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TLC’s Iaso Tea Fuels Counselor’s Dream Of Founding Alternative School

Many Total Life Changes stories originate from a place of financial hardship: the loss of a once-stable career, perhaps, or a history of familial poverty. The story of Su Jeong Lee of Daegu, South Korea is different, however.
“When I told my friends that I wanted to do network marketing, they were surprised,” she says. “Many told me not to do it. My husband’s a bank manager, and I’m a psychological counselor at a public school. Our relatives are the superintendents of the school board, and each of our children has a scholarship. Why take the risk?”
While she understands why her friends had reservations, she says she made the decision because she has a dream. As part of her work as a counselor, she’s dealt with many children who have difficulty adjusting to life at school. Some of these children face severe bullying, or have learning challenges which inhibit their progress. The combination is a formula for extreme stress, in a country which puts a high premium on academic success.
“Many Korean teenagers are committing suicide, and the pressure of working with some of these pupils was exhausting to me as well,” she recalls. She began to drink TLC’s Iaso® Tea on

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An Ecuadorian-American Dream: TLC National Director Jorge Rodas

After 13 years in the United States, Ecuadorian immigrant Jorge Rodas still doesn’t have perfect English. Making it in America has been a challenge, as it’s been for so many new Americans. “I was an 11-year-old when I moved to New York City with my parents,” Rodas says. “At the beginning looking for the American Dream was very hard. Language barrier, no friends, everything was new for me.”
Rodas was forced to work at an early age to help the family make ends meet, a hard-way education he thanks his father for. But working at a restaurant earning $400 per week wasn’t enough to finance his college education as an architect. At 23, he was ready to take a chance on striking his own path as an entrepreneur. That’s when the Total Life Changes opportunity presented itself.
“I learned about TLC and how it works through a conference call with Ambassador Ana Cantera,” Rodas recalls. “Looking at her results and seeing everything she was doing in the Spanish-speaking community was why I said Yes to Total Life Changes. I knew by instinct that having the right leadership is key in network marketing.”
Although he had never made much more than the minimum wage,

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