Our Team went to Vegas!!

I am so, so, so excited for this post!!!  I should add in another, "so" because that is how I am feeling.  

I am extremely happy for our team, or should I say family?  Because when you join our team, we really do become a family!!  

Our team has seriously some of the nicest, most genuine, thoughtful, and caring people ever!!  They are also dedicated, hard working, and driven!  (I love that about people!)  They motivate me daily!!  I could not ask for a better group to work with.  

There is no gossip, jealousy, or comparing in our team!!  We all have the same goals. We all want to help others, earn passive income, work from home, and love what we do!  One of our team's strengths is our amazing support system that we have!  Our team will always be there for you and that is what I love about them! 

You are in business for yourself but not by yourself! 

We all just got back from our Annual Global Conference in Las Vegas and all I can say is WOW!  I love to have fun and the energy there was out of control!!!  I love surrounding myself with motivated and successful people...and there were thousands of them there!!!

I want to share some photos (I took hundreds but you will only see a few today) with you!

I love this picture (see below) because...well, I will be honest, I am holding my biggest Tiffany Box ever!! LOL!  Shaklee loves to recognize your hard work and they know what I love, a big blue box (with a crystal plate in it but I am more excited about the box, haha) and walking across stage. Oh yes, I love the stage! Last year, in Washington D.C., I walk-uped up on stage 3 or 4 times and this year was about  6!  LOVE IT!!!  I don't know what it is but I just love the red carpet treatment and the recognition.  Sounds kinda crazy but boy it can motivate! HA!  

I also love that my hubby is right next to me.  When I first told him that I was starting a Shaklee Business, he rolled his eyes and said, "Ok, that will last about 2-3 weeks!"  He knew me too well!  I will be honest, I have never really "stuck" to anything long term before (except our family!) I usually lose motivation and go to the next thing but this time it was different!  I had already been using Shaklee's product since I was junior high and LOVED them!  I used Shaklee through all my pregnancies and nursing and knew the products were number one.  We felt amazing and they are doctor recommend!  

There was something deep inside me that told me I could do this,  I knew I could do it!  

At least I needed to give myself a fair chance.  I told myself that I had one year to make one thousand dollars.  (Not sure where that number came from but I thought that was a good place to start!)  I didn't fully understand the business but what better way to learn as you go!  And that is what I did.  (You can read my story here and my trip to the earned New Director's Conference HERE!)  Of course, my hubby is completely on board now!  (He even watched our 2 month old for me in Vegas...hello...best husband ever!)

Here I am about to hug and get recognized by our Shaklee CEO, Roger Barnett, on stage in front of thousands of people!!  If you have been following along for a while now, then you know I have met him several times and he is the nicest and smartest man ever (besides my hubby, of course!) I love watching and learning from him!

  Do you want to know what I loved more than going up on stage? 

Seeing our team go on stage!! 

YES, we had 6 people/couples get recognized on stage!!! I am so proud of them!  We had 13 people attend and we already have 19 people registered for our next Global Conference in Nashville!  

This is Jaima, from Ring Around the Rosies!  She is one of our top leaders who is succeeding and growing at rapid speed!  She walked across the Vegas Stage and rocked it!! I am amazed at her leadership and determination to grow personally and finically!

Prior to joining Shaklee, my family was going $450 further in debt each month, and I was suffering from major depression. I desperately wanted to be able to stay at home with my daughter, but didn't think I would be able to much longer. That's when I came across the opportunity and found Project Dream. In 14 short months, I exceeded ALL of my goals, I'm able to make a full time income from home now, and combined with Shaklee's income, the resources that Project Dream provides has allowed my family to pay off $40,500 in debt in 10 months! We are finally making our dreams come true, and not just wishing for them! ~Jaima Schutt

This is Erin, from ErinBrans.com! She has an amazing health and business story!  She is a strong and compassionate leader who works hard.  She was recognized for 2 categories!  I am so proud of her. She went from being in the hospital and working nights to working at home and paying off $39K in 13 months!

This is Jennifer, from Blissfully Ever After!  She is amazing!!  She is one smart, savvy, business women!  The camera loved her family!!  She brought her husband and son with her! She also had some of her team in Vegas!  Woohoo! 

Prior to working with Project Dream, I was working nearly 50 hours a week outside the home. My husband travels a lot with his job so we were barely spending the time together we deserved. Our health was dragging, I was overweight, depressed, and went through life with a bad outlook. After joining Project Dream and in just one year my entire life changed! I found out I was pregnant and made the decision to become a work at home Mom. This was the best decision I ever made! My husband and I have paid off over $25,000 in debt, we were able to purchase our SUV in CASH, and are working to pay off our mortgage! I now make a full time income working part-time hours from home, am the healthiest I’ve ever been, lost 65 pounds, and fell back in love with my Husband all over again! If you are looking for a positive change, better health, and additional income, Project Dream will help you do this like it did for me and my family. ~Jennifer Mead

What a cute Shaklee family!!

This is my sister, Elizabeth! I am very proud of her!  I is growing her business and making things happen!  She is a cosmetologist and shares Shaklee with her clients.  She also received a Tiffany Box and was recognized on stage!

Here are my parents!  (See, I told you we all become one big happy family, lol!)  They introduced me to Shaklee 13 years ago when my Mom was looking for a laundry product that works and save money! She got our family "hooked!" They were on stage too!

This is Claire, from ClairesHealthyHome.com and her family!  Actually, they went on a road trip...for a year!  They are following their dreams!!!  They bought an RV and are traveling the country together as a family this year and loving it!  You can see when she visited us here!

Prior to working becoming a brand product partner Shaklee and Project Dream, I was getting daily headaches, overweight and drowning in debt. Since joining Bonnie's marketing team last year with Project Dream I have increased my income, lost weight, got off my allergy meds, saved money on my household products and paid off over $15,000 in debt. It blows me away! Bonnie is a motivating and encouraging and visionary leader. I am so grateful to have found her. ~Claire Leighton

I love this picture of Erin and me!

Here is a picture of the strip!

The Conference was unreal and fun!!!  

Here we are with Roger again!! :)  LOVE THIS PIC!

Did you know that we are the number one natural nutrition company?!?!  Yup, we are used by used by doctors, nutritionists, personal trainers, the Olympic athletes, in the White House, by the Astronauts, and millions of people all oner the WORLD!

The Olympians love Shaklee!! 

• 7 of TIME-LIFE BOOKS' 25 Greatest Adventures of All Time have been powered by Shaklee products
• Shaklee products have powered elite world-class explorer, Will Steger, on 4 internationally acclaimed Artic expeditions
• 54 Olympic gold medals won by Shaklee powered world-class athletes
• Shaklee powered athletes including the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Team, pentathlete Eli Bremer, wakeboarder Darin Shapiro, water skier Michelle Simpson, swimmer Carly Piper, LPGA golfer Reilley Rankin, and softball player Jessica Mendoza rely on Shaklee nutritional products everyday for optimal performance.

Here is Jennifer's and my husband with our babies!!!  What great, supportive men!

We have such an amazing team! :)  We all come from different states, backgrounds, and are different ages but we all love owning our own business while helping others!

This is Alli from, Raising Daisies, and she is an amazing Wife, Mother, animal lover, student and business owner.  We are so happy to have her on our team.

Here is a fun girl shot!

Meet Alex, from Happy, Healthy, & Domestic.  She is a beautiful young Mom who loves spending time with her family! She is a great cook and crafter!

Usually, we do our team meetings over the phone but it's great when we can all get together (especially when eating Mexican!!!)

Casino night... sure!

We also hung out in a private, poolside cabano at the Wet Republic!  This was so fun!!!  We attended the VIP Future Leader Event and that was a party!

Go Alli!

Yup, 2 month old in Vegas....call me crazy, but he was amazing!!!  (He will NOT be going back though, lol!  No place for kids- or adults for that matter!  We stood clear of all the bad stuff!)

Getting ready for the stage!

We are already planning our next year's free trip on a Caribbean Cruise.

Another "meeting"!!

Again, I am so grateful to have my husband's (Scott) support!  I couldn't do this business without him!

YAY!  I love this picture of us under the Star for the Star Achievers!  (So what if we closed it off for a picture, lol, Oops!)

My husband and I were also asked to model Shaklee's new clothes line so I jumped all over that!  

Here is my hubby.  I bet he never thought he would be modeling Shaklee gear on stage in Vegas in front of thousands of people, lol!!  He does anything for me! :)  Love him!

Here I am 2 months after having my fourth baby!  When they asked me to model, you better believe I was using our weight loss, protein, smoothies.  (safe to take while nursing)

I can show you a ton more but I think that is enough!  We had an amazing time and I am so proud of our team!

We were also featured in this video....

If you can't see this video, click here!

Currently, I am expanding my business and looking for serious health & wellness lovers that want to change their life in 2013 by becoming a Gold Ambassador with my brand partner.  

If you are interested, please apply here!

Have a great day!

Bonnie :)

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How I Work From Home featuring Erin from Healthy Branscoms

I am so excited about this guest post because it is from one of my best friends, Erin, from Healthy Branscoms!! I met Erin online about and when have been friends ever since!  She is an amazing person, Wife, Mother and friend.  I have learned so much from her and she is an inspiration to so many people!

Meet Erin!!

One of my favorite things about being a Mom is being with my kids and being able to work from home. 

Now this post isn't for everyone. 

I know that not every Mom wants to work from home and be at home. 

I didn't! 

Yes, you read that right. 

I had a really great job that I loved for over 6 years. 

I made great money and sometimes more than my husband did. 

I also had phenomenal health benefits, 401k, etc. But it wasn't enough for me. At the end of the day, I felt like I was missing out on half of my life. 

I felt like I was walking around with a half drank cup, a half eaten plate, a half full heart. 

I missed out on half of everything my family did and I hated it! 

I worked the night shift so I wouldn't have to put my kids in daycare as much. I was exhausted all of the time. When I WAS with my kids, I was cranky, tired and not fun to be around. My health was deteriorating. 

I knew if I stayed on that path it wasn't worth it. 

At what point is a job worth sacrificing your family for? 

What price do you put on your kids heads? 

For me I knew it wasn't what I wanted. 

I just didn't know that there was another option. Until....

One day I was sitting in my neurologists office talking to him. I had terrible migraines! 

Migraines that got so bad they developed into seizures. 

And there was no magic "pill" for this either. 

My Doctor said to me that basically my health was a mess. 

I asked him how he could fix me and he said something along the lines of that he couldn't do it himself, that I had a major part in this as well. 

Huh?! 

He said that I basically slept an average of 4 hours a night for the past 4 years. My body was severely deprived of rest and normal sleep that a body needed. 

My weight had gotten out of control because my metabolism didn't know how to adjust to me being a night owl for a few days and sleeping at night another few days and without the minimum required sleep for so long! 

I wasn't eating right, I didn't take any vitamins. 

I was a HOT MESS!!!!

So with this devastating news that I was 29 years old and on the path to an early death if I stayed on the track I was on brought me to a standstill. 

I asked him what to do. 

He said it might not work for me but his family had been on these supplements/vitamins called Shaklee for over 40 years. 

He said to go home and google Shaklee and order some and start taking it. 

I was also on SIX prescription medications that I needed to be on to avoid the seizures and migraines. 

SIX! 

It was costing us over $300 a month in co-pays. I felt awful about this. I knew that if I didn't fix myself, I couldn't work and contribute to my family or even TAKE CARE of my family. I felt so awful.

I went home and found a blog that was all about Shaklee. The blogger is now a dear friend of mine and I love her! Her name is Bonnie Donahue and she is a mother of four and a friend to many. She is such a great person. Truly my lifelong friend. I read her blog HERE from start to finish in one night. I couldn't stop reading! 

Reading about how healthy she and her family were was just a breath of fresh air! 

I wanted to be healthy SO bad! 

I emailed her. I remember she took two days to email me back and I was going nuts!! (She was on vacation or something I found out later! :) 

She emailed me back and I told her I wanted it ALL. 

I wanted the healthy cleaning products, the beauty products, the weight loss products and the VITAMINS!! 

I was probably her most excited customer to date. 

I researched and knew if I signed up to sell the products I would get the MOST products in a kit for FREE. 

So I picked that way because I love free! 

Hello! :) 

I really had no intention of selling it. I already had a great job and didn't really care about that. 

I just wanted to be healthy and get the discounts. 

Fast forward a few months where I was healthy and doing awesome! 

I am on ZERO prescription medications for migraines/seizures and now only take healthy vitamins. 

I had already been blogging here at Healthy Branscoms for over three years at the time. If you go back and read those early posts they are all a scrapbook of all things I love. 

Blogging is a great stress reducing outlet-journal for me. I didn't even care if people read it. I had less than 100 followers at the time and didn't really care. 

I just love blogging!

So what do you do when you are a blogger and you naturally love something? 

You blog about it! I didn't realize this was going to turn into something that would actually MAKE us money!

After a few months and a few Shaklee paychecks, I casually said to my husband, "Hey! We could pay off my student loans with this extra money!" His reply was like, Sure, okay. 

So we did! I started using a program called War on Debt by Dani Johnson. I was first told about this lady Dani Johnson by my friend Bonnie in May of 2011 and I distinctly remember thinking yeah, whatever.(Insert eye roll) The War on Debt sat on my shelf for two months in the box. BIG. MISTAKE. 

I remember one day coming home from work and just thinking that I did not want to go back to work again. It had nothing to do with the job, I loved the job. I just missed my family. 

I felt suffocated under $39,000 worth of debt. 

That debt was a car loan, medical bills, and student loans. 

I hated it. 

I knew there was never going to be a possibility for me to work from home unless that 39k of debt was gone.

So I begrudgingly went and pulled that program off of the shelf and started the program with my husband. 

WHOA. 

Instantly that first month we saved $700 on our grocery bill. 

$700!!! 

I found money I had no idea we even HAD! 

It was crazy! 

We first paid off the medical bills, then went the car loan, and then we chipped away at the student loans until they were GONE! 

11 years early gone! 

We now only have a mortgage and guess what? 

We are working to pay off our house in 5 years!!!!

So, I don't know if you are serious about whatever your goals are or whatever you want to do. 

I don't know if you are happy at your job or happy with where your bills are. 

But if you are serious and you want to make a serious income from home, then we need to talk. 

Because you only get ONE life. 

Your kids only get 18 summers at home. 

You only get ONE chance at raising them up the way that YOU want them to be raised. 

So let me show you how the magic happens... :)

First, you join our team HERE. 

Now this is not just a "Hi, thanks for joining, now go figure it out on your OWN." 

No. 

We have motivational coaching calls, meetings (online), a huge facebook group team that you can share information and ideas back and forth. 

And they are FUN!! 

When you join Project Dream team, you are not on your own. 

You get lifelong friends. 

Do you have lifelong friends at your current job? 

You might but most people don't. 

Do your co-workers constantly motivate you and treat you like the professional that you are? 

Notice how we don't have bosses. 

YOU are your own boss. 

You want to make money-you work. 

We show you how!

Then we are going to talk about your dreams and goals. 

I made a dream board back in January of 2012. I printed off these pictures one night of goals I wanted to achieve. And I remember thinking at the time that while I would LOVE for them to happen, I really couldn't see at the time how they COULD happen. But I made them anyway because I think it is SO important to have something to work towards and to be excited about. On days I didn't want to work or didn't want to talk to anyone, these are what drove me.

Here they are from clockwise from the top left: 

Move to Kansas-Done! We accomplished this on April 1st, 2012. My husband was asked if he would like to re-located for his job and we accepted!

Attend Creating a Dynasty Conference with Dani Johnson-Done! I went to Los Angeles, California over Memorial day weekend, May 2012. It was amazing! The next one is in St. Louis and you can get that information HERE. 

Become debt free-Done! We officially became debt free at the end of May 2012! We paid off over 39k worth of debt in just 13 months!

Work from home-Done! I officially became a Work at Home Mom on March 1st, 2012. God has a pretty amazing plan for us. Me to work from home and us to move! He is good!

Attend the Global Shaklee conference in Las Vegas in August of 2012-DONE! We WON tickets to this when I made Director with Shaklee! I am so excited for a little getaway with my husband in August! It is our five year anniversary then too! :)

Get a FREE Shaklee car-In Progress. This is the only goal I haven't made yet. I think 6 months worth of goals and only one not obtained is pretty good though! :)

What do you think of my goals? 

I wake up everyday and it still feels like a dream to me that we are living all of these goals. I thank God everyday for providing these for us!

And here is HOW I am doing it! 

Here is my daily schedule for most week days. My friend Katie from Building a House of Love made this for me and this is what we try to follow daily. I usually work no more than 15-20 hours per week. 

Getting paid to work from home and to blog has been AMAZING!

Not only are we healthy but we are happy! 

We are no longer weighed down with debt, we are free to make choices to give more, save more and to live more. I do not have to work now but I love it so I do! 

I love working from home. 

Someone asked me once if I missed having co-workers? I have co-workers! They may be all over the country but they are MY co-workers and friends! 

We stay in touch daily with phone, texting, facebook, blogging, and we meet up at conferences. Did you think I went to Creating a Dynasty in Los Angeles by myself?! No way. I met the most amazing group of friends/team mates there and at every business conference that I attend. 

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Here is Connie from Selah Rain, Me, and Claire from Claires Healthy Home.

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Here is Alison and Kent from Making a McHome, me, Jen from Blissfully Ever After, and Katie from Building a house of love.

Now are those not the most amazing team mates ever? And that is not even a quarter of them!! There are so many people that I am blessed to know! 

So here is your call to action. 

I don't know if you are happy where you are at. 

Maybe you are and this is not for you. 

Maybe you love your job, are satisfied with your bank account balance and your family is content with you working and everyone is just awesome, I don't know. 

But if you feel like there is something further you want to do, more money you want to make, no more bosses to answer to, or just want to be happy, then you need to contact me immediately. 

I don't know if you have the qualifications of the kind of person we are looking for and if you don't, I wish you the best of luck. 

But if you do...welcome aboard. You are going to be on an amazing journey with us!

Email me HERE for more information or add me on facebook HERE. 


WOW!! Thanks Erin for such an amazing post! You shared so much personal information with us and it was really helpful.  You are so talented and help so many people!  I have enjoyed working with you but best of all, I love our friendship!! :)  Thanks again!


Have a great day!


Bonnie :)