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This is My Story...
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I am a mommy, a wife, a sister, daughter, granddaughter, full time student, friend and more....As if that wasn't enough? I wanted something in my life that I could be passionate about. Something that I would work with other moms, and see results! I never wanted to work for someone else, while my children had to be taken to day care and never see me or daddy. It is hard enough trying to explain to them why daddy leaves so often, why would I want them to think that Mommy had to leave too.

So I started a journey in working from home. What could I do, without having to pay someone first? What could I do, that would enable me to be myself and be able to speak from the heart and not just a piece of paper that I read from. I spoke to numerous home based businesses and decided that it wasnt for me. I did not have $1,500 to get started, nor did I have $100 to get started. So my search ended. I accepted the fact that the one paycheck we were receiving was to be extended until my children were in school and I could go back to work.

Except, the search wasn't done! I had a voicemail on my home phone from a woman that wanted to talk to me about a company. Yeah, right! What is so different I thought. But there was something in her voice, something in her words and her ideas that lifted me. Something that told me to call her back. I followed my instinct and picked up the phone. Her first questions were about ME and my family. She wanted to know about ME, not what I could do for HER. So I told her, the basics of who I am, what I represent.

We then started talking about the WHY?! Why do you want to work from home. The answers came pouring out of me. Every inch of my soul was forcing out these incredible reasons that working from home was the right choice for me. After only a little bit of time, and talking to the woman on a daily basis, I got started! I got trained and started my business immediately. I ripped through the first month with great success. Not only did I find something that suites me, but I found out that there IS something out there that I can be passionate about, there is something out there that I can be success with and Watch my children grow.

Help them be healthy and essentially, increase our chances at a better future. In a matter of a couple of months, my life has changed immensely and I feel like this is one of the best decisions in my 25 years of life!

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This is My Story...
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Hello, My name is Riva. I'm 29 and a mother of two little ones. I'm also a wife and successful business owner. Years ago when my husband and I got married, we knew we certain aspirations but we never forsaw the bumps in the road life would place before us. My husband is an active duty Marine. He is often gone for long periods of time. Once we had our little ones, we suddenly had a huge issue before us. How was I to work and find a good job that would cover the cost of daycare for two children? Not many companies were willing to hire me, knowing that I moved often and sometimes we had to move without much notice.

I had always possessed an entrepreneurial spirit and set out to be successful AND stay home with our babies. In a period of two years, I investigated, researched, tried, tested and worked long hours into the night to find that dream. I kept meeting with dead end after dead end. With the frustration mounting for both my husband and I, I tried one last thing. A friend of mine had called me and presented me with an opportunity.

I listened. I figured why not. I don't lose anything by listening but I do gain information. What I heard rocked my world and new possibilities opened up right in front of me. I decided to try, just one last time. I knew my husband was past his limit with my failed attempts so far. However he stood by me to try again. From that point on the life changing differences in my family and in our future can not only be felt but seen and measured.

It was the greatest lesson I've ever learned. No matter how many times you might fall, getting up again and going forward is the victory that makes life worth living!

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This is My Story...
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My Moto is work work hard and play hard!!! That is a tuff thing to accomplish when you are a mother, a military wife and the leg that your family stands on for emotional support. Between the cooking, cleaning, bathing, playing, teaching and growing. There isn't much room for work or play. The credit card bills were out of control and the cost the living in Hawaii is outrageous!!!

My husband and I had the discussion of me finding a job at night because we couldn't afford day care and we were flat broke. So there I was looking for a night job, like life wasn't full enough. I was now going to work full time, to recover financially!!!

A angel of light appeared earlier this year. A good friend called me and said "I have the answers to your problems, are you ready to change your life"?

I was skeptical, but I had to try and give my life the complete over haul it needed. Half a year later, my debt is shrinking. My life is full, but not too full. I have increased my love for life and my family. No longer bogged down by debt, worries, and time. Me and husband are working together to make my business flourish and with that are marriage is better and we are happier!!! Health and wellness for life, don't wait another minute. I DIDN'T!!!

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