June 2009 Issue
Spirit Wings Kids, Inc.
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Donna Johnson has been a full-time network marketing leader for thirty-two years. She has been a top earner in her company for the past twenty-two years and is passionate about helping others create what she calls 3-D success: 1) make a difference in the world; 2) create a balanced life; 3) enjoy financial peace. To fulfill the “make a difference” part of her vision, she created Spirit Wings Kids, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming and empowering children and their families.
April 2009 Issue
Finding Balance within the Roller Coaster
by John David Mann
John Castagnini’s Thank God I… book series, seminars and online community are dedicated to the proposition that all events are perfect, even if they don’t always feel perfect at the time, and that adversity can be a doorway to inspired living. A prolific author, poet, musician, teacher and entrepreneur, John frequently speaks to audiences of network marketers about rejection and how to balance their emotions.
March 2009 Issue
License to Retire
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Judy O’Higgins was a counselor specializing in women’s issues when she discovered network marketing. She loved her career but didn’t want to continue it into her old age. She was looking for a way to diversify her income when a friend offered her a network marketing opportunity. Judy started building a business part-time, but her company went out of business. She eventually found a product that allowed her to touch lives much in the way she did in her counseling practice.
February 2009 Issue
A Family Affair
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Dr. Barbara Beaty was a nutritional counselor and teacher when one day a former client handed her a catalog and asked her to evaluate some health and wellness products. After trying the products and loving them, Barbara naturally started sharing them with others, but she felt almost embarrassed to mention the business opportunity. She overcame her resistance to network marketing by educating herself about the profession and went on to build a large organization.
January 2009 Issue
The MORE Project
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
The MORE Project is a nonprofit organization entirely funded by a network marketing company through donations and volunteer activities. The company’s founder Dallin Larson always wanted to give back to the country of Brazil, because the key ingredient in his company’s product, the açai berry, happens to be found in the Brazilian rainforest. He made the two-way flow of giving and receiving an integral part of his company culture.
June 2008 Issue
Filling Empty Bowls
by John David Mann
Thirty years ago, Larry Jones and his wife began operating a volunteer charity effort from their kitchen table. Today, Feed The Children has grown to become one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations. Feed The Children has provided food and other essentials to children and families affected by hunger, poverty and natural disasters in 118 countries. The organization takes large donations of product from a network marketing company and distributes it to needy people.
May 2008 Issue
From Parenting to Networking
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Mark Fournier is founder of the Center for Empowerment and creator of the Empowerful program series. Growing up in a family of networkers, he gained a tremendous insight into the networking profession and discovered many parallels with the job of parenting. Today he has created an empowerment program for the networking community called Empowerful Networking, furthering his life mission "to inspire and empower people to lead meaningful lives of passion and purpose."
April 2008 Issue
Success and Significance
by John David Mann
Father Sirico is a Catholic priest who quotes Thomas Aquinas and Genesis, but also cites Solzhenitsyn and Peter Drucker. Concerned that the insufficient grasp of economic principles left students of religion poorly equipped to address real-life social issues, Father Sirico cofounded the Acton Institute, whose mission is “to promote a free, virtuous and humane society by demonstrating the compatibility of faith, liberty and free economic activity.”
March 2008 Issue
How Many Children Can We Feed?
by Marian Head
Phil learned early on that to have the things he wanted in life, he had to be his own boss. He liked the idea of network marketing and became extremely successful at it. But the economy changed and his company went out of business. Today he is president of a new company that meets his two objectives: rewarding the field distributor and founding a charitable giving program.
February 2008 Issue
No More Debt!
by Marian Head
After a highly successful career as a promoter in the film business, Randall Blaum succumbed to the addiction of consumerism and found himself in serious credit card debt. Twenty years and two bankruptcies later, he discovered a way to get out of debt-and stay out forever. Passionate about what he had learned, Randall launched a crusade to share his lessons with others. He is the director of U R Pre-Approved, a feature-length movie that warns the public against the hidden dangers of accumulating credit card debt.
January 2008 Issue
Builder of Dreams
by Marian Head
At twenty-four, Chelsea Loin is a successful entrepreneur and a budding philanthropist. The network marketing lifestyle was emblazoned in her memory from the age of twelve, when her parents started their first venture in Iowa, where she grew up. As a teenager, she read business books and played the CashFlow® 101 game and quickly learned that she did not want to be in the rat race.
June 2007 Issue
Dwelling in the House of Plenty
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
According to Lynne Twist, how much money you have or make is hardly a determining factor in your experience of true wealth. In 2003 Lynne founded the Soul of Money Institute, a center for exploring and sharing knowledge, wisdom and best practices that enable people to relate to money and our money culture with greater freedom, power and effectiveness. Lynne Twist was director of global funding for The Hunger Project. She loves what she calls "the sacred work of fundraising," because she delights in helping people put their money where their heart is.
May 2007 Issue
The Joy of Contribution
by Marian Head
Kirk Metz grew up in the foothills of the Rockies, waterskiing with his parents on the family lake. When his father introduced him to a product that was distributed through network marketing, they jumped in together with both feet. Kirk discovered that in order to succeed, he needed to learn about leadership and build teams where each person can grow and share their unique gifts with the world.
April 2007 Issue
Blessed by Network Marketing
by Marian Head
Since their marriage in 1973, Claudia and Chuck Branham have dreamt of making millions and giving millions away. Before they met, Claudia volunteered for the Tacoma Rescue Mission while she was a financially strapped young widow with six children. Now, with the additional time and income from their networking business, Claudia and Chuck enjoy giving to forty different organizations and ministries.
March 2007 Issue
Building Teams through Community Service
by Marian Head
Dan Gibbons knows what it takes to be a leader—starting with leading himself out of a difficult childhood on a journey of personal growth. When a friend introduced him to network marketing, he discovered the power of residual income and applied the principles he learned in his leadership training to developing business builders. Giving to the community became a pivotal part of his training program.
February 2007 Issue
Celebrating Our Oneness
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder and spiritual director of the Agape Spiritual Center, shares his vision of enlightened business based on an awareness of the interconnectedness of all life. He offers a template for a life of wholeness that will help people become anchor points for the next stage of human evolution. Thrilled with the success of The Secret, he promises if people practice the universal principles, the joy, creative opportunities and abundance in their lives be amplified in unexpected ways.
January 2007 Issue
Giving and Receiving from the Heart
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Kelly Bryson, M.A., M.F.T., is a licensed psychotherapist and trainer in Nonviolent Communication(SM), a process that brings out our natural ability to connect with ourselves and others. His goal is to form groups and organizations locally and internationally based on a model of transparency and trust, and create a world where everyone naturally gives and receives from a consciousness of abundance.
June 2006 Issue
Living From Purpose
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Susan and Dwight Havener love teaching people how to create the life of their dreams. Network marketing became their vehicle because it is a profession that promotes growth in all areas of life. They joined a health supplement company knowing that if they could help people physically feel better, they would have the energy to focus their minds and align them with their hearts’ desire.
May 2006 Issue
Connecting Soldiers and Their Families
by Josephine Gross Ph.D.
Jim Hopper had been active in fund-raising and running non-profits for years when he encountered network marketing, and he immediately saw the potential for bringing the two models together. The result: a fascinating project that has provided troops abroad with thousands of hours of free phone calls home.
April 2006 Issue
Giving Orphans a Family
by Liz Bennett
Emma Peters was always an enthusiastic consumer of her company’s products, but she devoted only lukewarm part-time effort to the business itself. That is, until she began to see that she could take her life’s mission, which she’d pursued as a school teacher, to a whole new level.
