SELF-RELIANCE · STARTING AND GROWING MY BUSINESS
Build the business you keep dreaming about.
You don’t need an MBA. You need customers, cash flow, and a group of people building alongside you — with faith that the Lord is your partner.
Classes start October 1, 2026
You’ll learn to
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Spot unmet customer needs worth paying for
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Price for profit — and prove your business can make money
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Find customers, and keep them coming back
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Separate business and personal money — for good
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Manage cash flow so payday never surprises you
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Finance, grow, and present your business with confidence
Already running a business? Still on the idea stage? Both belong here.
How the class works
A working group
8–14 entrepreneurs counsel on each other’s real businesses. Free advisors, every week.
12 weekly meetings
About 2 hours each. A facilitator guides the workbook; the group does the rest.
Homework that pays
Weekly commitments — talk to customers, log income and expenses, test your idea.
Faith at the center
Every week opens with a principle from My Foundation — build on the rock.
What you’ll cover, week by week
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My readiness for business success
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Keeping business and personal money separate
2
Solving unmet customer needs
8
Managing the cash flow of my business
3
Ensuring that I have a profitable business
9
Growing my business
4
Finding customers
10
Financing my business
5
Keeping customers
11
Continually improving my business
6
Managing the profitability of my business
12
Presenting my business
From Starting and Growing My Business for Self-Reliance, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
New groups forming now
Save your seat.
Your stake self-reliance specialist will reach out with dates and locations. Know another aspiring business owner? Bring them.
Classes start October 1, 2026