OWN THE 24, LLC
SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA

, when I graduated! Heck, back then, they didn’t even have PCs in offices let alone on your phone! The future was in technology and I was on my way! I even got married that same year and embarked on my life of following the clearly laid out path so many of us choose…totally convinced I was “doing it right”; totally by the book! Well, fast forward… 17 years [3 kids and a beautiful, 3-story, custom-built, Victorian home equipped with a regulation size beach volleyball court in the backyard] later… and so the story goes…we were still trying to do it right…yet, life was like Ground Hog Day. You know, get up, go to work, come home, do the family thing – whatever that maybe, and go to bed…repeat! Next thing you know…so the story goes…DIVORCE! Uh oh! Now what? 3 little kids, a big house, and tag, you’re it! After 17 years as a systems analyst, I was doing ok, but certainly not THAT ok! The divorce wiped us out. So, I was basically starting from scratch … from behind the 8 ball. I thought, I’m not going to take another 17 years to get back to square 1. I need a better plan! The rest is history. I literally read a book, and in one day, made the decision that would alter the course of not only my life, but my boys’ lives, too! The book was and broken marriages and unnecessary debt…all of which I had successfully achieved by following it. So, what did I do? How did I do it? I accessed the only thing I had available at the time, which turned out to be the BEST thing I could have done! I called up my sister who was working with Herbalife and asked her to teach me. I had only been using the products and I knew they worked. That was it! I had no idea that the company was so awesome. I had never even heard of network marketing or multilevel or anything like that…thank God! It didn’t deter me because I only saw the good in the company and what the products had done for me…for 3 years I’d been able to maintain my ideal weight without any rigorous exercise while sitting at a desk 8-9 hours/day, my digestion had improved and I was feeling great! I figured this is something I can do from home to make some extra money. What I soon found out, was that I had just accessed the gateway into all the elusive concepts described in the book simply by joining the company! You mean to tell me we get paid 6 different ways, they are unlimited and they are all based upon my performance? You’re kidding? Where have I been? Living under a rock? I asked. To this day, I still don’t know the answer to that question. And, really, I don’t spend any time on finding the answer to it. All I know is, I’m doing it! I may be thick, quick to judge and stubborn, but I’m not stupid! My life has been altered for the better out of a personal tragedy because I was desperate and humble enough to become teachable. And, at barely teachable, I still succeeded. That decision was made in December 2001. I have been living a life of personal development and improving the lives of others since I joined Herbalife. I have done so much work on myself, including the Daily Magic by Tony Robbins, that it’s transformed my life in ways I never could have anticipated. I just followed the plan… After graduating from Northwood University (Midland, MI) in 1988 with a degree in Business Management, I spent a couple of years bouncing around trying to find my career. Like Lori, I did what I was “programmed” to do – find a job, get married, have the kids, get the house, the minivan, the dog, etc… I found my place in the Solid Waste and Recycling industry and proceeded to climb the ladder. I started in the Garbage business in 1992. In the twenty years to follow, my family and I would move eight times in the pursuit of a better opportunity. Most moves were with the same company, and all of them were unsettling, at least, for my family and I. BUT, this was what you did if you wanted to succeed, right? Michigan, Maine, Ohio, Arizona, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts…all to grab the next opportunity to improve myself – or so I thought. As I climbed the ladder and improved my income and position, I came to discover something very important…I didn’t matter to the company! Time after time as I jumped into a new opportunity I would work ridiculous hours and turn companies around, consolidating companies, buying/selling companies, implementing operating standards at national companies, saving/making these companies millions and millions. And in the end, no one remembers what you did last year or two years ago, they don’t even remember what you did two quarters ago! All that mattered was their earnings, stock value, shareholder value, etc. As soon as there weren’t enough earnings a restructuring ensued and big change happened. Sometimes I was charged with managing the restructuring and making the difficult decisions on who got to keep their job and who didn’t…and sometimes I was the one someone else was making that decision for. Also during this time I had developed an interest in Zen, which expanded in multiple directions to include many subjects and disciplines – mythology, philosophy, other major world religions, physics/quantum mechanics, and more. Aside from the time I spent with my family, the best times of my day were when I was reading, writing, meditating, listening to audio tapes, or taking classes such as Aikido, Tai Chi, etc. I finally got back on my feet in the fall of 2011 and took a job in Westborough, MA with a small, private solid waste and recycling company. I met Lori on April 1 , 2012. Over the next few months we talked about her business; what she does and how she does it. I was familiar with the business model, but that was the extent of it. As time passed I learned more about her business and even attended a few trainings. Fundamentally there was a huge glaring difference from what I had known for the past 20+ years in the garbage business! This company culture was entirely based on “want to” and had no “have to” in it at all! Each Herbalife distributor was independent and therefore in control of their own destiny. The rate of growth and success in the business is simply a function of the individual’s effort, consistency, and quality. As a “performer”, this idea very much appealed to me. I loved the idea of being 100% accountable for my business and its performance! No more “external dependencies” affecting my career!