Well hello world. Thanks for joining me here. I hope you find the information useful, valuable, and will subscribe to this blog. The blog is basically going to be about my take on what I enjoy most. Right now, I seem to have the natural gift from God of listening, teaching and helping others. Personal development, life coaching, mentoring, whatever you call it, I have always been the person people went to share their problems and I seemed to make them feel better.  This gift has been with me for as long as I can remember… I remember in high school, the guys would come talk to me for advice, and the girls would seek shelter from gossip. It was very bizzare, but so is high school. Through life, people just started talking to me, I guess I was a safe outlet, or caring, compassionate, I don’t know what draws people to me.

I remember dreaming as a kid. I was in a penthouse apartment overlooking the city. I don’t know what city, just a city. I was wearing high fashion, dreamed of high tech toys and furniture… interesting… I don’t remember any stress about money, I just had it.  That was my dream, I wasn’t sure how I was going to get there, but I figured somehow I would be there by starting out with one foot in front of the other.

Then I started working and I realized I was never content, I would work my way up the “corporate ladder” everywhere I was employed. If I was hired as a bar tender, soon I was bar manager, then running the restuarant. Later, I started as a legal secretary, then paralegal, then office administrator. Every where I worked, I did reach my full capacity at my job. I know what it means to have your head hit the glass ceiling; in fact, I think I have a few permanent bumps in my skull I have hit it so hard.  In my last career, I was the Senior Paralegal doing high level claims in a Financial Securities Firm. Big stuff.  I again realized that if I wanted more, more satisfaction, more income, more recognition…. I wasn’t going to get it there. So I started looking at options… sure I could go to law school and make all that money for myself, or find something new altogether.  I would watch the CEO’s and owners of all the places I worked, and I would look at their cars, their clothes, their families… they seemed to have it all. I wanted that. 

Somewhere along the road, I woke up and I was buying a minivan. I had been married to my loving husband, and I had two adorable children. Time has moved so fast…. Did your mom tell you that time moves fast the older she got too? I used to hate it when she was right.  So, back to my quest for “it all”. I realized when looking back in my life, it was the owners and CEO’s that had it all, and it hit me like a ton of bricks…. why did the owners and CEO have it all? Why didn’t anyone else? Like me? I worked hard if not harder than them. I put in my share of the dues. Why was I living paycheck to paycheck, and they put their children in private schools with designer labels, took family vacations (I never had) and seemed to not worry about money like I was?

Then I figured it out. It was because they could. They were the boss. They owned the joint, they had power, they had the answer. So I needed to figure out how me, the star achiever, the perfect employee, the one that always got the job done right… how was I going to get what they had? I had to be the boss.

So, that started my journey. I looked at franchises for food shops, I looked at retail shops, I looked at home based businesses, I looked until my eyes bled. My looking took years. That is my only regret. But finally, an attorney I was working with ask me to look at a company whose products are sold in network marketing. I panicked. I remember years ago listening to horror stories about being locked in the fellowship hall of a church, eating a spagetti dinner and drinking koolaid with the door locked.

I was in for a big surprise and a huge journey that has transformed my life. So that is what this blog is about, I’m going to share my experiences, mistakes, accomplishments and understandings with you. Not so much all about network marketing, but what I learned along the way. Fast forward to today from that first exposure almost 12 years ago…. I have taught thousands, both on stage, in private and through tools, how to do what I have done.  Now, I would like to use this media to share this journey with you.

Stay tuned for more,
God bless
Donna