Tiffany sits down with one of her oldest friends, Sharon Benton, co-owner of Santa's Enchanted Workshop, for a story that moves from Christmas magic and entrepreneurship into motherhood, trauma, faith, and the kind of resilience that changes a family forever.
Sharon shares how she and her husband Scott turned decades of photography experience into something far more immersive than a traditional Santa visit. Children receive invitations, enter through an elf-sized door, wake Santa with bells, and step into a carefully built world designed to feel gentle, personal, and completely real. For Sharon, the goal has never been just a beautiful photograph. It is creating a childhood memory a family can carry for years.
Then Tiffany and Sharon turn toward the experience that reshaped Sharon's life. Just days after turning 18, her son Kyle suffered a severe traumatic brain injury after falling from his longboard without a helmet. Sharon recounts the phone call, the ICU, the uncertainty, the surgery, and the long recovery that followed. Five years later, Kyle is married and building a life while continuing to navigate the lasting effects of his injury.
Sharon also shares why she continues speaking about helmet safety, what caregiving taught her about faith and endurance, and why surviving something difficult can become an opportunity to help someone else. Along the way, she reflects on taking better care of herself, growing into a new season of life, and turning what she has learned through Santa's Enchanted Workshop into something she can teach to others.
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