Does a Matching 401K compare with the benefits of MLM?

 When you retire what will you remember the most? After my first retirement from MLM, my fondest memories were accidentally giving an entire third world village shoes, knowing we dropped $50,000 like it was spare change to get brain surgery for a DL's mother, it was the reuniting of brothers and it was life flighting special formula in to save a newborn for the child of a grocery store attendant in Costa Rica. Would I trade all that for a 401K? 

Not in a hundred years.

The power of network marketing isn't in the giant paychecks but in the community. It is a culture of self development, a culture of friendship, a culture of helping others.

I have been so blessed to make friends all over the country. Ben Newcomb drove 5 hours one way to help me when Alex's vehicle broke down on our way back from picking up his abducted daughter.

When I was pregnant Rhonda Hines sent tea for my nausea.

Thousands offered me incredible emotional support throughout my ten year divorce from David Wood. I continue to be blessed in immeasurable ways. 

I want my daughter to see that, feel that, have that.

Some people get community from their churches, that's where they thrive. I've come to a point where all I can say is, I don't know. I accept that I don't know if or what or who is out there.

I pray. I hope. Sometimes I feel I'm being heard. Sometimes I believe in a caring benevolence that wants the best for me and I truly hate the bible and Network Marketing gives me a community of all faiths  and creeds.

(Side note: I know I'm probably going to hell for detesting the Bible in a lot of people's minds,  but I just can't rationalize so much of it like Psalms 137:9 "May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children against the rocks."  um,YIKES! Add in some of my best friends are bisexual Wiccans, and two of my uncles are gay well the whole: thou shall not suffer a witch to live and homosexuality is an abomination, makes my skin crawl.

So it just isn't for me. Hopefully you all are filled with the light of Christ and can forgive me that tresspass. Or maybe you're like me and don't know and have decided to just do your best, pray, and keep going. Either way, I think you're awesome.)You do you! 

What about work that pays for your medical premiums? I think that's great. I think companies that take care of their employees are fantastic. I just don't see most companies putting employees above the bottom line. Companies often fire employees who have children with high medical needs like cancer, especially when employees can't go to work for months at a time because they have to be in another state for cancer treatments, this situation is sadly common. Usually the employee is forced to job search like mad before their insurance runs out. Or they leave their child in the hands of strangers several states away and go back to work. 

While I was in the NICU with Spunky, many parents weren't there with their newborns because they were saving their paid time off and paternity leave for when their babies would finally be home.

Because of my C-Section I was able to stay in the hospital with my daughter all but one night, able to nurse her every ninety minutes she was there. I was usually the only parent in the NICU. Some of the babies were in there for months. Would I trade my time in the NICU with my daughter for medical premiums being covered? I lucked out and my premiums were taken care of a different way thanks to Covid and having a job with the Gov right before it hit, so I will never know. I just know I lucked out and that first week was life changing.

Paid vacation. It's true that's a nice perk, but if you get sick, not just sick time off but really sick do you really get a vacation? I've struggled with health issues since 2006 and even before that I had weekly migraines visit. The employers I've had were never very understanding. 

When you are the boss, when your income is up to you, when you can make as little or as much as you are truly determined to, those worries disappear.  You work when you can. You take breaks when you need and you don't need to make a phone call usually. On the occassion where you have a DL training scheduled or plans with a friend then it's polite but forgetting or being unable to do that, won't get you fired. 

What about teaching my daughter about hard work? 

No business is harder than MLM. It requires self discipline. It requires filling up one's self esteem. It requires GRIT. It requires working on yourself more than anything else... you've got to become your best self. 

You have to work not because you have to be there or else, but because you practice self discipline and have a purpose greater than yourself. In MLM you work for a dream rather than a paycheck. Slagging through jungles of insults, put downs, haters, doubters, insecurities, rejections, and poor statistics of success, every Networker I know has earned their giant paychecks through emotional sweat and tears. Every Networker who has succeeded has a story to tell that most hollywood movie writers envy. 

My story includes death threats and enough trauma to fill up a social worker's entire case load for their entire career and then some. Yet I'm starting again because normal just doesn't do it for me when I've met so many amazing and wonderful people at the top. Those with incredible kindness like Lisa Grossman who let me stay at her house and gave me a diamond ring as a parting gift, Tracy Walker a power house of positivity and love, Niamh Arthur who saw me at my weakest and gave me her strength to lean on, people like Lawrence Tam who is incredibly loyal and kind regardless of what a person is going through, Lisa Fore whose wisdom is incomparable, if you need clarity on some personal matter she is the go to girl! 

Yes there are people who take the risk and fail. Failure is a part of life. Failure is a part of learning. If you don't fail you will never succeed.  

Some people believe you have to be the first one in or you will fail but there are top earners who won't even consider joining a company unless it's been around for at least 5 years. Market saturation with MLM is extremely rare. How many people do you know currently active in Amway right now? Some people think only the MLM celebs can make a decent paycheck and that everyone else is being used or taken advantage of. How many cashiers working at Walmart or fry cooks flipping burgers at McDonalds ever make $40,000 a month? 

Most MLMs have a small start up cost compared to starting a McDonalds which can cost upwards of $100,000!!!

Are the products slightly overpriced? Usually yes. Yet this is a good thing because unlike Nestle and many other companies, most MLM's don't use child or slave labor. Also the qualityof the products of MLM's are often higher.

MLMs put power back into the hands of the people. In MLM you design and decide your worth. No one else. How you run your MLM is how you do everything else in life.

I know. I lived in fear. I let fear control me and shut me down almost my entire life. Now I'm breaking out of it, thanks to therapy and those who gave me a window into the possible. 

I want to take my daughter to Hawaii next year, without a college degree MLM is a great way to do that. What do you want to be doing next year? Do you want to be chained to a desk? If you do that's not a bad thing, especially if um... whip cream and naked is involved. Or do you want to be on a first class flight to your dream destination? 

Stability is great. I think having it is amazing. For me though, the government messed up my social security number and I couldn't go to college. I had to take a different approach to life and I'm not the only one.

I know ex-convicts who couldn't get jobs but thanks to MLMs are millionaires. 

I don't know what your struggle is.  Everyone has something that drives them to the path they take. Some are driven by desire, some desperation, some avoidance. I know whatever you're going through though, your feelings and choices are valid. 

Working a job is not the enemy. I admire people who can go to the same job day after day, year after year. I have in the past often wished that was me. 

Today though I think about the next five years. My daughter is a sweet wonderful and encouraging person. I want to be there while she is growing up. I want to be working from home. I want to be able to stop working and hold her through every scraped knee and hard knock in life. I want to teach her how to build a business from the ground up. I want to teach to love people where ever they are in life and to embrace differences with love. 

It takes working MLM full time for four years to fully replace a job, a 401K, and a retirement account. Would I rather be working for the next 40 years, never get a chance to retire, or next four to five years? 

To me it seems like simple math. If you are working a job you love, I'm happy for you. If you want to build something on the side just for a little bit of extra income, that is wonderful! If you want to be in Hawaii, feeling the hot sand between your toes and the cool ocean washing over your feet next year with me then start now. I'll teach you. I'll train you. Together we'll make some waves!

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