BEHIND THE STORIES

M.K. Lott

M.K. Lott is a hypnotherapist who is based in Ogden, Utah. He graduated from Cedar City’s Southern Utah University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy while also studying entrepreneurship and small business management to complement his degree.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lott saw a need for better mental health practices and awareness, so he made a shift in focus from filmmaking and began his training to become a certified Law of Attraction life coach, working with college students to mix their degrees with their passions before stepping into their own lives and forming their own paths.

Within the same year of receiving his Bachelor’s, he went on to study at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, California’ where he earned his diploma in December of 2022. He is the third generation in his family to attend HMI, the fourth generation to pursue therapy of some kind as a career, and the second generation to have a concentration in hypnotherapy. He specializes in Kappasinian hypnosis, which allows him to provide stress and anxiety management and aid people in helping find direction in life.

His love for writing and storytelling led him to write for Utah Stories, become an award-winning screenwriter with his script, A Day with Jim, going on to become an Amazon bestseller in 2016 and Grand Jury Prize winner in 2017. He produces his own scripted podcast, Get Lost So You Can Find Your Way Home, which he has been running since 2022.

Rachel Fixsen

After growing up on the east coast and earning degrees in English and art from the University of Maryland, Rachel moved to Utah in 2010 and fell in love with its deserts, mountains, rivers and canyons. She has worked as a wildland firefighter, a park ranger, a field research technician, and a builder.

She now lives in Moab, where she writes for the Moab Sun News and the Moab Area Real Estate Magazine. She loves rock climbing, hiking, trail running, and summiting mountains. She also enjoys learning more about Utah’s history and culture, and how we are all adapting to a changing world.

Tim Haran

Tim Haran is an experienced marketing and communications professional with expertise in social storytelling and digital brandbuilding strategy. In 2018 he founded Utah Beer News as a project of Tim Haran Digital LLC. The journalistic-style website and accompanying podcast are dedicated to delivering stories important to the Utah craft beer community.

Prior to launching his consulting business, Tim spent nearly a decade at a billion-dollar nutritional supplements company. He directed the company’s expansive social media presence, which had grown to 90 web properties and more than 750,000 followers/ subscribers globally.

The company’s flagship, What’s Up, USANA? The blog was inducted into the PR News Platinum Hall of Fame in 2014.

USANA social media either had won or been a finalist for more than 75 awards and Tim has been named PR News Blogger of the Year, as well as Digital Communicator of the Year and Social Media Professional of the Year.

Tim earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley and spent several years as a newspaper and multimedia journalist before joining USANA Health Sciences in 2007. Tim lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Amy, and his Wheaten Terrier mix, Wrigley. He is a longtime Chicago Cubs fan and an avid homebrewer. Follow Tim on social media at @timharan or @utahbeernews.