LEADERSHIP Through the Years NATIONAL DIRECTORS
Jill & Greg Parker O H I O
“Some of the people you start with are not going to remain. That’s okay; that’s life. You have to keep enrolling. You can’t rest on your laurels. You have to bring in the new.”
Lifetime Earnings: $2,676,307 Personal Enrollees’ Earnings: $2,926,286
Members in Organization: 1,196 Directors in Organization: 39
Keep Swinging the Bat Years ago, Jill and Greg Parker were both working full time as electrical engineers. With demanding careers and no family nearby, they had to put their young daughter in day care. Jill feared she would grow up as a latchkey kid.
some supplemental income.” Certainly those initial expectations were exceeded. Jill and Greg’s persistence and hard work have enabled them to build a solid, long- term Melaleuca business that has grown in the face of challenges and changes. Jill and Greg have experienced many blessings on their Melaleuca journey, such as being able to help their own family members develop into leaders. Greg’s mother and Jill’s parents and sister are all building their own successful Melaleuca businesses. “This has been a family business,” Jill says, “and that has been a true blessing.” And Jill and Greg have loved seeing generations grow up with Melaleuca. The children of their first referrals are now grown and opening up Melaleuca accounts of their own. “People do come and go,” Jill says, “but we have never
stopped building. We always continue to swing the bat.” “We’ve gone through the cycles of life,” Greg adds. “We have moved from city to city and have seen a recession and a couple of hurricanes. But we keep swinging the bat, and thanks to Melaleuca, we’ve always had our repeat income to rely on. Things happen that you can’t predict, but things work out if you keep working.” “We don’t see an end,” Jill says. “We will continue to enhance lives. I get excited about this business and the products and how we can help change lives. Look at what’s going on in the world—Melaleuca is a safe place and a solution in so many ways. And you never know what the next enrollment is going to bring to your business. After 21 years, that is what keeps us excited—the power of what’s next.”
“So we made the decision for me to leave my job,” Jill says. “I wanted to be a stay-at- home mom, but we still needed another income with flexibility.” That’s when Corporate Director Kirstin Newby, one of Jill’s good friends, referred the Parkers to Melaleuca. “It made sense to get healthier, safer products.” But one day Jill was reading Leadership in Action and saw that other parents were bringing home a meaningful income by referring customers. “Kirstin and I put our heads together and started referring my friends and family.” “At first, our expectations were fairly modest,” Greg says. “We just wanted
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These results are not typical. Consult the Annual Income Statistics on page 58 for typical results.
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