FEATURE
Throughout their lives, Seville and Rachaell Ko have faced tremendous setbacks and challenges. Yet through it all, they’ve maintained unwavering belief in a better future. That belief, combined with hard work, leadership, service to others, and coachability, has transformed them into inspiring leaders who have assisted thousands in strengthening their own beliefs and finding unparalleled success. And the Kos are just getting started!
and uncle. It was at an early age that he began to develop his big goals and even bigger dreams as a way of coping with the trauma. Through his adopted father, Seville fell in love with athletics and football—his uncle being one of his first coaches. That’s when Seville realized that belief doesn’t mean much unless it’s combined with an all-out obsessive work ethic. “Football was where I built discipline and learned the importance of teamwork,” Seville recalls. “I was the three-sport star athlete that didn’t have to be told twice. When the coach told me what to do, I just focused on my job and ran the play.” That focus and dedication turned into one of the most successful high school football careers in Missouri state history. In his senior year, he ran 2,404 yards and scored 33 touchdowns, putting him in the all-time top 20 of the Missouri high school record books. Seville went on to to earn a football scholarship and play as a starter at Emporia State University and then became a graduate assistant coach while earning a master’s degree in human performance and wellness at Pittsburgh State University in Kansas—the all-time winningest football program in Division II history. His big dream was the NFL, but when that didn’t happen, he already had a backup plan in play. “One thing that’s unique about me is that I’m really good at thinking pragmatically about my situation,” he says. “When the NFL dream
T
hrough the centuries, philosophers have debated the meaning, power, and impact of hope and belief. For Aristotle, they were seen as a waking dream. David Hume saw them as a vivid or lively idea. Twentieth-century thinkers were not as abstract, recognizing hope and belief as aspects of individual potential and as historical forces. But it was psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl who observed that hope and belief are tangibly powerful—even life sustaining—noting that while every external factor may align against you, one single act of internal defiance can outweigh it all. While Seville Ko didn’t grow up studying philosophy, he did develop an internal belief in himself and his future that was large enough to help him withstand and overcome every obstacle life threw his way. With 18 years in entrepreneurship and many failures along the way, he has paid a full price for the success he and Rachaell have built today. Seville’s childhood was anything but stable. He attended seven different schools and bounced around several homes before finally being adopted by his aunt
14 AUGUST 2022 | MELALEUCA.COM
These results are not typical. Consult the Annual Income Statistics on page 58 for typical results.
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online