Success Stories – Sam and Sally Garcia
Sam and I have always been entrepreneurs at heart and had a desire to provide the best for our family. Before we came to Shaklee, we owned and operated a successful restaurant. From the outside, it might seem unusual to leave a successful ‘traditional’ business to take a chance on a home-based business like Shaklee, but the restaurant business is hard work and long hours without much time for family.
I had an ‘a-ha moment’ when one day while rushing around at the restaurant, I fell and was unable to get up. While waiting for help to arrive, I realized that I was working myself to death and it wasn’t worth it.
With that in mind, Sam began looking for a company that would give us the opportunity to earn an income with more flexibility and time freedom than our restaurant afforded us. We tried a few opportunities before Shaklee, but never felt comfortable recommending the products we encountered at those other companies – the quality just wasn’t there. After a few attempts, I got frustrated and almost gave up. But Sam continued to look and one night, he woke me up out of bed with the answer we’d been looking for: Shaklee.
At first, I was skeptical, because we’d tried other things before, but when we began to have our own experience with the products, we knew we could feel comfortable sharing them with others. Through our research, we found a local team, Norma and Chester Goodheart (Senior Directors, Colorado) with whom we could sponsor and we started building slowly.
In August 2009, FastTRACK was announced and that’s when we really started to take off. FastTRACK inspired us to challenge ourselves to earn each of the rewards at each milestone. And what made the program so effective for us is that each step seemed so reasonable and achievable. The plan for success was already laid out for us! Since we’ve been on the FastTRACK we’ve experienced amazing success and our success has shown several people on our team that it is possible and now they’re motivated to complete FastTRACK as well.
Our life has changed in some intangible ways, since we began building our Shaklee business. With Shaklee, we work around our family’s schedule, not the other way around. And we don’t have that same pressure and feeling of competition with other businesses that we felt with the restaurant. And we’ve had more time to spend with our sons, who are all varsity Lacrosse athletes, and participate in their activities.
As with most success, we haven’t accomplished this huge milestone on our own. We are very blessed to have amazing Leaders, particularly our upline Master Coordinators Pat and Don Simecka (Colorado), who have served as great mentors and a phenomenal team who are working hard to follow in our footsteps. Our wonderful three teenage boys and our whole family have been very helpful and supportive.
Recently, we were presented with our $25,000 FastTRACK Executive Coordinator bonus check and we were so proud that while we received a check that night, TEN other FastTRACK checks were also handed out to our downline Leaders, and one to our upline! That’s what makes Shaklee so incredible – the shared success that comes when we help others achieve their goals.
With all that we’ve accomplished, we still have big dreams for our business! Thanks to Shaklee, we’re saving to purchase our dream home and we’re also putting money away to fund our oldest son’s college education. And a bigger dream still is to be able to help other people realize the same success that we have. And of course, we want to get the keys to our own Mercedes-Benz some day!