About us
This story is just about us after we got married and there are the other tabs if you would like to know more about just Linda or just Paul. Either way we hope you enjoy learning a bit more about us. We love putting ourselves out there for other people to see because we have a mission in life and that is to help 10,000 fantastic people to see they can be so much more than even they realized as Franco Gonzales and Mary Anne Nagy did for us.
Linda and I have been married once before and we also know, like so many other people out there know; we married for the wrong reasons. Linda got married at 17 and her reason was to just get out of the house, while Paul got married because for some weird reason thought it was what he was supposed to do. Paul was married for nine years but only lived in the home as a family unit for, at the most, 5 years. He would work 2-3 jobs bringing over 500.00 into the home, and this was the mid 70’s, but it was never enough. Linda was about the same length of time, but she was married so young that her first husband was more like a father figure to her. She was told what to do and when to do it, and was instilled with the concept she could not and will not do anything on her own. Linda would even have to ask for money just to go by feminine products each month, because she felt she was worthless. Paul was married on a Saturday, and later on discovered his first wife was not only having an affair but did so the Sunday following their marriage. We both had our own separate struggles but what it really came down to is we both had loveless marriages.
When we got together we could see areas in our lives where we truly needed help. We began our lives together as nothing more than friends trying to help each other out. We both recognized in each other that the other person had been beaten down, through repeated words of not being worthy, being a no body, never going to be anyone of value. Not sure why, we feel it was the universe causing them to meet, and not just meet but actually being pushed towards each other. We spent so many hours sitting up until four, five, and six o’clock in the morning talking and reassuring each other they were a loving, giving, and valuable person who can be someone. We stared our lives as husband and wife on August 14, 1983, and this is a date we will never forget because it was the day we committed ourselves to each other.
Our lives together for many years was pretty hard in that neither of us had college educations, neither of us had careers and together between the two of us we had 5 children we were raising. Understand this is not an easy task, we were only making between 20 to 25 thousand dollars per year. Not a lot of money to raise a family but we got by and we did this with love for each other and our responsibilities to our children. We did what we needed to do just to get by…if we needed to work 2-3 jobs we did that…whatever it took as long as it was legal we would do it. Through the years we have been in so many different jobs, and most of them were jobs we did for quite awhile. For example there was a time when Paul was a Deputy Sheriff for 6 years, teaching martial arts for 12 years, Volunteer Fireman, and EMT for 12 years, painting houses for 8 years, and a City Councilman for the city for four years. Linda did similar things but what we are trying to express is we have done whatever we needed to do to get what we needed to have to raise our family.
We continued this life style while the children slowly left the home. One of the places Paul worked at sold their company to a firm in Mexico. Doing this qualified Paul to be retrained into some other field. Paul decided to more into the computer industry, and later became a Network Engineer. All of the children had left the home and it was finally time for us to think about us. We knew we needed a change and it needed to be a drastic change. We knew we wanted to move from a small Kansas town into a larger city but where…where should we go. One thing we later learned is when you have something in your mind, and you know you need a positive change and your ready for the change the universe has tendencies to throw things in front of you. It was at this time Linda’s brother called and then talked for sometime but during this conversation Linda learned her brother had move to Phoenix, Arizona, and the amazing thing was he invited us to come look at Phoenix as a place to move to. We did and truly loved the area, the palm trees where unbelievable, as was the cactus, the warm weather, and looking around we saw the city was extremely clean with highways that were decorated for esthetic beauty. On our way home in the summer of 1999 we talked and came to the decision we were going to move to Phoenix, Arizona and we were going to do it in one year. Our home in this small Kansas town was a 5 bedroom, two story house and we were about a forth of the way through remodeling it. Paul was in school and would graduate in one year so we felt we could finish the house, graduate, and move to Phoenix…we knew we could and we knew we would. So many family and friends told us how nuts we were and it would not happen. Without going into the details in one year from that day we finished the home, sold it, and moved to Phoenix. No idea of where we would work, and this was not a problem in our minds, because we knew enough about life that if you have the desire to work you can find work.
Within a month Paul was able to find work in the field in which he was trained and much to our surprise they were paying him twice as much as we had ever made in our entire lives. It was quite an adjustment because we rented a home for a year to discover where Paul would be working and if it was going to be steady then we would find a home within that area. We had a great deal of time on our hands at that time and started reading various motivational and spiritual books. Like “Think and Grow Rich”, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, and many others and it was quite amazing how our outlook on life changed even more as we did this. We knew we were on the right track and knew things were going to be better for us than it had ever been, but we didn’t know the how, when or what was going to happen just that it would. Within a couple of years we had found a beautiful home, Paul received yet another raise and the amount of the raise was nothing short of amazing. We were so grateful for all the blessing we had received as we continued to work on ourselves, and things just continued to improve. Linda found a job in the printing industry that she had an extensive knowledge. We had our destiny set we knew where we were going and how we were going to get there and how Paul was going to retire at the age of 59, which was only 8 years away. Then it happen to us just like it happened to everyone across this great nation. First, it was 911, and then the bottom fell out of the housing market, only to follow that with the stock market crashing, and thousands of people loosing their jobs. We felt all of those things but remained grateful Paul still had a job, but the security behind the job was far from secure. Companies were outsourcing to other countries, cutting the work forces even more, and what people were fortunate to keep their jobs they were overworked and stressed out to the max. What were we going to do…?
We had our retirement planned and vividly in our minds but we could have never imagine this would have happened, but through it all we kept our gratitude because we still had employment, we had our health, we had the love of each other, and we had a beautiful home. This is where we started looking for different opportunities. We needed to find other ways to build our retirement back to where it was before all of this hit and how to take it further. We had read enough books that we had the knowledge of passive income and we knew the stocks we had accumulated were gaining but not fast by any means and they had a long way to go before they even get back to where they were before all of this happened. Our home was dropping in value but we bought our home early enough that the value was much more than our mortgage. Linda started looking into home based businesses but we had no idea and we lived in a town where we knew no one to speak of and Paul was working so many hours we really didn’t do much in the way of leaving the home. Linda had a friend who had come into contact with someone who was in a multi-level-Networking (MLM) opportunity. So they invited us and we went. The meeting was about a health drink and we said yes…we thought why would someone not want to have this…it would make their life better. So why didn’t we make money like everyone else was suppose to be making it…they told us we need to get a list of people we knew and bring them to the meetings and they would sell them for us. The real problem is we had no friends to bring and this was hard enough for us to get them to the meetings it was even harder for us to get our friends back in the Midwest to get into this. So we did enough to pay for our juice that we ordered but never enough to make much…but we didn’t want to go to any friends and families we want to find new people but no one was helping us just from the side of pointing us in some direction, let alone the right or wrong direction…just a direction. The more we talked with other in MLM’s the more we found it was normal to not get the help from your up line…it was like they didn’t care about you. Oh sure they would say call me and we will do a three way on the call, which we tried a couple of times and they didn’t answer their phone.
We know now what we should have done but we didn’t. In fact, we did what 95% of the people out there do we just starting slowing down and gradually did less and less…but why. It’s taken us two years to find out what we should have discovered at the beginning which would have made things so much better. We discovered that 90% of any business success is mental…allow us to repeat that…90% of your success in any line of business is your mental state…do you have your head in the right place…do you know, see, feel, and believe in your success, because if you don’t you will be just like the other 90% of the home and small business out there. We had to learn to love ourselves more than we thought we actually did…we built upon our love of ourselves and our beliefs and our quest is not to think about the money…we know the money comes to those who allows nature to place them in the right places to allow them to help others. We know we are successful, and will be even more successful as we help 10 of thousands of people discover the love for themselves and teach them to share that love with others. We discovered wealth and success is not measured in money…and the only people who do are those with a massive ego that teaches them to love money and use people, where we have learned to love people and use money.
