Using my story and life experiences to help others grow their grit. Motivational speaking for schools, small businesses, large corporations and corporate events. Founder and writer for a weekly newsletter called "Growing Grit".

Motivational Speaker & Writer

Ramsey Solutions

• Led platform strategy for Ramsey Trusted consumer verticals, optimizing lead scoring for high-performing provider matches.
• Collaborated with senior tech leaders to modernize platform architecture, enhancing efficiency and scalability.
• Spearheaded migration from microservices to a domain-driven architecture, improving overall engineer experience.

Platform Product Manager

• Developed customer journeys connecting Dave Ramsey's content with service providers, scaling Ramsey Trusted to largest business unit.
• Led product discovery and iterative experimentation, achieving first $1M revenue month and 8-figure annual revenue.
• Doubled active business verticals by launching new matchmaking solutions based on high-value consumer needs.

Product Manager

• Shaped UX for core consumer products like Financial Peace University Online and Financial Coach Master Training.
• Transitioned into product leadership, owning cross-functional delivery of online learning and coaching tools.
• Co-led creation of Ramsey’s early design systems, improving developer efficiency by 30% and foundational work towards standardizing UX across flagship experiences.

Frontend Developer

Savi Technology

Brought on in a contract role to assist in releasing an entirely new version of their Savi Tracking web-based application. Collaborated with product owners and the development team in an Agile environment. Converted Flash-based user interface screens to modern front-end technologies, using Java, Spring MVC, JPA, HTML5, CSS and AngularJS.

Web Developer

Tempur Sealy International

Managed day-to-day front-end web development needs for Tempur-Pedic’s online presence, tempurpedic.com. Worked with copywriters and designers to implement online content for interactive product landing pages, ongoing and seasonal promotions, and online web forms. Collaborated with a large and diverse team to  design, develop and release an all new and innovated web presence in November 2013.

Web Development Consultant

Helping dads 10x their grit so they can grow it in their kids | Dad of 4 with dwarfism | Motivational Speaker | Software Engineer Turned Product Manager | Overcoming odds | Inspiring the world.

👋 Hi, my name is Kris. 

I am 4’5’’ tall, and was born with dwarfism.

Doctors told my parents I would never make it.

After I survived, doctors then told my mom to place me into an institution because I’d never walk, talk, or live a “normal” life.

As you are figuring out, it didn’t turn out that way.

“Challenge accepted” has been my mantra.

So has a faith in God and His ability to help me through anything.

That has led me to …

→ Recovering from 20+ surgeries all under the age of 20
→ Graduating high school in 2001
→ Going to college
→ Teaching myself how to design, code and media production
→ Starting multiple small businesses
→ Building a career in tech as a developer and now a product manager
→ Getting married
→ Having 4 kids, 2 with dwarfism

Maybe the doctors were right about one thing, after all.

My life is far from “normal”.

And I am 💯 percent here for it.

You might say I have quite the story.

So do you.

That’s why earlier this year I decided to start sharing my story via #linkedin, one-on-one conversations, and public speaking.

Not for my own gain, but to inspire you to face and share your own stories.

Because that’s the first step to building self-confidence and the life you want.

If you like what you’re reading, be sure to follow and even drop me a DM.

Hope this encourages you to push through whatever you are facing right now.

Kris Hammons

Hypnosis Haven

HypnosisHaven.com is the website for Jennifer Ibbotson Rodriguez, Consulting Hypnotist LLC. 

Board Certified Consulting Hypnotist 
Certified Instructor for The National Guild of Hypnotists

Consulting Hypnotist Empowering Transformations Using Modern Insight-Based Hypnotic-Coaching 🔆 Podcaster 🔆 Blogger 🔆 Multi-Media Manager

Small Business Owner

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

As the wife and caregiver to a combat veteran with a total and permanent disability rating I was accredited and received a stipend from the government for taking care of my husband. This included many case management skills, including navigating the VA on behalf of the veteran for all medical needs, as well as all activities of daily living. Because of my care the veteran improved enough to ‘graduate’ out of the program.

Family Cargiver

Sleep Number by Select Comfort

Sleep Expert empowering truly restful rejuvenation for every customer. Customized sleep solutions for body and mind alike.

Sleep Expert

PLH Products, Inc.

The High Tech Health sauna manufacturer recruited me to do for them directly what I did for their largest distributor. 
As a freelance salesperson I traveled the country’s major home and garden “shows” in charge of all aspects of successful set-up, demonstrations & sales, tear-down and all communications.

Independent Contractor

High Tech Health International

As a Detoxification Specialist after closing the sale I facilitated healing protocols that were recommended by referring physicians. 
I also coached small business owners how to integrate our products in their med-spas and developed successful marketing plans. 
One time collaboration with customer and Time Magazine reporter doing a print article on Autism and Mercury. 
Multiple celebrity customers ranging from fashion to film and even professional athletes.

Product Specialist

AT&T

Team Lead

Territory Sales Representative

🪄The Mindset Magician✨ Empowering exhausted women to sleep soundly & emerge refreshed. Public Speaker | 9/11 Survivor | Caregiver to a Disabled Combat Veteran

A nap won't help if it's your soul that is tired.

“I’m energetic again. I don’t wake up with heart palpitations anymore. My brain fog is completely gone.”   ~ Cheryl said after completing 6 weeks of coaching with me.

There are three main forms of exhaustion Future-Focused Hypnotic Coaching transforms quickly and naturally.

1. physical exhaustion is the normal ‘tired’ we feel in the body. It is that dragging feeling from lack of sleep or from overdoing everything. 

2. mental exhaustion is the lack of focus that causes overwhelmed feelings, or from being bored to distraction, with all the mind’s resources consumed. It is the inability to keep track of anything because of overthinking. 

3. spiritual exhaustion is the drained core without inspiration, unable to motivate into any true desire or personal passion. A lack of connection to living makes your soul crave source energy. 

Virtual Hypnotic Coaching is the rest and rejuvenation your whole being is seeking. 

Have you become too tired to work (or even play!) the way you really want to? 

👉 Are your relationships suffering the most?

I may not be an actual magician; it will feel like it how quickly we achieve your goals and accomplish your dreams. 🧚‍♀️

Rest assured, you will sleep more soundly after working with me. 

👉 Because that’s what I do. I help those who haven’t slept for years, sleep soundly and awake refreshed — regularly. 

🪄My clients release the past and embrace the now by connecting with their futures!✨

After finishing virtual hypnotic coaching for focus training an air force nurse reported:

“I feel 90% less crazy!”

👉 I guarantee feeling 90% less crazy is 100% worth it! 

As a Board Certified Consulting Hypnotist & Certified Instructor with The National Guild of Hypnotists it is essential for me to explain: 

🫧 Hypnotists help ordinary people with ordinary problems using individual hypnotic techniques. 

The NGH is clear that hypnotists are teachers, motivators, coaches & guides whose goal it is to assist persons in resolving normal problems of living. 

Hypnotists should be seen as non-therapeutic in nature.🦋

Hypnotists do not engage in the independent diagnosis or treatment of medical or mental disease.

…AND…

We will be there to support and celebrate you achieving the most “impossible” goal you believe holds you back in life, in the shortest timeframe possible. 

As if by magic!🪄✨

I live in Colorful Colorado with my army veteran husband and our cats. When not coaching, writing, or gazing at the moon you can find me knitting stories or chasing butterflies. 🦋

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