The Authentic Networker

Since 2008, Brenda and Dr. Scott Schuler have built a Young Living team of more than 110,000 members with 10 leadership legs and 154+ personal enrollees. How did they go from feeling embarrassed and wanting nothing to do with the business side of essential oils … to putting on their blinders and building with no fear?    Find out from this power couple what they did to get past their skepticism an...

Episode Summary: How do you build an empire on your lunch break? In this episode of The Authentic Networker Podcast, Richard Bliss Brooke sits down with his wife Kimmy Brooke, author, coach, and network marketing leader, for a story that’s equal parts grit and grace. Kimmy was a single mom working 60+ hours a week, living paycheck to paycheck, and quietly hoping something would come along to...

Golden Hero Call! In honor of our #50 call, we turned the tables in a pretty cool way. Your host of the Network Marketing Hero Series, Richard Bliss Brooke, was interviewed … by none other than the amazing Kimmy Brooke! Don’t miss everyone’s favorite chicken chopper to CEO sharing his incredible story and nuggets of wisdom.

Adam Green of “The Green Team” built a Young Living team of 50,000 members strong, with 4,000 people joining each month … all before the age of 30! This record-breaking Canadian and author of “25 to Life: Jailbreak Your 9–5 & Escape to Financial Freedom” became Young Living’s youngest member to reach their highest rank of Royal Crown Diamond at age 25!    So how did this former personal traine...

In Sinead Kavanagh’s first year in Juice Plus+, she personally sponsored 100 people and another 100 in year two. By year four, she had 300 personal sponsors and built a team with 5,000 active reps and 200,000+ customers across 20 countries … and she did 99% of it through social media! Sinead's Network Marketing journey began in 2013. She was an unhappy, unhealthy office worker who decided to start...

Jeff Altgilbers went from cleaning floors to building a team of 20,000 distributors in just four years. Today this Network Marketing superstar of 4Life has 500,000 distributors in 56 countries. But Jeff's journey was not without some bumps in the road! He dabbled in various Network Marketing companies for years while running his cleaning business. When Jeff’s business went bankrupt, he sold an old...

Never underestimate the power of all out massive action! For Sharon McDonald, not even a breast cancer diagnosis could stop the magic of duplication in her Network Marketing business. In her first 90 days, she sponsored 45 people, which led to a team of 2,200 her first year. That early momentum carried her through during her breast cancer journey in years 3 and 4, and by year 6, Sharon had a team...

Efrosyni Adamides built a Network Marketing team of 5,500 by the end of year one. Despite the ups and downs and lots of learning lessons along the way, she built a beautiful Four Year Career with a team of 42,000 active reps … by only personally sponsoring 65!    Now 11 years in the biz, Efrosyni is at IMD Rank with WorldVentures and has created a Network Marketing sales force of over 400,000 reps...

This former stutterer with a speech impediment went on to be a Hall of Fame Speaker in the National Speaker’s Association, an award-winning host and producer of the TV show “Success Strategies,” president of Arbonne International for 20 years, and presenter of over 1,000 seminars globally. If you’re ready to do more, earn more, and share more, don’t miss this chance to learn from the one and only...

By building her biz entirely through social media, along with embracing personal development and company events, Katie Louise Hamer of Younique was able to build a team of women 53,000 strong in just two and a half years.    It’s a complete 180 from her life in retail management, working 6 days a week, stuck in the daily grind, and wishing she could give her baby “the moon.” Katie said she “wanted...

Are you letting fear dictate how you build your Network Marketing biz? Break through it with one of the most popular speakers and trainers of our time … the great Todd Falcone, author of Fearless Networking. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to learn from the Fearless Networker himself, Todd Falcone. He’s laying it all out on this week’s episode of the Network Marketing Heroes Podcast, hosted...

If a former drug addict and felon could overcome his obstacles, immigrate to a new country, and build a Network Marketing team of 22,000 promoters with 23 leader legs and 140,000 customers in six years ... what do you think YOU could do?    This is one of the most inspiring Network Marketing Hero calls Richard Brooke has ever hosted. Don't miss this opportunity to hear Ricardo Jimenez's story of g...

Hayden Vavra always dreamed of going pro in the NFL. Unfortunately, that dream was dashed when he was cut on the very last day of tryouts. So how did he reconnect with his childhood sweetheart Emily and together GO PRO in Network Marketing, becoming the youngest in their company to reach a certain status?    In their first 90 days, they personally sponsored 32 people. In the first year, 71. By the...

Clive Leach and Diana Ross – who actually met and fell in love at a home meeting! – have over 60 years of combined experience in Network Marketing. In their first year at Utility Warehouse, this UK power couple personally sponsored 50 people, and another 50 the following year. By year four, that number jumped to around 200. That’s created 9 leader legs and a customer group of over 178,000!    How...

After going through a divorce and getting struck with the realization that she had to support herself and her three boys, this stay-at-home mom stopped “dabbling” in the products she loved and went on to build a Network Marketing team with 13 leader legs and 10,000 auto ship customers in five years.    As a self-proclaimed “reserved and quiet” woman, Brigitte Bartley built 95% of her business via...

Loren Robin of Modere was a former real estate broker for 28 years, selling in the top 1% of real estate nationwide. She knew about Network Marketing because she had sold houses to top marketers. Those clients had always struck her as very happy, relaxed, successful people. So when the South Florida real estate market went bust in 2008, she knew what to do next.    Loren got into all out massive a...

Cringe-worthy approaches and nonstop NOs … Are you stuck trying to figure out how to make this thing called Network Marketing work? Who better to learn from than 45-year industry legend Tom “Big Al” Schreiter? He’s a globetrotter, seminar leader, expert in one-on-one communication, and author of 15 Network Marketing books. Don’t miss this special Network Marketing Heroes Podcast hosted by Richard...

At the lowest point in her life, Susan Sly was over $100,000 in debt and sleeping on her brother-in-law’s sofa. Proving that the fortune truly is in the follow up, Susan was asked to “take a look” 21 times before saying yes to MLM. In her first 90 days, Susan personally sponsored 27 people, and in 14 years, that number grew to more than 400, for a team size of 240,000+.     During this interview w...

How do you develop a retail customer base of 20,000 people in your very first year in Network Marketing … and build that into 864,000 customers just 7 years later? That’s exactly what you’ll find out from Tony and Sarah Zolecki, big dreamers who used to be chained to the corporate world. Back then, every day was “groundhog day”: sitting in a cubicle for long hours, feeling unfulfilled and not real...

Teri Secrest’s first taste of entrepreneurship was selling night crawlers to fishermen at age 5 … and she was hooked! But it was a random call in the desert that really jumpstarted her Network Marketing career and helped her build a team of 30,000 with 6 strong leader legs.    As this busy mom of 3 was building her Young Living business month after month, she felt like she was receiving a college...

You’d never know that Dr. Ken Kochman, an Ironman, triathlete and Network Marketer, used to be so unhealthy that he wondered if he’d even live to see his son reach adulthood. The stress of trying to grow his chiropractic business was just too much, and a serious health scare finally led Dr. Ken to say yes to a friend who kept approaching him about OPTAVIA.   After 18 months of what started out as...

In 1995, Dana Collins had a defining moment when she realized the biggest lie that moms have ever been told: that you can have a traditional career and have a family and thrive at both. She had worked in the grueling fashion design industry and “puppet-on-a-string” corporate sales and always felt like Sunday nights were the abyss into Monday.    How did Dana do a complete 180 on the idea of “start...

Kim Fiske is a respected speaker, thought-leader, bestselling author of “The Monster Under the Bed,” and an independent coach with OPTAVIA. With a true desire to serve others and transform lives, Kim built a team with 10 strong leadership legs, 32 personal enrollees and thousands of distributors in just 7 years.    She is a member of the National Speakers Association, PRO member of The Association...

Dave Johnson is a 40-year veteran of the Network Marketing profession with more than 40,000 active members in his Nikken group and 4 strong leadership legs. This founder of Magnetic Leaders loves transforming lives and teaching others how to multiply their good influence.    But Dave’s story is not one of overnight success. Even though he had caught the vision, when he first joined MLM at age 26,...

Prior to building a Network Marketing team of 300,000+ associates with 1,500 personal recruits, Brain Carruthers was a busy real estate agent working 60–70 hours a week, “8 to faint,” and always worrying about the next deal.    Now this success coach and bestselling author of “Money Mindset,” “Building an Empire” and “Making My First Ten Million” has what he always wanted most: time-freedom and th...