TakeHeart.rocks

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Kindness Specialist | Motivational Speaker | Stone Carver

Founder of Heart Rock Reminders

Using 270,000+ heart rocks to create meaningful connection, spread kindness, and remind people that they matter & are loved.

Davey’s first hike 🧡I love being a husband and father!I often catch myself staring, lost in complete awe, ecstatic at ju...
10/09/2025

Davey’s first hike 🧡

I love being a husband and father!

I often catch myself staring, lost in complete awe, ecstatic at just being in Becca’s presence. She’s my best friend and I adore her!

And now we have Davey, three months old today! Meeting Becca, having Davey, elevated the best of everything beyond what I ever cold have imagined.

Don’t ever give up on yourself—life is a precious gift and the very next person you meet might become your very best friend.

Joy, like magic, needs time to develop, mature, and appear.

Practice learning to recognize it; you’ll get better at it.

Then, as Edmond Dantes so wonderfully summarized at the end of one of my cherished reads, ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’, “Wait and hope.”

10/06/2025

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I made these five Wonderstone hearts for a family in my community who recently experienced a tragic loss.

I hope that these hearts remind them that they matter, are loved, and that families are forever.

I made them at the request of their thoughtful family friend.

Who do you know that could use a heart rock reminder that they are loved?

A few weeks ago at an event I spoke at, two stories were shared with me about how they’d used hearts I’d made to save the lives of their loved ones. I’ve had 123 stories like those two shared with me since I began making hearts in 2019.

I’ve made over 27,000 just like this in my backyard.

My nonprofit organization has helped me make another 300,000+ more.

The best thing about my heart rock kindness movement?! I’m just getting started!

This is my life’s work. It brings me so much joy being able to so something small to help lift others in today’s challenging world.

In the past month alone we made and shared over 12,000 hearts!

Let’s go!

Want to help me make the world a better place one heart at a time? My website and Etsy shop are linked in my profile.

Who do you know that would keep a handmade heart their whole life as a reminder that you care about them?

Take heart,

Tom “The Heart Rock Guy”



Music Credits:

Music: Street Food
Musician: FASSounds
Site: https://pixabay.com/music/-street-food-112193/

How YOU can help ⬇️1️⃣ Comment words of encouragement to the saints. 2️⃣ Know anyone in that community? Please share thi...
10/03/2025

How YOU can help ⬇️

1️⃣ Comment words of encouragement to the saints.

2️⃣ Know anyone in that community? Please share this post with them so they can see the hearts that are coming and read the words of encouragement.

3️⃣ Comment 🤍 if you will commit to try a little harder to follow Jesus Christ’s loving example—be the light on a hill that the world needs right now.

Thank you so much for your help! I’m extremely grateful to all of the donors and supporters of my little heart rock mission. September seemed like a really difficult month. With your help, my nonprofit and I have sent, or will send this week, hearts to Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Evergreen HS in Colorado, Canyon View JH in Utah, another small school in rural Utah, a counseling center in Uvalde, Texas, and UVU’s Counseling Center in Utah. That’s thousands of handmade hearts being used for good!

330,000+ hearts made and shared since 2019.

It’s proof that we CAN make the world a better place one heart at a time.

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09/29/2025

Happy Fall, Y’all!

I spent about 30 mins per pumpkin.

I figure I’ll make a few more each year until we have a proper pumpkin patch!

Should I add these to my Etsy shop?

What silly things did you do to your children when they were little?
09/28/2025

What silly things did you do to your children when they were little?

Last month two officers were killed. I said I wanted to gift hearts to all the entire department: officers, dispatchers,...
09/28/2025

Last month two officers were killed. I said I wanted to gift hearts to all the entire department: officers, dispatchers, and staff and their families. Within hours, 24 of my followers donated enough to my fundraiser to be able to do this.

While driving up to deliver the hearts my car died. It sat in the shop with the hearts for over a month, waiting to be fixed.

Yesterday I was finally able to get back into my newly repaired car and finish the long drive to Tremonton.

I wish you could have seen the eyes of the receptionist light up when I plopped 600 hearts on the counter and asked if she would help me ensure they’re gifted to everyone in the entire department.

I asked her to let everyone know that each heart rock is a reminder that they matter, are loved, supported, seen, and appreciated.

Thank you so much to everyone that has and is helping me live my dream of flooding the world with my homemade heart rock reminders!

Some days, like today, the weight of the stone doesn’t even compare to the weight so feeling my own heart and soul. The world we live in can be such a dark, difficult place. So many people are struggling and I wish I could reach out to remind every single person that things will get better, that they are loved, and that the world is a better place because they are in it!

If life is getting you down, I will gift you 20 minutes of my life to make and mail you a heart rock to remind you that you are loved. Then you can keep it for as long as you need it, maybe even your whole life, and when you’re ready, you can begin searching for someone who needs it more than you do.

Take heart, you DO matter! You do more than you will ever know!

09/25/2025

How you can help ⬇️

I’m donating the first 200 hearts.

We need 1200 to give one to every student, faculty, and staff member.

I’m coordinating with the PTA to get the hearts to everyone before the weekend (if possible).

I’ll keep this fundraiser going for a week. Every dollar donated enables my nonprofit organization to gift 1 more heart to the students.

Imagine the good they could do if everyone had several hearts to give to their loved ones!

You know many of them will keep it their whole life!

Help me help them work through this tragedy.

Please consider donating, sharing, and commenting encouraging words—many of the students and their families will see this reel.

TO DONATE:

My Venmo is -Ballard confirmation code 7921. For full transparency, I will publicly thank each donor (e.g.; “Thank you, Thomas B.! $200) in the comments for their Venmo donation. (You may request anonymity when donating through Venmo).

OR

Donate to the Canyon View Junior High School PTA

OR

Donate through my GoFundMe, titled: HEART ROCKS for S**CIDE PREVENTION: Utah Schools (link in profile) I’ve successfully used this campaign to fund donating hearts to 20 schools so far. Every donation received this week will go to Canyon View Junior High students.

Feel free to DM me for additional information. I will respond as soon as I can.

Thank you so much for your support! We will make a difference!

-Tom Ballard “The Heart Rock Guy”

Here are some of my credentials and achievements from using heart rocks for good since 2019:

Founder: Heart Rock Reminders

330,000+ hearts made and lovingly handed out

Recipient 2025 Utah Governor’s Spirit of Service Award

145 school kindness assemblies

300+ community events

123 lives saved

NAMI-certified speaker

New dad trying to make the world a better place one heart at a time.

09/21/2025

Thank you and and for throwing such an incredible event! I’m so grateful u could come, for all of the great people I could meet, and for the inspiration I took home with me!

Here’s a little Davey update. Isn’t he so cute?! I adore him! I feel pure ecstasy every moment I’m with him. Who knew lo...
09/19/2025

Here’s a little Davey update. Isn’t he so cute?! I adore him! I feel pure ecstasy every moment I’m with him. Who knew love could run so deep?!

Take a closer look…(I may or may not be playing with a new camera lens. IT’S WAY MORE FUN LOOKING AT STONES THROUGH A MA...
09/10/2025

Take a closer look…

(I may or may not be playing with a new camera lens. IT’S WAY MORE FUN LOOKING AT STONES THROUGH A MACRO LENS!)

Which heart surprises you the most?

So much love! Davey is growing up so fast! Last night he slept seven hours straight! He’s started cooing, or rather stri...
09/08/2025

So much love! Davey is growing up so fast! Last night he slept seven hours straight! He’s started cooing, or rather stringing together as many sounds as he can make in what’s the cutest conversation possible. He loves smiling and laughing! He’s been considering lucrative offers from the NFL, NBA, and pianists. His future is bright!

Maybe you think you’re a plain black rock. Maybe you think you’ll never be anything more than you currently are. Then yo...
09/04/2025

Maybe you think you’re a plain black rock.

Maybe you think you’ll never be anything more than you currently are.

Then you meet someone who changes everything.

Be that friend to everyone you meet.

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