The Authentic Networker

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...

Before MLM, Kevin and Pam Barnum had everything on the outside … a nice home, successful careers … but on the inside, they were bound by golden handcuffs. They never saw each other, and a live-in nanny was practically raising their 5-year-old son.    After catching the vision of Network Marketing, they committed to building their business for 2 hours a night. And the result? Eighteen months later...

Christy Dreiling, a former model, fashion photographer and Mrs. Kansas 2012, spent much of her youth living in a car behind a Pizza Hut. She and her family would often dig through the trash for cans to get money for food. Upon being introduced to MLM, Christy says, “I had been waiting my whole life for this and never even knew it.”  Now in the biz for 17 years, Christy has an organization of over...

From a young age, Wes Linden knew the corporate world wasn’t for him. So he dropped out of college and, with no money and no car, asked his dad to take him to his first opportunity meeting. Today Wes has been with Utility Warehouse since 1998 and is in their top rank of National Network Leader, with more than 60,000 customers and 500 personal sponsors. He regularly hosts the company’s main annual...

Ryan Chamberlin is a Network Marketing expert, speaker, author, consultant, and mentor. In his first four years in the profession, he personally enrolled 95 builders and became the top ambassador for Plexus in 2015. He is also the co-founder of their exclusive training system. For the past 20 years, he’s worked with thousands of entrepreneurs in growing their influence, and in February 2020, Ryan...

How did Laura Harry go from being an out-of-work corporate executive to reaching the top of her Network Marketing company (and helping 17 others get there too) and building a team with 9 strong leadership legs?    It all started at her son’s preschool more than 10 years ago. Don’t miss her extraordinary story during this Network Marketing Hero Call with Richard Brooke. Laura will share awesome tip...

In 2008, when Gordon Fraser was first presented with the MLM business model, his knee-jerk reaction was NO. Everything changed when he realized that the pain of going back to the corporate world was greater than the pain of taking a look at Network Marketing.    So how did Gordon “break free of the golden handcuffs” to build a team of over 2,000 active distributors in 4 years … and become the firs...

Since the time she was 17, Amber Voight always believed she’d be a leader in the MLM profession. When she joined Younique, she built a team of 105,000 members in less than three years – 800 of them personal enrollees! Showing what the power of duplication and consistency can do, three years later, those numbers are 300,000 team members and 3,000 personal enrollees.    It’s a far cry from the life...

As a former lawyer and public relations executive, Romi Neustadt’s whole life before Network Marketing was tied to the billable hour. Ironically, it was a PR client who introduced her to her company, Rodan + Fields. Intrigued, Romi signed up right away and began building part time. Within her first year, she had personally sponsored 50 people and was able to build a team of 80,000 in less than eig...

In her first 90 days as Plexus ambassador, Sara Marble’s mom was her first and only recruit! During this interview, you’ll hear how Sara overcame the “slow start hurdle” and went on to personally sponsor 150 people and build a team of 5,000 in four and a half years. Today, that number is 9,000 and growing!     This now-retired nurse always assumed she’d have to work in a hospital setting to truly...

“Invite 100 people your first 100 days.” That was the advice of Bo Tanas’ mentor when he joined Nikken over two decades ago – and that’s exactly what Bo did! The result of his consistent inviting? 21 personal enrollments in 90 days, 5 of whom really caught the vision to build.     Now semi-retired and focused on leadership development, this former bass player turned real estate agent turned Nikken...

Are you using social media to the best of your ability in building your Network Marketing biz? And the more important question – would you like to learn how? Then don’t miss this interview with Kimber King of Isagenix, a recognized expert in social media marketing who personally sponsored 54 people in her first year, and 193 people by year 4 – all while working part-time from her home!    Kimber h...

Before Network Marketing, Eugene Hong was busy bringing the “Aloha spirit” to customers of his authentic Hawaiian chicken business. The only problem with owning the business? The business owned him!   Learn how this Triple Blue Diamond traded in his 100-hour workweeks to become the second member of Yoli's top-ranking club. More importantly, how Eugene went on to create 60 top-ranking members too,...