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I joined my first network marketing company in 1980. At that time I was a 20 year old, making good money at my JOB, owned my own home, and thought I was doing really well. I didn’t have a WHY, so when it got hard, I quit.
Fast forward, years later, lost that job due to health challenges, got married then divorced and was a single mom of two small children for five years. Life got harder, and I started looking at ways to make additional income.
I did real estate, insurance, but did not want to do network marketing again because, after all, I tried that once and it didn’t work for me. But when a friend shared a powerful anti-oxidant with me, it changed my life. And then I couldn’t stop talking about it. And then I started getting checks in the mail.
Word-of-Mouth Advertising has always been the most powerful form of advertising. We all do it. But we don’t all get paid for it. But after I started getting paid for sharing wellness with others, it went from being a “side hustle” to a “full time gig”.
I collected my last W2 in 1995. I made my first million dollars by 1998. People ask me “What’s Your Secret”? So I decided to share that here.
Meet the Family
First and foremost, my life is about my family. I have four wonderful children of my own and have been blessed with others through marriage. And I have three of my own grand children and many more that I have inherited over the years.
My Back Story
I grew up in a lower middle-class neighborhood in a troubled home on the west side of Phoenix Arizona. I was one of three girls in my family and the only one to graduate from high school. No one in my family even talked about college. I graduated in 1978 when EEOC was putting women in job roles traditionally held by men. So at 18 years old I was a lineman with the telephone company with one of the highest paying jobs in the company.
I bought my first house at 19 years old but soon after had a lung collapse on a telephone pole which resulted in a surgery removing 1/2 my right lunch. I couldn’t work for 6 months and when I was healthy enough to return my job was gone. They gave me a job in the mail room. One of the lowest paying jobs in the phone company.
I then got into law enforcement, starting out in the Army Military Police, and later working for Phoenix Police Department and then the Arizona Highway Patrol. I got married, had a baby, number two was on the way when suddenly my marriage ended and I found myself a single mom. I was looking for ways to supplement my income in hopes that one day I would be able to be a stay-at-home mom again. I tried real estate, insurance, and then…
Network Marketing
I joined by first network marketing company when I was 18 years old, but I was making so much money at my job at the time that I didn’t “need” it. And when things got hard, I quit. But later in life when I became a single mom, my “needs” changed and I took a closer look.
Network marketing offers the chance to leverage yourself and build a network of customers and distributors and earn word-of-mouth referral commissions on all products purchased by the team that you help create. That is RESIDUAL income. And overtime, with geometric growth, the volume of products purchased just continues to grow and so do your commissions.
Xango Juice
Xango Juice was the first commercial mangosteen product brought to market. Xango Juice was first brought to market in 2002 by a company called Xango. They later sold to a company called Zija and then again sold to Isagenix. I have been spreading the word about health and wellness products with a focus on anti-oxidants for more than 35 years. I helped bring mangosteen to the world in 2002. I built a network of customers and distributors over the years to the tune of more then One Million People. Today I still enjoy my Xango Juice and still enjoy a nice residual income from my efforts many years ago.
Today
Over the years that have been several great mangosteen products brought to market. In 2003 a company brought a mangosteen product to market in a nano-emulsion delivery system that provides high speed nutrition to the body. While I still love my mangosteen juice I had to be part of this new technology bringing powerful new health and wellness products to market.