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Those small wins helped the Hoenickes muster enough new belief in themselves to push forward. But the call of another MLM was too persuasive to resist. And at first, they made money and moved the family to Hawaii. But the success was fleeting. A few years after moving, they started to run out of money again.
I was looking forward to it, even though it was terrifying at the time, because I knew it could only go up from there.
That’s when Kristian came up with an unconventional solution: move their belongings into a storage unit on the island, buy one-way tickets to Malaysia, and temporarily live overseas in inexpensive countries while they saved up the money to come back to the United States. For the next year, they bounced around the world chasing a wide variety of international financial opportunities. “We were in London, the business we were trying was failing, and I knew we needed to come home,” Kristin remembers. “I told Kristian, ‘Why can’t we just go back to Melaleuca? We have always loved the products and have never stopped ordering. We have always loved the company culture. Let’s just give it another go—it’s the one stable thing that we have always been able to count on.’” “In the fall of 2018, I finally put my stake in the ground after all those years,”
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