Soon after Anaise had started building their Melaleuca business, Sione ended up in hospital where he stayed for a month. When she received
"The best thing Melaleuca has given us is the ability to pay bills on time and take care of our family needs," says Anaise. "We plan to get a house in the near future, go on holidays and to go home to Tonga more often. For that, I'm going to work really hard to advance to Executive Director in the next 12 months. Melaleuca has been a blessing to our family and I won't let anything stop me from sharing that blessing with more people." The "simple person with big dreams" has this advice for anyone building a Melaleuca business: "Believe that you are bigger than your
their first Melaleuca cheque of $235 from enrolling her first two
Anaise Saafi had always considered herself a “simple person with big dreams”. Up until two months ago, Anaise had been working in a factory 7 hours a day, 5 days a week to take home a little over $700 a week. Moving to Australia from Tonga meant that she, her husband Sione and their five children who were then all of school-going age, needed to adjust to the higher cost of living in Australia. Sione had been a carpenter in Tonga, but work was hard to come by in Australia, and they struggled to pay bills. Their financial situation got a little easier when their children started working part-time while studying. “I appreciated their helping us out with expenses,” says Anaise, “but I knew there had to be a better way.” Their “better way” appeared in the form of Anaise’s father’s cousin – then Product Advocate III, (now Director IX), Ofa Wright. “I saw Ofa after a long time apart and was impressed at how good she looked! I told her I wanted whatever she was having, and that paved the way for a conversation about Melaleuca. I saw the sense in getting away from chemicals in household products too, so I got a Home Conversion Pack without hesitation.” Anaise and Sione's first customers were their oldest children. "We wanted to give them the option of building a business while studying and working part-time. They're still a little shy about sharing Melaleuca with their friends, but I think our success is starting to inspire them," says Anaise.
customers, Anaise remembers taking the cheque to the hospital to show Sione. However he was under sedation and did not wake up until a week later. "It was hard seeing Sione in that state, and I was even contemplating giving up the business for a while to spend more time with him at the
current situation. When I am coaching my team, I put them in my shoes, I explain what it means
hospital," says Anaise. "I also had a job to go to and a household to manage. Ofa
to be strong, I give them a reason to be strong, I help them solve their problems. When I sit down
and think about how my life would change if I stopped sharing Melaleuca, I realise that giving up is not an option for me. I don’t work a full time job anymore, and don’t intend to get back to the daily grind. Melaleuca gives me a feeling of freedom that I don’t want to give up. I'll keep working for those dreams we have."
encouraged me to go on, to turn that hardship into
a compelling reason to work harder on our Melaleuca business." Sharing Melaleuca with friends and family was easy. "I'd had a limp and painful joints from years of manual labour in a factory, and family members noticed that I was starting to walk better. ProvexCV, Phytomega, Replenex Extra Strength and the Vitality Pack helped me tremendously and I tell everyone how they've helped me," says Anaise. "I find that Renew appeals to my family's sense of vanity, and EcoSense offers such good value for money, so Melaleuca is not difficult to talk about." On learning about their advancement to Senior Director, Anaise and Sione went with their children to watch a Rugby League match - something they've long wanted to do. Sione also took a long awaited trip to Tonga and will be home in time to help Anaise shop for their new car.
''Believe that you are bigger than your current situation.''
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