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 I grew up on an 80 acre farm in Kansas near a small town called Osawatomie. That's about 50 miles south of Kansas City. There I am in front of our new highway billboard sign. It just went up on the 22nd of June 2006. I was the chairperson of the committee of Osawatomie citizens who designed the sign. We used the mural that is in the rotunda at our state capital in Topeka, KS as the background for the sign. For me, John Brown represents freedom and isn't that what all of us want, freedom to live life on our own terms, to pursue our dreams without limits.  While I was in high school I ran track and earned a scholarship to college. My college education lasted just 3 months then I joined the US Army to become a paratrooper. I quickly learned two things from my Army experience. My college education should have lasted a whole lot longer and I really enjoyed my freedom. After 3 years in the Army, I went out West and spent 30 years in California. I lived in Los  Angeles and joined the Los Angeles Police Department where I was a motorcycle officer. I think I jump from the pan into the fire. Here I was back in uniform and carrying a gun. Even though I was a civil servant, I believe I was an entrepreneur at heart and in the early 70's I was involved in several multi-level marketing companies, without much success even though I believed in the concept. In 1986, 18 years after I join LAPD, I knew being my own boss and having my freedom were more important to me than a pension. I cashed in my pension and quit the only job I had as an adult to join another network marketing company. Now I was my own boss and on my way to having the freedom I longed for. Well, that's what I thought at the time.
I struggled in my attempt to make the business work and was never able to find the success I was looking for or that was promised to me.. Six months after quitting my job with LAPD, the company I had joined went bankrupt. I had spent all my money trying to build my business so I was forced to learn a new trade. And I was a single parent raising my 15 year old daughter and my 17 year old son. I learned the mortgage business and after a while I started a "real" business in Oxnard, CA where I opened a traditional mortgage brokerage firm. 10 years later with mortgage agents and employees to worry about and fluctuating interest rates affecting my income, I realized I was not free and wondered if I was even my own boss.
I thought back to my past experiences in network marketing and remembered the promises. The promise of financial and time freedom and the promise of having a business with no employees caused me to start thinking that network marketing could indeed be the business for me.
The problem was finding the right company with the right products and the right compensation plan. The company had to be financially sound with some success behind it and a big future in front of it. Then one day in early 1995, I found that company in my mailbox on a postcard. Two postcards to be exact, one card came from someone in CO and the other one came from someone in FL. I think I was supposed to learn about this company... The postcards told about this wonderful company, about some of the people involved, who by the way I knew, Dr. Denis Waitley and Robert Allen and then I was asked if I wanted a free copy of its newspaper called "Health and Money". I thought, who wouldn't want health and money, so I sent for the newspaper, from both people. Today, that newspaper is called "Health and Freedom" and that is just what I was searching for.  The company was USANA Health Sciences. As I investigated the company, my goodness, I saw an incredibly strong company financially. I saw a company that had products that were superior to anything else out there. Then I saw a compensation plan where I could actually see myself creating financial independence for me and my family. So I made the decision to join and that has proven to be my best decision ever. Much better than my decision to quit college years back. I believe their products have dramatically improved the quality of my life if not literally saving it. I was 60 pounds overweight with high blood pressure which runs in my family. My father had his first stroke at 48, my uncle died of a heart attack at age 52 and a couple of my younger siblings have high blood pressure.
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