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I was raised in
Paterson, NJ, my grandparents had a beach house
My dad drove a tractor trailer for a living as did his dad. They were both Teamster 560 driver's so I was raised with a strong "blue collar" work ethic and although I tried college I quit after a month to go make some money. I tried a few different jobs but quickly figured I may as well do what I knew and that was driving a truck. I became a Teamster tractor trailer driver at 20 years old and although I made decent money, by the time I was 26 I knew I needed to have my own company so I became an owner operator and quickly expanded my trucking business to 3 tractor trailers... I had 2 drivers and I drove one truck myself. I did that for 6 years until one of my guys drove his truck through an ice cream store window on the Hempstead Turnpike in Hempstead Long Island , NY. That’s when I said to myself, OK God, you don't have to hit me in the head with a bat, I GET IT. And I sold my two trucks that week and started working day and night in my truck to make the same money I was making with the 3 trucks. Talk about a rut? I was working day and night 5-6 days a week to barely pay my bills. I did that for 6 years from 26 years old until I was 32 when it finally hit me... I was NOT going to become a millionaire in the trucking business and my mind opened like a parachute for other ways of making money. I didn't know what to do, so I went to business expos and looked at the real estate things and the 900 # things and the place ads in the news- paper things... Nothing hit me until one day my friend called me up and invited me over to his home to look at a way to make money in your own home based business. I remember saying to him I didn't have the time and he said something to me that night that literally changed my life... He said, "Joe, if you don't do something about your current situation, you're never going to have any time". He was right, so I said I'd be there for the meeting. So there I was, along with a few other people in my friends living room watching a guy in a blue suit and red tie drawing circles on a white board showing us how to take dollars we were already spending on products we were already using and by simply replacing those products with "this companies" products they would not only pay us to use them, We can share that concept with others and they would pay us on what they use as well! I remember saying two things that night... 1) Is that legal and 2) If it is, why isn't everyone doing it. That was it... I WAS IN and I never looked back. Although I couldn't make a dime with that company, I got some great training on self development and knew that if I can find not just a great company but a great opportunity and understood the network marketing industry at least half as well as I knew my trucking business It wouldn't be long before I can write my own ticket. So I left my first company after 6 months and found a start up that was owned by the Christian entrepreneur Pat Robertson. I got started with that company in 1993 and that’s where I met my current enroller’s Warren and Mary Nelson. They were 4 upline to me then but because that company was merged with a company in Dallas TX in 1994 and the four people in between us quit, I rolled up to the Nelson’s as a personal. Well, that was when we all got our first taste of the “realities before success” in network marketing. The Nelson’s and I as well as our team had many ups and downs and all in mlm until we finally said to each other, “You know what, we need to find a great opportunity we can call home.” So we started our search for a home in network marketing in about August of 1995. We whittled our decision down to about 3 companies, Freelife being the strongest of the three. There was one problem though. I didn’t want to be with a company under five years in business. Freelife just opened it’s doors in March of 1995. Mostly everyone thinks that by being with a startup you have a better chance for success…. That is exactly the opposite. You want to be with a relatively young company, but one that has proven itself to have what it takes to be a great opportunity and not one that will go out of business on you. Well, because Freelife had such a strong story, and had the financial support of Wall Street legend Anson Beard, I made Freelife my home in November of 1996. It wasn’t long before I replaced my trucking income and went fulltime with Freelife in January of 1996 and never looked back. My check went from $350K in 04’ to over $500K in 05’ to over $700K in 06’. Can you imagine, a former tractor trailer driver from Paterson, NJ is earning more money in a month then most dual income families earn in a year? It’s unbelievable to me too, but it’s real and it’s the reason I originally got excited over network marketing to begin with… To earn massive residual income so I can live the life of my choice and not one that was dictated to me by my boss. Isn’t that what we as Freedom Seeking Entrepreneurs all strive for? To live the life we want for us and our families? So now I have this incredible lifestyle. I live in beautiful Phoenix, AZ. I get to play golf, dive, travel the world, and have fun doing pretty much whatever I like doing. I also have a passion for educating people and companies on how to build a successful network marketing business. Don’t let anyone tell you different… The material things in life are great and I’m very grateful for the lifestyle I’ve acquired but I want everyone to know I give God the credit for giving me the strength and desire to do what it took to make this happen. He is responsible for helping me put together one of the most wonderful teams in the entire network marketing industry. I’d like to stress one point in particular… It’s extremely important to have goals. I know sometimes goals seems so far away but what I’ve learned is that although they may seem difficult to accomplish, when you CUT THEM OUT and PUT THEM UP IN FRONT OF YOU, you always have them in your mind and what your mind can conceive you can achieve, That’s the way it works. It’s an amazing principle. I’ve had many goals, some small some so big I didn’t know how they would happen. I’ve accomplished many of them and still have more to go like earning a monthly income of $100K. How does this happen? Help enough people on your team accomplish their goals and you’ll accomplish yours. That’s how it works and I LOVE THAT about this business. The more you help people get what they want, that’s how you get what you want. How many business’ can say that? Thanks for visiting my site and may all your Dreams come True! Joe Gentle
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