Some of the most dramatic TLC success stories have come from the developing world, where widespread poverty and underemployment drives even highly capable young people into low-security jobs with meager wages.
Just a few years ago in 2015, Gisselle Dominguez was barely scraping by while studying medicine. Despite the support of her husband, Giandy Dilone, and a large and close-knit family, Dominguez found herself forced to work a menial job that paid just 6,000 DO pesos per month—equivalent to less than $125 US.
“I didn’t have much time for myself, for my family, or to dedicate a few minutes to God,” Dominguez recalls. Fortunately, her twin Yinnette shared an opportunity that would truly change Gisselle’s life. Yinnette introduced her to Iaso tea, and before long both sisters were dedicated drinkers. Gisselle then inquired about TLC’s business plan, and before long she found herself attending a presentation in Santiago, where she met her sponsor Julio Lama.
Lama, who recently became Latin America’s first male Ambassador, encouraged her to set aside her previous work and dedicate herself to the TLC opportunity.
“I made the decision to join the business on the same day it was presented to me,” she says. “I was going through difficult times
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National Director As A Side-Hustle: TLC’s Leigh Robinson
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For many of Total Life Changes’ highest ranking Independent Business Owners (IBOs), the work of running a team and selling the product quickly takes over their professional life, and they soon set their previous career aside. But there are also many IBOs who prefer to keep network marketing as an ancillary source of income. That’s the case with Indiana’s Leigh Robinson, who recently made National Director while continuing to own and operate her own advertising company.
When she was introduced to TLC in September of 2016, she was hardly on the hunt. “I’d known Phillip [Birchfield] a few years back when we were involved in a different MLM company,” she recalls. “We both went different ways from that endeavor, and when he asked me to have a cup of coffee I knew it was another network marketing company. I had already decided I wasn’t going to do it. But he didn’t push me. He just told me how he thought I’d fit into the team he was building and gave me a few product samples.”
She had an instant positive reaction to TLC’s Iaso Tea, Phyte and NRG. “Tennis is my favorite form of exercise and my game has improved significantly,” says
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A Family Business: New Total Life Changes National Director Harold Scott’s Two Month Success Story
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Good things are said to come to those who wait. In multi-level marketing however, there’s a very strong emphasis placed on the first 48-hour window. Establishing a foothold helps new Independent Business Owners (IBOs) to weather some of the challenges of growing their own team, and serves as an early test of the IBO’s aptitude.
Even for a company that allows new IBOs quicker access to compensation than the MLM average, Harold Scott of Houston, Texas’ success has come uncommonly quickly.
Scott joined TLC in June of 2018. By August, he reported that he’d cleared five figures in earnings, and achieved the rank of National Director “From my first conversations with higher-ups in TLC like Global Marketing Director Phillip Birchfield and my sponsor Phillip Squires, it was immediately clear they shared my philosophies on family and team success,” he says. “I don’t feel I’ve really experienced any challenges in my brief time with TLC because the whole process feels so natural.”
Family is of great importance to Scott. He lives with his wife Monique and daughter Kaela, and has been active in his community for 27 years as a little league football coach, a position he has recently retired from. An engineer by
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No Longer Tired: New TLC National Director Jose Antonio Cuevas’s Journey
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“I have always been an active person,” says Jose Antonio Cuevas, “but over the years I began to feel tired. With my family relying on me, I always did my best, but I felt as though I lacked the strength and courage to do my job.” Like many in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Cuevas worked long hours to keep his head above water, but age and attrition had begun to rob him of vital energy.
“The [TLC] NRG dietary supplement changed all of that for me,” he says. A supplement which purports to raise the user’s energy level by encouraging the body to more quickly metabolize dietary fat, Cuevas quickly became a strong adherent of Iaso® NRG. “Now I am able to keep working all day, and the best part is that when the night comes I no longer feel restless from worry.”
On the basis of his own personal testimonial, Cuevas decided to pursue TLC as a business opportunity. He was introduced to National Director Teuriss Alvarez Santos at a meeting, and she agreed to become his initial sponsor. Cuevas was fortunate to find success within his first critical 48 hours as an Independent Business Operator (IBO). Numerous friends answered his
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An Ecuadorian-American Dream: TLC National Director Jorge Rodas
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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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New TLC National Director Erika Delgado Is A Mom Who Has It All
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In her previous job, Erika Delgado worked as a secretary for the Colombian army, earning the equivalent of 400 dollars US per month. Balancing long hours at work and raising two young children was difficult, and she found herself turning into a ‘weekend mom.’
“I left my house in the morning before my kids had woken up, and I arrived late at night when they’d just fallen asleep,” Erika recalls. “I only really saw them on Saturdays, and that tore at me.” Complicating matters, the Bogota-born and raised Delgado had also recently been transferred by the army to the small city of Yopal.
Delgado knew that staying healthy was the only way she could keep up with these challenges. She’d begun using TLC products on a friend’s recommendation, and was thrilled by how they made her feel. She began to investigate the business model behind TLC, learning that the company had an office in Colombia.
Alongside her husband, she attended a weekly meeting and fell in love with TLC’s compensation plan. She felt inspired and contacted TLC Ambassador , Ana Cantera, who redirected her to her current sponsor, National Director Cristian Prada.
“When I joined the industry, I did not know anything about Network Marketing,”
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Started From The Bottom: Keely Taylor’s Total Life Changes Story, In Her Own Words
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Life wasn’t always easy. I’ve been through many trials and tribulations. Not so long ago, I was pregnant with my first child and homeless, living in a shelter. Moving up was hard work, and the best I could do as a single mother was to find a place in the projects. I set myself a goal to get out of there within a year; I managed it, but the struggle didn’t end. Two more little ones came. I lost the apartment, and returned to the shelter with my three in tow. But I never let it bring me down.
It was around then that I met the man who would become my husband, the one who would share both my burden and my eventual success. We were so far in the hole it seemed like a never-ending cycle. We got so far behind we used to hide our car at the local grocery store so the repo man wouldn’t take it.
I remember when the repo man came to the door and I hid in my closet with my kids while they pounded on the door wanting the car. It was the one possession we couldn’t lose because I needed it to
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Giselle Rojas Reaches TLC National Director Rank In Just One Year
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Multi-level marketing (MLM) has a bit of a sink-or-swim side to it: despite the warnings, many are unprepared for the amount of work it takes in the early stages of setting up a business, and they quickly disappear from sight. Giselle Rojas of the Dominican Republic, on the other hand, is a strong swimmer.
She just wrapped up an extremely successful first year with Total Life Changes. From one April to the next, Rojas reached the advanced rank of National Director, and she has no plans of slowing down now.
Rojas is perhaps not the type most would think of when asked to imagine a mid-life success story. Happily married for a quarter-century to husband Cesar Jimenez, she is a mother of four and is devoutly religious. Asked about the Why that led her to TLC, she doesn’t focus on the financial goals that motivate most who go into the business world.
“I want to lead 200 missionaries in taking the gospel around the world,” says Rojas, “and I’d like to establish an orphanage to help the many children living on the streets of my country.”
Her sponsor is José Gregorio Hernández, also a National Director of Total Life Changes, who presented the business
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Total Life Changes National Director Sara Gonzalez Breaks New Ground In Paraguay
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As Total Life Changes continues its successful spread throughout South America, it’s important to recognize the people on the ground whose ambition is driving that momentum. Before new National Director Sara Gonzalez decided to start her business, Paraguay wasn’t even on the TLC map.
“In March 2017 I was coming off of a failure at another multilevel company, but I was still convinced MLM was the way for me to start a business of my own,” Gonzalez recalls. In TLC, I saw a solid company with momentum, products I believed would drive demand, an exceptional payment plan and excellent leadership.”
“Thanks to a blessed Goddess I met Ana Cantera, my sponsor, through my social networks,” she continues. “Seeing the success that she had in TLC, my husband and I made the decision to be part of her team.”
The first 48 hours for new independent business operators are always a challenge, but they were specially tricky for Gonzalez. “When I tried to obtain my registration with the company, Paraguay wasn’t even an option. We would be the first through the breach. That meant we’d have little local support or popular familiarity with the brand.” Unlike many, however, Gonzalez looked at these snags as
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New French Total Life Changes National Director Credits Company’s “Beautiful Human Values” With Her Success
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France is a relatively new territory for network marketers, and many in the field have experienced resistance from customers unaccustomed to the MLM business model. In the past few months, however, Total Life Changes has seen a number of its pioneering independent business owners (IBOs) in France graduate to some of its highest ranks.
One of these is Cynthia Crosetti of Nantes, a 24-year-old single mother who just became a National Director. It’s rare for anyone to make five-figures in a single month, let alone a woman raising a three-year-old on her own, but that’s just what Crosetti claims to have earned in commissions the month she reached her new rank. How did she do it?
Like many TLC entrepreneurs in France, Crosetti’s path to success came through Mélaine Bernard, Europe’s first Global Director. Crosetti had previously worked with Bernard at another network marketing company and felt a kinship with her values.
“I left a leader position with a comfortable income at my old company to restart all over again with TLC. I was convinced that with the exceptional product range that TLC offers, I would be able to quickly develop my business. Seeing what she was accomplishing, it felt quite natural to