"For 8 years we built up our own business, won awards for innovation, became paper millionaires and thought we had made it. We realised all too late how unstable it all was and post 9/11 we lost two major clients, our investors wanted out and very quickly our house of cards fell. In Jan 2002 our company was in liquidation with the realisation that the only two real assets we had were ourselves - nothing else had any true value in the marketplace and in our mind, neither did we. We had failed - failed our two children, failed our marriage, and mostly failed ourselves. We had dreams that we could see no way of making happen and had to go back to a “job” to service our financial debts, this meant a 200 mile round trip to London.

Never seeing our children or family, we worked desperately to keep our home that we were never in, and service our crippling debts.

All of this took a significant toll on Dolores’ health and well being, “I was depressed and on medication. I had regular appalling migraines and ended up in hospital. In addition, at 12 ½ stone and size 16 I was the heaviest I had ever been.

It was then, at my lowest point, when in desperation I put “Work from Home” into the search engine of my PC. To this day, I do not know how I found myself following the links to entering my details onto my sponsor’s website, but I did and what I saw after that intrigued me.”

Committing to buying the IBP was traumatic. We were broke and every penny had to be accounted for, but Dolores knew this was something that we could do and put faith into what was being said, in broken English, at the end of a line from Norway!! Our sponsor told Dolores one thing, he said; “…before you try to start this business use the products…. …do not try and start the way that you are currently feeling.” That was the best advice that Dolores had. She lost 8lbs in 8 days and went on to loose a total of 3 ½ stone in 5 months. It was, however, the experience of a 12 month long black hole lifting from under her that was most incredible. The energised and positive feelings that she suddenly felt gave her the strength to start again. “I had such a strong product result, that the people around me started to notice. I went out and see my friends and family again – many of the ones that I had neglected – and noticing the difference in me, they asked about the products and what I was doing

Two weeks into the business, the Friday before my first STS, I drove to Slough to see that Herbalife UK really existed. I arrived with cheques for pre-ordered product. From the STS onwards we have never looked back and found a way to qualify for every event and challenge ourselves to stretch for every promotion. “I was standing with a group of people waiting to get the bus to one of the fantastic Herbalife Parties, when Alan Lorenz turned to me and said, “So Dolores are you ready to go?” - I knew he didn’t just mean the party. I looked him in the eyes and said, “Yes, I am on my way!””. Our focus has always been strongly retail, because we know how much the products can change lives , form our own experience, and it has been through building a team that also carries this ethos that we have now progressed to the next level of the Marketing Plan.

Our success is the ongoing result of steady hard work and momentum and being teachable. We know now that our initial belief in ourselves was true - we can make a difference and be successful, but not all by ourselves. The trick is the support of the others around you, Herbalife UK welcomed us into the STS and into a business network that is unsurpassed by any that we have known, we have always sort to repay the initial support that we were given by actively being involved in the STS.

Dolores and Dorian!

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