Meghan Huthsteiner

Meghan Huthsteiner notices what others walk past. She can step into a business and immediately identify the small adjustments — the easy wins, the overlooked opportunities — that could exponentially elevate the customer experience. Things that seem minor to others but make all the difference to the person walking through the door. More than that, she has a gift for foreseeing what a business needs before the owner has thought to want it. She doesn’t wait to be asked. She simply sees it, says it, and helps them get there.

In 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, Meghan was working as a receptionist at a high-end collision repair shop in Las Vegas. The owner was two — maybe four — weeks from closing the doors for good. She had no title, no authority, and no guarantee anyone would listen. The owner was resistant — understandably so, with the weight of the financial crisis bearing down on everything he had built. But Meghan’s conviction didn’t waver. She didn’t push — she persisted, with such calm certainty and clarity of vision that his reluctance slowly gave way. Not because she wore him down, but because her belief was contagious. He finally gave her the shot — and she made sure he never regretted it.

She didn’t walk in empty-handed. With no budget and no backing, she approached one of Las Vegas’s finest local bakeries — a business she had no affiliation with — and proposed a partnership: she would personally deliver their signature items to more than 30 local businesses each week, carrying their logo and name with her. The bakery said yes before she finished the sentence. Every morning, she picked up their most delicious offerings and mapped her day in optimized routes of 30 stops at a time — maximizing every mile, every conversation, every opportunity.

Her targets were the State Farm insurance agents within a 10-mile radius. The first week, no one bit. The second week, smiles started appearing — small but real. The third week, conversations opened up: “Hey, I actually have a client in an accident right now — what is it that you do?” By the fourth week it was consistent — and something unexpected started happening. Agents were asking if she was the owner. Not because of a title, but because of the energy she brought to every visit — the consistency, the warmth, the genuine excitement about helping them serve their clients better. She wasn’t representing a job. She was representing a mission.

She wasn’t the owner. But she carried herself like someone who was — not out of ego, but because of something her mother had instilled in her long before: if you’re going to do something, do it right or don’t do it at all. In that season, those words became more than a lesson. They became a standard she lived by every single day.

At the same time, she went upstream. She walked into some of the most prestigious dealerships in Las Vegas — Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Mercedes, BMW — and built relationships that turned into overflow repair contracts. Rolls-Royce and Ferrari trusted them with their clients.

The shop didn’t close. It thrived. Ten years later, it sold for more than $6 million. For Meghan, the greatest return was never financial. It was the moment she learned to trust her gut — and proved to herself that when she followed it all the way through, it paid off. Not always in dollars, but in something far more valuable: the unshakeable knowledge of who she is and what she’s capable of. That knowing has been worth more than any paycheck ever could.

That experience confirmed something she has carried into every industry since: foundational principles and the courage to problem-solve will take you anywhere, through any crisis, in any market you’ve never touched before. She doesn’t need to know everything about an industry to add value in it. She needs to understand what’s fundamentally true, acknowledge what she doesn’t yet know, and get to work. She has never met a challenge that made her quit — only ones that made her more creative.

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