Isagenix Real People, Real Results May 26,2009

Top leaders you’ll hear from:

• 2008 IsaBody Challenge™ Winner Joe and Challenge participant Rosemary Beury
• Special Guests

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>> All right. Well good evening everyone and welcome to your Tuesday night Real People, Real Results call with Isagenix. My name is Kjersti Coté, your host. It is an absolute pleasure to be here with all of you, and I hope all of you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend in the states, spending time with your family. And boy I’ll tell you what, I don’t know about you, but it is absolutely gorgeous here where I live. I live in northwestern Montana, and nestled right up along the Rocky Mountains it is about seventy-six degrees, which for some of you that might be a little chilly. But for us it’s beautiful, we love it. And life is good. We have some amazing guests on the line, and they’re gonna be sharing their passion with Isagenix, how Isagenix has impacted their lives. But before I bring those guests on, I would love to just take a moment and extend a special welcome to those who are just listening to Isagenix and about Isagenix, what we’re all about, for the very first time. Tonight you’re going to learn a little bit about the company, and how Isagenix has affected so many people around the globe. And I’d like to just start off by taking everybody back about seven years ago, seven and a half years ago to where it all began. Isagenix was founded by three individuals, my father John Anderson, along with Jim and Kathy Coover. And these three crossed paths, all three of them were in retirement. My dad and Jim and Kathy had retired. They both had very successful careers, and had a lot of fun doing what they had done.

Now for my dad, John, he had been a manufacturer of nutritional supplements and formulating for hundreds and hundreds of nutritional companies around the globe for many, many years, retired in 1998. And I know Jim and Kathy, they retired along, around the same time, mid to late nineties. Now interestingly enough, Jim Cooper has been within direct sales in the network marketing industry for many, many years. And as a matter of fact my dad, John and Jim met each other back in the early eighties with a company, they both were involved in a company called the Cambridge Diet. And some of you might remember that. Jim Cooper was one of the executive team members of that company, and my dad you know, he was just along for the ride, and was actually an associate, lost some weight and had a lot of fun. And so you know, there was a little history to their friendship. And you know, lo and behold in about 2001 my dad and Jim crossed paths again. They were acquaintances and were chatting, and both discovered that they were, everybody was in retirement. And Jim posed a question to my dad, and that was you know, John out of all of the years that you were formulating nutritional supplements, did you find the fountain of youth? And my dad said well you know Jim, I believe the fountain of youth exists, but it doesn’t exist in just one raw material.

It would be comprised of many different materials, you know, natural you know, elements of the earth and so forth, combined and formulated to perfection that could create the fountain of youth. And so you know, they talked a little bit further, a little bit further. And you know how amazing it would be to have something like this. So my dad you know, said you know I’ll be back. Give me a couple of days, I’ll be back. And sure enough, seventy-two hours later my dad meets with Jim and Kathy, and he has in a brown paper sack the nine day cleanse. He whipped this nine day cleanse together in about forty-eight hours, and had four systems. One for himself, one for his girlfriend who’s now his wife, Cher, and then two more, one for Jim and one for Kathy. And so all four of them started the nine day cleanse. And what happened was absolutely miraculous.

I mean everybody was dropping weight, gaining energy, you know, dropping inches, feeling amazing. And so with that being said, they actually decided well we better put it to the test. So my dad manufactured two hundred and fifty kits, two hundred and fifty nine day cleanses, sent them out to friends and family, and they almost did kind of like this little study, this little pilot study on the effects of this nine day cleanse with two hundred and fifty people. And the average weight loss in the nine day period of time, cause everybody got their kit, opened it up and had to document everything, was an average of, it was like twelve to fifteen pounds per individual. That was the average. And it was so exciting. People were actually feeling so good that it started a frenzy, a frenzy. Because people that were using the nine day cleanse were like all oh my gosh, John when can I have more? How do I get my hands on more? And of course they were telling their friends, they were telling their family. And before you know it, I mean the company was forced to launch. I know that my dad and Jim and Kathy, they worked around the clock to set up the infrastructure of this company, the comp plan and everything. And they did it in about three months’ time. We opened the doors in March of 2002, and from that moment forward the company just shot up in sales. I believe in the first nine months we did nineteen million in sales, the following year it nearly doubled. And then, and it’s continually grown every single year. Last year in 2008 we brought in about two hundred and fifty million in sales, and the company is growing despite the economic recession. Sales are increasing, enrollments are up, and it’s so exciting to see what’s going on you know, around the globe.

And so obviously Isagenix provides those amazing nutritionals. Now we have more than just the nine day cleanse, we have many programs to choose from. And about you know, a catalog of edible products that consists of about forty products. And people are having a hay day with them. And on top of it you go on the products, you have amazing results, people share their story, and then they just you know, make money. And we have created thirty-six millionaires in the last seven years, which we are so proud about. I know that that was one of Kathy Cooper’s personal goals is to create more six and seven-figure income earners than ever before in the history of network marketing. And it is happening. So with that being said, like there’s four individuals I have on the line that I can’t wait for them to share. Our time is limited tonight, so for those guests that are on the line just look at, you know, watch the time a little bit. And if each of you could share for about two to three minutes each, I think we’ll be safe on our time span here.

But the first two that I’d like to bring on is a beautiful couple that hail from upstate New York. They have been married together, this couple, thirty-six years. Isn’t that something to celebrate? I love that. And that would be Joseph and Rosemary Berry. And a little bit about Joseph. He’s retired, he was retired due to a permanent disability. And I know that Joseph and Rosemary have a wonderful son, they’re very proud of him, Doctor J, Doctor Jess Berry. He’s a chiropractor, and obviously I would assume that’s how they heard about Isagenix. But I’ll tell you, one of Joseph’s, actually Joe, I know you go by Joe. One of Joe’s favorite hobbies is to ride his Harley Davidson, which Joe my dad is a fanatic about Harleys, so we’ll have to talk later on that one. But they love sharing Isagenix. They joined Isagenix in March of ‘08, so it’s been a little over a year now. Joe now I know that you entered the IsaBody Challenge, both of you did, and Rosemary as well. And because of your results you are building a beautiful business, you’re both one star Golden Circle, which is, I got to tell you, that’s a couple, that’s a couple grand a month. That’s very, very exciting, something to be very proud of. So it brings great pleasure to bring you both on the line. So welcome Joe and Rosemary to the call.

>> Thank you.

>> Thank you Kiersti.

>> Yes. And we’ll start off with Joe. If you want to just take it, a few minutes and take us back on when you were introduced to Isagenix, getting enrolled in the challenge. I know that the 2009 IsaBody Challenge is going on right now. There’s people on the line listening that are participating in the Challenge. Tell us your journey. What’s happened?

>> Well prior to February of 2008 I knew nothing at all about Isagenix, I’d never even heard of it. And as you said, my son actually is the one who found Isagenix, or it found him, I’m not sure which way. And he comes home and he says dad, he said you know, I’m concerned. You know, you’ve had a lot of injuries over the years, you’ve gained weight, you’ve started to have some health issues. And you know, you have to do something about losing some weight. This is the beginning of 2008, this is in January. So he actually purchased a gym membership for me, and said I’d like you to get out and start walking on a treadmill, or do something. And meanwhile he had stumbled upon Isagenix and he said I’m gonna, I got this product, I’m gonna use this, because he won’t recommend anything that he hasn’t tried himself personally. And I said well look, I don’t want [inaudible], I’m just gonna do what I got to do. So in about two and a half months I lost about ten pounds, and he started doing Isagenix and I think in about thirty days he was down like twenty-seven pounds.

And I said wow, I think I better look at this program, it sounds pretty phenomenal. And right about that time he had been told about an Isagenix University, it was the first Isagenix University on the East Coast. And that was March 18th, well it was actually the 15th of last year. And not knowing anything about it, had never even looked at the products let alone try them, I went with him to this university. And I was so inspired down there. I mean the speakers were just phenomenal, it just you know, the more I listened, and the more people that spoke, it’s just the more I was enthralled with this. And I said wow, this is something I’ve been looking for my whole life. And I was very inspired by the intensity, and the professionalism of the people who were involved with the company. And one man in particular really got my attention, his name is Don Nooner. He’s just a fantastic individual. And he got up and he spoke from the heart. And it literally choked me up, because I felt like you know, we were coming from the same place. And during that Univeristy we started talking about this thing called the IsaBody Challenge, which I knew nothing about. I said well you know what? I’m gonna give it a shot. They’ve got an age category for sixty plus, and I was sixty-one, or getting ready to turn sixty-one, and I said I’m gonna do this. And I turned to the guy next to me and said I think I can win my challenge, I’m gonna do the challenge. And I proceeded to commit myself while I was there to about twenty people. And I knew that way I would be dedicated to doing the challenge. And while I was there, I had my first taste of the products that they would have samples in the morning of the fruits and the, that want more energy, and my favorite the Ionic Supreme. The first day I had about three ounces, and I just fell in love with it from the very first or second, then I had six or seven ounces and I knew that whatever [inaudible].

>> Six or seven, that’s wow.

>> Yeah.

>> That’s, I’m telling you, you must have been feeling some serious energy.

>> Well you have to understand, I used to drink ten to fifteen cups of coffee a day for many, many, many years. And I had one cup of coffee the first day, a half a cup of coffee the second day, and I have not had coffee since, thanks to the Ionic Supreme.

>> That is impressive. Because you know, our nation is just like complete addicts to espresso and coffee. I don’t think that there’s anywhere where you can’t go and not see a Coffee Hut or something like that around. So for you to go from that, drinking that amount of coffee down to nothing is quite impressive. So now you got yourself registered for the IsaBody Challenge in March of ‘08. What were you able to do? Because I know that the challenge ended June 15th, and tell us how many pounds did you release? How many inches did you lose?

>> I released forty-one pounds, forty-nine pounds, I’m sorry, forty-nine pounds, forty-one inches, and thirteen percent body fat. And the body fast is what is the real -

>> That’s huge. Thirteen percent, that is huge. Congratulations. So now this obviously put you into first place, in the first place category, into your men’s category. Were you surprised to win? I mean were you just jazzed? What was going through your mind when they called you up on stage, and here you are the winner of your category?

>> I’ll tell you, it was just unbelievable. I mean it was, I was shocked when they called and said I was a finalist. And then to actually win the category was just, it was like a dream come true. And one of the things that I’d like to say is that my team was so supportive throughout the whole thing. And when we were out there we had oh God, I don’t know, maybe a hundred people, but it sounded like there was a thousand. I mean they just cheered and it was -

>> Aww.

>> It was mind boggling.

>> That’s very cool. Now Rosemary, I know you’re on the line as well. And obviously you’ve watched Joe totally transform him body. Tell us your story. I know you must have gotten started on the products at about the same time, and obviously decided to do the IsaBody Challenge as well. So tell us what’s happened with your transformation?

>> Well Kiersti I joined the IsaBody Challenge with Joe because, I didn’t go to the University but they called me and told me that we were gonna do the IsaBody Challenge. So I said okay. But I was the skeptic, I was the one who said it’s not safe to lose weight this fast, it’s you know, and I, my son Jeff said just, mom just do it. Just take a leap of faith and just go with it, and explained all the nutrition to me. And I let go all of my diet concepts, and you know, how unsafe it was to lose weight this fast and everything, and started using the products. And once I got the products in my body, I was totally sold. And in the course of the IsaBody Challenge I managed to lose, I released twenty-five pounds, forty-three and a half inches, and then went on to finish at about thirty-three pounds. And I don’t know my body fat because I didn’t calculate it on that, because women do inches, that’s all that mattered to me.

>> Wow.

>> You know, what Joe said too about the support of the team out there was just unbelievable. Throughout the whole process. You know, we wanted this so bad for Joe, and but Joe was the one that had to do it. And, but the support of the team was just tremendous. And you know, Isagenix is our life now, and it’ll always be our life. It was something that at the time we started this we were totally unable to do it financially, and it was a real hardship for us. And again, it was just like a leap of faith that we just took and said we have to do this, and just went running, and haven’t looked back since. And we have managed to be one star, and it’s just, it really has, it helped us pay for our mortgage, it helps us pay for our fuel. And you know, things that we’ve not been able to do before Isagenix is able, has helped us be able to do it. And you know, I can’t help but, every time I see the Isagenix story, whatever [inaudible] they show it, and everybody says I am Isagenix, I can truly say we are Isagenix. We live it every single day, and we will never be without it.

>> Oh, amazing, amazing. And so now with you guys, I’m sure you’re at your goal weight, you feel like a million bucks. You know, you are Isagenix. You’re walking billboards. And to be able to generate this secondary income, and for a lot of people that secondary income becomes their primary income, and people setting themselves financially free. I’m sure you guys have goals set financially now, and how does it feel to be bringing in other team members now, introducing them to Isagenix and helping them to set themselves financially free, especially in today’s economy?

>> For us that’s what it’s all about, is helping people not only get healthy, but to introduce them to the idea that they can earn an income that, by doing the same thing, it’s just duplication. By doing the same thing that we did, you can start bringing it in, and start paying for your mortgage and your car payment and whatever. And you know, God forbid you lose your job, you still have an income coming in.

>> Absolutely.

>> Plus the most rewarding part is sharing the health with people. And you know, the weight loss is great, that was just a very small part of my story. I had tremendous health improvements. Like I said, I had a lot of health issues going on which have just mysteriously, miraculously actually just gone away, gone to sleep. I feel about forty years younger than I did when I started this, and haven’t felt this good since before I got hurt.

>> Yeah, isn’t that something? I mean we hear that all the time. And you know, everybody knows if you’ve been in Isagenix for a while Joe and Rosemary, I know you know who Jimmy Smith is, our number one income earner. I mean I think him and his two daughters, actually him and his family, they all have their own business centers, and since the time that Jimmy got involved up until now I think they’ve generated about eighteen to nineteen million dollars as a family within this company, which is so exciting. But you know, I remember meeting Jimmy six years ago, and that guy looks younger today than he did when I first met him. You know, it’s pretty cool, and he’s eighty-two. No actually, he’s eighty-one, he just turned eighty-one.

>> And Kiersti thank you, we were on the Isagenix cruise, and Jimmy can dance the night away.

>> Oh yeah.

>> He can, I know, I know.

>> He can dance  all night.

>> He can dance till three in the morning and be up at seven-thirty the next morning ready to go.

>> I know. He always says I don’t need any sleep, I just need my Ionix.

[ laughter ] Well it’s been a pleasure having you on, really, Joe and Rosemary. Congratulations on your success, and Joe for placing in last year’s IsaBody Challenge. And just real quick before we move on to our next guest, is there any last minute golden nuggets that you could share with someone who’s on the line that’s finishing out the Challenge this year, the 2009 Challenge? I mean they only have about three weeks left, two to three weeks left. Any words of advice?

>> Just you know, put it out there at the universe that this is you know, this is your thing, I’m gonna be there, and don’t give up at the very end. Just keep going right to you know, the finish.

>> Stay off the scale too.

>> Yeah. But I actually didn’t see the total, and you know, before I went out to the you know, the Celebration.

>> I was down fifty-seven pounds.

>> Oh yeah.

>> Just keep going. Don’t give up, don’t let a day get you down, just keep going.

>> Right.

>> Yeah, yeah, great. That’s wonderful. Just stay consistent. Stay off the scale, I love that. Don’t weigh yourself, don’t be fretting about that. Just live Isagenix like what you guys have said. I think that’s wonderful advice. Wow. Okay well thank you again Joe and Rosemary. I hope you stay on the line to listen in. The next guest I want to bring on, her name is Maria Fitzgerald. And she is a retired school teacher of thirty-three years, with a specialty in vocal music. And she is a very respected volunteer as a soloist, choir director, music director of high school and community musicals. She is a board member of several community organizations where she lives. She is the proud mother of Kevin and Garrett, she’s a grandma too of two, Logan and Olin. She [inaudible] life with her partner Brian. And Maria took second place in the 2008 IsaBody Challenge for ladies sixty years of age and older, in her category. And what a huge, huge thing. And Maria I need to congratulate you, because you just went, you just went star consultant this last week, so congratulations on that, and welcome to the call.

>> Thank you very much.

>> It’s a pleasure having you on. And Maria take us back. When did you discover Isagenix? How long has it been? I know you enrolled into that IsaBody Challenge, being one of our finalists last year. And tell us your journey.

>> I’m happy to say that I didn’t discover it, it discovered me. I had a history of many, of losing and gaining weight on many of the popular diets, and therefore I resigned to being morbidly obese for the rest of my life. My doctor described me as morbidly obese. However, I attended a bridal show in January of 2008, and to my surprise I won a thirty day Isagenix package in a draw. And I was going to give it away because I didn’t want to try, or publicly fail at another diet. So on February the 1st, 2008, at the encouragement of the ladies, my sponsors who donated the package, I went on program, and my vision was to lose eighty pounds. And in doing so, my ulterior motive was to raise money to build a new home for three hundred and sixty abandoned children in Peru. And so I was on program and very committed to it, that by June the 15th, the deadline for IsaBody submissions I had lost sixty pounds. I was very surprised at that. By celebration I had lost seventy, and by my sixty-third, second birthday in September had lost eighty-four pounds. My BMI went from forty-three to thirty-one, and I went from a size twenty-four plus to a size twelve. I was ecstatic about this that I could lose -

>> Wow.

>> - and I regained my energy, and my health issues disappeared. Are we still there?

>> Yes, I can hear you loud and clear.

>> Since I have experienced total wellness with a high energy level, and many remark that I look a young sixty-three, and I rather like that. What’s really exciting is I can now do my own pedicures. Before I couldn’t even see my feet. I’m very proud that today, I weighed myself this morning, I’m twenty-three pounds lighter than I was one year ago. And so last year’s clothes are loose fitting.

>> Oh my goodness. So how many pounds, Maria how many pounds is that now? I know you got down to eighty-four by September, so where are you at right now?

>> I have main, I’ve maintained that, I’m at eighty-five.

>> Wow, amazing.

>> And I’m going to be a member of the hundred pound club, I will be. So it’s proven to me that I can keep the weight off, and it was very important for me to keep the weight off, and maintain a healthy status at the same time. And I have no fear of ever gaining the weight back.

>> Wonderful. And obviously you going star consultant this last week tells me that you are you know, actively building your Isagenix business. Congratulations, you’re half way to executive, and I know that they’re probably gonna be making mention of that on the call tonight that follows this one. So stay on the line Maria. And what a pleasure to have you with us tonight, and congratulations on your success. And what a wonderful thing to raise money you know, to build homes for, and to care for abandoned children in Peru. I think that’s very noteworthy, and just a wonderful blessing to those children that will be rewarded because of that, because of your efforts. And I know we have one your coaches on the line, I know we’re running up against the hour, but I want to bring Patty on. And Patty, yes Patty Hall is, personally, she enrolled Maria. One of the ladies that set up that booth at that bridal fair in January of last year. Isn’t that amazing? You know? I mean what an amazing story that is. So Patty, I know we’re running short on time, but just real quick share with everybody what it was like to help coach Maria through the IsaBody Challenge last year, and tell us your own story. Like what’s gone in your life since you’ve discovered Isagenix?

>> Well thank you very much for having me on your call tonight. Isagenix has been the best darn think that’s ever happened to me I think, other than my husband and my children. You know, they say that you know, when you’re looking for something it’s looking for you, and I swear to goodness it’s true. I was in pretty bad shape, I had a two-year-old and I was struggling every day to get out of bed, and not fitting in any clothing that I had pre-maternity days. And you know, I was just a mess. My body was a real mess. And Isagenix just saved me in every way, shape, and form. It introduced a whole new meaning of life to me, not only health-wise, but wellness-wise, mentally as well, as well as financially. But it has been a Godsend, it really has. And so has Maria. She’s just such a blessing. I feel more blessed than she was, I think I won that day of the draw. I chose her name from five hundred names, most of them being brides, or brides to be. And sure enough, the oddest thing is that we live in a fairly large area, and I don’t even live by Maria that much, and her daughter-in-law was my babysitter for my daughter.

>> Aw.

>> It was so weird.

>> Yeah.

>> I’m staring at her name through all these people, I mean complete strangers, and I’m thinking oh my gosh I wonder if I know this lady. And I know no one. So it was just really meant to be, and Maria and I have found a friendship that it’s not just about the product and the business, it’s just family.

>> Wow. That’s amazing. So now you were obviously at celebration when Maria was called up and took second place in her category. And you know, I can imagine just how excited you must have been for her. And what an amazing, and I got to bring this up too because you know, I would have to say that you and your husband, you have helped to run a family-owned business for vacationers, you, we’re talking an eighteen hole golf course, full restaurant, waterfront cottages, over a hundred and fifty seasonal trailers that come to see you guys. And I, I mean you guys have seen success. You have had financial success in your lives, and so for someone that’s not necessarily looking for another avenue of generating income, you’ve certainly done that. And what can you say and share with people tonight as they’re listening in, when it comes to the financial opportunity?

>> Well it’s just actually amazing. Like you said, I wasn’t looking. I really was not looking for that. I very thankfully didn’t need that. But I’ll tell you this, it started off as kind of just being so amazed with how great the product is, and how amazing the system is, that I wanted to share it with everyone I knew. And before I knew it, without even really trying, I had money in my pocket. I was paying for my product, and that just kind of dominoed. And yeah, it’s just, it’s just very easy, it really is. You know, I’ve got my own easy button. I didn’t even have to go to that business place to get it.

[ laughter ]

>> That was easy, yes. I know. Well thank you so much for being with us Patty, and for sharing, and for obviously giving the support that Maria so deserved. And I just want to thank all of our guests, Joe and Rosemary, and Maria, and of course you Patty for being on and sharing from the heart. We just love you all, and congratulations with all of your success. I do want to invite all of you to stay on the line, your individual lines if you can. Stay on because we are about ready to segue on to our Tuesday night corporate update call with Rick Disbane [assumed spelling], and we’ve got a lot of information to cover tonight. But real quick I do want to remind everybody that tonight’s call has been recorded, and it will be posted in your back office in the online library section that you can listen to it at a later time. As well as the Isagenix podcast.com website. If you haven’t been there go check it out. It’s www.isagenixpodcast.com. And you can actually view a transcript of this call very soon. I don’t know if it’s twenty-four or forty-eight hours that they get that posted up, but it’s a lot of fun to be able to have that. So without further ado I would like to end this call. We’ll segue on to the other one, and again thank you everybody for being with us.

 

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