Our Story

About our Founder, Brooke Collins

Gosh, where do I even begin? What a surreal moment typing my story out on a website for a company that God has literally helped me build from the ground up.

I guess I’ll start by saying hello. My name is Brooke and I am a military wife and homeschool mom of 3 beautiful boys (8, 6, & 4). I am surrounded by testosterone and it’s quite the adventure, especially coming from a home of all girls but I truly wouldn’t have it any other way. I grew up in a small town in the desert of California. My dad passed away in a car accident when I was 8 years old, and I can remember from a young age not really understanding God. Most people would tell me things like “Everything happens for a reason” or “Your dad is looking down on you from heaven,” but none of it really ever made sense. God wasn’t a big topic in our home, not because we didn’t necessarily believe, but more so because we really didn’t understand who He was. So from a very young age, I was confused and I wanted to believe in God, but I didn’t have anyone guiding me to Him.

It took 25 years of my life for me to finally understand who God was and how He could take the messy parts of my life that I didn’t yet understand, and turn it all into my message that would help other women find the same freedom I was finding in Him. That is my heart behind this company. I want women to not just hear how good God is and all He can do for us, but to actually experience it for themselves because I truly believe that that is when everything changed for me.

My journey to Christianity came at a time when I found myself at rock bottom, My husband and I were preparing for his very first deployment to Afghanistan and I was a mess. We had just spent 3 incredible years overseas stationed in Germany, traveled all over Europe, and had very few days spent apart. Now I was due to say goodbye for 9 months with the fear that he may not make it back home. And then a few days before he was set to leave, I received a phone call that shattered my world. My mom had been in a car accident and she didn’t make it.

I don’t remember much of the weeks that followed. The best way I can describe it is like a haunted house experience. You know, you’re walking through a thick fog and there are flashing lights all around you but nothing is making sense? You’re scared because you don’t know what’s around the next corner, it’s dark, there’s a lot of noise all around you, and you can’t see anything so you just keep walking through trying to find a way out. I couldn’t find the exit of this nightmare I was living.

A few days after we returned from my mom’s funeral I dropped my husband off for his deployment and it was on the drive home that I had my first experience with God. I was overcome with emotion and had to pull over on the side of the road as I mentally broke down and kept asking God over and over “WHY? WHY? If you’re so good WHY is this happening? What have I done to deserve this?” Now I didn’t know who it was then, but God reminded me that night of this little side business I had started, but not done anything with, and I felt this urge to dive deeper into that. I didn’t understand why and I still had so many questions, but I wiped my tears, put the truck in drive, and went home ready to build my life from the ground up. Little did I know, God was orchestrating this whole series of events that would eventually lead me to Him.

Over the next 9 months, I worked tirelessly at building my business, I just knew in my heart it was what I was supposed to be doing. What God knew was the more I dove into the business, the more I would see His light shining in other women within the organization I was a part of. Like most of us who are looking for light and hope, I began to get curious. I’d see these women talking about God speaking to them and how much joy they had in their relationship with Him and it was something I desperately desired. But I didn’t take action. Matter of fact, it was almost a year and a half later before I acted on my desire to get to know God.

My business was thriving, but my world continued to fall apart. A few months into my husband’s deployment his brother passed away, a few months after my husband returned home from his deployment, we lost our first baby, and just a month after that we lost his dad and an aunt who had been like a mother to me. No matter how hard we worked and how much worldly success we experienced, we still felt empty inside.

A few months later we found out we were expecting a baby boy. We were terrified to experience more loss and felt a pull like never before to get into church and “get our life right.” So one morning my husband and I got up and went to church not knowing what to expect and feeling very out of place. As soon as our tires hit the parking lot we felt something different, and the moment we walked through the doors we knew we were home. For the first time in our lives we experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit and that was the day we made a decision to finally seek God and give our lives to Him.

Since then I have re-focused every aspect of my life to honor and live for Christ. It’s been a journey of self-discovery and so much growth and as time has gone on I have put together all of the tools and resources that I use every day in my own walk towards Jesus for my personal, family, and business life. Our original product, The Finding Freedom Quarterly Planner, and now multiple planners, a journal, a few guides, and all of the future products I am working on are a compilation of how I came to know Jesus and allowed Him to help me rebuild my life from the ground up.

My life hasn’t always been as good as it is now, in fact, most of my life up until I met Jesus was hard. He changed it all. And my goal is to show you how to take your hard and let Him turn it to good, how to allow God to take your mess and turn it into His message. My hope and goal is to help you put Christ at the center of everything you’re doing in your own life so you can find the same freedom in Him that I have found too.

In all of our products, I teach you how to meet with God, align your thoughts on the truths found in scripture, set out to achieve the goals God has placed in your heart without feeling completely overwhelmed by them, manage your time, and last but not least take care of yourself from the inside out.

These tools and resources have changed my life, especially now as a business-owning, homeschool mom of 3, and military wife. Life is busy, and these tools I share with you are the same tools I personally use on a daily basis to put manage my time and put Christ at the center of all that I do. I hope they will do the same for you. I’ve been praying for you and I cannot wait to see how God moves in your life as you use these tools and begin to find freedom in Him too.

With love,

Brooke Collins

PS: Let’s be friends on Instagram, find me @brookecollins09 . I would love to follow along on your Finding Freedom Journey <3