Isagenix Corporate Update March 10, 2009

Hosts: Isagenix Millionare Ellen Bradley Ganus, and Director of Field Communication Frank Felker

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>> Kiersty: Alright well good evening everyone and welcome to our Tuesday night Real People, Real Results call with Isagenix, my name is Kiersty Cody your host and it’s an absolute pleasure to be here with all of you tonight. We’ve got some amazing guests on the line that’ll be sharing from the heart, sharing their Isagenix stories and how Isagenix has impacted their lives and before we bring on our very first guess I would just love to preface a call by saying what an amazing 7 years.

You know we’re coming up on our 7th anniversary and from what I understand there’s a lot of companies that start up that never, ever, ever make it past their first year in business. As a matter of fact I believe it’s the atrophy is about 90% of all business’s that start up never make it beyond their first year and then the fall off rate continues after that into their 3rd year and Isagenix has been going strong since day 1 and it has been so fun for me personally to be able to see the growth of Isagenix and what we’ve been able to do and the lives that we’ve touched. You know whether it’s with their health or wealth and we’ve had so much fun. I’m so grateful to say that my father John Anderson is the founder. He’s also the formulator of our amazing products and he joined forces with Jim and Kathy Coover, our co-founders of Isagenix and together they made such an incredible team and they have indirectly, indirectly affected all of our lives and as a matter of fact I just want to take everybody back just for a moment.

Isagenix was just, it was like a vision; like an idea and I know that everybody listening in on the lines tonight I know you’ve had ideas. You know I think wouldn’t that be cool if I did that or you know if I pursued this or anybody on the line that thought of a really good idea that you thought oh man I should take that to the invention place and get it patented and of course you never do but with my dad I mean he was retired. He came out of retirement to fulfill this vision of Isagenix that he had and of course Jim and Kathy, co-founders they, they saw my dad’s vision and aligned themselves with that and Isagenix has grown with leaps and bounds every single year after that and I think that we’re such a unique company, a company that stands for integrity. Obviously gives people something to be passionate about and we’re like a gigantic family and as these individuals are going to come on tonight and share their stories. I know they’ll be able to share that with you that you know if it wasn’t for Isagenix there would be a void in people’s lives especially with people out there praying for what we have and obviously we have us having the answer not only with our health but also with our wealth especially in these economic times.

So with that I’d love to introduce our very first guest. Actually I’m going to introduce both of you Joni and Marcy because I know you guys are going to be tag teaming it a little bit and you’ve got some very special guests on the line with you both. So I want to introduce Joni Brewer from the state of Washington. She is a 6 star Golden Circle. Joni are you a 10 Star Executive?

>> Joni: Yes I am.

>> Kiersty: 10 star now just for everybody listening in you don’t know what that is. A 6-star is buco bucks and a 10 star executive is someone who has taken those individuals that she’s brought into her business and helped them achieve a massive amount of income themselves and one of those individuals is Marcy Wilson [assumed spelling], she is a 4 star Golden Circle, a 2 star Crystal Executive and we are just grateful to the both of you ladies for being with us tonight and I do want to also mention that Joni is part of our million dollar club earner and it’s been a lot of fun watching you guys work, work together and create a massive organization and so I’ll turn the time over to Joni and you can take it off for us.

>> Joni: Well thanks Kiersty I really appreciate this being on the call it’s fun because I can hear all of the nice things you say about me. [Laughter].

>> Kiersty: Now Joni before you continue I just want to make mention that there is a little bit of echo, a little bit of feedback on the, on the moderator line, so if you’re on the moderator line just hit *6 to mute out your individual line or just hit the mute button. There we go.

>> Joni: I think that stopped.

>> Kiersty: There we go. Ok. Take it away Joni.

>> Joni: Ok well just for all of you that are on the call tonight I’ll just kind of run through my story and then get to introduce the guests I get to bring on. I’ve been with Isagenix for 5 years now this month and I wasn’t ready when I was first approached. I actually said no for 21 months because my timing wasn’t right. I don’t really like to brag about that because it’s really nothing to brag about, I feel kind of silly. But the thing was Shawna Extrum [assumed spelling] who told me she never gave up on me and that’s the point I’m trying to get across. She continued to dribble on me, give me information and my timing became right, just like everyone’s timing will because what Isagenix has is what all of us need and I not only needed a product in a big way, but I also needed the income string and so when I got on the product I followed it to the letter. I lost 11 1/4 pounds in my first cleanse and then I went on to do it for 3 months straight. I lost 60, then 86, kept that off for 6 months. The company had a 100 pound club opening up and so I lost 14 pounds to be in the 100 pound club and I’ve worked at keeping that off for 4 years. The product is amazing.

It’s really our 1 chance at having at least 1 perfect meal a day and that’s where I get that from someone else Greg Peterson in my group. He talks about giving the people the option of having at least 1 perfect meal a day, which I think is fabulous and so the products definitely are something that’s so needed. We have 80% of the people over weight. 30-35 are obese. So it’s a very feel good thing. I also called my business being a, being a good girlfriend, me doing the right thing because who do you know that when somebody loses 7-15 pounds in 9 days doesn’t want to do it too? And so that’s really the approach we took and we, the leadership why everyone I wanted to work with became an executive is because to me it created leadership right away Kiersty. They all had 30 people in their organization at 1 time and so they became a leader sometimes maybe a little bit before they were ready but it put them in that position to help people and that was a feel good thing.

The income for us has been incredible. My husband walked away from his job in 2007, August 2007 and he was talking to somebody just the other day that he used to work with at the mill. He had been 30 years at the saw mill and they lost 13 weeks of work last year in 2008 and that was incredible and so I’ve always had a passion for both. I truly believe that financial pain is just as difficult on a body as physical pain and so I’ve really never had a problem with either of them. You know some people maybe have a little issue they just want to help people. But if people, they say that to me well I just want to help people, well if they truly want to help people Kiersty, they’re gonna treat it like a business because what industry do you not know where everybody doesn’t have a network? We all have a network in our life and so it is just a natural thing that people do.

What is so exciting about the guests on the call tonight is that what the company has done with the Isabody challenge is so amazing because there is so many people that they can right now in our economic conditions going to the gyms and offering this for them to put in their gym isn’t costing the gym anything and yet it’s gonna give such an opportunity for all of their clients and so I love that and with people just helping other people just I help people get involved in Isabody challenge because it’s another form of support for them to do well on their product and the first guest that I’m gonna bring on tonight is Cathy Maclure [assumed spelling] and Cathy Maclure is from she’s the one who sponsored Michelle who was the winner and so she’ll get to do that but you just have to know that Cathy is fabulous. Cathy looks like a model and I’m not gonna tell her age but she is older than I am. Aren’t you Cath? Are you there Cath?

>> Kiersty: She’s probably muted.

>> Joni: She’s probably shocked that I said that.

[ Laughter ]

>> Joni: But I call her hot Cathy. She’s absolutely gorgeous and she works at it and she loves Isagenix and she is just a fabulous promoter of what we do and the fact that she got to change Michelle’s life is just fabulous and so with that I’d like to introduce Cathy Maclure.

>> Cathy: So can you hear me?

>> Joni: I can.

>> Cathy: Alright well I was muted so I wasn’t sure. I have been using Isagenix for over 2 years and I actually tried Isagenix because of a trainer at my gym and I’m just a gym rat and met Dorris and Carol Waldenburg [assumed spelling] and we’re all really gym rats. I was pretty skeptical and I, it was about 4 days into it and I fell in love with how I felt. I just had so much energy and I couldn’t believe I’d lost weight and inches and could put on my pants that were too tight and I’m thinking wow this is, this is amazing. I mean I have to tell everyone I know about it and basically my husband lost 37 pounds. He’s kept it off for 2 years and I just decided to start talking about it. I couldn’t, I hadn’t even really had great results and a bunch of people in my office wanted to try it and I actually met Michelle Patina’s [assumed spelling] sister at a booth, an Isagenix booth and she tried Isagenix, fell in love with it. I think she worked on Michelle for about a year trying to convince Michelle to at least give it a shot and so she called me up one night. . .

>> Michelle: Yep that’s true.

>> Cathy: . . .and she said oh my gosh my sister finally tried Isagenix and she’s going into the back office and listening to audio’s and you should call her up and so I called her up and I was totally excited for her. We met up and started working together and it’s been a real pleasure getting to know Michelle because she’s such an inspiration to people. I love it when she comes to meetings because she really inspires people to change their life because they can see what has happened to her and her fabulous results and how passionate she is about Isagenix. So I would like to introduce Michelle Patina.

>> Michelle: Hello everybody, I’m Michelle Patina.

>> Hello Michelle.

>> Hi Michelle.

>> Michelle: Yep I just want to introduce myself. I’m from Spokane Washington and Cathy Maclure has been so awesome to me. I knew that when I wanted to start Isagenix I knew that I was gonna go all the way with it. Like she said my sister had told me about it, and told me about it, and told me about it, and I just wasn’t ready to make a major, major lifestyle change. Thanks to Isagenix though I have more energy, better health, amazing weight loss, lean muscle mass, and best of all confidence that I can maintain the weight loss, which in a lot of different, a lot of different programs there isn’t any way to maintain the weight loss you know but in just 5 months I went from a size 18 plus to a size 10. I released 76 pounds and 83 inches of fat and best of all not any muscle. My addiction to fast food and pop is gone.

Using the Isagenix program helped me make some major life style changes. The program’s simplicity and only having to worry about 1 meal a day appealed to me as a working mother. I also liked that Isagenix has a maintenance program to keep your body clean, lean, and healthy. Isagenix has transformed my life so much that I can’t stop speaking its praises. Isagenix helped me take responsibility of my own health, allowing me to be a better mother, wife and a more joyful person all around and I strongly encourage people to do the Isabody challenge. It keeps you on track and it is very exciting to think that you might actually win. Which winning would mean this year going to California, all expense paid trip and big money that you could win and I just have to say that it was an awesome experience that I had and being able to stay on that Isabody challenge and it’s easy to join up. My gosh all you have to do is take a couple of pictures, you know tell your story and away you go and it’s all history after that. I love Isagenix and I’m never gonna stop using their products because it’s not just about weight loss it’s about your health also.

>> Kiersty: Wow! What an amazing story Michelle. Congratulations!

>> Michelle: Yeah thank you.

>> Kiersty: What place did you take in your category? Obviously one of the women’s categories was it first, second or third place?

>> Michelle: It was 3rd place and I was right at the cutoff of course for my age. I’m 39 years old so I think it was 18-39 years old and I took 3rd place. . .

>> Kiersty: Wow congratulations, that’s so exciting. . .

>> Michelle: Out of I don’t know how many people, so yeah anybody can do it.

>> Christy: Michelle, tell Kiersty what you do, what your job is.

>> Michelle: Actually I’m in the health care field. I’m a surgical technologist, so I’ve been in on the cases, seen the gastric bypasses and seen what you know and it’s so funny because there are so many people in the healthcare field, especially nurses that are overweight because you’re constantly thinking about everybody else but yourself.

>> Kiersty: Yeah

>> Michelle: And you know sometimes it’s kind of a depressing job and you use food as a comfort and I knew that I’ve had a lot of ill, I got, I had a blood clot in my leg, and I mean I’m only 39 years old and 2 years ago I got a blood clot in my leg and my sister said you’re gonna get diabetes, you’re gonna get all these things, maybe breast cancer. She goes you need to take your health seriously and I thought you know I’m 39 years old I probably should start taking it seriously and I knew that Isagenix I could do it.

>> Kiersty: Yeah well congratulations again Michelle and Cathy congratulations on coaching because I know that the support that you give to people as their going through the challenge is very, very important so who knows. Ok now Joni are you going to introduce or bring Marcy on?

>> Joni: I thought you already did that.

>> Kiersty: I know I did. . .

>> Joni: But I would love to. What?

>> Kiersty: Well Marcy ok are you up next?

>> Marcy: Quit fighting over me girls.

[ Laughter ]

>> Kiersty: Now Marcy I know your story is amazing and you don’t look old enough to have 2 sons as old as they are. So and I’m not asking you to reveal your age.

>> Marcy: And a grandbaby and I have a beautiful grandbaby yes.

>> Kiersty: It’s amazing. Well Marcy go ahead and take it away.

>> Marcy: Ok well Kiersty thanks for having us on tonight this is, this is always fun. Actually I don’t mind telling my age because I, I feel like Isagenix has made me even younger than I am. I just turned 47 and my boys are actually 20, almost 25, and almost 23 so anyway and I have my first little grandbaby which we’re having a ball with but my story and I have to say that Isagenix has been such a blessing in our life Kiersty that we’re, we’re able to enjoy so much more with our kids and grandkids now. So it’s the best of everything that Isagenix brings to us and what we can share with people. But we got started at Todd and Joni’s kitchen table 5 years ago and you know we started just like everybody with a great weight loss.

You know in those day’s we just had the 9 day programs and so my first program I lost 10 pounds and 15 inches and in less than 2 months I was down 40 pounds and 42 inches. I’ve gone from size 18, 20’s also down also to 8’s and 10’s and Dave lost 15 pounds, 10 inches, so exactly the opposite and he was down 30 pounds in just about 30 days. His waist went from a 48 to a 36 and he was more in the public eye so he, people would see his results and that’s really how we were able to start our business because he’d tell them what he’d done and they’d you know he’d walk into the door at home at that night and I would have those people started already. So we’ve loved the freedom that this program has given us both you know for being able to maintain. Like Michelle was saying there’s no programs out there that really give you a great maintenance like Isagenix gives us and so one of the main things that I have stressed when I do home presentations and that kind of thing is that we really have a great way to maintain our weight and yet we’re able to splurge a little bit too, which all of us love to do and you know as much as we love that, that great help that we’ve gained and our weight loss benefits, the financial benefits, I can’t even tell you how bad we needed things to be better for us financially.

I had lost my job after 14 years Kiersty and so we were really having a rough time and so Isagenix was the blessing we needed to step into our life and it’s just grown ever since and it’s so rewarding to be able to help other people. Like Joni says help them, we all want to do that, but with the benefit of what we have financially too, to be able to offer people hope right now in these hard times is quite amazing. So we just have the most wonderful team that we get to work with. We treat this like a real business and that means that real business we all know has it’s little ups and downs and it always takes effort but our goal is just to work with our team and help them achieve their goals too and I get to share and I just think that’s how, that’s the blessing of getting to see everybody else of course you’re going to reach your goals too but it’s fun to help everybody else reach theirs and one of the guys with us tonight, one of our team mates he and his wife live in Camas Washington and he also was, he’ll get to tell you his place and everything that he took in the Isabody challenge this last summer so he and this is Shane and Bobbie Ellis and they live down in Camas Washington and so Shane is going to share his story with us now.

>> Shane: Hello everybody I just want to tell you my story, just a short thing here, Michelle we had just heard, Cathy the one that signed her up just to tell you how small world Isagenix can be. I met them both in Las Vegas during a Isabody challenge last year and come to find out Cathy which supported Michelle I watched her brother lift weights at my Camas high school when I was in high school. So it’s pretty amazing at how a small world this can be. I just thought that was pretty awesome to share with everybody so.

>> Cathy: Yeah that’s weird I forgot about that.

>> Shane: Yeah I just want to thank everybody for letting me on tonight. First of all I want to thank the Lord for bringing this to me. My wife’s niece Candy DelSantos [assumed spelling] brought to me Christmas of last year or of 2007 and she walked in my kitchen door and she just looked gorgeous. She had lost some weight and she had this glow about her and I looked up there I was carving 2 turkey’s and 3 ham’s. I was sweating like a pig. I weighed 356 pounds and I had already had a heart attack a year or so earlier, so I was destined for another one and she says well I gotta tell you about this program, and I said, well not tonight.

So she approached me about 2 weeks later and it wasn’t for me. It was not something I was looking at doing and so my wife set me down and we discussed it and I said ok sign me up, I’m ready. So we got the package and it set on the counter for about 10 days and on January 22, 2008 I started the program weighing 356 pounds and within 100, 146 days I had lost 100 pounds a 101 pounds. It was awesome. My first week I lost 15 pounds. I was looking for something at that time but I couldn’t find anything. I had done the big and I’m gonna use initials here the big N diet and the big A diet and I just couldn’t get my mind on it and this thing rolled up and I lost 15 pounds my first week. I was sold. I ended up losing 101 pounds by the end of the contest and 125 inches. It was awesome. You know last time you guys had me on the phone I cried like a baby, I’m trying not to do that this time either

[ Laughter ]

>> Shane: It was amazing

>> You’re doing great.

>> Shane: My lifestyle has changed so much. I was taking 12, by disposing of the weight; I don’t take the 12-16 Advil I was taking before to help my feet pain and my knee pain and my back pain. Those are all gone. This just allowed me to be more active. I was able to go hunting this year. I know some of you don’t like that work hunting, so I’ll go winter camping. [laughter] and winter hiking and I was doin the same thing I did, I’m 46 years old, I was doin the same thing this winter in the hills that I did when I was in my 20’s and 30’s and I never stopped for air like I did when I was in my 20’s and 30’s. I just motored right up the mountain and my son, my step son is 40 years old, I’ll tell you that story some other day but he was amazed at how fast I was going up these hills. I mean he said it all week long, I can’t believe what you’re doing cause he had seen me at 356 pounds and those stories right there.

You know taking my son white water rafting and water skiing. I hadn’t water skied in 20 years. I just I got goose bumps talking about it. You know it’s just amazing what this product will do for you. It’s not a weight loss product it’s a product that neutralizes and cleanses your body and gets your body working the way it should be and, and here I go, and it’s just, it’s just amazing what this does for you and I can’t, I can’t, my heart pours out to anybody that doesn’t do it and doesn’t understand how it works and doesn’t believe in it. Cause I tell what right now standing in front of this phone it’s a true testimony of how it works.

>> Kiersty: Well you know Shane I love how you were very candid about your skepticism and just like no it’s not been the right time, I don’t want to listen and then finally like alright that’s it you know sign me up. Now you obviously placed in the Isabody challenge last year. What, what place did you come in, in your category?

>> Shane: I took 3rd place. I did. . .

[ Audience comments and laughter ]

>> Shane: I took 3rd and what this point is when I signed up for that contest my wife actually signed me up, my wife actually took the pictures, my wife actually told me I was going be doing this program. I had never won anything in my life. So I’ve got this, I guess I’m supposed to say this but you’re supposed to exercise with this program to loose and be beneficial. I walked 25 miles in those 6 months or 5 months, so I didn’t do much exercising folks. That’s why I got 3rd place.

>> Kiersty: Wow you know Shane. . .

>> Shane: Those guys who took first or second they were in the gym 4 or 5 times a week I talked to them in the gym hittin it and you know Michelle, I met her there and she was awesome and you know it was just, it was a great time for me and with no exercise I never would have gotten 356 pounds if I exercised so that tells you how much I exercised.

>> Kiersty: Wow now Shane and Michelle I just want to ask real quick, are your stories on the web somewhere like a weight loss hall of fame.net? Have you done that with your stories yet? Before and afters?

>> Shane: I haven’t but I do have it we’re on the Isabody challenge on the very last picture is mine.

>> Kiersty: Ok so Isabodychallenge.com, you can go in there and read you know Shane Ellise’s story along with Michelle’s and have some fun checkin out everybody else on that. We are pressing up against the hour and I just want to thank all of you for opening up, sharing your stories with passion and a very heartfelt and Cathy and Michelle, Shane and of course Joni and Marcy always a pleasure having you on and go out there and continue to change the world 1 life at a time and again thank you for being with us.

[ Multiple audience comments ]

>> I just want to say thank you Bobbie for helping Shane get going. Bobbie took the picture, Bobbie made him sign up, Bobbie did this, so Bobbie kudos to you.

[ Laughter ]

>> Kiersty: Yeah Bobbie absolutely and I just want to, I just want to remind everybody that tonight’s call has been recorded and it will be posted in your back office underneath the real people, real results calls, so take advantage of it. I know that there’s gosh, there’s 1000’s upon 1000’s of people that go back and take advantage of those recorded calls because they’re there at your fingertips when you need them and again I want to thank our guests and I want to thank all of you that have joined in with us tonight and are listening in. I also want to extend an invitation for you to all stay on the line we’re going to be starting our Tuesday night corporate update call here in just about 2 minutes. Frank Sulker [assumed spelling] will be joining us because we’ve got a lot of exciting information that we’re going to be covering, so you’re more than welcome to take notes. I’m going to go ahead and un-mute the line so welcome anyone else that we have coming on the line coming in and then we’ll get started here shortly. So here we go.

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