EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS 3 NEW ADVANCEMENTS
Amy & Nate Smith OKLAHOMA Have Fun, Earn Income, Make a Difference!
the angrier I got. I had made millions of dollars for my employer in medical sales, and I had never once been offered an incentive trip. When I got home, I called up Kristian and said, ‘Show me what to do!’ And I’ve been running ever since.” “Running” is putting it mildly. In addition to his Melaleuca business, Nate still works full time, has three teenagers, and helps manage his family’s six-acre homestead, complete with a one-acre garden and chickens, and soon they'll add bees. When asked how he balances it all, he just laughs. “It takes a lot of juggling and a lot of scheduling,” he explains. “It’s like I share with my team: do everything with specific intent. You must block out 10–12 hours every week for your business. It doesn’t have to be all at once, but you have to consistent. You have to make it a priority.” One of Nate’s biggest priorities is the community he is building. “It’s a family,” he explains. “We are there for each other. We believe in accountability, lifting each other up, and we strive for excellence.” Seeing his community learn and grow is one of Nate’s biggest motivations. “Being able to see the impact and changes in these families’ lives is really powerful,” Nate says. “It’s such a blessing to see them grow in their confidence and leadership. I love to see them pay off their debts and pay their mortgages. That’s what matters: lives changing. What we have with Melaleuca is pretty amazing—it is our mission, our duty to share it.”
After enrolling with Melaleuca, Nate and his family grew to love Melaleuca's products, but Nate didn’t give much attention to building his Melaleuca business until his enroller, National Director 9 Kristian Hoenicke, “tricked” him into building it. “Due to the pandemic, a trip to Fiji for our twentieth wedding anniversary got cancelled in October 2020,” Nate explains. “In early 2021, I was connecting with Kristian, and he asked me if I would be open to earning a free trip to Tulum. I told him, ‘Are you serious?’ He asked me if I thought I could refer 20 friends to Melaleuca. It would take some effort, but with my work ethic, he said it was doable. I believed him, and once I committed to that, he put me on a Fast Track team, and we ended up earning our first incentive trip to Tulum.” It was on that trip that Nate decided he needed to get serious about his Melaleuca business. “Amy and I had an absolute blast together on that trip,” Nate recalls. “While watching the sun rise over the ocean on our last day, my wife made a comment to me that I will never forget. She said, ‘You know, in the 16 years you worked hard for your job, they’ve never let me come on a trip with you.’ That hit me hard. And the more I thought about that,
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