The Legacy of the Hasty-Grant Family

For the Hasty-Grant family, leaving a legacy was never about grand gestures or public accolades. Instead, it was born from the quiet, consistent choices to prioritize meaningful relationships—with family, friends, community members, and clients. They see their legacy not as an endpoint but as a collection of moments, shared experiences, and the impact they’ve had on those they love and serve.

To them, the essence of legacy is not found in monuments or material wealth but in the lives touched along the way.

What inspired you to focus on leaving a legacy?

Relationships have been at the center of some of the most impactful and important moments of our life. Honestly, we didn’t start out with the intention of “leaving a legacy” but rather of connecting and creating meaning with those most important to us. We hope that, in turn, those important moments, memories, and relationships have indeed created our legacy.

What core values do you hope to pass on to your loved ones?

Hard Work, Grit, and Perseverance: These values help you get through the difficult challenges to reach your goals. A lot of folks aren’t willing to do the difficult things to accomplish their dreams—it’s too hard, takes too much time, is too stressful, is too much risk. Believing that you can do hard things and developing the grit and perseverance to do them are the character traits necessary to reach outside of the norm.

• Service to Others, Integrity, and Loyalty: These qualities are essential and sometimes hard to come by, making them stand out.
• Importance of Family and Friends: Loved ones make life worth living. Valuing these relationships means spending time, showing with actions not just words that they are important, being there for the important stuff and the ordinary, everyday stuff.
• Authenticity: It sometimes seems easier to just try to fit in. I implore you to be your authentic self, with all the imperfection that entails. The only way for others to truly know you is for you to take the risk of being who you are. Some will love you for it; some will not. That’s okay, though, because that’s how you learn who your true people are.
• Faith: This is the core foundation that gives us a purpose—something bigger than ourselves—and provides direction to focus on our goals and continue when we don’t think we can do it anymore and things look impossible.

When have you felt you made a lasting impact on someone’s life?

This is an interesting question and one that we both struggled to answer. People don’t have a tendency to tell you when you have made an impact on their life. Often because, perhaps, they don’t realize it at the time or maybe never will. There are, however, a few times that stand out to me as critical points in someone’s life when we feel we made an impact:

• Gathering furniture, appliances, and household items for a college friend who had just gotten out of prison, helping her furnish her home and restart her life.
• Helping a friend leave an abusive relationship and realize her own value as a strong, independent woman.
• Recognizing how a client was about to have his entire life savings wiped out by an insurance salesperson and taking immediate action to help him save it.
• Seeing young men I coached in youth sports go on to succeed and persevere and become productive, successful adults.
• Speaking at Anchor through men’s group and being told after speaking that my testimony made a difference.
• Helping an employee by giving them the paid time they needed during an illness/death in their family without using PTO; helping employees to start a family business, celebrating their successes, and picking them up in their losses; gifting an employee their first cruise and seeing their spirit of adventure take off.
• While we hope that we’ve made a positive and lasting impact on our kids, their friends, their spouses, our friends, clients, and employees, it is often hard to tell what seeds that were planted will bring a harvest.

How do you define success, and how has that definition changed over time?

The definition has definitely changed over time. As an athlete in sports, it was about wins vs. losses. As a coach, it was about teaching life lessons like teamwork and getting up when you get knocked down. In business, success can be just about money, but it really is about so much more than that. It’s helping people achieve their goals, celebrating their successes, and supporting them through challenging and difficult times.

Reflecting on your challenges or setbacks, what key lessons have you learned, and how have they shaped you?

It’s human nature to want to avoid struggles, challenges, and setbacks. But just like a diamond is only formed through intense pressure and heat, our true character is forged in how we pass through challenges. Some of my greatest disappointments and painful times have made me stronger. It’s because of those dark times that I’ve been able to persevere when others may not have. When I started at Edward Jones, I was one of four women in a class of 215. Only two of the women (myself and another) made it in the industry. Out of 215, only about 45 people lasted more than five years in the industry—and I was one of them. I attribute this success to the grit and determination that I learned from childhood challenges and the love and support of my husband.

How do you want to be remembered by family and friends?

I hope they will remember that I really cared for them and wanted the best for them—that they felt loved by me and that I was there for them when it really mattered. I hope I went above and beyond anything they would have imagined and that I loved hard and played hard! I hope they remember me as a faith-filled, big-thinking, bet-the-farm risk taker who was fiercely loyal to my husband, children, daughters-in-love, friends, employees, and clients. I hope they remember me as a fun, funky, creative, rebellious-spirited chick who was adventurous, tenacious, hardworking, successful, and just would not quit!

What are the traditions you consider essential to preserve and pass on to future generations?

• Hunting: Faith Ranch Hunting property
• Spending time together with family and friends: Lake house, family dinners, holidays, celebrating life’s milestones, being there for the fun days and the not so fun days
• Traveling: The Rambling Gypsy in 50 states, family vacations
• Dreaming BIG: And committing to what it takes to make that happen. A dream is just a dream until you make a plan and then take action to make it happen! Dream. Plan. Do.

How does empathy play a role in your life?

I think sometimes people who have ugly scars and who have survived, stand in the gap. They often develop an empathic trait allowing them to read and understand others’ feelings in a way that is unseen to most. I have a unique capability to listen and feel what others feel. This has allowed me to be there for people in a way that I may not have been able to comprehend if not for that gift.

How have you balanced hard work with personal relationships?

Building a business from the ground up requires an incredible amount of time, energy, hard work, and risk. I think that today, looking at the business we have built over the last 26 years, it looks like a piece of cake, easy-peasy. In reality, it was anything but. For months and years, we struggled to pay all the bills and salaries. Nonstop thinking about and solving challenges in the business, dealing with employee turnover, managing stress and anxiety, striving to make the best decisions for all clients and employees, and dealing with down markets, political fearmongering, and covid. All of this while raising kids, coaching their football teams, being the “sleepover house” for all of their friends, maintaining a relationship with each other as a couple, and keeping up our friendships. I have no idea if it was balanced. That wasn’t even a thought that ever crossed my mind during that time. We were just determined and there was no other option but to do it all. And we did.

What role has community played in your life and legacy?

Supporting our community through the Chamber and helping different charitable organizations has always been part of our life. From food drives to huge Halloween parties to raise money to serving the homeless, supporting others and our community has been part of our business from the beginning. Helping others has always been one of our “whys.” I remember starting The Character Coin program and having more than 100,000 coins minted to try to build others up and help focus on the positive in people. The thrill of seeing the ripples—throughout our community, our state, and the country—was impactful for us, and I hope it planted seeds of our legacy.

How do you encourage open conversations about values and morals within your family?

I think being open with our kids about some of our mistakes, being vulnerable and honest with our own feelings and emotions and trusting them to do the same, is how you create open conversations. Being willing to stand in the hard places and be present when its uncomfortable. I don’t think we’ve always gotten it right, but we continue to try as we deal with challenges that life throws at us!

What advice do you have for future generations about living a meaningful life?

• Find your purpose. What is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Believe in something bigger than yourself. Have faith. Take the next step.
• Do the hard things. Be willing to do the hard work to reach your goals. Do or don’t do, there is no try.
• Be authentic. Know who you are and what you want so you’re not misled by the latest lnstagram moments.
• Dream big. And commit to the effort it will take to realize that dream.
• Build healthy relationships. Surround yourself with family, friends, and coworkers who support and uplift you, who will be honest with you even when it’s hard, and who will be there through thick and thin.