One of the things I’ve always loved about Network Marketing, is that it leaves no stone unturned when it comes to personal growth.

In this post I’m going to share a real life story that started last year and continues to be one of the most inspiring learning curves I’ve encountered so far….

We all keep regular contact with our leaders.  Usually daily, if not several times per day.  If you are used to this kind of contact and it suddenly drops off, naturally you become concerned.  Well thats what happened to me last year when one of my top leaders, seemingly dropped off the face of the planet.

Little did I know at the time, that he had been arrested, extradited interstate and put in prison.

Obviously my first reaction was shock right?  I mean like the only experience I’d had with prison, was from one the few TV shows I ever watched, ‘Prison Break’.  So having only ever been exposed to prison life through TV, I started to panic about his safety.

This is one of my top leaders who I’ve known for years and I’ve suddenly gone from daily Skype calls to no way of contacting him or finding his whereabouts.  Little did I know at the time, that prisoners can be shifted almost on a daily level, (from jail to jail) to the point that their own legal team don’t even know where they are!

Grr where is that (1800-LocateAnInmate) number when you need it!

So my next thoughts were OMG, someone I know and care about has been thrown into an interstate jail and I need to fly up there to show that someone cares.

So not knowing anything, I jumped on a plane to visit.  I want to add here, that as a female who has never entered a prison in her life ( and this is one of Australia’s most notorious prisons), my fear levels were starting to escalate.  You go though so many security systems to the the point that you think sh**, if I had to get out of here in a hurry, I’m toast.  The flashing images from watching Prison Break didn’t help!   But then I started thinking if I’m scared, how must my friend on the ‘inside’ be feeling?

I have to say it felt like eternity sitting inside there waiting for the staff to ‘prepare’ my friend for his visitor.  They dress them in this really weird outfit that comes up to their neck so that you can’t slip any illegal contraband into their clothes.  Damn!  Um, I thought they just stripped me of everything but my clothes like 4 security gates ago lol.

If you’ve ever experienced this yourself, you’d know that it’s pretty awkward working out what to talk about with a guard standing within earshot.  So once the small talk ended, we started talking about (you guessed it) his Network Marketing business.  I’d never really thought about this before but  suddenly I saw a new meaning for the word ‘passive income’.  No matter where you are, your income continues.  Although in this case, it was obviously going to require some ‘out of the box’ kind of help to keep it going.

So as the months went by after my visit, I started learning through his letters, about the hopelessness that some of the ’soon to be released’ inmates felt regarding their future on the outside.  I guess ‘just released from Prison’ is not a desirable trait to have on resumes these days!

As my friend has lived and breathed MLM for the last couple of decades, he started to introduce some of the inmates to the concept.  Although some of these guys had previously been highly successful entrepreneurs, made significant amounts of money and were highly intelligent, they were still at a loss as to what they would do when they were released.

Enter Network Marketing….

As I listened to feedback from my friend about some of the inmates who were soon to be released and yet hungry for information, I decided to post 3 books to him.  You’re First Year in Network Marketing, The New Professionals & How To Win Friends & Influence People.

Considering the circumstances, I figured the latter would be put to good use regardless lol.

From here the story continues as I begin to hear inspiring feedback from some of these men, who are now educating themselves on the possibility of a new future.

Stay tuned for my next post where I’ll cover the feedback I’ve had after speaking directly with some of the entrepreneurial inmates on 3 way calls.

What about you, do you have any inspiring stories to share about how this industry is having a major impact on peoples lives?

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