Jari Davis

I’m Jari Davis, an original if there ever was one, and one who “rose up” as a woman bucking male dominant strongholds at every turn in the State of Utah. This was no mean feat when you start doing it in the 1960s, and continue it for the next six decades. I birthed kids and helped rear grandkids, and of course I would reduce mountains to smoldering rubble for them and not even bat an eye. I fight for all worthy causes, especially those others might think are lost. I tilt windmills, take flight on horseback, dream big, rustle cattle, gallop headlong into the fray for the underdog, and have dedicated a good portion of my life to empowering women, especially in offering the tools for them to do double-duty at home while making more money than their husbands with less time and effort (I jest…well…mostly). That’s a good segue into why I’ve authored extensive home-learning course materials across an ample range of disciplines. Shaving years and many chapters from the story, I’ll just share that my experience in the medical and legal industries, businesses and disciplines started in the 1960s when I was acting as a medical statistical coder-abstractor, reviewer, and data processing coordinator for the World Health Organization in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology and Medical Records at the University of Utah Medical Center. This eventually led to me starting a business in medical transcription, making me the inventor of outsourcing medical transcription duties, thus freeing nurses and other healthcare workers from doing something for which they were not properly trained. The business flourished and awarded me the Utah Businesswoman of the Year in 1977, and Boss of the Year by the Utah Businesswomen’s Association in 1990. The word “boss” is thrown around a lot these days, and you’d think that of me if you’d seen me show up in camo fatigues and khaki T-shirt to a business meeting with a crowd of all-male suits, and promptly put those boys in their places, a hobby at which I am exceptional. But I digress (and at my age, that is more than allowed). In that flourishing business, I had to train new medical transcriptionists, and my training methods were developed and honed to get a would-be transcriptionist from neophyte to expert in as little time as possible. I superimposed those same training methodologies when it came time to pen the paralegal training program. Which delivers us to this…needless to say, as a “lady” (hahahaha!) protecting what was hers in a tank of sharks, I had to learn the ins and outs of the legal and courts systems, battlegrounds in which I found myself on many occasions. I found the legal representation of those involved on both my side and the opposition were often incompetent, which forced me to learn everything I could in every practical way possible about how to protect myself and those I loved without relying on third party firms to get the job done right. This led to me checking, proofing and editing the work of my legal representation, taking matters often well beyond the research they were willing, or had the eye, to do. After numerous battles, some I won and some I lost, I’d become a significant expert and decided to put that knowledge to paper and share it with whomever wanted to learn it. The results are powerhouses of knowledge in both medical and legal applications anybody can learn at any time and at their own pace, and as we all know, knowledge is in fact power. Stay tuned for my biography. What an adventure I intend to share! Tempus fugit, Latin for time flies. Please, don’t let it fly away from you.