Building a sustainable team has been a challenge. We all start this business with the same team- ourselves! From a company of one- we build. Exciting, worthwhile, life-changing...all great stuff, but a challenge. When I started "sharing" our business opportunity with friends and family, now this is back 30 months ago, I was met with laughter, mockery, insults and basically very negative feedback. My initial excitement and hope was being harshly attacked by "friends" and "people I cared about." I didn't know whether to cry, laugh or feel stupid. Joe and I would lie in bed and talk for hours...was this new venture a good idea? Would anyone listen to us and believe what we had found? Should we just work a third job and forget being an entrepreneur? We followed our instincts and stayed the course. Our first baby steps towards success were doing what our company strongly promoted- being a "product of the product." We took our Privatest and eagerly awaited our results. This test was meaningful and powerful for me, personally, because my physician was recommending a drug called Lipator for me and after researching it I decided that was not a road I wanted to travel. I was super healthy- ate right, ran daily and took great care of myself. My genes, however, steered me down the road of high blood pressure (both of my amazing parents have died of heart attacks) and high cholesterol. These facts alone attracted me to this health and wellness company- I was all over the idea of "preventative" and taking care of myself on the front end of my life so that I could live a strong and active back end! I got my results back from our lab, Metametrix Lab (physician only, top rated in country) and two weeks later received my customized vitamin- made for my body and tailored to my challenges. This was very exciting to me! After being on Custom Essentials for 2 months I really felt a difference in my energy! I popped out of bed in the morning and didn't feel "laggy" at 3pm- like I had for years. I was sleeping like a rock. My skin looked great. My hair and nails were the healthiest and strongest I'd ever seen them! I felt like superwoman! People started asking me, "What's up with you? You seem different." It was a great opening- I told them my story (read: I shared with them my real life experience with our product) and that led to people wanting the product AND checking out our business. This change from "showing a business opportunity" to "sharing my real life experience" was a great shift for me! From this authentic place I could move forward into sharing why I was excited about our company. Why I knew we were different. Why our leadership cared about the integrity and sustainability of our company and how that was changing my life and the lives of so many others. I stayed on my journey. I had set my compass for "success" and "balance" and was heading in the right direction. It was still slow and steady...but moving forward is STILL moving forward. We all learn and grow at the right speed for us. Many friends and family members got tested, got on Custom Essentials and then reported back amazing results to us. We were effecting lots of peoples' health in a positive manner- that fact alone made us walk on air! We were making a contribution to the world! Our lives mattered! Personally, after 1 year of being on Custom Essentials I went back to my doctor and re-did all my tests. Guess what? Everything was now in the normal range!! NO NEED FOR LIPATOR!! Do you think that had an impact on us??? You bet....
What I know to be true.....to persevere is to be successful. To keep moving forward in the direction of your dreams, even when those around you are telling you otherwise and stealing your thunder....it's the moving forward and staying true to yourself that will lead you to the life of your dreams. You are worth it. Your dreams are waiting.
Gratefully yours, Jenna
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