{"id":361,"date":"2015-03-04T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartfeltnetworkmarketing.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2015-05-19T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:10:35","slug":"shauna-ekstroms-network-marketing-story-successful-mlm-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartfeltnetworkmarketing.com\/shauna-ekstroms-network-marketing-story-successful-mlm-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Shauna Ekstrom’s Network Marketing Story – Successful MLM Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Read the success story of top network marketing leader, Shauna Ekstrom, whose greatest joys in life is coaching others to live the life of their dreams.<\/p>\n When I was 15, I decided that I needed to get a career and not wait for three more years to make money. I figured that I can be an adult and change my life and also I wanted to look like all the other kids at school not with the homemade clothes and hand-me-downs. There were always money issues in my family and so I decided just before school started in tenth grade, I was still 15, that I could change my life if I started my own career.<\/p>\n So I talked my mom into checking out if I could go to beauty school and so I never actually went to a day of high school and I ended up starting and realized that OK, I\u2019m in an adult world now.<\/p>\n Actually, I didn\u2019t get to start until the day after I turned 16 because the state board wouldn\u2019t let you. So the day after I turned 16, I started beauty school and I was in this world of adults. So I got big hair flipped and I ended up loving it because I was working fulltime, having a career. I figured by the time the other kids were just going to go into their senior year, I would already have a job and I would be making money. <\/p>\n So I grew up really fast and the way it turned out, by the time I graduated beauty school, I had met my future husband. I really wanted to have a family. I didn\u2019t have a clue as to how to be a mom or an adult actually. But I was pretending to be an adult. So there I was in this world and I thought, \u201cWow, how am I going to get through life?\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s just about \u2013 I guess I was pretending to be an adult but I was still a kid. The other kids were going to the school dances and I was in this new adult world that I absolutely loved and I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m crying because at that time, if I take me back, I was just having a wonderful adult time. I didn\u2019t know that I had missed out. I guess it\u2019s when I\u2019m looking back, when I see teenagers that I realize that there were a few things that I didn\u2019t get to do.<\/p>\n One of my friends who had a child that was the same age, we used to go to garage sales together and estate sales and that was our one break we would get maybe once a month. She had a business. I had a salon. When she asked me to look at a business opportunity, I was like, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t do that.\u201d But on the way back, she had helped me all day. So I said, \u201cOK, I will listen.\u201d I did.<\/p>\n I said, \u201cOK. I will go to the meeting.\u201d At this meeting, I heard someone say, \u201cMake your strengths productive and your weaknesses irrelevant.\u201d I said, \u201cI can do this.\u201d I wanted my kids to look like all the other kids at school. So I over-extended our finances, me. Not my husband. It was me. I saw a way out for our family. So I started studying, growing, reading the books, everything I could get when I was \u2013 after the kids would go to bed at night and everything was taken care of, I would read these books and one of the first ones that I read was Rich Dad Poor Dad. One sentence in there mentions network marketing and I mark that and I read that over and over. <\/p>\n I was very hungry to be successful because I had something to prove to me and also to my parents that they hadn\u2019t made a bad decision by letting me quit school and eventually we ended up in a small town called Enumclaw, Washington and I called my daughter who\u2019s a decorative artist and she was in school and she had her own business with painting and doing faux finish.<\/p>\n I said, \u201cHeidi, what do you think? I can get this place at a very reasonable rate. What do you think? I can make my own salon.\u201d She\u2019s like, \u201cGet it. Let\u2019s paint the door red and call it the Red Door Salon.\u201d I said, \u201cOK.\u201d<\/p>\n So she painted the door red and it was awesome. It was like a little boutique and overlooked the cute little downtown. It was on the second floor and it was just great. I was busy all the time and I thought this was \u2013 this is what I wanted to do. I didn\u2019t want to have other people work for me because I had seen all the estrogen before and the salons I worked in, the competition, and I\u2019m like, \u201cI just want to be creative. This is what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n I actually read the book The E-Myth. Somebody had introduced me to that book and I\u2019m like, \u201cOh my goodness. You mean I\u2019m a CEO and I\u2019m a manager and I do the books? I\u2019m the CPA? All these things, I don\u2019t like any of those jobs. I just like doing hair and listening to clients. I love my clients. I\u2019m interested in their lives. I love psychology but I don\u2019t like the other jobs,\u201d and that\u2019s what I just have. I don\u2019t like it. I realized I wanted more than this. I didn\u2019t want to be in the four walls anymore and also at the same time, my marriage started going into \u2013 it was a struggle.<\/p>\n I can do this. I can have another business that doesn\u2019t take this much time. I can build it. I can learn because I\u2019ve already learned how to do hair. I\u2019ve already learned how to be a mom. I can do this too. We were having financial stress to tell you the truth. But that probably had the biggest deal to do with it and I had a lot to do with that and one of the things I realized is you do have to have a story. <\/p>\n Network marketing is a storytelling business. In my real education, I didn\u2019t even have a company then but I had hope because I had gone so far beyond the salon. I had dreams. I started dreaming big and I was not going to give up on my dreams and after a 31-year marriage ended and I was still helping out with finances for marriage, and also living in an apartment behind my shop, that was a 600-square-foot apartment where my son and I shared a bunk bed. I would crack up really inside myself. I would laugh and say, \u201cThis is kind of weird. I\u2019m almost 50. I\u2019m divorced. What is wrong with this picture? How am I going to change this?\u201d<\/p>\n So there was no way to go back. I was realizing the heat right then and there and that I had to make something work because my salon wasn\u2019t going to do it for me. I was dreaming again. I had to have more and I had read so many books by then and I was craving success and I could feel that. I could breathe it. I knew it. I knew it was coming. <\/p>\n So when I heard about a product that was that, a visual and an emotional product, like I got weight to lose. I\u2019m going to do this. That\u2019s when I really realized this is not about sales. It\u2019s about sharing. It\u2019s about really sharing something that you truly believe in. I already believed in network marketing. Bottom line is I went to work and we ended up growing this business to \u2013 I mean to where it\u2019s crazy money. I mean the thing is, I never could have imagined. All I wanted at the beginning was to have enough to pay the bills. The reason I believe in network marketing is it gives you the freedom to do whatever it is you need to do or you want to do. I believe in you. I believe that you can be anything and do anything that you choose to do and I really want people to start believing in their dreams.<\/p>\n If there was a time when you stopped believing in yourself or stopped dreaming, I want you to know that it\u2019s time to start dreaming again because no matter what your schedule is, how many hours a day you work, you can do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read the success story of top network marketing leader, Shauna Ekstrom, whose greatest joys in life is coaching others to live the life of their dreams. When I was 15, I decided that I needed to get a career and not wait for three more years to make money. 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