LISA K. HORN              freelance journalist

 

portfolio: profiles 2008-2009

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PUBLICATION: Your Business At Home

ISSUE: Volume 3 Issue 5


Common Bonds

Working together toward common goals strengthens family ties.


Throughout history, families have worked together to make a living. Whether the butcher, baker or candlestick maker, parents traditionally groomed their children to eventually take over the family business. It was common for the general store, horse stables or saloon to be run by the same family for generations.


Much has changed in the last 150 years. Small towns are vanishing as metropolitan areas grow exponentially. Sole proprietorships have given way to big-box retailers. And family dynamics have changed with children moving across the country to pursue their own interests.


While technology exists to keep family members in touch with one another, many miles still separate scores of them. The result? Families tend to drift apart as they lose the little details they used to know about each person’s life.


But it is possible to break this cycle, as three families—the Lermas, Blancos and Johnsons— have proved through working together in Escape International.

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PUBLICATION: Success From Home

ISSUE: Volume 5 Issue 1


The Music Man

By incorporating jazz principles into his business philosophy, Charles Carlton has found the sweet sound of success.


Jazz got into Charles Carlton’s soul during those influential college days, and through time spent with self-study books, a jazz guitarist was born. And while he chose not to pursue music professionally, he continues using the framework of jazz principles to this day. “My life is colored through understanding the principles of jazz,” he says. “It keeps me sane, it keeps the mind sharp and it keeps me connected to the now.”


While most would consider music and finance to be worlds apart, Carlton finds harmony in the disciplines. “Who would’ve thought that you could take a person’s financial picture and put it into the software, and at the end of the process the mortgage can be paid off in a the third or half the time and the credit card debt can go away—all by spending the same money that was spent yesterday and with little to no change in lifestyle,” he says. “This is jazz if I’ve ever heard it.”

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PUBLICATION: Success From Home

ISSUE: Volume 5 Issue 1


One Family At A Time

Sue Condon’s passion about helping American families is the foundation of her success.


Sue Condon has sat at kitchen tables with families across the country. She has seen husbands and wives put their heads in their hands out of despair from not being able to pay their mortgages. She has worked with clients in their 60s or 70s who have 30-year mortgages and never expect to own their homes before they die. Through her work with United First Financial, Condon has helped these homeowners, and thousands like them, pay off their mortgages and other debts in record time.

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PUBLICATION: Success From Home

ISSUE: Volume 5 Issue 2


The Power Of Part Time

Roni Phillips, a Vemma Presidential, had always been a healthy individual, following a regular vitamin regimen that included a multivitamin, plus extra vitamin B, C, E and fish oil to name a few. But Phillips says she had “pill fatigue” from all the supplements she was taking.


When they learned about the original Veema formula in February 2005, she and her husband, JD, instantly became fans--they could get all the vitamins plus antioxidants they wanted in one easy, great-tasting beverage. “I loved the fact that Vemma was liquid and more body-ready than pills or caplets,” she says.

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PUBLICATION: Success From Home

ISSUE: Volume 5 Issue 2


Life Reinvented

It was 2005, and at 49 years old, Rodrick Smith was at a point where he says little was going to change his life financially unless he won the lottery. He had been a successful sales manager in the textiles and tobacco industries for nearly 30 years, but he felt advancement potential was limited because there were no corporations “looking for someone his age, since he was ‘past his prime.’”


At times, he considered going back to school to earn another degree, but the responsibilities of having a family, mortgage and a dog were too great to risk starting all over again. Through his work with Vemma, however, Smith has found a new lease on life.

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PUBLICATION: Success From Home

ISSUE: Volume 5 Issue 3


Personal Development Is The Key

Many people look externally for success—the ideal job, the perfect home, the loving spouse. But true success is found internally—a lesson John and Tiffaney Malott learned through their experiences with Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc.


“I believe in personal development and working on yourself harder than you work on anything else,” Tiffaney says. “John and I work hard on ourselves to become worthy on the inside of the success that we are trying to achieve on the outside.”


Their approach is working. The couple has reached the platinum executive director level and was recently recognized for reaching the $300,000 income level. But their lives weren’t always this way.

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PUBLICATION: Success From Home

ISSUE: Volume 5 Issue 3


Getting More Out Of Life

As a young man, Dave Savula wanted more out of life. He wanted a nice home. He wanted to spend time on the beach. And he wanted to provide for his wife, Beverly, and their two sons, Michael and David.


“You must visualize where you want to be in order to accomplish things,” he says. “Those visualizations, attached to the right vehicle, will allow you to arrive at your destination.”


Savula, a lifelong entrepreneur, has found the right vehicle in Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc. Despite being a member since 1985, Savula didn’t pursue the Pre-Paid Legal business opportunity until 1993. Initially, his primary interest was to generate an extra $1,000 a week. But then he recognized there was much more to the opportunity than he originally thought.

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