Most people are lucky to land one dream job. Teshra Robles has built a life around three such jobs. 

She currently works as a financial organizer. In March, her business, Teshra Do You, will celebrate three years. 

“A financial organizer is somebody who is going to take you from paper chaos, digital chaos, into total organization,” Robles said. 

“You have the choice of printing out all of your statements,” Robles said. “You can put them in a massive spreadsheet to get it all organized, but then that has human error and time. If you put it all into one system that allows you to have everybody talk to each other, then you can spend an hour a week just looking at what your money is doing.” 

Helping people organize their finances and improve their financial situations is Robles’ favorite part of the job. 

“Your personal business is your most important business,” Robles said. “It’s not the one you started. It’s not your corporate job. Everything you’re doing is to make money for your personal business.” 

Robles was born in Texas but has lived across the country. 

“I moved to Hawaii when I was about six or seven,” Robles said. “Later, I went to Punahou High School. I was a scholarship kid because it’s a very wealthy school.” 

She had a positive experience at the school, where she developed a love of numbers. 

“I really loved all my math classes,” Robles said. “I was a good writer, but I didn’t really like English very much.” 

After high school, Robles accepted a full ride to USC, which turned out to be a negative experience. 

“Once again, I was dumped right back in the wealthy,” Robles said. “It was awful.” 

After her freshman year, Robles took a trip to San Diego that changed her life. 

“My mom moved from Hawaii to San Diego,” Robles said. “I went down for the summer to see her and I met my husband.” 

“I told her, ‘I’m not going back to school,’” Robles said. “She goes, ‘Nobody gives up a full scholarship to USC.’ I said, ‘Well, I do.’”

After leaving USC, Robles earned several associate degrees at local San Diego colleges before finding a job as a cashier at a lumber company. While working there, she applied for a corporate position despite not knowing what the job entailed. 

“It was for accounts payable,” Robles said. “I loved it. I love accounting. I went back and got my bachelor’s with honors in accounting.” 

However, she decided to stop working to start the first of her three dream jobs. 

“I was a stay-at-home mom for 24 years,” Robles said. “I homeschooled five of my children.” 

While she stayed home with her children, Robles’ brother and mother moved to North Idaho. Robles and her husband decided to make the jump as well. 

“I always wanted to live in a small town,” Robles said. “I always wanted to live in the mountains with snow.” 

Robles began working part time. 

“The only job that I could get was at Mountain West Bank,” Robles said. “They hired me to come in two days a week.” 

She eventually moved into a full-time role as a banker after seven years in a part-time position, which she described as her second dream job. Still, Robles felt called to start her own business. 

“God was like, ‘It’s time for you to get out and start your own business,’” Robles said. 

Today, Robles organizes finances for clients around the world, including Canada, China and Japan. 

“I knew it was going to be national, but I didn’t think it was going to be as local as it is,” Robles said. “I’ve had a lot of Bonners Ferry locals.” 

Building the business has taken both persistence and faith. 

“I just remind myself every day that I really believe that he called me into this space,” Robles said. “If he’s called me into this space, he’s going to have to make it happen.” 

Her previous roles as a stay-at-home mom and a bank employee helped prepare her for entrepreneurship. 

“As a mom of five kids, you’re just constantly problem solving,” Robles said. “People come into the bank and you have 150 people a day and you’re constantly problem solving. These are just different problems and problems I’ve never solved before. I didn’t know how to use Canva. I didn’t know how to use Zoom.” 

“It’s not random that we love to do what we love to do,” Robles said. “If you love to make cupcakes or you love to design cars, that’s because you were created to do that.” 

As her business grows, Robles remains focused on serving others. 

“I’m on a mission to serve a lot more people,” Robles said. 

Though she has lived in many places, Robles said Boundary County is home. 

“Raising my kids here has just been an absolute blessing,” Robles said. “I’m so thankful to God they were brought up here.”