s a debt enforcement arm of a bankrupt corporation, feeding off the backs of the unaware. The only reason most people pay taxes is because they unknowingly elect into a relationship they were never required to have.

We didn’t just learn that lesson—we lived it. And now we teach it.

Freedom Isn’t Just a Concept—It’s a Choice

We’re homesteading entrepreneurs, operating off-grid, growing our food, raising livestock, and living a life aligned with the land and the law of nature—not the manufactured legal fiction we were duped into.

We’ve:

• Navigated network marketing challenges

• Rebuilt after catastrophic business loss

• Fought through marriage struggles and depression

• Created our own income, land, and liberty

• Stayed grounded as a self-employed mom and a sovereign couple

• Helped others walk the same road—into the private, with purpose

What We Believe:

• Freedom must be claimed—not requested.

• The PMA structure is your shield against public overreach.

• The IRS only governs those who contract with it—via forms you were tricked into signing.

• Homesteading isn’t just about food—it’s about jurisdiction.

• Real success isn’t six figures from an MLM. It’s waking up every day in full control of your time, your family, and your future.

If you’ve been burned by the system, chewed up by an MLM, or had your sovereignty yanked out from under you—you’re not crazy. You’ve been hoodwinked. But you don’t have to stay there.

There’s another way. It’s called the private.
And we’re living proof it works.

With peace in our hearts and purpose in our steps,

— Kelly + Elara,
Our Peace of Paradise Farm a PMA